Newspoll: 51-49 to Coalition

The latest Newspoll records little change on three weeks ago, with Scott Morrison dominating on personal ratings but the Coalition enjoying only a slender lead on voting intention.

The Australian reports the latest Newspoll has the Coalition’s two-party lead unchanged at 51-49, with both major parties down a point on the primary vote, the Coalition to 42% and Labor to 34%. The Greens are up two to 12% and One Nation are down one to 4%. Scott Morrison’s approval is unchanged at 66%, and his disapproval is down one to 29%; Anthony Albanese is respectively down three to 41% and up one to 38%. Morrison’s lead as preferred prime minister is now 56-26, out from 56-29. The BludgerTrack leadership trends (see also on the sidebar) have been updated with these numbers. The poll was conducted online from Wednesday to Saturday, from a sample of 1512.

UPDATE: The Australian has helpfully published a PDF display of all the poll results, including for a suite of questions on coronavirus and its foreign policy implications. Opinion was divided as to whether the World Health Organisation (34% positive, 32% negative) and United Nations (23% positive, 21% negative) had had a beneficial impact on the crisis, but quite a lot clearer in relation to “Xi Jinping and the Chinese government” (6% positive, 72% negative) and “Donald Trump and the United States government” (9% positive, 79% negative). Further results are available through the link.

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. Right-wing politicians and media commentators always see demonstrations relating to causes to which they are indifferent or hostile as an opportunity to dog whistle and bang on about law and order.

  4. Confessions @ #1201 Wednesday, June 10th, 2020 – 7:07 am

    C@t:

    It was also Cormann smoking that cigar after helping Hockey with the 2014 budget. Tinnest ear ever.

    To my mind he’s one of the most evil of the Coalition Ministers. He’s been there since Abbott’s time and survived by being able to put the Coalition spin onto events and never ever admit to any moral or ethical failings of the policies of the government. If something looks obviously wrong to you and me, he’ll have the form of words to hand to turn that black mark into a bright, stainless white move by the federal government. And proud of his ability to do that he is too, I bet!

  5. US President Donald Trump suggests 75-year-old protester pushed to the ground by police was a ‘set up’

    Trump does it too. I mean, how does he know it was a ‘set up’? He doesn’t. It’s just a convenient lie in order to get the Police off the hook for their egregious behaviour. Donald Trump is simply evil.

  6. Confessionssays: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at 7:07 am

    US President Donald Trump suggests 75-year-old protester pushed to the ground by police was a ‘set up’
    In a dramatic turn of events, President Trump tweeted Tuesday claiming Mr Gugino “could be an Antifa provocateur” and suggested he “fell harder than he was pushed” and that the video was a fake.

    ***********************************************************

    Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson

    Which one of your batshit loon followers gave you this crown jewel of absolute dumbfuckery?

    New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has jurisdiction over the Buffalo police department, used his press conference today to rip Donald Trump to shreds over it: “What do you think it was, staged? Do you think the blood coming out of his head was staged? Is that what you’re saying? … How reckless, how irresponsible, how mean, how cruel? I mean if there was ever a reprehensible dumb comment, and from the President of the United States, at this moment of anguish and anger. What does he do? Pours gasoline on the fire.”

  7. @keithgiles
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    7h
    Kinda surreal when the President starts accusing your 75 yr old friend of being an agent of ANTIFA.

    My friend Martin Gugino is an old man with cancer who is now in the hospital with brain damage after being pushed to the ground by a police officer he was trying to talk to.

  9. Political Polls@PpollingNumbers
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    1h
    Michigan Poll:

    Biden 50%
    Trump 35%
    .
    #MIsen:
    Peters (D-inc) 48%
    James (R) 32%

    @KiaerResearch

  10. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/the-times-call-for-better-direction/news-story/065f815d9c3ba35ec3a58ebe59526a56

    New numbers this month confirmed what most Australians knew — Australia has entered a recession and, with that, our remarkable run of three decades of uninterrupted growth has ended. This unparalleled period of continuous growth, which was set up by Labor and defended by Labor when it was last most at risk, has ended under the Liberals.

