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%.
Lars,
Better he roll round his homebuilt tumbril for landowners like you who want to use people as serfs.
Worked a treat in France.
Mundo, I must lead a very insular existence. When Julia Gillard became PM, I was staggered by the reaction of many of my acquaintances. They went full on feral women hating ugly people. It staggered me.
I realised they probably felt this way all along, but having a women gain such a powerful position was too much for them to repress.
No doubt the way the MSM and the opposition behaved, would have given them courage and permission to carry on as they did, but I was staggered.
Letters confirm that Kerr decided he had primacy over the Prime Minister and Parliament. And that he was worried about embarrassing the Queen.
FFS. We are a sovereign nation.
Nath
You’ve come out all Mother Theresa today.
A fair wind and a following sea in an ocean of doubt!
I’ll be buggered.
Lars Von Trier @ #93 Tuesday, July 14th, 2020 – 10:20 am
You could exercise something other than your mind and your fingers and do it yourself!
G’day D&M,
Just a quick gasp before I dive back under 🙂
Good stuff happening here, but it’s keeping me very busy!
Well c@t, i was building on Earlwoods suggestion of work guarantees.
If the govt charges me the job keeper rate why couldn’t I be given Earlwood to dig the retaining wall?
It’s a win win.
Greens target rising education costs for parents in education launch
The Greens propose to spend $2 billion and wipe out the creeping costs of “extra-curricular’ school fees paid by parents of Queensland state school students if they win – or hold the balance of power – after the 2020 state election in October.
The party will also re-direct an extra $5 billion of revenue from banks, developers and mining company royalty towards Queensland’s public schools over four years in a major redistribution of revenue.
State school parents regularly pay a voluntary contribution of around $500 (2018 figures), then extra fees for laptops, sports fees, musical equipment, sports equipment, uniforms, electronic devices, excursions, transport and extra tuition classes.
In an education policy to be launched on Monday morning, the Greens will argue parents of Queensland’s state school students are paying an increasing share of education costs.
“Last year Queensland families paid $89 million in state school school fees, with many parents paying over $2000 a year, while many teachers have to use their own money to purchase essential resources,” Greens State MP Michael Berkman said.
“The Greens believe primary and secondary education is an essential service that should be fully funded and genuinely free, paid for not by ordinary families, but by taxes on big corporations,” he said.
“School fees, excursions, textbooks, laptops, stationery: these costs add up, and put massive financial stress on Queensland families.”
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/greens-target-rising-education-costs-for-parents-in-education-launch-20200710-p55azs.html
Great policy. The public school system is terribly underfunded and people simply don’t have the spare cash to be footing the bill as they have been, especially during the pandemic.
Firefox
Labor had GONSKI if I remember correctly, didn’t end up well.
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***Global Scoop*** Federal Coalition warns world against Huawei – but behind-the-scenes funds lavish, all-expenses-paid, “immersion” trips to the company’s Shenzhen headquarters.Surely heads must roll #auspol #ccp The Klaxon
The Klaxon
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It’s no wonder there is a permanent smirk as the MSM is conveniently shining it’s light on Dan Andrews while ignoring the Ruby Princess (has that enquiry been quietly shelved?) and all the other corruption-gates.
Would be interesting to list all the cases that are languishing and I’m with Goll in his post on the previous thread.
13 new cases in NSW which presumably includes, at least, the 7 new Crossroads folk.
To quote that modern poet, Sia
[[NSW] is holding on for dear life, won’t look down won’t open [its] eyes
Keep [its] glass full until morning light, ’cause [its] just holding on for tonight
Help [it], [it’s] holding on for dear life, won’t look down won’t open [its] eyes
Keep [its] glass full until morning light, ’cause [it’s] just holding on for tonight
On for tonight, on for tonight]
Link for above story
https://www.theklaxon.com.au/
Queensland will close its borders from midday on Tuesday to residents of 77 Sydney suburbs after Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk declared them coronavirus hot spots.
The local government areas of Liverpool and Campbelltown will be barred from freely crossing the border, along with all of Victoria.
Shellbell
Premier Berejiklian will be doing a presser at 11.30 am
I notice that 12,000 tests conducted in NSW.
Probably focussing on the hotel cluster
“ I need a retaining wall done on my property – you could come out and do the digging for me.”
