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.
BB complains about being slurred as a “racist” as he slurs me claiming I have called him a racist. Having reviewed my few posts today in response to sharing my experiences as per M&D and others, I have to conclude BB is a bs artist who is not particularly clever about his bs and slurs.
(No further discussion will be entered into)
The Guardian
Back in the committee hearing, and the auditor-general has confirmed there were “comfortably dozens” of emails between the prime minister’s office and Bridget McKenzie’s office during the sports grants process.
There were also quite a few versions of the spreadsheet (“dozens”) before the final version was decided on.
The only evidence the auditor-general saw of the spreadsheet being shared, was between the prime minister’s office and McKenzie’s office.
Nice to know Otis is in Canberra, but where’s Milo?
Pegasus
Thanks. So McKenzie was simply Morrison’s level of “plausible deniability”. It would be foolish of Morrison’s opponents to dismiss him as a fool. But he is highly unethical and untrustworthy, even compared to Abbott and Turnbull.
Labor (and the Greens) should work hard to get the Gaetjens report into public view. (Not to mention making sure the Otis oafs shut up at least until after the next election is actually won).
SK,
A better example of political correctness and morally superior wankersim would be hard to find.
Ouyen is a small town in the distant West of Victoria. It would be a 6 latte trip for you to get there.
I would do it! Just to not buy a vanilla slice recommended by Jeff Kennett.
PVO is currently the clear leader of the (CPG) pack.
Peg
It is funny, but a person may be called a misogynist, and the misogynist accept that to a degree, a paedophile generally accepts that description, a murderer ditto, but NEVER call a racist a racist. Why is this so?
As for lattes, I once poured hot coffee out of an urn into a mug with a tea bag in it. I believe it was in a roadside at Echuca at about sparrows on the VLine from Albury to Adelaide after too many the afternoon before in Sydney post final exams.
I drank it.
I cant remember what I ate in Ouyen that day. but it probably contained bacon.
SK,
I’d believe you only after the fact of you proclaiming that you’d come all the way to Ouyen to not spend money on local produce and especially the towns iconic product. I need sound and video proof. Preferably, with the tar and feathering still in place.
Otherwise, your just another wokey wankster, comrade.
When I was a lad it was a well known fact that the principle ingredient of dim sims was moggie meat. Some of the more astute scientific observers among my age cohort claimed to have heard ‘miaows’ when they bit into their fried dim sims.
Forget shark fins.
Virologists are being wishy washy about this, but the axiomatic connection between Horseshoe Bats, Snakes, Civet Cats, Dim Sims, any people of Chinese appearance anywhere, and Covid-19 is as obvious as the drivers for the Lambing Flat mass bashings.
Lovey says:
Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 5:18 pm
Peg
It is funny, but a person may be called a misogynist, and the misogynist accept that to a degree, a paedophile generally accepts that description, a murderer ditto, but NEVER call a racist a racist. Why is this so?
Cohen’s proposal for a mosque in Kingman drew responses from the crowd that invalidate your argument.
BW,
I agree.
Manflu will likely become the most existentially dangerous ongoing epidemic that humanity will face.
Lovey,
Sorry, no good will come of it if we engage on this.
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Is It Racist To Call Someone ‘Racist’?
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/11/23/503180254/is-it-racist-to-call-someone-racist
SK
My other half is cooking pigs’ trotters tomorrow which he bought at the Box Hill market. It will be confronting. Though, he did introduce me to ox tongue which uncooked is a disgusting sight to behold. Cooked, it’s delicious.
Proof? I am not even sure what I am supposed to be proving but it would require I give a bacon an egg roll what you think.
As I am not from Victoria how else would I know about Ouyen vanilla slices? Why would a wokey whatever from inner latte city-hipsterville ever go to Ouyen if it wasnt on a VLine bus, shaking in my seat, to her door?
SK
A cup of latte generates around 340gms of CO2 emissions – even when the Greens drink it!
Paul Karp, The Guardian
Brian Boyd from the audit office has contradicted the prime minister and Bridget McKenzie’s claim that no ineligible projects were funded.
In fact, some 43% of applications were ineligible:
270 projects had started work when they signed agreements – ineligible;
8 had finished work when they signed agreements – ineligible;
5 late applications were accepted – ineligible; and
There were amendments to four applications – ineligible
Basically, the projects were assessed as eligible at the point that Sport Australia looked at them, but circumstances changed. So the quote that Scott Morrison has relied on to defend the program is shot.