    We won’t know how bad the recession will be but there is near unnanimity among economists that the June quarter will be significantly worse than the March quarter, and that the numbers will be sobering and daunting. Millions of Australians who were struggling before the fires and before the virus are now at risk of being left out and left behind. Hundreds of thousands of jobs have already been sacrificed to the first recession in 29 years, and the recovery will be patchy and slow.

    I believe I am due for an eye test. What is this article doing in “The Australian” ❓

  11. More Obama-era regulations to be wound back by Trump. The only conclusion you can arrive at is that he really hates the natural environment and is so cowed by the rentseekers. In this case he probably thinks hunters are the manliest of manly men and so curries favour with them.

    Hunters will soon be allowed to venture into national parks in Alaska and engage in practices that conservation groups say are reprehensible: baiting hibernating bears from their dens with doughnuts to kill them and using artificial light such as headlamps to scurry into wolf dens to slaughter mothers and their pups.

    In a final rule that is expected to be published Tuesday in the Federal Register, the Trump administration will end a five-year-old ban on the practices, which also include shooting swimming caribou from a boat and targeting animals from airplanes and snowmobiles. It would take effect 30 days after being published.

    State officials primarily composed of hunters in Alaska argued that the October 2015 regulations ordered by the Obama administration infringed on traditional native hunting practices and were more restrictive than what is allowed on state land.

    https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Trump-administration-to-make-it-easier-for-15325666.php

  12. https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/famous-australians-lead-queens-birthday-honours-see-the-full-list/news-story/b33a77cb8e2f7de0a734c02e9058851d

    “As I’ve often said, it’s not what you have to do, it’s what you choose to do that is the measure of your quality as a human being,” he said.

    I’m not sure – but I think I am nearly to the –

    “I jest cain’t take no more” stage.

    P.S. There is a really good photo of Mr. Abbot contained in the article.

  13. If the good-hearted Americans that we have all been brought up seeing on our TVs as being avatars of their country in general, don’t throw that bum out of office in November, then that America will be gone forever.

  14. GG @7:28. ”Governments don’t face the same pressure to make money as companies, but they rarely want to subsidise failing industries forever – especially very polluting ones”

    Unless those industries own them.

  15. DebbieSpillane @DebSpillane
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    10h
    Oh, that’s right it’s early June again. Time for more ABC staff cuts.
    Was this time 4yrs ago I found out, almost simultaneously, that I’d been awarded an AM and my job ABC had been cut.
    The organisation was already limping due to cuts back then. It can’t survive this treatment.

  16. C@t:

    Would be good if Moscow Mitch was voted out.

    Political Polls@PpollingNumbers
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    17h
    #Kentucky Senate Poll:

    McGrath (D) 41%
    McConnell (R-Inc) 40%

    RMG

  17. According to a new poll conducted by RMG Group, former Marine Amy McGrath will defeat Mitch McConnell decisively in November; but only if she begins focusing on one key issue: congressional term limits. If McGrath does not stress term limits, the race remains a tossup.

    The poll, which was conducted from May 21-24, found that McGrath currently leads McConnell 41% to 40%, which is well within the margin of error. But after voters are told that it is McGrath, not McConnell, who agrees with President Trump on term limiting Congress, she jumps out to a 15-point lead.

    When voters are informed that McGrath supports term limits and McConnell opposes it, McGrath’s support among Republicans nearly doubles from 8% to 17%. Among independents, her share rises from 33% to 43%.

    https://www.termlimits.com/mcgrath/

  18. Michael Springer
    @MichaelSpring17

    So in their misguided desire to reduce govt debt the Morrison Govt is lying and cheating their way out of the promised economic stimulus. Guess what Australia, the Morrison Govt is still happy if you use your super to pay our out of this economic hardship. Spivs, liars and thieves!!!