Take a ticket and stand in line. My wife has dibs on my poor manual labour skills
nath @ #84 Tuesday, July 14th, 2020 – 9:55 am
To tell you the truth, it gave me a kick up the bum to start to look at the world through different eyes. If I could have afforded to keep my family and myself on our welfare payment in a reasonably comfortable style, I would have. However, I was offered the opportunity to earn a bit of extra money on top of my payment minding animals and houses for people on holiday. Doing so enabled me to be able to afford a few extra things that I wasn’t able to before. Like a car, which I could now maintain. This then encouraged me to take up volunteering.
Or, I could still be living, in actuality, just subsisting, in isolation. Instead I have lots of new friends, and, guess what? We are workshopping an idea to start up a new Op Shop to provide financial and other kinds of support, in concert with Rotary, to all the families, DV sufferers, and others that are adversely affected by the Rona Recession.
I know which path I am happy to have been ‘forced’ to take.
Every case of covid-19 is bad. However it helps to keep things in perspective:
I am expecting the 6 AFL teams in Sydney to be moving north pronto!
Apologies KayJay – and Fairground Attraction….
o/~
Then it’s got to beeeeeeee – a Perth Trip.
Too many teams do not do their best, when they fly out to the west, but it’s got to beeeee a Perth Trip.
o/~
What will Rugby do?
Lars Von Trier @ #107 Tuesday, July 14th, 2020 – 10:36 am
Because exercise is good for your mental health and A_E has already been hijacked by HI. 🙂
Alpha Zero,
AFL should go to its traditional home, the Northern Territory. 🙂
Greens: Shut down pokies and gambling rooms
With the issues surrounding poker machine addiction being highlighted because of COVID-19, addicts are reporting they are happy the machines have been taken out range and many are concerned now that health restrictions have eased enough for them to be reopened.
Clubs and pubs have welcomed the ease in restrictions and are very happy that a huge source of their revenue has been greenlit with the reopening, but recent events have shown that the industry is a long way from ethical with companies being fined for encouraging punters to lose money.
Gambling spokesperson and Greens MP Cate Faehrmann Greens MP believes there are other reasons that gambling and poker machines should closed.
If venues will go to any lengths to encourage more gambling, how does that work with social distancing?
Ms Faehrmann says pokies pose an unacceptable risk during COVID-19 and should be shut down immediately.
‘The spread of the Crossroads cluster to the Picton Hotel because of a case visiting the gambling room multiple times is a sign that we need to shut down the pokies,’ said Ms Faehrmann.
‘Pokies and gambling rooms are a COVID nightmare with people spending hours in a confined space together, often moving between different machines and increasing the risk of contamination to others.
https://www.echo.net.au/2020/07/greens-shut-down-all-pokies-and-gambling-rooms-now/
Yep. Pokies are unnecessary during the pandemic. They are unnecessary all of the time but that’s another issue. Oh and the 5k fine handed out to Star Casino was a fricking joke. May as well have been 5 cents.
In today’s episode of Days of Our Covid Lives, I am going to make a Dark Chocolate Mississippi Mud Cake with a Milk Chocolate Ganache icing. TTFN. 🙂
What will Rugby do?
Well they’ll fuck it up, of course. Don’t ask me for the specifics tho.
C@t
Swank!
PeeBee
The surgeon is right about selection working to ameliorate death rates over time. But we have millions of cases and multiple strains in circulation. It will probably take many cycles before the death rate falls…cycles during which most of the world population will be infected, including many likely to be infected more than once.
It’s hard to imagine how this all works out….
AZ
[What will Rugby do?]
Lockdown in Bellevue Hill
KayJay if you are around – how windy is is down your way? Hardly a breath here but I see 50 knot gusts (on Seabreeze) at Knobbies. Only about 10mm of rain here too.
Good Morning
People are slowly waking up to no back to normal yet with the virus.
The government is in a world of trouble as is the right in the world generally as long term shutdowns means long term government support of people.
Result many more people will be thinking about UBI. We will see the next big push in the US with President Biden because the Democrats are open to the idea and their two biggest states of California and New York are open to the idea.
Progressive politics are going to be seen as the best economic managers just because they put people first not business in the last 40 years of neo liberal economic thinking.
Service economies are the hardest hit because you can’t service people who are not travelling.
Tax cuts will have to be off the agenda. Tax increases will be on the agenda. This is long term no matter what the government does in this budget.
