Newspoll: 53-47 to Coalition

After a long period of stasis, Newspoll credits the Coalition with its biggest lead since the first post-election poll a year ago.

After an extended period stuck at 51-49, The Australian reports a solid shift in the latest Newspoll, with the Coalition out to 53-47 from 51-49 three weeks ago. The primary vote shifts are a little more modest, with the Coalition on 44% (up two), Labor on 34% (down one), the Greens on 10% (down one) and One Nation on 4% (up one). There is little change on personal ratings, with Scott Morrison steady on 68% approval and 27% disapproval, Anthony Albanese down one to 41% and steady on 40%, and Morrison’s preferred prime minister lead out from 58-26 to 59-26. The poll was conducted Wednesday to Saturday from a sample of 1850, which is rather more than the usual 1500 to 1600.

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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  1. Morrison won’t be around for the next Federal election. It’s Morrison’s way. Travelling showman, grab the money and run. When the clowns finish turning their heads from side to side its all over.

  2. Barney

    I thought I heard that “the Regulator” would not be independent, but part of Sussan Ley’s department. There’s the sweet spot for Morrison, right there.

  3. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/environmental-laws-dated-and-inefficient-review-finds/news-story/01cee9cba52361afe89303ca10f22cec

    Ms Ley ruled out expanding the EPBC Act to include climate triggers.

    Professor Samuel’s recommendation for an “independent cop on the beat” to oversee enforcement of new environmental rules was also rejected by the government to avoid “additional layers of bureaucracy”.

    The Samuel report, which had up to 30,000 submissions, also calls for Indigenous cultural heritage laws to be reviewed, slamming state and federal governments for not providing adequate protections through environmental processes.

    “There is a culture of tokenism and symbolism. Indigenous knowledge or views are not fully valued in decision-making. The EPBC Act prioritises the views of Western science, and Indigenous knowledge and views are diluted in the formal provision of advice to decision-makers,” it said.

    Ms Ley said she would work with Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt and state Indigenous ministers to “commence a national engagement process for modernising the protection of Indigenous cultural heritage”.

    The government will also begin discussions with the private sector to explore “market-based solutions” for enhanced habitat restoration to “significantly improve environmental outcomes while providing greater certainty for business”.

    Resources Minister Keith Pitt, who lashed the Queensland Labor government over its stalling of the Adani and New Acland mine projects, said “scope three emissions requirements” had been a significant deterrent for mining projects and he supported “any move towards removing the burdensome conditions”.

    So that’s all right folks. No wukking furries.
    An additional benefit would appear to be the hastening of the rapture.
    I guess we’ll all be translated to Heaven or Hell just that little sooner than expected.

    Fresh coffee.☕

  4. Goll @ #750 Tuesday, July 21st, 2020 – 5:20 am

    Morrison won’t be around for the next Federal election. It’s Morrison’s way. Travelling showman, grab the money and run. When the clowns finish turning their heads from side to side its all over.

    I don’t know where you got that idea.

    His history suggests that his main reason for moving on from a job was that he was booted out.

  5. Classic Gollism straight off the bat at 720am.

    Sadly no one is talking about a revolving door prime ministership anymore except old Goll.

  6. lizzie @ #751 Tuesday, July 21st, 2020 – 5:20 am

    Barney

    I thought I heard that “the Regulator” would not be independent, but part of Sussan Ley’s department. There’s the sweet spot for Morrison, right there.

    Not surprising.

    It should be managed at a State level, with independent authorities established to do so.

  7. Thanks Kayjay.

    With the Liberals turning their attention to ‘overhauling’ environmental laws, this should be the moment the Greens find their voice on the destructive intent of this coalition govt. I shan’t hold my breath.