  19. Good morning Dawn Patrollers

    In this second, long contribution Rob Harris chronicles the early days of how Morrison faced the horrors he knew were ahead.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/i-see-the-full-horror-show-how-australia-navigated-the-twin-crises-of-covid-19-20200609-p550tn.html
    Phil Coorey looks at how the Coalition will be framing the next election.
    https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/spenders-versus-enablers-coalition-frames-next-election-20200609-p550pe
    Here’s Katharine Murphy’s take on the latest Essential poll which revealed that most Australians believe there is institutional racism in the US but not here.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jun/10/essential-poll-most-australians-believe-there-is-institutional-racism-in-the-us-but-not-australia
    Attending the G7 in the US carries great diplomatic risks for Australia, warns Tony Walker. He makes several valid points.
    https://theconversation.com/attending-the-g7-in-the-us-carries-great-diplomatic-risks-for-australia-140331
    David Crowe says that Australians will be given a say on an Indigenous “voice” within months as the Morrison government steps up the reform to create a new mechanism for community input following the Black Lives Matter protests.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australians-to-get-their-say-on-the-indigenous-voice-this-year-20200609-p550wo.html
    In this impassioned article Chris Uhlmann declares that the national cabinet has proven itself in dealing with a short-term crisis in the coronavirus. It would be good if the premiers and Prime Minister now set their sights on a much more intractable problem – indigenous disadvantage.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/national-cabinet-proved-itself-on-covid-now-the-nation-s-health-depends-on-a-more-difficult-task-20200609-p550qq.html
    While Australia’s structural racism must be addressed, Lyn Bender questions whether crowded demonstrations are the best approach during a pandemic.
    https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/australias-structural-racism-and-the-pandemic,13977
    Ross Gittins explains why it is time to dig deep for those who haven’t had a good crisis. He talks of the difficulties that charities are in.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/time-to-dig-deep-for-those-who-haven-t-had-a-good-crisis-20200609-p550qc.html
    In an op-ed in The Australian Jim Chalmers says the times call for better direction. He concludes with “Australia can avoid longer than necessary unemployment queues and prevent further economic weakness, but it will require real leadership and vision from those at the top — and right now the Liberals and Nationals are leaving the country wanting for both.”
    https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/the-times-call-for-better-direction/news-story/065f815d9c3ba35ec3a58ebe59526a56
    Free childcare doesn’t suit the Coalition’s ideology, so we get what we voted for writes Lisa Bryant.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/09/government-free-childcare-doesnt-suit-the-coalitions-ideology-we-get-what-we-voted-for
    The NSW government was warned by transport officials that it will fail to deliver major infrastructure projects promised at the last election due to a lack of funding but Transport Minister Andrew Constance says that roads such as the Northern Beaches Link will be completed.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/state-warned-almost-certain-risk-of-election-commitment-shortfall-20200609-p550ws.html
    Jenifer Duke tells us that superannuation funds say the $3 trillion sector needs policy stability to take up Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s call for more retirement money to be invested in major infrastructure projects.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/super-funds-say-policy-stability-key-to-more-infrastructure-investment-20200609-p550s0.html
    Just as the markets have responded positively to Australia’s pandemic success, the challenge for the Morrison government is to build on that success by enabling the strongest possible recovery says the editorial in the AFR.
    https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/markets-rally-but-morrison-must-now-enable-recovery-20200609-p550oz
    And Jennifer Hewett writes that a surging sharemarket is paying no attention to any of the economic warning signs about the months ahead, even though the outlook is much better than Treasury had predicted.
    https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/market-confidence-contrasts-with-economic-risks-20200609-p550uz
    Ad Astra for the AIMN writes that we are fortunate to have such expert advice in abundance: scientific, medical, psychological, nursing, epidemiological, and public health. But he says it is a pity it is that politicians ignore expert advice from scientists working in other fields, notably the study of climate change and environmental protection because it conflicts with their ideological position.
