The Guardian reports that Essential Research, which a fortnight ago published its first coronavirus-free poll since January, has naturally revived its interest in the subject. The poll finds 36% of respondents rating themselves very concerned about the virus, up from 25% when the question was last asked three weeks ago. The state breakdowns have it at 46% in Victoria, though New South Wales isn’t far behind at 42%.
The poll also finds approval of the federal government’s handling of the matter down from 70% when the question as last asked three weeks ago to 64%, while small sample breakdowns concerning state governments’ responses have the Victorian government’s favourable rating slumping from 65% to 49%. Below are charts recording the progress of these results since the pollster first asked the question in relation to the federal government in March and the state governments in April, although at this stage I only have “good” and not “poor” ratings from the latest poll. Keep in mind that the sample sizes for the Victorian results is only around 275.
The poll also features the pollster’s monthly (actually a bit longer than that on occasion, the previous result having been from May 28-31) leadership ratings, which find Scott Morrison down two on approval to 63% and up one on disapproval to 27%, while Anthony Albanese is up one to 44% and down two to 28%. The latter numbers are rather a lot different from Newspoll, whose poll a fortnight ago had Albanese on 42% for both approval and disapproval. Morrison holds a lead of 50-27 lead as preferred prime minister, narrowing from 53-23 last time.
The BludgerTrack aggregates have been updated with these numbers. Essential Research should publish the full report for the poll later today.
UPDATE: Full report here. The federal government’s poor rating on COVID-19 is up four to 16%, while the Victorian government’s has doubled to 26%.
Bushfire Bill @ #942 Thursday, July 16th, 2020 – 12:01 am
That you even try and equate these two is quite revealing.
Barney in Tanjung Bunga
It needs to sound more uplifting so how about ‘Workliberation’ ,giving freedom to our workers.
Lizzie
I was thinking of some Job- marketing terms, before you posted that one.
JobSpoiler!
Victoria @ #991 Thursday, July 16th, 2020 – 9:13 am
And she has the former head of the Hotels lobby in her cabinet as Police Minister, David Elliott.
C@tmomma @ #997 Thursday, July 16th, 2020 – 9:17 am
Actually they already have thought of that one, they’re called ‘Internships’.
C@t
Exactly!
Strong curries are also potent job makers.
Cat
“I’m just waiting for the Liberals ultimate policy:
SlaveOwner. ”
I was going to suggest SerfMaker myself. Or perhaps a new industry assistance scheme called TaxStealer? And some financial assistance to the Murdoch empire under FriendsHelpingFriends.
This could be the opportunity to “recalibrate” (jargon word) many of the LNP inconsistencies and rorts by private operators, but it looks as if Morrison is bedding them down instead. As we expected.
Meanwhile in the United States of Convenience
C@t
I stand to be corrected, but I dont recall one occasion that the vic health press conferences had anyone from the restaurant or hotel association.
I didnt see GBerejiklian presser, but if this was the case, it basically sending message that it is not NSW health making the decisions in this case, but the hotel association.
Which takes me to the point that there would be red hot rage in the MSM towards our Premier, if health policy was being influenced in such a way.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/15/labour-to-apologise-to-antisemitism-whistleblowers
Scotty from marketing wants to outdo his friend the liar in chief.
Socrates @ #1011 Thursday, July 16th, 2020 – 9:29 am
It has to have the correct soupcon of ‘Sunny Uplands’ vibe about it to succeed though, so as to bamboozle said serfs. 😉
The Libs have tried for 60 years to make their party name a synonym for jobs. Their labour market policy brands – JobSeeker, JobKeeper, JobTrainer – echo their party branding. None of them are going to be effective unless final demand picks up. The issue in the labour market is not on the supply-side. It’s on the demand side. The LibHeavy will be – they already are – attempting to reinstate fiscal repression. This will make things worse. It is their ideological reflex in action.
Labor have to differentiate themselves on this.