  10. Good morning Dawn Patrollers

    David Crowe reckons he has the info on the future of JobKeeper and JobSeeker.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/jobkeeper-will-be-extended-until-march-but-split-into-two-tiers-20200720-p55dri.html
    JobKeeper and JobSeeker payments will live on beyond September, but payments will be trimmed and fewer people may be eligible. JobKeeper will also change to a two-tiered system, rather than a flat amount for all recipients, as the federal government looks to claw back from those industries that no longer need as much assistance, explains Josh Butler.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2020/07/20/jobkeeper-jobseeker-extended/
    Retaining the JobKeeper wage subsidy in its current form would leave Australia with zombie businesses and jobs, a Treasury review of the program found, while warning the scheme had unhealthy incentives which could hold back the economy’s recovery. It’s quite a balancing act all round.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australia-will-be-left-with-zombie-firms-without-jobkeeper-change-treasury-20200720-p55dp5.html
    On this subject Elizabeth Knight says tottering small businesses need more than another loan guarantee scheme.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/tottering-small-businesses-need-more-than-another-loan-guarantee-scheme-20200720-p55dqt.html
    Meanwhile Cait Kelly tells us how hundreds of Australian businesses are under investigation for allegedly exploiting employees through JobKeeper. The spivs were always going to step up.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2020/07/21/jobkeeper_rorts/
    The Australian says that the federal government must act urgently to reform insolvency processes for businesses to help better manage a wave of collapses set to hit when COVID-19 support and protections end, industry players and advocates have warned.
    https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/leadership/calls-for-urgent-reform-of-insolvency-process/news-story/395f98059ac3cf1ee1acf113990bc3d5
    Kevin Rudd has seven questions that he says Scott Morrison must answer on this crisis.
    https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/seven-questions-scott-morrison-must-answer-on-this-crisis-20200720-p55dpr
    Paul Bongiorno writes that the Prime Minister is riding high, but it’s not getting any easier in the next phase.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2020/07/21/paul-bongiorno-pm-approval-coronavirus/
    Construction of utility-scale renewables projects, new public transport infrastructure and the restoration of threatened ecosystems could see as many as 76,000 new jobs created during Australia’s COVID-19 recovery, writes the AFR’s Tm McIlroy.
    https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/bang-for-stimulus-buck-new-plan-for-76-000-recovery-jobs-20200720-p55dkx
    Paul Karp writes that Australian unions are concerned the National Covid-19 Coordination Commission’s focus on gas is too narrow to achieve the energy transformation needed for sustainable manufacturing.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/20/covid-19-commission-should-focus-on-carbon-neutral-manufacturing-projects-not-just-gas-actu
    Alexandra Smith describes the anxiety being felt by the NSW cabinet over Covid-19. Sydney could be headed for mask wearing.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/tighter-restrictions-and-masks-more-likely-than-full-lockdown-20200720-p55ds7.html
    Professor Nick Talley outlines his ideas on how NSW can stop the virus dead in its tracks.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/how-nsw-can-stop-the-virus-dead-in-its-tracks-20200720-p55dkw.html
    Josh Butler explains how Victoria’s face masks order became instantly politicised. He mentions the Trump playbook.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2020/07/21/politicisation-face-masks/
    The town of Colac has launched its own contact tracing program amid complaints state authorities have been “woefully slow” on containing an outbreak at its Australian Lamb abattoir.
    https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/victoria-can-t-keep-up-with-massive-tracing-task-20200720-p55dnl
    We dodged a bullet in March and April but any sense of relief has been wiped away in the last couple of weeks, writes emergency doctor Stephen Parnis
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/20/in-28-years-as-an-australian-emergency-doctor-this-is-the-most-stressful-period
    Bevan Shields reports that British scientists have made a breakthrough in the race to find a coronavirus vaccine, with the first round of human trials showing the shot induces the strong immune response needed to fend off infection.
    https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/oxford-coronavirus-vaccine-triggers-strong-immune-response-trial-shows-20200720-p55dtl.html
    An Australian manufacturer of medical masks says it is operating around-the-clock to fulfil its contract to boost the Commonwealth stockpile and has no capacity to meet increased demand from the Victorian public.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/mask-demand-crashes-websites-creates-shortage-of-elastic-20200720-p55dlp.html
    Josh Taylor reports that at the opening of the inquiry yesterday it was said that nearly all coronavirus cases now in Victoria may have link to hotel quarantine failure.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/20/nearly-all-coronavirus-cases-now-in-victoria-may-have-link-to-hotel-quarantine-inquiry-told
    Jennifer Duke tells us about the second “avalanche” of people withdrawing money from their super and the resultant retail spending spike.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/mind-blowing-retail-spending-soars-with-super-withdrawals-stimulus-payments-20200720-p55dm3.html
    John Durie suggests that there IS a way to make Google pay its way for media content.
    https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/leadership/how-to-make-google-pay-its-way-for-media-content/news-story/8d5db7985ba38318eebe2e91fa09e2e8
