The fortnightly Essential Research poll focuses, naturally enough, on coronavirus, with 45% rating the federal government’s response good or very good, and 29% poor or very poor. According to The Guardian’s report, it would seem the latter tend to be those most worried about the virus, as measured by a question on whether respondents felt the situation was being overblown, with which “one third” agreed while 28% thought the opposite.
Over the course of three fortnightly polls, the proportion rating themselves very concerned has escalated from 25% to 27% to 39%, while the results for quite concerned have gone from 43% to 36% and back again. The Guardian’s report does not relate the latest results for “not that concerned” and “not at all concerned”, which were actually up in the last poll, from 26% to 28% and 6% to 9% respectively. Further questions relate to trust in various sources of information, notably the government and the media, but we will have to wait for the publication of the full report later today to get a clear handle on them. Suffice to say that Essential still has nothing to tell us on voting intention.
In other findings, 49% said they wanted the opposition to fall in behind the government’s decisions while 33% preferred that it review and challenge them, and 42% now consider themselves likely to catch the virus, up from 31% on a fortnight ago. Seventy-two per cent reported washing their hands more often, 60% said they were avoiding social gatherings, and 33% reported stocking up on groceries.
We also have a Roy Morgan SMS survey of 723 respondents, which was both conducted and published yesterday, showing 79% support for the government’s decision to allow those in financial difficulty to access $20,000 of their superannuation. As noted in the previous post, an earlier such poll of 974 respondents from Wednesday and Thursday recorded levels of trust in various Australian politicians (plus Jacinda Ardern, who fared best of all); a further set of results from the same poll finds Dick Smith, Mike Cannon-Brookes, Andrew Forrest and Alan Joyce rating best out of designated list of business leaders, with Rupert Murdoch, Clive Palmer, Gina Rinehart and Gerry Harvey performed worst. We are yet to receive hard numbers from either set of questions, but they are apparently forthcoming.
UPDATE: Full report from Essential Research here.
Why do people kneel when they pray? Does god respond better to unworthy beseechers?
The local QLD early voting booth had a steady stream of voters when we visited.
Hand sanitizer, wipes for pencils, tape lines to maintain social distancing.
lizzie @ #99 Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 – 9:54 am
What we don’t seem to have here is the triage of temperature taking which the Asian countries have employed widely.
The idiot Trump, in full on Mussolini pose, says the US should be “opening up again” in weeks not months.
Not gong to mail out the cheques like Rubb did . I’m going to have them stand in line at center link in the middle of a pandemic.
Looks like there is going to be a lot of entries in the “stupidest thing the Morrison government did in 2020” competition.
Yes, can’t use MyGov, so it’s either hours on the phone just to be disconnected or hours mingling with people.
The priest job is to pray. The prime ministers job is to use the available resources to deal with the problem.
Tricot
I think it (the economy) is hardwired into their raison d’etre. Prosperity, as they see it in material terms, is everything. I’ve yet to see anything from Morrison suggesting any semblance of concern for the welfare of the individual, as an individual, including and especially going back to the bushfires.
frednk @ #107 Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 – 10:06 am
That wasn’t a typo was it – an ‘a’ for an ‘e’?
Hiding under the sofa is a nice meaphor. Like the Potato hiding in the drain. 🙂
BK
I suspect such talk from Trump is needed. Given 78% of the workforce live paycheck to paycheck, the crap welfare system, their medical system, gun ownership an the gun culture then keeping the peasants “optimistic” would be wise.
Trump is simply embarrassing! A simpleton.
I find it amusing that pollies are taking so long to accustom themselves to internet meetings. Could this ignorance have contributed to their refusal to understand the need for the Real NBN?
If the cruise boat passengers had had their temperatures taken, what difference would that have made? If airports were taking the temperature of every arrival, if
Just thinking now, that’s one triage step we haven’t embraced, and I’m wondering why – false negatives, false positives, too hard basket ..
The reason we’ve got a shit NBN is because Labor thought of a proper one, first. Plus luddites.
There’s something about Trump’s mouth that revolts me. Can’t look at him speaking. And then there’s his emotionless voice…
ID
The evidence on temperature checks of passengers disembarking planes and boats show it will pick up 50% of people with COVID. False positives aren’t many and easily sorted with a test. It’s helpful b
Can someone ask Murphy why if children aren’t contagious they can’t be babysat by grandparents or visit nursing homes?
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/lucy-turnbull-steps-down-from-the-greater-sydney-commission-20200324-p54dal.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1585005855
ItzaDream
NZ almost fell in to that trap. Labour’s idea so the National party said it was a crap idea and hinted at canning it if they won the election. They won the election but John Key was no luddite and a serious “money man”, having been on the NY Fed Reserve Forex committee. He set the bean counters loose on the project and the result was him declaring it is a “no brainer” to do fibre to the premises.
Diogenes @ #118 Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 – 10:25 am
Give him a break. It’s not like he’s the CMO or something.
ItzaDream @ #109 Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 – 7:09 am
Probably the source of much of their confusion.
“ItzaDream says:
Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 10:18 am
The reason we’ve got a shit NBN is because Labor thought of a proper one, first. Plus luddites.”
Fraudband will really be tested when both employees and school students are working from home. We’ll see how bad it is when complaints start rolling in from computer savvy (often younger) people.
Thankfully, my ex-girlfriend (the one who took the cheap cruise to NZ) scored a negative result from the C19 test she took last Thursday. It was just a cold.
Symptoms were: runny nose, slight chesty cough (not dry), some sneezing. No temperature.
