As reported by The Guardian, this week’s Essential Research survey focuses on black lives matter protests, union power and the government’s coronavirus policies, producing a mixed bag of results on each:
• Sixty-two per cent felt protesters were “justified in their demands for authorities to address the issue of Indigenous deaths in custody”, but 61% felt “the situation in America is very different to Australia and has no relevance”, and 84% felt protests amid the pandemic put the community at risk.
• Sixty per cent rated unions as very important or quite important for working people, and 74% felt they provided essential services, but 62% thought them too politically biased and 58% agreed that “union protection makes it difficult for employers to discipline, terminate or even promote employees”.
• Sixty-four per cent expressed concern about how the withdrawal of Jobkeeper subsidies “would sit with any second wave of the pandemic”, 53% considered the government had broken a promise by withdrawing payments for childcare workers, 55% thought it too soon to remove support and 43% supported extending free childcare (up seven points on a month ago), but 57% thought the government needed to withdraw help from “some industries”.
The poll was conducted Thursday to Sunday from a sample of 1087; a full report will be published later today.
UPDATE: Full report here.
If there were no corrupt like liberal party branch stacking
John Howard , Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull, Scott Morrison would never been leaders and prime ministers
Scott
When you compare the bullying between Labor and the LNP its clear to me that the formal faction system has led to less bullying. Edit: Just ask Julie Bishop
Reform not throwing out the whole system is the go.
guytaur
Yes it is brutal in the Liberal Party to make matters worst , the liberal party and National party are controlled by foreign influences , media and not in the best interest for Australians ,hence the more bullying by those in the liberal party
Victoria – the Parliamentary Party is behind their leader. Onwards to the election. Not sure why some planks thought they would try it on now given the LNP are in a pretty good position.
Mr and Mrs McCormack attend the Melbourne Cup via return flights on the taxpayer.
Feeling some sort of weird compulsion to follow the ‘rules’ McCormack repeats a three year old funding pledge which has somehow missed coming up in three years of rorts.
This follows shortly after Robert, Tehan and Birmingham snouted the trough.
The Deputy Prime Minister and three ministers in the most corrupt Government since Federation.
Neo-nazi? Guytaur you are a moron.
Why isn’t Morrison under pressure about the disgusting comment that Senator Stoker made , for political advantage against the QLD premier
Vic
Looks like a staffer in Brynes office, who was pissed off after not getting a state seat in 2018.
Scott @ #50 Tuesday, June 16th, 2020 – 8:47 am
Mr Albanese said earlier this morning.
Buce
When its on the record its kinda moronic to call others morons.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/swastika-cupcakes-private-chats-of-neo-nazis-who-stacked-young-nats-20190430-p51il4.html
boerwar @ #55 Tuesday, June 16th, 2020 – 6:55 am
It would be interesting to see how much correlation there is between re-announcements and Party/social events.
lizzie @ #41 Tuesday, June 16th, 2020 – 8:33 am
Scott
Stoker said wtte “it was just the language that was floating around”.
That says so much about her lack of sensitivity and judgement.
It was reported a few years back that there are seven and a half factions in the NSW liberal party.
Frednk
The state liberals were up against it in 2018. A bit hard when your opponent is using taxpayer funded staff for internal party business. How much do you reckon the Vic ALP will have to reimburse the Vic taxpayer this time ? Was 380k after the redshirts saga.
Wonder if Scrooter will go harder on Albo today or ease up and give him a break.
[The thing about branch stacking is it cheats the genuine members of the party and has little to do with the general public who ultimately vote for candidates or not]
There is a box marked tendentious into which that proposition should be placed, probably at the top.
mundo says:
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 8:58 am
Mr Albanese said earlier this morning.
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Albanese and Labor members need to keep the pressure on during question time, in asking questions to Morrison about his involvement
They will catch Morrison out in misleading the house
Cud Chewer
If you are around, there is some happier news here about public transport and Covid19. It suggests that, with mask wearing and moderate social distancing (less than here) there is no evidence of covid 19 transmission in major city metros in Paris and Tokyo.
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2020/06/coronavirus-risk-transit-france-japan-trains-subway-buses/612841/
Final comments on branch stacking – yes it is everywhere but so is tax evasion. That doesn’t make it right and all those who don’t do it still don’t like it. Labor won’t win unless it is seen to oppose it. Also, those who have practiced it hardest are precisely the faceless men who have most damaged Labor’s electability while in office. So like tax-evasion, the fight against it must be eternal.
guytaur @ #60 Tuesday, June 16th, 2020 – 6:58 am
In fairness they were kicked out of the Party, so it seems harsh and incorrect to suggest the Nationals support or represent those views.
Trump is only concerned about his own reelection at this point, things like Supreme Courrt decisions I doubt bother him at all.
But this has interesting repercussions here, just as the US has decided religious objection is no basis for discrimination against LGBT+ people in employment or service provision, we are talking about introducing laws to legalise religious discrimination against LGBT+ people……Urgh
There is a point in time where the most blind adherent will realise the cause is lost. Trump MAY think the MAGA rallies prove massive support but the reality is that his campaign is heading towards a brick wall and barring exceptional actions (aka Civil War) Trump will lose Bigly.
