Essential Research: leadership ratings and more coronavirus

Monthly leadership ratings from Essential confirm the overall picture painted by Newspoll, with both leaders up but Scott Morrison especially so.

As reported by The Guardian, the fortnightly Essential Research poll (a sequence complicated by a bonus coronavirus poll last week) includes the pollster’s monthly leadership ratings, which reflect the findings of Newspoll in very slightly lesser degree. Scott Morrison is up on approval from 41% to 59% (compared with 41% to 61% in Newspoll) and down on disapproval from 49% to 31% (compared with 53% to 35%), while Anthony Albanese is respectively up from 41% to 44% (compared with 40% to 45%) and down from 33% to 29% (compared with 40% to 36%).

For the fifth successive poll, Essential asked respondents about their level of concern about the threat of coronavirus to Australia, to which the combined very concerned and quite concerned responses climbed from 68% to 63% to 82% to 88%, and has now remained steady at 88%. No information is provided on preferred prime minister — we will have to wait for the full report later today to see, among other things, if the question was asked.

UPDATE: Full report here. Scott Morrison now holds a 46-27 lead as preferred prime minister, out from 40-35 last time (note that the BludgerTrack trends are now updated with the latest Essential and Newspoll numbers). The government’s response is now rated good by 58%, up from 45% a week ago, and poor by 21%, down from 31%. The poll also finds 29% expecting a lengthy recession due to coronavirus; 51% expecting that “the economy will be impacted for 6-12 months or longer and will stagnate or show slow growth thereafter” (which for my tastes is not sufficiently distinct in its wording from the first option); and 11% expecting the economy will “rebound within 2-3 months”. The poll was conducted Thursday to Sunday from a sample of 1069.

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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  3. I refuse to watch MKR. I do, however, love Masterchef. And if I wasn’t married and Poh was ..,,,

    It’s the only Realty TV I’ve actually liked.

  4. Some dreamers seem to think that the current state of affairs demonstrates the primacy of community over economy. They see the Now as the dawn of a new era.

    We used to eat the future. I look around and make this observation: a huge proportion of current consumption consists of eating the past.

  6. “I understand the politics of it but we are destroying jobs, businesses and families for what appears to be a very small problem here in WA.”

    One that would have been a very large, life AND job destroying problem had we not done so.

    You too should recognise that benefits of actually eliminating the virus in Australia. Doing so means getting those jobs back faster. Not doing so means risking a second wave and seeing even more damage.

    This is particular so for WA and SA that might be the first to declare provisional elimination.

  9. It had to happen.

    This requires some insight into the relationships between anaesthetists and intensivists. Pertinent is that until the late 70s, Intensive Care was a virtual sub-speciality of anaesthesia, before a separate College was established, with its own training scheme, syllabus, and examinations. Strong links persist, and the specialties overlap considerably in theory, practice, and staffing. There’s not any real rivalry, but a lot of mutual respect, and some friendly jousting from time to time. (There’s a line in the video about who the f8k wants to work in ITU, it’s like giving an anaesthetic for a week!)

    It’s written by a very experienced anaesthetic nurse. Limited appeal, and no offence if Hitler parodies aren’t you thing, your choice.

    https://youtu.be/U212dYOByus

  10. Catmomma,

    Thanks for the suggestion. We don’t do Fortnight and don’t have a gaming console and don’t do social media. But he’s been in contact with his mates today. Cheers

  13. During our walk we were intercepted by a long-term acquaintance who was beside himself with rage. We backed away a bit to take account of the fact that he was hogging extra space by being beside himself.

    His main point was that we were being ruled by a dictatorship that was destroying the economy for generations to come and that we should just let the Virus run through the population and then get on with it.

    He was so very, very angry that there was nothing for it but to wish him well and bugger off. He is 80.

  15. Boerwar @ #2700 Friday, April 10th, 2020 – 5:57 pm

    Some dreamers seem to think that the current state of affairs demonstrates the primacy of community over economy. They see the Now as the dawn of a new era.

    We used to eat the future. I look around and make this observation: a huge proportion of current consumption consists of eating the past.

    It’s an interesting point.

    Longevity is causing havoc in our social and political system.

    At the last election a major problem for Labor was the older coterie. These are the people that had stopped actively working and were relying on tax hand outs for work never done. The fact is that old people have nothing better to do than protect their interests. So, eventually Labor lost.

    This pandemic is the best sign ever that the party is over and it’s time for us all to come to grips with the sort of society we are going to live in.

  16. Bucephalus says:
    Friday, April 10, 2020 at 4:10 pm

    I don’t have a problem with people going to stay in country properties that they own.
    ——————————————————————

    Or stretching the limited health resources in those areas if they get sick.

    You don’t have a problem with people in Lorne or Bateman’s Bay, for example, who see blow-ins from Melbourne and Sydney in their clinics or base hospitals.

    You Tories really don’t get it do you. It’s one law for your mob and another law for the rest of us.