Impending changes to bankruptcy and insolvency:
• Debt threshold for a stat demand will be lifted for 6 months from $2k – $20k
• Response time to a stat demand will go from 21 days to 6 months
• Debt threshold for commencing bankruptcy proceedings lifted from $5k to $20k for 6 months
• Period to respond to bankruptcy notice will go from 21 days to 6 months
• Temporary relief from insolvent trading laws. The nature of the relief is not entirely clear, but it says “directors will be temporarily relieved of their duty to prevent insolvent trading with respect to any debts incurred in the ordinary course of the company’s business”. That will also apply for 6 months.
Diog, you seem to have gone a bit bolshie over the last few days.
Soldiers tackling Spain’s coronavirus epidemic by disinfecting residential care homes have found a number of elderly people abandoned and left for dead in their beds, the country’s defence minister has said.
The news comes as Spain’s death toll from the disease rose from 1,720 on Sunday to 2,182. The total number of confirmed cases has increased to 33,089.
“The army has seen some totally abandoned elderly people – even some who were dead in their beds,” Margarita Robles told the Ana Rosa TV programme.
Those responsible would be met with “the full weight of the law”, the minister added.
Barney in Tanjung Bunga @ #122 Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 – 10:31 am
Let us prey!
citizen @ #123 Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 – 10:32 am
We’ll see if Labor can manage a decent defence of their fibre network.
One which leaves the punters in no doubt of it’s superiority and leaves them questioning the coalitions complete stupidity. And causes many to reflect on their own dumbarsery if they voted for the ‘Turnbull/Abbott NBN’
In fact the bankruptcy changes have come into effect by legislative instrument.
Confessions @ #98 Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 – 9:53 am
Just heard a caller on Hobart ABC saying what a great Prime minister Scovid is and how fortunate the country is that he’s in charge.
I expect this will be a fairly widely held delusion in coming weeks/months
mundo
I think that going on past experience, many would be nervous of any change. Better the devil you know, etc.
Just thought I’d check myGov.
Last night I listened to Joshy Highpants saying, in front of a room full of journalists, that the Morrison government had delivered the first balanced budget in 11 years and that this had given it the economic ‘firepower’ to be able to deliver these stimulus packages.
No one challenged it.
No one said isn’t all going on the countries credit card.
No one mentioned the word debt.
I bet you a lot of punters think Highpants and Scovid have paid for all this ‘spending’ without the need for any of that LABOR DEBT.
BK
Our UK staff are told to go home ASAP.
Thanks fascists
lizzie says:
Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 10:21 am
There’s something about Trump’s mouth that revolts me. Can’t look at him speaking. And then there’s his emotionless voice…
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Same here. Your post made me think it could be because of all the botox he uses. makes the rest of his face immobile while only the mouth moves.
A car takes 12 seconds to drive past the line.
Ann Ruston will be up in a few minutes to face the music. Where’s that dill Stuart Robert?
TPOF
Didn’t think of the botox effect, but I didn’t see him much before he was Pres. (and female botox users don’t seem to be like that).
Yep we are so lucky to have the marketer
Always been intrigued by those who end up badly effected by Coalition policy vote for them….
Such a pity we can never hear the long questions by journos.
BB
“Symptoms were: runny nose, slight chesty cough (not dry), some sneezing. ”
This is good news. Apparently, Covid19 doesn’t cause sneezing. (Of course, although sneezing is not a symptom of Covid19, someone with Covid19 can still sneeze for other reasons.)
Ruston is saying “Just ring Centrelink and we’ll believe what you say.”
Stunning advice!!
Nice to see Albo’s comment yesterday that today’s “over-reaction” is next week’s “under-reaction” (so we may as well over-react now) gain a bit of currency.
Nice also to see that the “4 square metre” and “Pubs and Clubs” rules seem to be based on the probability that aerosol infection is a real thing. Walking down the street in company of more than one other person is more or less banned everywhere. Indoor social venues closed. Sigh… all that time wasted arguing and hurling insults about what was a “droplet” and what was an “aerosol”… turns out “keeping your distance” was the way to go, after all.
A C19 app is such a no-brainer, it’s almost impossible to understand why this has not happened yet. Just like “Fires Near Me” it could tell us where the outbreaks really are, rather than having to rely on rumour and finger-pointing. At the moment if you miss the original presser or news bulletin (which is heavily edited, general in nature, and biased towards sensationalism anyway) you’re in the dark as to where the outbreak is nearest to you.
A few devotees here trawl the net finding graphs and lists related to C19, fine-tuning formulas etc., and for that obvious thanks go out for their efforts.
But Joe and Joelene Public (and the Bondi Backpacker Party Animals) aren’t ever going to see them. This is quite clear from the ~30% “What? ME worry?” demographic being picked up by the polls. If the message that this outbreak was really serious was getting through, this figure would be a lot less.
A simple, progressive, regularly updated graphic that correlates the “Infections” curve against the “ICU capacity of our hospitals” curve, together with a projected date at which we become “just another Italy” (with text msg alerts as it changed significantly) would be a compelling front page for this app, followed then by localized user-defined “Areas of Interest” pages and maps.
lizzie @ #146 Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 – 8:11 am
Simples! 😆 😆 😆
‘America will soon be open for business’: Trump vows he will not ‘let the cure be worse than the problem’
President Donald Trump vowed on Monday that “America will soon be open for business.”
Trump did not offer a timeline for the end of COVID-19 closures.
“America will again, and soon, be open for business. Very soon. A lot sooner than three or four months that somebody was suggesting. A lot sooner. We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/america-will-soon-be-open-for-business-trump-vows-he-will-not-let-the-cure-be-worse-than-the-problem/
Anne Ruston seems to be working hard at her portfolio, whereas her “boss” Robert is flailing.
Ann Ruston gave me my LOL of the day. Told the interviewer on RN re the schemozzle yesterday that they were not caught by surprise as they had been preparing for weeks. Pretty sure I heard a thud in the background as the interviewer’s jaw or head hit the desk 🙂