The Guardian reports on yet another fortnightly Essential Research poll with no voting intention numbers, but we does at least get the monthly leadership ratings. These show Scott Morrison down a point on approval to 39% and steady on disapproval at 52%, after the previous poll respectively had him down five and up nine. Anthony Albanese is respectively down two to 41% and up one to 31%, and he has lost his 39-36 lead as preferred prime minister, with the two now tied on 36%. The BludgerTrack trends on the sidebar have now been updated with these results.
Further questions on bushfire recovery, sports rorts and coronavirus don’t seem to have turned up anything too mindblowing, but the publication of the full report may turn up something hopefully later today.
UPDATE: Full report here. The most interesting of the supplementary findings for mine relate to the budget surplus, the consistent theme of which is that respondents aren’t that fussed about it: 79% agree spending on bushfire recovery is more important than maintaining it, with 11% disagreeing; 65% say it would be understandable if the coronavirus impact meant it wasn’t achieved, with 18% disagreeing; and 57% agree it was wrong for the government to discuss the surplus in the present tense before the election, with 24% disagreeing.
I’m wondering if Albo is using the current Cray Cray weather that has been happening in his state of NSW, to be firm about not supporting new coal fired stations.
As Fran Kelly pushed….wtte then why can’t you just say Labor will not allow it?
A perfectly reasonable question with an easy unequivocal answer – No.
“ So no direct answer then just reiterating Shorten’s pre-election double-speak.”
You are just pissy that he had a go at magical horsies, ‘lil Green Pony.
If Bloomberg does win the nomination (very outside chance), right here Bernie ensures his supporters will not vote for him, they’ll either stay home or simply vote for some Green/independent candidate. Bernie has the party held hostage, the sooner he disappears the better.
https://www.mediaite.com/election-2020/bernie-sanders-torches-bloomberg-accuses-him-of-trying-to-buy-the-presidency/
Strong rebuke for Hedley Thomas – SMH headline
[Witnesses who spoke to ‘Teacher’s Pet’ journalist dropped from court hearing
Witnesses who spoke to journalist Hedley Thomas have been scrapped from hearings over concerns of contaminated evidence]
lefty_E @ #48 Tuesday, February 11th, 2020 – 9:19 am
lefty,
As I have laboriously tried to point out to those who have put up copious arguments against Nuclear, the point for Labor is to have an alternative policy on Nuclear, one which they can use to argue with the Coalition. One that is a safer and less expensive alternative. This doesn’t also mean that they automatically put Nuclear front and centre, as a result. Labor put storage and renewables front and centre. As always.
Last night, a motion put forward by Larissa Waters – that the House of Representatives bring about a vote on the Greens National Integrity Commission Bill – passed the Senate:
(1) That the Senate notes that:
(a) the Senate passed the Australian Greens’ National Integrity Commission Bill 2018 (No. 2) on 9 September 2019 to establish a federal corruption watchdog with broad remit to investigate allegations of corruption and misconduct, and to ensure strong, independent oversight of the actions of parliamentarians; and
(b) public consultation on the Commonwealth Integrity Commission model proposed by the Government ended more than one year ago, but the Government has yet to introduce legislation to establish an integrity commission,
(2) That the Senate calls on the Federal Government to bring on the Australian Greens’ National Integrity Commission Bill 2019 in the House of Representatives for a vote in the February 2020 sittings.
(3) That this resolution be sent to the House of Representatives for concurrence.
That should hit the house around midday.
And it’s the first opportunity Llew O’Brien will have to cross the floor. One of his big bugbears has been the government’s proposed national integrity commission not being strong enough.
Let the games begin
Andrew_Earlwood @ #53 Tuesday, February 11th, 2020 – 9:24 am
You just have to lol at her pathetic attempt to use the name of ‘Shorten’ as a barbed attack. 😆
AE
lol You’re just “pissy”, along with some of your fellow travellers, Bandt is not the soft target for Labor that Di Natale was.
The funny thing is: so many people bag the LNP for defying laws and custom and giving money where they want without going through lawful/proper channels.
Yet they want Labor (who is not in power) to commit to stop Adani, by do exactly what they despise the LNP for.
Labor keeps saying “the market will decide” knowing that the current market will not take on a new coal-fired power station and the price will soon drop out of the coal market … making it suddenly NOT the most important export. And they know Adani is likely to be scaled right down from it’s original prospectus if it goes beyond the ground-breaking at all.
While the LNP is trying desperately to save the fortunes of the Clives and Ginas of their world – Labor knows coal really going to die a death internationally.
The member for Hunter is valiantly trying to project the idea that Labor will protect their jobs but I am sure he also knows the lie of the land — and what Labor really needs to do is give them alternatives to look forward to.
If I was in the Labor think tank, I’d be working hard to Show realistic alternatives for transition that will not only ensure current jobs but demonstrate jobs growth associated with alternative power generation and mining.
And if Bernie Sanders were to weasel his way into the Dem nomination the memes have already written themselves:
Some of us predicted this from the outset.
Wow
There is real hate for progressives on this site.
Better to have a Billionaire buy an election.
“No means no”. It’s really not that hard to say, but then again, it seems it is for Labor.
I think we all know why – Queensland – the state apparently wagging the tail of the Coalition, likewise Labor.
