The usual weekly Essential Research coronavirus poll finds “only a quarter” of respondents now consider it too soon to be easing coronavirus restrictions, down from a peak of 49% in mid-April. There was also strong support for a range of fresh restrictions being imposed if there is a new surge of cases, but not for making the coronavirus app compulsory, which only 38% supported. Only 45% were confident the government would be able to adequately protect data from the app, and 44% were confident the government itself would not misuse it. Kristina Keneally’s call for a reduction in temporary migration after the pandemic had the support of 67% of respondents. All this detail is derived from The Guardian, which also tells us that the number of respondents who are “quite concerned” about the virus is up three points since last week to 49%, but without the “very concerned” figure it’s hard to know what if anything to make of that. The full report from the pollster should be published later today.
UPDATE: Full report here. The government reaches new heights on the eighth weekly iteration of the question as to how well it is handling the crisis, with good up five points to 71% and poor down one to 13%. The goodwill extends to state governments, who are collectively up three on good to 73% and steady on poor at 12%. The poll was conducted Thursday to Sunday from a sample of 1067.
guytaursays:
Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 1:51 pm
“Qld Labor could not have asked for a better response in trying to save Virgin Airline workers jobs.”
Yep, you’re still an irrelevant idiot.
Why the Firetruck would a government or the Trustee of a Superannuation Fund but money into a business that is $6.5 Billion in debt, hasn’t made a profit for many years and has no way of trading profitably and getting a return for investors? It’s pure Grandstanding bs by the Queensland ALP – they aren’t even in the Data Room of the Administrators nor in any of the groups currently doing due diligence and indicative bids are due tomorrow. They are unserious.
When the Police you call are the AFP, of course there’s no Coalition corruption.
Surplus talk dead and buried for years now. Poor Josh.So near yet so far.
guytaur: “A devestating reality for the LNP.
Regional areas will recover much more slowly than the city.”
You might be right, but I’ve also read a lot of commentary suggesting that the virus will promote a major shift towards remote working, and that regional areas will be the foremost beneficiaries of this.
Obviously some regional areas are going to suffer from loss of tourism, although – once the restrictions on interstate travel are lifted – I’m anticipating a bit of a boom of local tourism.
Isn’t it cute that Buce tries to rough us up and goes in hard on the same day the Coalition does to Labor. Bless!
GG
“That was what Frydenberg was speaking about when he had that coughing fit earlier in the week.
He clearly could not swallow his own bullshit!”
Yes exactly. I think he had a lie stuck in his throat.
Simon says that it is not the flipping back of Cal 25th that matters. Simon says that it flipping back while there is a Republican nutcase as President who has the general support of republican politicians should scare the willies out of everyone.
Buce
See Cash. Extending “Mutual Obligation” holiday
No more punish the poor.
The whole edifice of Neo Liberal ideology exposed for the sham it is.
No matter how you try and spin it. You have seen Dutton openly call job saving efforts “lunatic style brain farts”.
Great way to lose an election.
Cat
“When the Police you call are the AFP, of course there’s no Coalition corruption.”
Indeed. There was no corruption in Queensland either, before they had the Fitzgerald commission. Russ Hinze just acquired millions in property by being an astute investor?
He tried to kiss a toad, french style, and accidentally swallowed it instead.
Mavissays:
Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 1:58 pm
“you are basically contending that it was okay to attempt to sway an election with bribes”
Yes – politicians at all levels do it all the time. I don’t see why the LNP should be pure as the driven snow when the ALP are masters at pork barrelling.
Classic example here in Perth is the rail line to Ellenbrook – no business case can support it given the small population in Ellenbrook – massive waste of money – but helped win the ALP the election. But the LNP can’t do that?
Guytaur
Mutual obligation will be reinstated in time probably by the end of the year.
Bucephalus,
Depends on the price and the jobs they can generate both within the airline and within the tourist industry in Queensland.
Voters will give the Government credit for thinking outside the ideological confines of an atrophied brain. So there may be an electoral endorsement in the next few months.
Post the great Depression which the current situation has been compared, Governments of all colours set up and ran businesses like utilities, banks and airlines. Who’s to say it might not be a back to the future time in our Nation’s development.
Morrison is carefully creating the narrative of his government’s brilliance that will be repeated until the next election.
I would love to see a poll question asking if people thought there was a surplus last year.
Mexican
Maybe.
That depends on how many long term unemployed voters in regional areas matter.