  17. So, if cases remain at this rate for the next week or two, who thinks it’s time to open up elective surgery again.

    Seems hospital staff are having shifts reduced in some areas due to a lack of work.

  19. beguiledagain

    I don’t believe it is a political issue. Isolating in isolated country properties seems to make sense. My Dad was evacuated to country as a boy because of the threat and now evacuation again seems reasonable.

  21. bucephalus
    If only the borders were completely shut in early February and all inbound were forced into quarantine but since that is not what happened we need to impose these measures for a period of time and if we lift them too soon and a outbreak occurs then we will be back to square one. The economy can handle a short period lets keep it short by not letting a avoidable outbreak from happening. The restrictions on inbound arrivals will need to remain for sometime.

  22. Talk about Canyonleigh earlier, lovely place under 2 hours from Sydney- a few problems are the wombats and wild deers, and one road in/one road out for many of the properties.

  25. “On beaches, Health Minister roger Cook says police report in general terms people are respecting good physical distancing and the govt is fairly pleased with the way it’s going at the moment.”

    Oh no

  27. Of course he supports it, he’s a snivelling, brown nosed sycophantic courtier. He’s also scared shitless that he might get the boot at some stage so it’s on the knees spreading his cheeks at the drop of a Donald hamburger.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/barr-says-he-supports-trumps-ouster-of-intelligence-watchdog-who-received-whistleblower-complaint-that-helped-spark-impeachment/2020/04/10/8064386a-7aa8-11ea-9bee-c5bf9d2e3288_story.html

  28. We had a hot spot pop up out of nowhere in NSW today. 11 people at the same window manufacturing factory in Liverpool have come down with COVID-19.

  30. “Bucephalussays:
    Friday, April 10, 2020 at 6:13 pm
    Blobbit

    The ban on elective surgery has been disastrous for the Private Health sector.”

    It hasn’t been great, but I think it was justified at the time with the uncertainty as to how cases would increase. I recognise that’s an arguable point.

    I think there’s enough evidence though to consider allowing it again, perhaps at a reduced rate.

  31. Mexicanbeemer

    The economy has not “handled” it and isn’t handling it. This is the worst economic disaster in the last century.

    Watch the suicide statistics.

  36. Greensborough Growler @ #2715 Friday, April 10th, 2020 – 6:05 pm

    This pandemic is the best sign ever that the party is over and it’s time for us all to come to grips with the sort of society we are going to live in.

    Coming to grips implies to me that we have little input into what it becomes, and that’s what really worries me. We have an egregiously unaccountable government, except now at the ballot box, itself increasingly under the influence of manipulative forces, and as someone has already mentioned, the daily demonstration that a police state is up and ready to go.

  38. Lizzie

    I use
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    So you should go to that site – log on if you like and then proceed as follows


    and choose image (I place the picture on my desktop).

    Select image —

    From desktop

    Then copy as shown with the arrow.

    Then paste into PB comment box

    Et voila —

    Goodnight again.

  39. Ministers of the yarts are generally hind tit time servers and are expendable.
    Elliott should have been sacked.
    Hazzard should have resigned.
    But they are not hind tit expendables.
    They are dangerous if upset.

  40. Buce,
    Can you read the point into the example I just gave of the new outbreak of COVID-19 in NSW today? It was at a workplace that kept operating, allowably, during the lockdown. Now that business is 11 employees down and who knows how sick they’ll get? Not good for the bottom line at the end of the day. So the best thing for the economy is to get as many healthy productive workers back to work as soon as humanly possible. That means, not letting down our guard a moment too soon.

  41. bucephalus
    There is a campaign to reopen the economy and they point to things like suicides but since we didn’t shut the borders earlier enough and the soft approach didn’t work then more stringent measures were needed and they need to remain until the job is done and that is why i am supportive of the government’s stimulus measures which go someway to helping most people impacted.

  43. Mexicanbeemer

    Your hindsight is magnificent but where else in the world was so prescient as to impose the restrictions that you now believe should have been imposed then?

  44. C@tmomma @ #2726 Friday, April 10th, 2020 – 6:15 pm

    ItzaDream @ #2716 Friday, April 10th, 2020 – 6:11 pm

    Cud Chewer @ #2712 Friday, April 10th, 2020 – 6:04 pm

    Itza

    There’s a Downfall parody for everything! 🙂

    Yes. That one is a bit in-house, but I thought it might be fun to see what’s doing the rounds.

    I thought the line about Coloxyl with Senna was cute. 🙂

    Then there’s stuff like moving the (operating) table up and down all day, fixing the (operating) lights, listening to surgeon’s jokes, that you had to be there to get.

  47. Bucephalus
    Getting rid of a Minister of Feck All is a wee bit different to the getting rid of a Health Minister in the middle of a health crisis. As for the self proclaimed “idiot” his career is acknowledged as being cactus as soon as the crisis passes.

  49. The four critical fails that are haunting us as we post: failures to close travel from Italy, Korea and the US soon enough. And letting a shipload of virus loose on the rest of us.

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