Victoria @ #1017 Thursday, July 16th, 2020 – 9:35 am
It’s not hard. Although it depends on what metric you are judging them by. Machiavelli-In-Chief would be a hard one to judge.
lizzie @ #1016 Thursday, July 16th, 2020 – 9:43 am
Money which – like the supposed $2 billion spent on bushfire relief – will never eventuate anyway 🙁
David Sanderson
@dizzylimit
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Important data point: Israel reopened schools May 17. Since then at least 1,335 students and 691 staff have become infected and it appears to have fueled a resurgence of COVID-19 outbreaks.
Israelis Fear Schools Reopened Too Soon as Covid-19 Cases Climb
Some Israeli public-health officials are blaming the country’s decision to reopen schools in May for helping fuel a large new wave of coronavirus infections that has prompted authorities to shut down…
wsj.com
lizzie @ #1019 Thursday, July 16th, 2020 – 9:43 am
And Morrison gets to tell them how to reform TAFE and VET. Win-Win for Scotty from Marketing.
This really needs clarification……
Kristina Keneally
@KKeneally
You’ve probably heard a lot about Paladin… but that wouldn’t have been the case if it weren’t for journalists at the
@FinancialReview
.
They realised something wasn’t quite right because the company was being paid $20 million-a-month…
Cashing in on refugees, duo make $20 million a month at Manus Island
The government has quietly extended one of its most controversial contracts, paying little-known Paladin Group an extra $109 million for security services on Manus Island.
afr.com
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Paladin were contracted by Dutton’s Department to look after garrison (or security) services in PNG.
Remember how I told you about
@PeterDutton_MP
’s failure to resettle refugees in third countries meant indefinite detention for them?
It‘s also meant huge cost for the taxpayer.
Show this thread
Kristina Keneally
@KKeneally
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@FinancialReview
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@lmurray75
explains how the contract came to be here
How did a company based in a beach shack snag a $423m contract?
Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars have been handed to a company whose local subsidiary was registered to a beach shack. The money was for security protection on Manus Island, and it’s still…
abc.net.au
We now have a wild Lady Amherst/Golden Pheasant hybrid, running around in the backyard. It showed up a few days and doesn’t seem too disposed to move on yet.
Confessions @ #961 Thursday, July 16th, 2020 – 7:50 am
Don’t understand the Goya thing. Is it legitimate or some sort of Internet photoshop meme?
Kronomex
How very cool.
I suspect some preemptive arse covering by Gladys and Health Hazzard. Yesterday I saw some report that “in a worrying development” people at that NSW pub cluster had “become infectious within 24 hours” . On RN this morning I heard the claim again from Fran before she spoke to Health Hazzard. Wouldn’t the ‘obvious’ assumption be that these people were in fact already infected ? But then when/if it turns to shit in NSW you wouldn’t be able to blame it all on that Victorian who went to the pub 🙁 .
Did anyone else hear Nick Xenophon shilling for Huawei last night?
Clearly, he has found a good sponsor after Parliament!
Cat
“It has to have the correct soupcon of ‘Sunny Uplands’ vibe about it to succeed though, so as to bamboozle said serfs. ”
Yes how silly of me. They all have to sound positive. I’ll have another go:
WorkerFreedom = new IR laws eliminating all minimum standards for employment contracts.
BossHelper = eliminating all business taxes
TruthCreator = financial assistance to the Murdoch empire
YoungerAustralia = new policy on protecting aged care homes from Covid19
briefly,
None of them are going to be effective unless final demand picks up.
Bingo.
How about some serious industry policy, Labor?
Poroti
When I heard that statement, alarm bells started ringing.
There is some bona fide gaslighting going on with NSW.
And the notion of scapegoating Victoria is quite a pathetic development.
Anyhoo as I said earlier, why would you have the hotel association reps at a covid presser.
Phylactella
From recollection, Alexander Downer was once on the board of Huwaei
Bushfire Bill @ #903 Wednesday, July 15th, 2020 – 7:11 pm
It was on Netflix. I had it on “my list” but it’s run finished before I could get around to watching it.