C@tmomma says:
Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 1:58 pm
“When the Police you call are the AFP, of course there’s no Coalition corruption.”
It helps if an actual crime has been carried out when you call them.
For a potential future AG to be so unaware of the Law is rather concerning – how many referrals now without one prosecution let alone a conviction?
LNP promised to build Ellenbrook rail.Never did and never would have.
lizziesays:
Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 2:08 pm
“Morrison is carefully creating the narrative of his government’s brilliance that will be repeated until the next election.”
Um, that’s one of his main jobs? No?
steve davissays:
Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 2:09 pm
“LNP promised to build Ellenbrook rail.Never did and never would have.”
If the business case stacked up. It still hasn’t.
The Ellenbrook rail was an election policy, campaigned on from opposition. Try as you might I don’t think that qualifies as “pork barreling”
I look forward to Buce campaigning for a Federal ICAC.
The obvious answer to corruption and perception of same.
After all Nick Grenier was a Liberal.
Funny how his party has run from it at a million miles an hour since.
Socrates
Or maybe the opposite. He was choking on a foreign body caught in his throat, the truth. Fortunately he caught it in time and kept it down.
There seems to be a number of would be buyers interested in Virgin so its probably not something the government needs to look at and there are better things to spend money on.
Now that talk of a surplus is recognised as the dead parrott that it was, the real measure of government economic competence will be minimising unemployment. In this regard it will be fascinating to compare Australia’s performance with New Zealand, where a Labor government has also “crushed the curve”.
There the Ardern government has not whimped out of announcing a budget, and has proposed a substantial ($50 billion NZ) stimulus. Bear in mind our population is five times larger, so that is quite a bit. The conservative opposition is screaming “debt”.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/121503727/budget-2020-government-unveils-50b-covid19-fund-to-keep-economy-above-water
Bucephalus @ #1517 Thursday, May 14th, 2020 – 2:09 pm
Blind allegiance to the Coalition will never allow me to let you get away with saying no actual crimes have been carried out by anyone in the Coalition. I guess the falsified documents that Angus Taylor’s office created to try and skewer Clover Moore just magically appeared for them to use?
Which is the point I was trying to make and which you blithely ignored. An obvious crime was committed, but the AFP never find one as far as the Coalition are concerned.
Now you can construe that as ‘no crime was committed’ but that’s a very long, pretzel-shaped logical bow you are drawing.
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Reported US coronavirus cases:
Mar. 13: 2,204 cases
Apr. 13: 582,594 cases
Right now : 1,430,348 cases
Reported US coronavirus deaths:
80 days ago: 0 deaths
10 days ago: 67,682 deaths
Right now: 85, 197 deaths
Bucephalus
It may be Morrison’s main job to create a narrative about his own excellence, but it’s also his main job to lead the country without resorting to untruths, and to answer questions honestly.
Greensborough Growlersays:
Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 2:07 pm
Given the large numbers of interested parties I don’t see why any Government involvement is required.
The Queensland Government and media are deceiving the punters as it is (is that corruption, Boerwar?) because they are not proposing to do it alone. They haven’t even looked seriously at it, nor have they joined any one of the many interested groupings currently doing due diligence. It is likely that they won’t end up being involved, if they are it will only be a s minor bit player in a much larger group and they certainly won’t be doing it by themselves – which is the current message going out to punters in the media.
I don’t know if the Queensland government buying into Virgin is a good deal or not, but when Labor plans this kind of stuff, the Libs squeal loud and long—- “Cost/Benefit Analysis”, “Where is your business plan?” and “Where is the money coming from”? Fair enough I guess, but this does not stop these same Libs building expensive, no-money-in railways (Alice Springs to Darwin) without worrying about any of the above 3 caveats. Meanwhile, $50 billion on submarines some 10 years away from use is all spent under the cosy shroud of “defence”………
I thought Morrison’s main job was running the country honestly, efficiently and fairly.
I stuffed up on that one big time, didn’t I?
Bu
“Um, that’s one of his main jobs? No?”
It’s his only job, as far as I can tell. He’s not called ScottyFromMarketing for naught.
C@tmommasays:
Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 2:15 pm
I trust you hold the ALP at all levels to your high standards. No?
Bucephalus:
[‘Yes – politicians at all levels do it all the time.’]
Hardly a strong defence. While Labor no doubt does it too, it’s still far from right as it goes to the heart of our democracy. And in the lead-up to the last election, your mob took it to new levels, not seen in recent times.