    https://theaimn.com/listen-to-the-experts/
    Paul Bongiorno: says that the government’s reconciliation inaction has been hiding behind a coronavirus smokescreen.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2020/06/09/paul-bongiorno-reconciliation-inaction/
    Samantha Dick gives us 8000 reason supporting the proposition that our external borders are not closed.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2020/06/10/closed-borders/
    Australia’s childcare centre workers are mainly women and they’re about to find out what it’s like to be part of a government JobKeeper experiment, explains David Crowe.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/women-running-childcare-centres-about-to-face-more-upheaval-20200609-p550w7.html
    According to Fergus Hunter, Labor will move via a disallowance motion in the Senate to overturn regulatory changes made by the Morrison government that the opposition warns are a potential precursor to job and wage cuts at Australia Post.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/labor-seeks-to-stop-job-cuts-at-australia-post-20200609-p550y9.html
    Matt Johnson tells us that Australia’s banks have been criticised for ‘stealing’ billions of dollars from the pockets of credit card customers by failing to pass on interest rate cuts.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/consumer/2020/06/10/credit-card-rate-cuts/
    A proposal to counter systemic racism in the courts is in the NSW government’s hands. It needs to give it the green light, writes indigenous lawyer Teela Reid.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/premier-needs-to-act-on-model-to-save-black-lives-20200609-p550wq.html
    Is the Morrison Government’s HomeBuilder scheme another case of pork-barrelling which targets the Liberal base? Financial adviser Harry Chemay says it will benefit some first-home buyers and the building lobby – but can also be accessed by wealthy self-funded retirees to increase the value in their home and access the pension.
    https://www.michaelwest.com.au/homebuilder-a-sneaky-plan-for-the-coalitions-franking-credits-crew-to-collar-the-pension/
    Garry Linnell likens Mathias Cormann to everyone’s relative who falls asleep in the corner, snoring loudly with a lampshade over his head, and manages to spit out a series of shallow remarks guaranteed to misread every situation.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/entertainment/people-entertainment/2020/06/10/garry-linnell-mathias-cormann/
    Paul Karp And Daniel Hurst write that with JobKeeper the Coalition is hinting at ‘further adjustments’ as Labor accuses it of breaking a promise.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jun/09/coalition-hints-at-further-adjustments-to-jobkeeper-as-labor-accuses-it-of-breaking-promise
    Psychologist Judy Christian calls for a plan to “unlock” our nursing homes. It’s a very difficult situation.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/we-need-a-plan-to-unlock-our-nursing-homes-20200602-p54ykc.html
    The Aussie dollar’s remarkable surge is counter-intuitive, but it’s all relative, says Stephen Bartholomeusz.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/the-aussie-dollar-s-surge-is-counter-intuitive-but-it-s-all-relative-20200609-p550nx.html
    The Financial Planning Association of Australia’s call for advisers to be registered individually, along the lines of what happens in mature professions such as accountancy, medicine and law, should be taken seriously, urges John Collett.
    https://www.smh.com.au/money/planning-and-budgeting/it-s-time-to-regulate-financial-planners-individually-20200605-p54ztf.html
    While some in the market are rejoicing at the Aussie’s strength, are they ignoring the risks this poses to our economic recovery? And are they underestimating rising tensions with Beijing? These are questions examined by Karen Maley.
    https://www.afr.com/markets/currencies/aussie-dollar-s-unfortunate-popularity-20200609-p550rl
    Richard Earl is concerned that youth unemployment crisis is unfolding before our eyes.
    https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6775436/youth-unemployment-crisis-is-unfolding-before-our-eyes/?cs=14329#gsc.tab=0
    Doctors for the Environment Australia say that now is not the time to weaken our environmental protections.
    https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6777567/now-is-not-the-time-to-weaken-our-environmental-protections/?cs=14258#gsc.tab=0
    Xavier Symonds defends Abbott’s gong.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/tony-abbott-s-views-may-be-repellent-to-many-but-that-s-no-reason-not-to-honour-him-20200609-p550xn.html