    Christopher Knaus points to some correspondence that shows that Tim Wilson provided direct assistance to the Institute of Public Affairs and solicited endorsement for his looming 2016 Liberal preselection battle while in the office of human rights commissioner.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/21/tim-wilson-human-rights-commissioner-institute-public-affairs-ipa-solicit-liberal-party-endorsement
    Peter Hartcher explains how the world is likely heading into a population crisis, but it’s just not the one we were long told to expect.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-world-is-heading-for-a-population-crisis-but-not-the-one-it-was-expecting-20200720-p55dl1.html
    The SMH editorial urges the Coalition to not abandon the federal role in managing the environment.
    https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/coalition-must-not-abandon-federal-role-in-environment-20200720-p55drs.html
    And Katie Burgess writes that a landmark review found enforcement of Australia’s environmental protection laws was “too weak” and called for a new independent watchdog.
    https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6840225/landmark-review-of-weak-environment-laws-calls-for-independent-watchdog/?cs=14350
    Noel Towell reports that the Victorian Liberals are preparing to fight the state Labor government on its Belt and Road deal with China all the way to the next election after internal opposition research showed the agreement was deeply unpopular in key Labor-held marginal seats.
    https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/liberals-to-hammer-andrews-on-dodgy-belt-and-road-deal-all-the-way-to-2022-20200720-p55drt.html
    Parliament not meeting, even remotely, sets a bad example says Michell Grattan. She’s not wrong!
    https://theconversation.com/view-from-the-hill-parliament-not-meeting-even-remotely-sets-a-bad-example-143002
    The Coalition’s debt blowout was well on its way before the pandemic and makes Labor’s debt during Global Financial Crisis pale into insignificance, writes Alan Austin.
    https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/coalition-trebles-labors-debt–in-triple-quick-time,14119
    The tax paid by superannuation funds on their earnings is often less than 10%, much lower than the headline rate of 15%, according to research by the University of Technology Sydney. And in an industry worth $2.7 trillion, this means a huge difference in the tax take for government. Callum Foote reports.
    https://www.michaelwest.com.au/australias-super-funds-pay-up-to-33-less-tax-than-advertised/
    Peter Burnett tells us why he is concerned that Environment Minister Sussan Ley is in a tearing hurry to embrace nature law reform.
    https://theconversation.com/environment-minister-sussan-ley-is-in-a-tearing-hurry-to-embrace-nature-law-reform-and-thats-a-worry-141697
    Nick Bonyhady reveals that Australia Post is paying for a confidential security program to protect its sensitive information amid a series of leaks that revealed the company was considering slowing letter delivery times and replacing post offices with automated kiosks.
    https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/highly-irregular-australia-post-discloses-security-program-20200720-p55dp3.html
    In another instalment of the saga Patrick Hatch writes that bondholders trying to derail the bankrupt airline’s sale to Bain Capital have lodged a draft deed of company arrangement to its administrators.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/virgin-bondholders-push-to-meet-airline-management-and-unions-20200720-p55dqk.html
    In one of his better efforts Stephen Bartholomeusz looks at the pushback against Chinese goods and how things might change with Biden and the Democrats in charge.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/made-in-china-on-the-nose-as-push-to-tame-beijing-gathers-pace-20200720-p55dm7.html
    Due to international border restrictions and the very high rate of unemployment, Australia’s 2020-21 migration and humanitarian programs are likely to be fewer than since the start of post-war migration explains Abul Rizvi.
    https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/australias-migration-and-humanitarian-programs-at-record-lows,14121
    If you are using a free VPN service you should read this.
    https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/liberals-to-hammer-andrews-on-dodgy-belt-and-road-deal-all-the-way-to-2022-20200720-p55drt.html
    The combination of anti-vaxxers on the march and a government with woeful health messaging could be lethal for Britain writes Polly Toynbee as UK researchers announce positive results from a Covid-19 vaccine trial
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/20/coronavirus-vaccine-anti-vaxxers-britain
    Greg Sheridan describes Trump’s latest bout on “nuttiness”.
    https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/strangest-and-most-grotesquely-untrue-statement-of-donald-trumps-life/news-story/c272cb4cd01481cf33e0fac732d61180
    As cases soar and poll numbers drop, Trump will resume virus briefings, so stand by for even more “nuttiness”!
    https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/vaccine-hopes-rise-after-promising-results-from-oxford-trial-20200721-p55due
    Trump’s sweaty Fox News interview shows his 2020 chances melting away writes Richard Wolffe. He says that with every new interview, it sounds like he’s just asking his mommy to please take him home.
    https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2020/jul/20/trump-interview-fox-news-election-polls-chances-melting-away
    It seems Joe Biden has endorsed the Green New Deal in all but name.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/20/joe-biden-has-endorsed-the-green-new-deal-in-all-but-name
    The New York Times examines the failure of leadership on the pandemic in the US.
    https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/inside-trump-s-failure-the-rush-to-abandon-a-leadership-role-on-the-virus-20200720-p55doo.html
    And now the Trump administration has been consulting the former government lawyer who wrote the legal justification for waterboarding on how the president might try to rule by decree.
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/20/trump-john-yoo-lawyer-torture-waterboarding