The Ellenbrook rail line was a headline policy taken to an election. Everyone in WA had a chance to assess that policy (in the context of all the others, of course), and decide if it was too smelly to vote for.
The nature of the Sports Rorts was certainly not taken to the election – it only came to light because of the ANAO report. It was a program that was supposed to be non-partisan and assessed on merit, and it could have been if the blatant Sports Rorts electorate selection hadn’t been forced on the process from either or both of Mckenzie’s or Morrison’s offices.
Analysts ask if Justice Department investigation into Sen. Burr is payback for authenticating the Russia scandal
It was a question Mother Jones reporter Mark Follman asked if it was really more “about Bill Barr targeting the one powerful Republican who authenticated the Russia investigation.”
Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara noted that signing a warrant for a U.S. senator isn’t something done lightly.
This is a very, very big deal. This is not something the FBI or DOJ does lightly. It requires layers of review, the blessing of a judge, and consideration of severe reputational harm to a sitting US Senator.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/analysts-ask-if-justice-department-investigation-into-sen-burr-is-payback-for-authenticating-the-russia-scandal/
John DeanVerified account @JohnWDean · 1h1 hour ago
You can be sure this was cleared by the White House counsel if not Trump himself. Also AG Bill Barr. But why not Senator Kelly Loeffler, who also sold stocks? Because Burr is not a Trump toady, this looks like a vendetta!
LNP definition of unemployed: Is whatever we say it is whether or not it has any basis or grounding in reality.
Seapoochsays:
Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 2:11 pm
“The Ellenbrook rail was an election policy, campaigned on from opposition. Try as you might I don’t think that qualifies as “pork barreling””
Since when has a promise of spending by an Opposition Party not been subject to the definition of Pork Barreling?
It is the definition of Pork Barreling. It should be labelled the Pork Barrel Line on the timetables.
Kronomex @ #1535 Thursday, May 14th, 2020 – 2:24 pm
Mr Albanese said today
The Liberals were bleating the same BS about the viability of the Perth /Mandurah rail line when it was built, now recognized as the most successful rail infrastructure in WA.
Amy
Fulvio Sammut @ #1529 Thursday, May 14th, 2020 – 2:17 pm
Mr Alabanese said earlier today.
Bucephalus @ #1517 Thursday, May 14th, 2020 – 2:10 pm
Oh NO!!
Not repetition!
This will also be helping Labor in elections. Voters betrayed.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-14/queensland-farmers-affected-by-china-ban-on-australian-abattoirs/12242142
Morrison’s political stupidity in following Trump without having more than one egg in the basket.
It’s too late him to escape the political cost by looking for other markets.
Farmers face losing income now. On top of the pandemic effects.
frednk @ #1428 Thursday, May 14th, 2020 – 1:13 pm
You won’t get an argument from me about the Greens abandoning environmental issues. It is the main reason I don’t support them. Well, that and that fact that several of other their policies are just irrational. But I also find some of Labor’s policies irrational. However, unlike many here, I don’t simply dismiss either paty as a legitimate party, working to represent the interests of their members.
Complaining about a party because it attempts to occupy the political space that Labor has chosen to abandon is both futile and silly. As is complaining because this party then campaigns to expand their base. It is what political parties should do. It is exactly what Labor should be doing, but for reasons of their own, chooses not to.
The point is that Labor owns the consequences of their actions – whatever they are – just as much as the Greens do.
Simon Katich @ #1513 Thursday, May 14th, 2020 – 2:08 pm
How much disappointment could you stand?
Discussion becomes largely irrelevant when it’s about which party is less unethical.
Just argue the circumstances of each issue as it arises.
And while you are all in high dudgeon about corruption and police investigations how about those Victorian Red Shirts of the ALP?
All good? Nothing to see here? Spent a million dollars all the way to the High Court?
ALP – pure as the driven snow.
Bucephalus,
The detail of the Queensland Government’s interest has not been revealed as yet. So, just blindly writing it off without that is just an ideological indulgence.
There might be a number of others saying they have an interest. But, simply opportunists buying a distressed asset or cherry picking the parts they buy may not be the best outcome for Queensland jobs and the Tourist Industry.
As I said, it’s a creative approach which people in Queensland may approve.
PhoenixRed
Trump is determined to burn the joint down.
Meanwhile thousands of Americans continue to die from the virus.
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