    Sally Rawsthorne reports that at yesterday’s hearing of the Ruby Princess inquiry it was revealed that senior NSW Health officials considered testing all cruise ship passengers for coronavirus was “very much overkill” a month before the debacle.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/overkill-nsw-health-opposed-covid-testing-on-cruise-ships-20200609-p550uh.html
    Andrew Tillett writes that major submarine maintenance is likely to stay in Adelaide, thanks to a combination of political pressure and budgetary constraints, with the Morrison government risking the ire of Western Australia over missing out on $400 million a year of taxpayer-funded work.
    https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/submarine-work-likely-to-stay-in-adelaide-20200609-p550rg
    The Canberra Times says that New Zealand’s success is an inspiration.
    https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6786750/new-zealands-success-is-an-inspiration/?cs=14258#gsc.tab=0
    Logistics companies have not been immune from the economic slump caused by the coronavirus but are seizing the moment to become more efficient, explains Jenny Wiggins.
    https://www.afr.com/companies/infrastructure/logistics-gets-legs-after-covid-19-20200604-p54zfk
    Wesfarmers, owner of Bunnings, Officeworks, Kmart and Target, hit the ball out of the park on sales during the COVID peak and in doing so created another retail category – discretionary essentials, explains Elizabeth Knight.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/right-time-right-products-how-wesfarmers-accidentally-pitched-perfectly-for-pandemic-20200609-p550x7.html
    Meanwhile Dominic Powell reports that Wesfarmers’ boss Rob Scott has warned that the steps taken by the retailer to prevent the spread of coronavirus in its stores will have to stay in place for now, despite them taking a toll on the business.
    https://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/costly-covid-19-containment-steps-to-stay-for-now-at-bunnings-20200609-p550w4.html
    Pandemic expert Peter Daszak writes that instead of following false claims on the origin of Covid-19, we should be focusing our efforts on the regions where the next pandemic is likely to emerge
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/09/conspiracies-covid-19-lab-false-pandemic
    Amanda Meade looks at what’s ahead for News Ltd’s metropolitan newspapers.
    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/09/news-corp-cuts-more-jobs-this-time-at-its-metropolitan-newspapers
    And she explains how the ABC will have to cut 250 jobs to meet a $41m budget shortfall from Coalition funding cuts.
    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/09/abc-seeks-voluntary-redundancies-to-make-up-41m-budget-shortfall
    The Department of NSW Premier and Cabinet secretary Tim Reardon says the state is set to leapfrog the US and UK as first choice for international students.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/nsw-primed-to-overtake-the-us-and-uk-as-the-uni-of-choice-for-students-20200609-p550x4.html
    New billion-dollar expansion plans for the rejuvenation of the Whyalla steelworks have been announced by UK tycoon industrialist Sanjeev Gupta, who also flagged the need for “major cost reductions” at the “financially challenged” operations.
    https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/messenger/upper-spencer-gulf/sanjeev-gupta-unveils-1bn-whyalla-steelworks-revamp/news-story/abd14f337e5145deb34222b84843693a
    Matthew Knott writes that Republican rising star Senator Rick Scott says Australia has a key role in helping the US face off against China, declaring: “We ought to do this together.”
    https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/they-want-world-domination-australia-urged-to-join-cold-war-on-china-20200609-p550nk.html
    Trump has scraped the bottom of his filthy barrel to advance an unfounded conspiracy theory about a 75-year-old protester in Buffalo, New York, who was pushed down by police officers, tweeting without evidence that the confrontation may have been a “set up”.
    https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/trump-pushes-conspiracy-theory-about-75-year-old-buffalo-protester-20200610-p5510v.html
    Trump’s former personal lawyer (he has had so many of them!) John Dowd’s ominous rhetoric framed peaceful protesters as insurgents and subversives. This is an unsettling development says Lawrence Douglas.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/09/trump-john-dowd-lawyer-protesters-terrorists
    A former Greens candidate who ran at last year’s federal election has been charged with three child sex abuse offences after the Australian Federal Police executed a warrant at the climate activist’s home in Sydney. Enough to be nominated for “Arsehole of the Week” I’d say.
    https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/greens-activist-jonathan-peter-doig-arrested-over-alleged-child-sex-abuse-offences/news-story/cca6e47f36001cb9a1758bc666cd7b58