In the post shame, post truth world does ‘racist’ have bite?
Peg
Good job by Karp, right there.
BW
Ask BB. His rants suggest it does have bite.
Peg
It was a rhetorical question.
I can’t recall a single opinion being shifted through the application of the term ‘racist’.
Ever.
What about a ristretto piccolo in a keep cup after riding to the cafe in my tricycle?
One of the photos was none other than my lical MP Meryl Swanson. I’d like to think she was obliged to be involved by having Fitzibbon as a neighbour. Still no real info.
Cud,
I met Meryl Swanson last year. She is a proud supporter of her local community. That is why she was probably there.
Kato
That’s clearly a beer tap
Like your hat though
BW,
The ongoing takeover of language is unrelenting.
As Lewis Carroll wrote is Alice in Wonderland through Humpty Dumpty
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less. ‘ ‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things. ‘ ‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
The always outraged re-define words to mean what ever they want and deliberately exclude/traduce anyone that doesn’t agree.
This why the “loveys”of the world are boring fuckwits.
Australians must be vigilant against divisive race politics, says Tim Soutphommasane
In an interview for the Australian politics podcast, the former race discrimination commissioner warns fascism was enabled by democratic mechanisms
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/23/australians-must-be-vigilant-against-divisive-race-politics-says-tim-soutphommasane
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‘Daily Telegraph’ Columnist Slammed After Grossly Targeting Former Race Commissioner
https://junkee.com/tim-blair-tim-soutphommasane/241156
I was hoping for compliments on the red shoes.
If a flander’s red came out of the tap, i’d be smiling
I am guessing GG is not a Sudanese Australian, for example.
Peg,
Not sure what your point is.
I got a bit lost for choice at the Wheaty Brewing Corp offerings on Saturday.
The Wheaty girls dont wear red shoes and red lipstick.
SK,
Bridgewater bakery is current title holder for “best vanilla slice”. They won in 2018 and 2019.
Definitely worth a stop if you are going past. Don’t be tempted by the pies.
https://www.milduracity.com.au/event/the-great-australian-vanilla-slice-triumph
“bacon an egg roll”
Pic or it didn’t happen.
DN,
Is that one of those morality tests the Greens and their lefty mates like to throw about.
From my perspective the chicken has a interest in such things. But, the pig is all in!
Socrates
I would argue engineers are knowledge workers ( I think that is a good description) just like programmers and pretty much like a large and expanding chunk of the work force.
The union movements future does not lie with people bending steal,it lies with people pushing a mouse. Machine now bends the steel.
The question is what to do about it. You are not going to change EA.
C@t I’ve met with Meryl a few times. I’m quite happy with her
Peg bits of dead cow are disgusting.
Greensborough Growler @ #1386 Thursday, February 13th, 2020 – 5:16 pm
That’s Dilbert’s perspective. Give it back!
No words suffice!
ar,
Very good!
But, if you work like a dead pig then you’re yesterdays news.
Ouyen is memorable in that I had the worst pub meal I have every had there, and I’m into the see food diet. Under-cooked frozen vegetables and soggy stuff that came in a packet to be fried is hard to forget.
CC
We are semi vegetarians. Eat lots of tofu, legumes, pulses, seeds and nuts, vegies (many home-grown). We just can’t go the whole hog and totally give up mince meat, for example. Though, I have to say, when I pass by the butchers in the market, the smell of meat makes my stomach churn.
Peg,
I have the same feeling whenever I pass a Greens protest or stand.
Pegasus
I cooked pigs trotters once, but there was too much trotter and not enough pig.
I’m all for using the whole animal, however.
Cud Chewer @ #1387 Thursday, February 13th, 2020 – 6:19 pm
Yes, as I said, she’s all in for her community. 🙂
Simon Katich @ #1378 Thursday, February 13th, 2020 – 5:50 pm
I just thought you were going through a phase of exploring your gender. 🙂
So Auditor General in Senate estimates has pretty much demolished Smoko?? How sad for him. 🙂
How badly has he been misleading parliament on this then?? I mean he seems to have made his statements on eligibility AFTER he has had a chance to read and absorb the Audtor Generals report??
lizzie
If you are going to eat meat, using the whole animal is the way to go….no waste. These trotters look very fatty…yuck….i think this might be a once only cooking experience by my OH lol. But all i can see is Babe!
Pigs are big methane emitters.