Newspoll: 50-50

The Coalition’s lead disappears altogether in the latest Newspoll, which also records a resounding bounce in Anthony Albanese’s personal ratings.

Newspoll has turned in a result for its three-weekly federal poll which, if nothing else, shows it’s not letting the May election result prevent it from publishing optimistic-looking numbers for Labor. As related in The Australian ($), the latest poll has the major parties tied on two-party preferred, after four successive results of 51-49 in favour of the Coalition.

The Coalition is down two on the primary vote to 40%, with Labor up two to 35%, the Greens down one to 12% and One Nation up one to 7%. Anthony Albanese enjoys some encouraging movement on personal ratings, with approval up five to 42% and disapproval down seven to 37%. However, Scott Morrison’s ratings are little changed, with approval down one to 46% and disapproval down two to 43%, and his lead as preferred prime minister narrows only marginally, from 47-32 to 46-32.

The poll was conducted Thursday to Sunday from a sample of 1682.

Author: William Bowe

William Bowe is a Perth-based election analyst and occasional teacher of political science. His blog, The Poll Bludger, has existed in one form or another since 2004, and is one of the most heavily trafficked websites on Australian politics.

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  1. Anyone who stopped to think for half a second before jumping in with the usual kneejerk reaction would have realised it referred to the Qld Labor government.

    Which most people don’t do.

    Well done, progressive partners.

  2. Pleased to hear that Behrouz Boochani can almost taste freedom.

    Mrs ShellBell organised an AVL to PNG back in May so that he could talk to people at a refugee event.

    The desperation in his voice, made even more desperate by the recent May election result, was there for all to see and hear.

  3. Re Behrouz Boochani , ah the timing. With NSW and Qld being incinerated the 2GB+Dutton demographics might not notice .
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    His arrival in New Zealand will be of acute political sensitivity in Australia. The Australian government has consistently refused overtures from New Zealand to resettle refugees held in offshore detention, arguing it would undermine Australia’s hardline policies towards boat arrivals.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/14/behrouz-boochani-free-voice-manus-island-refugees-new-zealand-australia

  4. shellbell @ #2255 Thursday, November 14th, 2019 – 8:53 pm

    Pleased to hear that Behrouz Boochani can almost taste freedom.

    Mrs ShellBell organised an AVL to PNG back in May so that he could talk to people at a refugee event.

    The desperation in his voice, made even more desperate by the recent May election result, was there for all to see and hear.

    So much gratitude to Mrs ShellBell. I heard him at the Sydney Writers Festival early in the year and when asked by a young audience member ‘what can I do” his only reply was ‘vote them out’, and yep, desperate it was.

  5. “His arrival in New Zealand will be of acute political sensitivity in Australia. The Australian government has consistently refused overtures from New Zealand to resettle refugees held in offshore detention, arguing it would undermine Australia’s hardline policies towards boat arrivals.”

    Australia is such a small, mean little country…

  6. C@t you have a wonderful sense of humour and playfulness too!

    I want your Bob Hawke encounter story for my upcoming film – Der Luftschlosse

  7. Speaking of mirth-inducing moments, it brought a smile to my face to realise that it was a Labo(u)r national government, albeit in New Zealand, that gave Behrouz Boochani his freedom. It certainly wasn’t a Greens government. Even though I’m sure they’ll try and take all the credit here in Australia.

  8. He helped to humanise the refugees and asylum seekers on Manus and Nauru, human beings who had been kept out of sight and demonised. He continues to be an eloquent advocate and he has been widely recognised for his courage in speaking out.

  9. Greensborough Growler:

    I’m sure your tithe supporting William’s super is appreciated. I think you’re teflon-coated.

    Meanwhile, Pegasus is firing on all cylinders. You could be right: maybe she’s more resilient than I gave her credit for?

  10. Pegasus
    says:
    Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 8:50 pm
    nath you have a wicked sense of humour, one which sadly is often not appreciated.
    _________________________
    Thankyou Peg. Like all the great comics I will be lauded in death. Oh, wait, that’s the great painters. Oh well.

  11. Pegasus @ #2247 Thursday, November 14th, 2019 – 8:48 pm

    Anyone who stopped to think for half a second before jumping in with the usual kneejerk reaction would have realised it referred to the Qld Labor government.

    My comments were made in the full knowledge that it was a poor attempt by The Greens to wedge Labor in Queensland, being the recalcitrant one-trick ponies they are.

  12. nath:

    [‘Thankyou Peg. Like all the great comics I will be lauded in death. Oh, wait, that’s the great painters…’]

    Please stop the ingratiation. Some moons ago there used to be a poster who opined: (wwtte): “You’re better than that.” It wasn’t Frank, it wasn’t “the finnigans”; it was another – but you get my drift?

  13. rhwombat @ #2271 Thursday, November 14th, 2019 – 9:09 pm

    zoomster @ #2217 Thursday, November 14th, 2019 – 7:45 pm

    Quiet Australians is the term the Coalition is using in place of ‘the silent majority’ – which they dumped when the silent majority overwhelmingly voted for same sex marriage.

    The Silent Majority was a Nixonian term of art. Plus ca change…

    And ironically the name looks back to the ‘Quiet American’ and Graham Greene’s prediction of the decline of American exceptionalism. Flim Flam flops again.

  14. Rumours of a big expansion at Hornsdale

    Great.
    Can Tesla now reduce the price of their powerwall back to what is was before SA announced its battery rebate scheme?

  15. Boochani’s release could well be a portend that the days of offshore processing camps are over.

    No more boats, negligible numbers still incarcerated, billions which could be better spent propping up the shaky surplus.