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  20. Essential poll: most Australians believe there is institutional racism in the US but not Australia

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jun/10/essential-poll-most-australians-believe-there-is-institutional-racism-in-the-us-but-not-australia

    How utterly delusional. Australia has a massive problem with racism. You can take your pick from the way the country treated/treats First Australians; to the way such a large section of the population support parties that run on platforms of inciting racism (Coalition, One Nation, etc…); to the bipartisan support that the barbaric practice of throwing innocent asylum seekers fleeing war and persecution into indefinite detention on remote islands receives from Labor and the Coalition.

    The establishment in Australia is making a lot of noise lately about how disgusting Trump is, and he certainly is that, but at the same time they continue to support deeply racist policies in their own country. Absolute hypocrites.

  21. I said it yesterday with Tim Wilson commenting on the impact of reintroducing childcare fees, you have Mathias Cormann calling Black Lives Matter protesters “incredibly indulgent.” It is always the person most removed from having any empathy towards the targeted group who does the speaking for the LNP. Then again they all are removed from reality…

  23. Alpha Zero @ #1221 Wednesday, June 10th, 2020 – 8:07 am

    I said it yesterday with Tim Wilson commenting on the impact of reintroducing childcare fees, you have Mathias Cormann calling Black Lives Matter protesters “incredibly indulgent.” It is always the person most removed from having any empathy towards the targeted group who does the speaking for the LNP. Then again they all are removed from reality…

    And Scott Morrison keeps his hands clean.

  24. It seems fake news about Antifa is becoming common.

    Amid Black Lives Matter protests, a rumoured Antifa invasion fuelled fear in regional Idaho
    As America was gripped by nationwide protests triggered by the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police, a curious post began to spread online in the country’s north-west.

    “There is a tonne of these Mercedes transport vans with European license plates headed to Spokane right not. WTF is going on?” the Facebook post said.

    “Call police,” someone replied.

    The post about the mysterious vans came after a night of looting by a small number of protesters in the city of Spokane, Washington.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-10/how-a-rumour-about-antifa-looters-fuelled-fear-in-regional-usa/12334638

  25. Twiggy Forrest, friend of Indigenous???

    As demonstrators gather on Tuesday at Rio Tinto’s Perth headquarters to protest against the blasting of a 46,000-year-old Aboriginal heritage site, a neighbouring Aboriginal corporation anxiously awaits a decision from WA Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ben Wyatt on a 60,000-year-old Pilbara heritage site sitting squarely in the path of a mine.

    Fortescue Metals Group’s planned Queens mine expansion, part of the Solomon project, has a footprint covering more than 70 heritage sites, including rock shelters, campsites and rock paintings and engravings – the 60,000-year-old rock shelter among them.

    The Eastern Guruma gained permission to excavate and investigate to demonstrate the sites’ cultural value, said archaeologist Kathryn Przywolnik, who is heritage manager at Wintawari Guruma Aboriginal Corporation which represents the Eastern Guruma people.

    But before this work could commence, she said, FMG sought a Section 18 consent from Mr Wyatt to destroy the first batch of sites.

    So the Aboriginal corporation rushed out at the end of last year and completed brief and urgent excavations at two of the sites. The sites ran even deeper than anticipated.

    https://www.smh.com.au/national/default-setting-stuck-on-destroy-fmg-s-plan-to-blast-60-000-year-old-site-20200608-p550ld.html

  26. Regarding my previous.

    I’d be interested to know, how many vehicles in the US have European number plates?

  27. This is how far removed Morrison is, in his Sydney bubble. From last Nov.

    kbaguley
    @bkbaguley
    · Nov 12, 2019
    Morrison tells people to listen to Sydney radio station 2GB for emergency fire updates!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    We have a National Public Broadcaster…it’s called the ABC!!!!!!
    Talk about living in a BUBBLE!!!!

  28. You can’t demonise Finland it isn’t possible as that is where the Santa Clause village is and Santa is there 52 weeks a year.

  30. Thanks BK for the Dawn Patrol.

    Newcastle weather –
    Currently 16℃ may reach as high as 17℃
    Rainy day – maybe 12 mm rain.
    Wind NNE 12 KMH

    I watched one Dan Tehan spruiking on ABC TV a couple of days ago.
    He repeated his lines almost exactly no matter the question.
    His manner of speaking is very slow as though he were speaking to quite slow witted or hard of hearing folk. Either that or he is of the hard of hearing etc variety.

    I guess the journalists just gave up and went away. Job done. 😈

  33. BK @ #1229 Wednesday, June 10th, 2020 – 6:37 am

    It’s a bit cold here this morning. Frozen water pipes and all. Here is the top of a fence post by the front door.
    ” rel=”nofollow”>

    Brilliant!!!!