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  11. A great reminder:

    – 1 month ago today Trump held an indoor campaign rally in Tulsa with nary a mask in sight and his peeps removing stickers off chairs that would’ve enabled physical distancing.
    – 2 months ago today Trump visited a Ford factory sans mask despite pleas from Michigan AG that he wear a mask when visiting. Trump retorted that he didn’t want to give the media the satisfaction of seeing him in a mask.
    – 3 months ago today Trump said the US had “tremendous testing capability” to “contain outbreaks”. Back then the US had had 40,000 deaths.
    – 4 months ago today Trump said testing was going well and there was a low incidence of death.

    https://twitter.com/TheLeadCNN/status/1285308839303290880

  12. Thanks BK!

    Meanwhile Cait Kelly tells us how hundreds of Australian businesses are under investigation for allegedly exploiting employees through JobKeeper.

    Gee who saw that one coming apart from almost everyone?! 😆

  13. Interesting to see the detail today around the jobkeeper and jobseeker payment changes.

    Will eligible casuals have their payments reduced below full time workers even if working the same hours ? It has to be remembered casualization of the workforce is a huge problem and the hard hit hospitality and tourism sectors h@ve the highest levels of cadualization. How will casuals be treated? How will the two tier system work ? Will casuals working 10 hours a fortnight get the same payment as casuals working 60 hours a fortnight or will there be a hourly rate ? Will casuals working 60 hours a fortnight receive less than full time workers working the same hours ?

    Casuals have already been hit hard by Morrison with over one million excluded from jobkeeper. Will the new jobkeeper now make eligible casuals worse off than permanent workers on the same hours ?

    Huge number of questions and that is even before we get to jobseeker.

    Cheers.

  14. doyley,
    You left out one important question. How many employers will transfer and make their permanent employees casual? My guess is a massive number.

  15. It is also interesting that Morrison has decided to bring forward the release of the jobkeeper/ jobseeker ch@nges from Thursday to today.

    Thursday was going to be Josh F. big day on centre stage. It now seems he will be left with all the shit news to deliver while Scott takes centre stage and delivers the “ good” news re extension of jobkeeper and gets th3voats on the back for the ongoing government “ largeness”.

    Too bad Josh.

  19. Thanks as usual BK.

    Roll out the xenophobia!

    Noel Towell reports that the Victorian Liberals are preparing to fight the state Labor government on its Belt and Road deal with China all the way to the next election after internal opposition research showed the agreement was deeply unpopular in key Labor-held marginal seats.
    https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/liberals-to-hammer-andrews-on-dodgy-belt-and-road-deal-all-the-way-to-2022-20200720-p55drt.html

  21. Barney

    I haven’t seen the questions (obviously) but it would be extremely easy to do a little gentle push-polling on questions over China.

  22. Morning all and thanks BK for the excellent roundup. The cartoons nail it. Looking at the polls there has never been a better time to be a sociopath.

    Jobkeeper is merely a gift to employers in too many cases. Proposed energy and infrastructure spending is the same for gas and construction companies.