Its a very scary time we are living in. The good news of course is that a long term living with the virus of years and not months means science will regain respect and credibility. Already Trump is tanking big time because of his denial of science. Texas is a battleground state with Trump leading by only one point. Biden has a six point lead in Florida.
Its most likely going to get worse for him as deaths continue to climb.
Science is back and this is very very bad news for Newscorp and the LNP with their science denial on climate policy.
“What will Rugby do?”
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As in League? The NRL got the Storm out of Melbourne a week or so ago and moved them to the Sunshine Coast. If NSW keeps getting worse they may have to move all the teams up to QLD. The ACT could also be an option as games have started to be played there again recently. I heard that the Rugby Union has moved their Melbourne team to Canberra for the moment.
@political_alert tweets
270 new #COVID19 cases in Victoria – 28 from known outbreaks, 242 under investigation #springst
@mpesce tweets
The positivity rate in Victoria over the last 24 hours looks to be 0.9% – not great, but it’s just the same as what we had a few days ago.
lizzie @ #128 Tuesday, July 14th, 2020 – 10:59 am
It’s bribery actually for my son vacuuming the house this morning. And, we have run out of chocolate. 😆
United States :
Coronavirus Cases:
3,479,483
Deaths:
138,247
– 65,488 new cases and 465 new deaths in the United States
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Firefox
Canberra still in sort of lock down mode, and we have 5 new cases.
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Cases today: 0 (5 active cases in the ACT)
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Test results (past 24 hours): 601
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Negative tests: 37,120
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Total cases: 113
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Recovered: 105
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Lives lost: 3
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http://covid19.act.gov.au
@FiveThirtyEight tweets
President Donald Trump has a 55.2% disapproval rating. http://53eig.ht/trumpapproval
PeeBee @ #98 Tuesday, July 14th, 2020 – 10:32 am
I witnessed similar transformations. I’m no longer on speaking terms with a couple of members of my family.
Arrgghh!! Vogon Poet help! How does The Guardian make its photos disappear when they begin with https and end with .jpg!?!
While my friend in Tasmania is forced to under mutual obligation to volunteer or hunt for jobs she will never win, she enjoyed the previous volunteer role she held and was valued there.
She was about to start a new role (having moved) when carona hit. She will be back in a op shop as of next week for one day a week. Hopefully it will be another good fit for her and lessen the isolation of living in a small village. Her aged dog will not like it though after months of having her around nearly all the time.
NZ politics is fun:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/421154/pm-jacinda-ardern-on-todd-muller-resignation-politics-is-a-difficult-place
Todd Muller replaced Simon Bridges as National Party leader in May. Today he resigned. He cited health reasons, and commentators including PM Jacinda Ardern have said politics was a hard job.
Mundo, let me guess, they were male.
Oh dear, 270 new cases in Vic.
This is what suppression looks like. It doesn’t work.
In Victoria, 27 people in ICU for covid
laughtong,
She should get her dog registered as a Companion Animal. 😉
Qld borders hard lockdown from 11.59pm tonight for 4 weeks
If you are from NSW or Victoria in Qld you will be in enforced quarantine at your own expense from now.
— the Gaurdian
How is the above to be enforced?
It may finally dawn on the countless idiots I have spoken to over the past few months, who believed that this virus is a nothing
Burger
COVID gives rise to political turmoil for all governments/jurisdictions, not merely those run by the Right. COVID is smashing output and real wages. This is already worse than the 1930s. We do not know where and when this will end or what the political fallout will be.
Terminator @ #116 Tuesday, July 14th, 2020 – 11:06 am
From my phone —
15 ℃ Seems like 12 ℃ – may reach 16 ℃
Winds SSW 30 to 50 km/ – could gust over 65 km/h
Looking out windows – stopped raining – sun peeping through clouds.
Wind light to moderate (whatever that means) tree tops bending with gusts. I’m staying close to my warm bedroom and the trusty doona (duvet).☔🍃 – that’s a leaf fluttering. Pools of water around my yard – unknown rain amount
Andrews says “All of us have a role to play”. Should someone tell VicLibs that their role is not to destroy public cooperation?
c
Something we can agree on. However be in no doubt. Those denying science and trying to do neo liberal policies are going to suffer the most politically.
See Trump setting the pace.
Lizzie
Agreed.
The damage was done during early May when most people ignored the state govt and start visiting family in droves for mothers day.