Thanks Victoria.
Any big scalps come to mind?
Do you think the Vic police commissioner would be pleased that the Gobbo Royal Commission won’t report until fairly long after his retirement?
Barney
I did not say that. I said the culture of the LNP denying factions allowed the attempt.
The Greens had a similar problem with Left Renewal.
Its not the politics of others infiltrating its keeping the democratic forms in place to prevent manipulation.
lizzie says:
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 8:59 am
Scott
Stoker said wtte “it was just the language that was floating around”.
That says so much about her lack of sensitivity and judgement.
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The media would not let any Labor member to get away with
Albanese would be bombarded with questions like
Does he agree with what was said ?
If not will the person that made the comment be punish?
Questiom now is does Tim Kennedy take Somyurek’s position on the National Executive and if so does he vote with the Left.
Albanese is playing with fire.
guytaur says:
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 7:51 am
[‘In a bonus Chief Justice Roberts ruled against the Trump administration.’]
That’s not surprising. Roberts is quite a reasonable judge, who pulled Trump into line when he referred to certain federal judges as “Obama judges”. I note that Trump appointed lackey Kavanaugh dissented, though his other appointee, Gorsuch, was in the majority. Overall, a very good decision, and a slap in the face for Trump.
“Donald Trump Jr has put a ‘poll’ up on his website. Takes pushpolling that one step further..”
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Oh, and what do you know, he’s still calling the Dems socialists. How is that possible though?!? This was only supposed to happen if Fidel Castro was their nominee!
…oh, sorry, I meant Bernie Sanders. All that brainwashing from the mainstream media must have got me.
Biden the socialist hey. lol
…it’s not as stupid as it sounds though. The far-right extremists who dance to Trump’s tune love this kind of garbage.
Europe correspondent for Age & SMH.
Shellbell
There have been quite a few cases involving police misconduct
Also, the falsifying of amount of breathiliser tests conducted by police.
Dept of education big wigs
Scott @ #69 Tuesday, June 16th, 2020 – 9:04 am
Currently Labor couldn’t ‘catch’ Scrooter murdering his grandmother on the floor of the house during question time live on TV.
Shellbell
I reckon the police commissioner will take the view that he is not in control of timelines for such matters.
Considering he is due to retire any day now
guytaur says:
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 8:58 am
Read the article you linked- it actually debunks your claim because it was stopped, you moron – the Nationals didn’t allow it to happen and they were thrown out.
Wonder if Scrooter will go harder on Albo today or ease up and give him a break.
It’s the wrong question. If only morrison started the day hoping the opposition would go easy on him!
Buce
The key word in my post to you was attempt or tried you moron.
Isn’t moron one of those forbidden words now, like spastic?
High ranking members of the Government and the Opposition should be attending globally and nationally significant events like the Melbourne Cup. It’s their job.
Buce
Obviously MickMack felt guilty about using his allowances as he forced the Council to arrange a function (to their annoyance) for an announcement, at the wrong end of their territory.
guytaur @ #75 Tuesday, June 16th, 2020 – 7:08 am
Is it branch stacking if a group of people want to become involved in a political Party?
Sounds like you’re arguing to maintain the status quo.
How do political Parties change unless people are willing to join and work towards it?
This has nothing to do with democratic forms.
There was nothing democratic about the Nats saying, we don’t want neo-Nazis in our Party, piss off.
lizzie- when Barney is agreeing with me because an idiot like Guytaur has said something stupid then moron is surely acceptable and appropriate.
Barney
If its genuine people joining a party that then dominates it that says something about both the people in the area and the political party.
Branch Stacking is about the false effort to change numbers. Thus fraud and bribes are out.
If its genuine representation too bad. Them’s the breaks.
Bucephalus
I prefer idiot. 😆
Bucephalus @ #89 Tuesday, June 16th, 2020 – 7:28 am
Is that why it’s a National Public Holiday?
Bucephalus says:
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 8:42 am
The ALP are going to stop factionalism? They have formal factions with lists of members in Parliament and trade positions in Cabinets, on Committees and Preselections. The Unions belong to factions and have parliamentary seats allocated by the size and power of their factions in State Conference.
How are they going wipe all that away?
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Of course they will not. But it was one bad apple who was swiftly dealt with, nothing to see here. And anyway the Liberals have branch stackers and rorters too!
lizzie says:
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 9:32 am
The system forces all politicians to do this.
My position remains that senior politicians should attend these types of events- it’s their job.
Bucephalus
says:
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 9:28 am
High ranking members of the Government and the Opposition should be attending globally and nationally significant events like the Melbourne Cup. It’s their job.
The value of corporate hospitality and a lot of the travel and other goodies associated with it will be more heavily scrutinised going forward. Most of it is not actually needed from a business point of view, and is mainly done so that those that seem to benefit can keep their snouts in the trough. Think of all the unnecessary meetings orgainized around the Grand Prix, Melb Cup etc to provide a pretence of an excuse. I know my ticket to the Grand Final last year didn’t change anything other than my appreciation of Dusty
guytaur @ #93 Tuesday, June 16th, 2020 – 7:35 am
I’m sure the neo-Nazis, as abhorrent as their beliefs are, are genuine people.