Confessions @ #63 Tuesday, February 11th, 2020 – 9:33 am
‘Sore Loser’ Sanders.
C@t:
Team Trump desperate want to run against Sanders.
Confessions
There has been leaked audio saying the opposite.
From Trump’s own mouth.
sprocket_says:
Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 9:11 am
You have not seen a ‘train wreck’ interview until you have read this one…
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The Greens are being consistent. In the 1980s they opposed wind farms in Victoria. Only Labor has always supported action on climate change.
Confessions @ #67 Tuesday, February 11th, 2020 – 9:34 am
They’ve already got ‘Socialist’ Sanders memes up and running:
Yesterday, in response to an article that referred to a happening as a “once in a hundred year event”, I posed the question as show below — (What’s the new —-) and got an answer.
Jaeger @ #1109 Monday, February 10th, 2020 – 8:14 pm
Ask a silly question. Well now, mes amis, the answer is prolly “weekly” in the not so distant future.
Sean Vitousek’s information is sobering (even for those heavily into the Creaming Soda) and should be force read to politicians everywhere.
Mr. Trump’s efforts to stop disaster ( ❓ ) by building a wall is misguided in that the walls should be coastal with pumping arrangements powered by renewable energy. The jobs of the future would include the extremely desirable “plumber”.
A couple of stills from the talk —
As for North Queensland – Beautiful one day, flooded the next and washed away completely eventually, and in the meanwhile blithe spirits that we are, we meander merrily along arguing about who has the keys to the Mercedes or BMW (more likely to be driven by Arseholes according to a recent article.
Should I be so foolish in the future as to pose another question – please – no answers – the answer to this one will do me for now.
Toodles. ☮☕
Trump actually would get his landslide win if he was running against Bernie Sanders.
Cat
Good.
That’s how the GOP lose. Doubt me?
See Kansas election.
I think this is pretty clear.
Cat
So you say. This with zero evidence.
C@tmomma @ #72 Tuesday, February 11th, 2020 – 6:40 am
Plenty of commentators, electoral strategists and former campaign managers have said similar.
C@tmomma:
Forget being a (retired?) pharmacist, c@t, your true calling was really as a political clairvoyant, given your prediction of a Morrison win in 2019… contrary to nearly all of the polling data.
Confessions
The same consultants and strategists who said Clinton would win.
Skynews
Sinn Féin declares victory in Irish general election
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/10/sinn-fein-declares-victory-irish-general-election
Me Newbie
I predicted a coalition win and I can say confidently if that Sanders gets the nomination, his loss will resemble the Corbyn loss in the UK, which I also predicted.
Unlike guytaur who was spruiking Corbyn and when I suggested another person to lead the party if they were going to even have half a chance, it was shot down by him.
I havent forgotten all the bullshit posts by him.
His posts on Sanders are in the same league.
Ultimately useless and wrong.
Pretty sure once Bloomberg actually gets on a debate stage and has his record challenged instead of his ice cream eating ability, you’ll stop seeing this rise in the polls.
Bernard Keane – Steggall’s climate bill shows a bright idea rising from the ashes
https://www.crikey.com.au/2020/02/10/zali-steggall-climate-bill/
Final seat results coming through in Ireland
Very Likely 160 seats Majority 80
Fianna Fáil 38
Sinn Féin 37
Fine Gael 35
Green 12
Labour 6
Social Democrats 6
People before Profits 5
Aountú 1
Other 1
Independents 19
Making a stable government out of these results will be fascinating but will require 2 of the big 3.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/10/is-amy-klobuchar-last-woman-standing/
Fucking moronic statement
Fess
Yes Klobacher has the momentum.
Confessions @ #85 Tuesday, February 11th, 2020 – 8:54 am
Kato
🙂
Vic:
I don’t think anyone apart from Guytaur believed Corbyn would be elected PM!
Victoria
You lie again.
I did not spruik Corbyn against the polling.
I made the same mistake as many here that Corbyn should have been a Remainer. I did think that fence sitting was a mistake.
Conf
“Plenty of commentators, electoral strategists and former campaign managers have said similar.”
Yeah, Bernie is dead meat. I don’t care what the Bernie-or-Bust folks say. Running as a self-styled socialist in the United States, Bernie is on a hiding to nowhere.
VP:
I think he might’ve been the only one!
Victoria @ #80 Tuesday, February 11th, 2020 – 9:48 am
The posts of a Sanders’ cultist expressing their blind devotion.
Kakaru
Yeah it’s such a mistake that Sanders is most likely to win the nomination.
corbyn won the nomination too
worked out well
Kakuru @ #90 Tuesday, February 11th, 2020 – 9:57 am
Yep.
And this is just one of the many, many memes that are already out there. They’ll get a shot of steroids if Sanders actually becomes the nominee.
Guytaur
Every candidate is doing what Bloomberg is doing except he is using his own money. Bernie often boosts about his fundraising efforts.
Guytaur
You can remember things the way you want but everytime someone said something negative about Corbyn, you popped up to defend him
Anyhoo what would be really funny is that if Trump leaves before the election and Romney is the GOP nominee.
Kakuru @ #91 Tuesday, February 11th, 2020 – 6:57 am
The shame is that the DNC are trying to win an election, whereas the Bernie Bots just want to push a movement.