    Some of the recent Adelaide freeway projects worked out at around a million dollars per job. I suspect the workers got a bit less than that. We need government stimulus that is targeted on things we need (renewables and electric transport) and focused on smaller scale projects that actually spend the money employing workers, not giving huge commissions to lawyers and financiers.

    Let the corruption roll on. Good luck Victoria.

  23. Barney in Tanjung Bunga @ #768 Tuesday, July 21st, 2020 – 6:03 am

    Thanks as usual BK.

    Roll out the xenophobia!

    Noel Towell reports that the Victorian Liberals are preparing to fight the state Labor government on its Belt and Road deal with China all the way to the next election after internal opposition research showed the agreement was deeply unpopular in key Labor-held marginal seats.
    https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/liberals-to-hammer-andrews-on-dodgy-belt-and-road-deal-all-the-way-to-2022-20200720-p55drt.html

    LOL I wondered what their plan was now that the culture war line of attack on Andrews to reopen has backfired.

  24. Confessions @ #749 Tuesday, July 21st, 2020 – 7:18 am

    C@tmomma @ #744 Tuesday, July 21st, 2020 – 5:03 am

    Environment! What environment? There won’t be any left!

    When Tourism and Overseas Students’ Education dies in the arse, Scotty from Marketing will always come through with his Tradie Led attempt at economic recovery.

    #KoalaKiller2.0

    What does this refer to?

    The NSW Coalition government destroying koala habitat for development. Scott Morrison and his new laws will only accelerate the destruction.

  31. Reynold would not have been that competitive in a final against Laura or Emelia.

    They have too much training and variety of savoury dishes and sweets.

  33. lizzie @ #780 Tuesday, July 21st, 2020 – 8:33 am

    C@t

    I think that was why he was so devastated. Over confidence did him in.

    Yep, and I think the point was well made that he was fine doing his own complex desserts which he had war-gamed but when it came to doing someone else’s intricate recipe for a dessert, he faltered badly. Whereas that’s what Emilia does all the time. Follow recipes to a tee. Then she hits the ball cleanly for a hole in one.

  37. Nicholas
    The basic problem, if you accept MMT then you bring into question one of moneys supposed function, a store of value. Bit like free hold title, a promise by the government, that it will not debase the currency, a promise by the government that it will defend and not take your land.

    There are a lot that think these things have value without a function government, they don’t. In fact, you can be argued Zimbabwe’s problem comes back to debasing free hold title. Printing money to chase resource lost came later.

    All instances of hyperinflation were caused by a combination of:

    1. the productive capacity of the nation falling off a cliff because of severe turmoil – revolution, civil war, world war. Zimbabwe and Weimar Germany clearly fall into this category. Zimbabwe’s land redistribution policy caused a severe contraction in the amount of agricultural output. In an economy that is chiefly agrarian this is a massive problem. Germany had much of its industrial capacity wiped out in WW1, and then when French troops occupied the Ruhr Valley it was deprived of an additional 25% of its industrial capacity.

    2. financial obligations denominated in something other than the nation’s own currency e.g. gold, a foreign currency. Weimar Germany illustrates this – it was crippled by massive reparations requirements that were denominated in gold (well, denominated in a currency called “gold marks”, which were pegged to gold via a gold standard and therefore required Germany to accumulate gold reserves)

    3. limited food security, limited energy security

    A key point: No instance of hyperinflation was caused by the national government deciding to spend too much currency. It has never happened like that. It is always a combination of the above issues.

    Other point: HYPERINFLATION IS AN EXTREMELY RARE PHENOMENON

    Australia hasn’t just lost a world war, hasn’t had much of its productive capacity destroyed, isn’t facing reparations requirements priced in gold or a foreign currency, and it has access to enough food and energy. So what do you think the probability of hyperinflation is in Australia?

  38. Adam Baudt said last night, more”Jacinda Ardern, less Tump”. The Liberals would do well to look at how trump is going.

  40. Was Shane Tuck’s Suicide caused by the lock down? How many other suicides aren’t we hearing about that are caused by the economic and social damage of the lockdowns?

  41. Mohanad Elshieky
    @MohanadElshieky
    ·
    5h
    I can’t believe that the feds who have been kidnapping immigrants for the past 3 years are now *checks notes* kidnapping protestors

  42. Nicholas
    I wasn’t talking about facts, I am talking about why we believe paper can store value. The reality is, it depends on the commonwealth, it has nothing to do with individualism. Not a good look for the neo liberals.