  16. rhwombat @ #2271 Thursday, November 14th, 2019 – 6:09 pm

    zoomster @ #2217 Thursday, November 14th, 2019 – 7:45 pm

    Quiet Australians is the term the Coalition is using in place of ‘the silent majority’ – which they dumped when the silent majority overwhelmingly voted for same sex marriage.

    The Silent Majority was a Nixonian term of art. Plus ca change…

    It was mentioned in a workshop today that the ‘silent generation’ is the generation of people who preceded the Baby Boomers. I’ve never heard them referred to as such before.

  17. This seems like significant news from the US.

    Evan RosenfeldVerified account@Evan_Rosenfeld
    7h7 hours ago
    Federal appeals court rejects Trump’s effort to shield his taxes — The decision means that unless the president appeals to the Supreme Court and wins, his accountants must turn over years of records to House investigators https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/federal-appeals-court-rejects-trump-s-effort-shield-his-taxes-n1081976 … via @MAlexJohnson

  18. C@tmomma:

    [‘Pegasus is doughty. I have always said so. I think it is the best word to describe her. ‘]

    You may be right but she has the right to strut her stuff in the absence of vitriol. I really don’t get the Labor/Greens wars. It seems to me we’re fighting the same opponent – RI, for instance, epitomising a false dichotomy.

  19. I actually feel sorry for you, Cat. Labor has left people like you in a terrible position. See how hard it is to try and walk both sides of the fence? I could keep picking on you but I think I’ve made my point. So instead I will give you the benefit of the doubt and answer for you…

    You, Cat, do NOT think Adani should go ahead. You don’t support it one bit. You don’t support it because you do genuinely care about the environment and you know how much damage coal is doing. You’re a good person who cares about this planet and wants to protect it.

    But gee whiz are you loyal to Labor. So loyal that you’re willing to bite your tongue and watch while your party goes ahead and trashes the environment that you genuinely care about. So loyal that you can’t admit the truth that you actually agree with the Greens that Adani should be stopped. So worried about Labor’s electoral prospects that you feel you need to defend everything they do lest another voter slip through your fingers.

    If I’m wrong and you do actually support Adani then feel free to correct the record 🙂

  20. ‘fess,
    Trump is counting on the Supreme Court to protect him from scrutiny. I think the votes of Justice Scalito and Chief Justice Roberts will be key. Although Justice Gorsuch may show some ticker. Kavanaugh is just a Trump toady. Justices Ginsberg, Kagan, Sotomayor and Breyer I think will vote to make Trump accountable to Congress. Clarence Thomas, who knows?

  21. Confessions
    Considering so many had parents fcuked up by WWI then they had the Great Depressi0n and then WWII I can’t blame them for being a bit like the Time magazine description.
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    The Silent Generation refers to people who were born between 1925 and 1945……………………In 1951, a Time magazine article was written in which the children of the generation were described as unimaginative, withdrawn, unadventurous, and cautious. Time magazine used the name ‘Silent Generation’ to refer to these individuals. The name has been there ever since.
    https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-silent-generation-definition-characteristics-facts.html

  22. Mavis,

    Cheers

    “You may be right but she has the right to strut her stuff in the absence of vitriol.”

    Never going to happen.

    The entrenched Laborite cabal always have the need to have a lightning rod for their angst and spite.

    If it’s not me, they will cast around for another. It has been forever thus.

    Bemused being banned changed nothing. Other posters have come and gone.

    The common denominator is the Laborite rat pack.

  23. Tricot @ #2286 Thursday, November 14th, 2019 – 9:25 pm

    Nath’s reputed sense of humour is about as funny as a pending scourge of Black Death on its way from China.

    Pffft. Don’t hold your breath (unless it’s because of the smoke that blankets much of NE NSW – or the smell of singed politicians). Two cases of pneumonic Y. pestis is background for China. There were 15 in Yunan in 2014 and 30 odd in Madagascar in 2017. Like ebola, it’s only scary when some pale stale males are affected. I vote we appoint the Beetrooter as special envoy on the Black Death.

  24. C@t:

    There’s bee recent commentary that the position of the Supreme Court isn’t necessarily going to be to back Trump. I guess we’ll see.

  25. poroti:

    [‘He is in NZ now so free at last.’]

    Things have changed markedly – New Zealand’s population now approaching five million. I refuse to provide details thereof.

  26. Posted by Mark Jacka…

    As Australia burns, where is @ScottMorrrisonMP?

    2 days since a tweet. (Never happened before)
    2 days since last seen in Public. (Never happened before)
    3 days since last Press Conference. (Never happened before)

    Where the bloody hell are you Scott?

  27. A long flight to freedom: how refugee Behrouz Boochani finally left his island jail behind

    The Kurdish Iranian refugee, kept in a limbo on Manus Island by Australia’s hardline immigration regime, made a final 34-hour journey to liberty

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/14/a-long-flight-to-freedom-how-refugee-behrouz-boochani-finally-left-his-island-jail-behind

    “But even the final voyage was labyrinthine. The final secretive mission to liberate Behrouz Boochani was an arcane 34-hour journey across three countries and six timezones in the Asia Pacific.

    The plan to liberate Behrouz Boochani from Papua New Guinea began months ago, involving a handful of friends and advocates who understood his desire – indeed saw his acute need – to escape PNG. But it was driven by Boochani himself.
    :::
    After having his life proscribed by the Australian government’s offshore processing regime for six years and three months – 2,269 days – he is, today, free.”

  28. ABC

    “Mr Boochani received a visitor’s visa to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand to speak at a literary event about his award-winning book, No Friend but the Mountains, and he is not ruling out claiming asylum in the country.

    The former Manus Island detainee received temporary travel documents and permission from the PNG Immigration Department to travel to New Zealand for the event, which is run by Word Christchurch.”

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