    It almost makes the cold worthwhile.

    I remember a heavy frost in the UK which extended a couple of metres above the ground.
    The cobwebs on the street signs were stunning in the morning light. 🙂

  34. The LNP seems to be going into John Howard refusing to say sorry territory of being out of touch.

    We still have not seen the full effects of the coming Depression either.

    The next Federal election from this far out looks like a disaster for the LNP. I bet they are so wishing they lost to Labor right now.

  35. The LNP seems to be going into John Howard refusing to say sorry territory of being out of touch.

    We still have not seen the full effects of the coming Depression either.

    The next Federal election from this far out looks like a disaster for the LNP. I bet they are so wishing they lost to Labor right now.

  36. guytaur

    I bet they are so wishing they lost to Labor right now.

    That would mean they face reality, and they never do. Winning is all.

  38. A former Greens candidate who ran at last year’s federal election has been charged with three child sex abuse offences after the Australian Federal Police executed a warrant at the climate activist’s home in Sydney.

    The Australian can reveal Greens member Jonathan Peter Doig, who ran in the southern Sydney seat of Cook against Scott Morrison, was arrested at his Gymea Bay home by AFP officers on Tuesday afternoon following a lengthy investigation.

    Mr Doig will appear in Sydney’s Central Local Court on Wednesday accused of allegedly paying more than $120,000 over 10 years for child sex-abuse material, including the live-streaming of child abuse from The Philippines.

    The 57-year-old was charged with procuring a child to engage in sexual activity outside Australia, using a carriage service to solicit child-abuse material and possessing child-abuse material obtained or accessed through a carriage service. The alleged offences carry maximum sentences of 15 years’ imprisonment.

    An AFP spokesman confirmed a Sydney man had been arrested at his home as part of an ongoing investigation.

  40. Wow! I missed this yesterday.

    @reinedelanuit05
    ·
    16h
    .@MattCanavanMP says aboriginal Australians have a propensity to commit crime!!! How dare he? Ffs
    @edhusic correctly says it was wrong of him
    #afternoonbriefing

  41. lizzie

    Yes I have to agree.

    Its why I am cheering the journalists losing their job. They have become stenographers of government press releases so having one newsroom out of Sydney makes sense.
    Especially the cuts at the ABC meaning forget investigative journalism.

    Edit: The vacuum will hopefully be filled by real journalists who will do a better job. Its a good time to be Crikey The Saturday Paper The New Daily and Independent Australia. We much just get informed voters yet.

  43. lizzie @ #1240 Wednesday, June 10th, 2020 – 6:48 am

    Wow! I missed this yesterday.

    @reinedelanuit05
    ·
    16h
    .@MattCanavanMP says aboriginal Australians have a propensity to commit crime!!! How dare he? Ffs
    @edhusic correctly says it was wrong of him
    #afternoonbriefing

    Sounds like he’s been reading meher, that’s been one of her lines.

  46. Having just read the second instalment of Rob Harris’ COVID chronicle, a few important things popped out at me. Basically, if it wasn’t for Labor and Union people, Dan Andrews, Greg Combet and Sally McManus, Scott Morrison would have been stuffed, as would have been Australia’s response to the virus.

    Secondly, it seems as though Mike Cannon-Brookes was the one responsible for The App. I think he needs to work on his timing. It would probably have been more effective and useful if developed and implemented sooner. What I will also add is that there seems some hope for the future of Energy policy in this country if Cannon-Brookes has the ear of the federal government. Should be an interesting battle to watch as the Fossil Fuel dinosaurs engage in a turf war with him, an avowed supporter of Renewable Energy.

  47. Yes, all Parties unfortunately have some of these scum in their ranks.

    This is not a Party political issue

    Move on and focus on the crime and what an abhorrent individual he is.

    Think of the children he has harmed, celebrate that that is at an end.

    Well done AFP for catching up with him.

  48. Barney

    Well said. I agree. The right will try and pretend that political parties should have their own investigative detective police force until its them in trouble of course.

  50. The rushed announcement on the new injecting room now makes sense if the state govt was told on Friday of Transurbans supreme court action on the west gate tunnel project.
    I was wondering why they released it at this time.

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