  44. Droplet Sleeping Giants Oz
    @slpng_giants_oz
    · 17m
    We all know he’s big fan and its a petty thing – but signing autographs for a Sharks fan – do you think Scott Morrison realises he’s NOT actually a player.

  45. frednk,
    That last question from Chris Wallace to the Toddler-In-Chief was a car crash! His reply was basically, ‘Wah! I was picked on the whole time!’ 😯

    Do you have a subscription to The Washington Post? If you do you should read this:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/18/covid-pandemic-store-clerk-north-carolina/

    The amount of crazy that walks through the door of the lady’s shop is gobsmacking and the way she is treated, shocking.

    If you don’t have a sub I get a free one every month and I could gift it to you if you like? 🙂

  46. Confessions:’LOL I wondered what their plan was now that the culture war line of attack on Andrews to reopen has backfired.’

    The Libs here in Vic specialise in grizzling about Andrews. I thought it was a pathetic strategy, but you must do something when you have nothing to offer.

    But I realised when I saw Karen of Brighton (daughter of Mathieson,a pub and gambling empire owner and wife of one of the Grollo construction empire scions), that grizzling appeals to their base.

  47. @timdunlop
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    12m
    Ugh, this is not the approach for Labor to take, imho.
    And as it happens, I wrote about why yesterday.
    https://patreon.com/posts/39471107 ($)
    ***

    Samuel Clark
    @sclark_melbs
    · 1h
    On @RNBreakfast, Labor leader @AlboMP focuses on the 900,000 workers who are paid more on JobKeeper than they were pre-pandemic. He says that overpayment has unnecessarily added billions to Australia’s debt. #auspol

  48. Barney in Tanjung Bunga @ #794 Tuesday, July 21st, 2020 – 8:55 am

    Bucephalus @ #789 Tuesday, July 21st, 2020 – 6:52 am

    Was Shane Tuck’s Suicide caused by the lock down? How many other suicides aren’t we hearing about that are caused by the economic and social damage of the lockdowns?

    Being as insensitive as always!

    Liberals are truly venal. When suicides are used for political point scoring and judged to be more important in the scheme of things than someone’s grandparent or parent catching COVID-19 and dying. Just so fucking businesses can start raking in the cash money again. 😡

    Okay, so if Victorian suicides are Dan Andrew’s fault, same goes for NSW I guess:

    The licensee of an eastern suburbs pub that was visited by a person who later tested positive to COVID-19 says he only learned his venue had been exposed through the media and had to chase NSW Health to confirm the news.

    Jack Carter, who runs the Village Inn in Paddington, said he did not know one of his patrons had attended his venue while potentially infectious until it was reported by The Sydney Morning Herald at 9.40am on Monday. The patient attended the venue nine days earlier from 6.30 to 10pm on July 11.

    When Mr Carter managed to get in touch with the epidemiologist who headed the contact tracing group, he learned NSW Health had known of the exposure for some time.

    “We’ve got a very strict COVID plan and we really do go above and beyond,” Mr Carter said. “We’ve upheld our end of the bargain and acted very proactively and NSW Health have dropped the ball.”

    His experience mirrors that of C1 Speed Go Karting in Albion Park, where management also learned of a COVID-19 exposure through the media. NSW Health inspected the venue and recommended a deep cleaning, without informing management a patient had attended while infectious.

    https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/venue-forced-to-chase-health-officials-to-confirm-covid-19-exposure-20200720-p55dq2.html

    I mean, you never know how depressed those businessmen or their patrons might get at the slack behaviour of NSW Health. 😐

  50. PeeBee @ #795 Tuesday, July 21st, 2020 – 6:58 am

    Confessions:’LOL I wondered what their plan was now that the culture war line of attack on Andrews to reopen has backfired.’

    The Libs here in Vic specialise in grizzling about Andrews. I thought it was a pathetic strategy, but you must do something when you have nothing to offer.

    But I realised when I saw Karen of Brighton (daughter of Mathieson,a pub and gambling empire owner and wife of one of the Grollo construction empire scions), that grizzling appeals to their base.

    Professional victims. It’s always someone else’s fault.

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