YouTube, huh? Hmm.
ScottyFromMarketing brags that nearly 40,000 people have signed up for #HomeBuilders grants. NOT TRUE. There’s not even any application forms online yet. Nearly 40k have signed up for UPDATES about the scheme. I get updates about lots of things. Doesn’t mean I sign up. #auspol
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ScottyFromMarketing wouldn’t be a JobLiar surely?
Victoria
Hazzard this morning sounded to me a bit ‘Comical Ali’ when it came to the NSW situation.
Poroti
Did he?
That doesn’t augur well
continuo @ #1015 Thursday, July 16th, 2020 – 7:43 am
JobSeeker’s numbers will rise.
JobKeeper’s numbers will fall.
JobTrainer’s numbers will be largely stagnant.
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/major-twitter-accounts-hacked-in-suspected-bitcoin-scam-20200716-p55chj.html
twitter just got hacked.
As I pointed out the other day, Gladys Berejiklian got in early with her fake news during her 7.30 interview. She said she hadn’t closed the border with Victoria because she didn’t know about the hotel infections, when she talks almost daily to Dan Andrews.
That’s one thing Gladys Berejiklian is very good at, being a slick, let’s just say, fibber, and getting ahead of the curve with them.
Victoria
Lexy was also involved with Richard Dearlove former MI6 boss cocky. Fishnets, our international man of intrigue 🙂
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Britain is concerned about Australia’s links to Hakluyt security firm created by former MI6 agents
THE UK has expressed disquiet about Australia’s links to a shadowy security firm set up by former MI6 agents, which involves Alexander Downer.
https://www.news.com.au/world/britain-is-concerned-about-australias-links-to-hakluyt-security-firm-created-by-former-mi6-agents/news-story/5d6a3c7ccbd5cd9992379aeecaa5e3dc
Poroti/Victoria,
It seemed obvious from the initial reports of close contacts already testing +ve, that the initial point of infection for at least one the Crossroads cluster was probably before their venture to the hotel (other than the freight worker who is being presumed to have brought it there). If the virus is truly going from exposure, to that person being infectious within 24 hours, then with the number of low symptom patients involved, it won’t be contained.
Melbourne Says #IStandWithDan
@Melbourne_says
Millions of dollars to train people to get Jobs in retail?
My housemate is a district manager for a big retail company. Yesterday he had 398 applications for 2 positions. Who thinks of this shit? #Jobtrainer #auspol
It’s genuine all right. The CEO of Goya is a friend of Trump but was heavily criticised for endorsing Trump in a meeting at the White House because Goya Latino customers are apparently anything but Trump supporters.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ivanka-trumps-social-media-posts-goya-beans-provoke/story?id=71795732
ABC yesterday had a piece on how retail is changing to accommodate new conditions which do not include large shopping malls and swinging towards online services and home delivery. I can’t see how “retail training” for jobs which no longer exist in the same form will be of any use whatsoever.
Kronomex @ #1023 Thursday, July 16th, 2020 – 9:53 am
Brilliant. What part of the world is this?
Poroti
Mr Downer does seem to get around. Lol!
sprocket_ @ #983 Thursday, July 16th, 2020 – 8:49 am
Notably they didn’t bother Trump, Pence, Barr, et al.. Says it all, really. Bet the real motives are political, and we find out what they were actually after sometime closer to the election. Probably via wikileaks or similar.
Zwaktyld
Victoria had a few cases not that long ago. Look where it is now. Barely controlled and with a hot spot lockdown as well as a general lockdown already in place.
a r
Can’t believe this, as its on Twitter BUT it looks like an internal privileged employee account has been compromised. Even a billion dollar company is at risk of this..
UPDATE:
It seems like the hackers got access to “Twitter Panel”, which is basically hacking one of the Twitter admins/employees. This gives direct admin access to accounts and allows individuals to chance e-mail & password.