Essential Research has not allowed the long weekend to interrupt the fortnightly schedule of its polling, which continues to be limited to attitudinal questions. Conducted last Tuesday to this Monday from a sample of 1080, the most interesting question from the latest poll relates to Bridget McKenzie, whom 51% felt should have been stood down by the Prime Minister. Only 15% felt he was right not to do so, while a further 34% said they had not been following the issue. The question included an explanation of what the issue involved, which is always best avoided, but the wording was suitably neutral (“it is claimed she allocated $100million to sporting organisations in marginal seats to favour the Coalition”).
The poll also finds overwhelming support for the establishment of a federal ICAC – or to be precise, of “an independent federal corruption body to monitor the behaviour of our politicians and public servants”. Fully 80% of respondents were in favour, including 49% strongly in favour, which is five points higher than when Angus Taylor’s troubles prompted the same question to be asked in December. Also featured are yet more findings on Australia Day, for which Essential accentuates the positive by framing the question around “a separate national day to recognise indigenous Australians”. Fifty per cent were in favour of such a thing, down two on last year, but only 18% of these believed it should be in place of, rather than supplementary to, Australia Day. Forty per cent did not support such a day at all, unchanged on last year.
Note that there are two threads below this one of hopefully ongoing interest: the latest guest post from Adrian Beaumont on Monday’s Democratic caucuses in Iowa, and other international concerns; and my review of looming elections in Queensland, where the Liberal National Party has now chosen its candidate for the looming Currumbin by-election, who has not proved to the liking of retiring member Jann Stuckey.
Speers: ‘voters treated like mugs’
The ABC producers of Insiders have provided cluttered and confusing backgrounds. They need to clean it up.
C@tmomma @ #1488 Sunday, February 2nd, 2020 – 5:56 am
I remember it well. He didn’t win it at all. She even got off a few zingers against him. He held back all his punches because he didn’t want to be seen as “beating up on a girl”. Besides which Biden should’ve made mince of a pea-brain like Palin, even without getting nasty.
Boerwar:
On the plus side, they have a new couch.
Savva, ‘They lied about where Morrison was.’
Savva hasn’t missed this opportunity to get stuck into Scotty.
Renee reckons we have ‘an anaemic Deputy Prime Minister’.
Savva at every step since then he (SFM) has ‘stumbled’ and ‘fumbled’.
Coorey SFM ‘hid behind process.’
“An anaemic Deputy Prime Minister.”
From the new Dennis Atkins.
Renee from the Courier Mail running interference for Scotty from Marketing.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2020-01-31/space-warping-star-system-proves-einstein-was-right-astrophysics/11903018
Plus anecdotal evidence that attempts to demonstrate that Einstein’s theories account for a super 15 year olds ability to be in multiple places simultaneously lighting fires (and chewing gum). This is now being referred to as quid pro quantum entanglement.
Where was I – the ABC article.
In an announcement from the Director General of the Gummints new “Science and That” department Mr. D. Opey explained that the new Space Departments first project will be to place large gyroscopes in orbit in the hope that the precession effect will begin the long awaited planet Earth’s physical move back in time to 1955.
*In general relativity, Lense–Thirring precession or the Lense–Thirring effect ( named after Josef Lense and Hans Thirring) is a relativistic correction to the precession of a gyroscope near a large rotating mass such as the Earth. It is a gravitomagnetic frame-dragging effect.
The Lense–Thirring metric · Gravitomagnetic analysis · Example: Foucault’s …
This last refers to the
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7949467/Alan-Jones-blows-Foreign-Minister-not-grounding-single-flight-China.html
No Gentle Sir and Madam not the China stuff – the sidebars – heavenly and other bodies.
Quality items such as these will soon be available to the plebs using the compulsory “Leaners’ Card” . No booze for youse – so straighten up and fly right.
Getting bloody hot – over. 🌞
That’s right, I’d forgotten Coorey was one of those trapped by the south coast fires.
Savva party political ad was ‘very wrong on every level’.
Coorey ‘you can’t hazard reduction burn swamps and mangroves’
Coorey ‘you can’t ignore the underlying reality.’ ie global warming.
Renee from the CM running Scotty’s lines for him.
Ask Albo about craft beers. He loves them and even has one named after him.
Media Release – Albanese opens new brewery in Australia’s craft beer capital – Saturday, 4 May 2019
https://anthonyalbanese.com.au/media-release-albanese-opens-new-brewery-in-australias-craft-beer-capital-saturday-4-may-2019
Has a RC for the bushfires actually been announced? Last I recall Scotty was prevaricating.
Renee exhumes Scotty’s dying Dad as a reason for Scotty’s mishandlings.
Savva, ‘He managed to stuff up a national crisis.’
Not a lot of joy for Scotty from Marketing in ‘Insiders’!
Scotty’s voice sounds strange. Is that a nCoV19 thing?
Julia Gillard managed to govern effectively around her father’s passing.
Scotty’s voice sounds strange. Is that a nCoV19 thing?
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More like a “rattled” thing.
Boerwar @ #1524 Sunday, February 2nd, 2020 – 9:17 am
Let’s hope so.
Boerwar @ #1523 Sunday, February 2nd, 2020 – 9:17 am
No, that’s the affected catch in his voice he is trying to master to sound serious.
The CMO was advising against closing the border only on Friday.
Speers has just tied Frydenberg completely in knots on charging nCoV19 evacuees the $1000 dollars.
Friesandaburger stumbling badly #Insiders
Speers has just tied Frydenberg completely in knots on charging nCoV19 evacuees the $1000 dollars.
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It wasn’t difficult!
Speers is quick to cut through Frydenberg’s droning.
No $1000 charge for evacuees to Christmas Island
Bad advice from DFaT says Josh
Corey was caught by the NSW South Coast fires. Explains a lot of his present epiphany (he’s gone from “Climate Change as a chess piece” to “something that’s actually important in it’s own right”).
Let’s us not become too hopeful, though. He’s a Tory to his bootstraps.
Do you believe Josh? Or Scotty or Dutton?
Decisions, decisions…..!
I’ve always had a very high opinion of Speers.
10/10 so far today…
Josh crabwalking away from surplus
I’d forgotten what a good interviewer Speers is, not having had Fox News for years.
Not even 5 mins into the interview and Josh is stumbling and blathering. It’s as if he was completely unprepared for this.
Speers reminds him of ‘Our Budget IS back in the black.’
‘Was that wrong?’
hoo hoo
run rabbit run.
Fox News should be Sky News
Josh dodges on the Surplus. Probably not happening, given his reluctance.
sprocket_
What wasn’t talked about was the previous advice that once finished with the quarantine they would be delivered to Perth to find their own way home and as we know the cost of air fares to anywhere in Australia at short notice is EXTREMELY high.
More to be done on Climate Change?
Josh: No
Speers is just SO sharp!
Government ministers are not going to be lining up to go on Insiders.
Spears
How is this not an emergency?
Best political interview I’ve seen for years and years and years.
Josh really doesn’t want to say “Climate Emergency’
Now onto SportsRorts, Josh has his obfuscation talking points – let’s see how it goes
Frydenberg getting a bit tetchy.
Speers isn’t accepting BS!