Another pollster returns from the naughty corner today to chance its arm at voting intention, which now makes three if you count the erratically published Roy Morgan series (which I incline not to myself). That pollster is Essential Research, which has remained prodigious with attitudinal polling since the May 2019 federal election, and has maintained its monthly leadership ratings, while offering no clue as to its voting intention numbers beyond the inclusion of raw figures in reporting its sub-samples.
Unhappily for we salivating dogs in the psephoblogosphere, these figures will only be published on a quarterly basis. This appears to mean that every sixth or seventh fortnightly Essential Research release will provide the fortnightly voting intention results of the preceding period. This, the pollster says, will “mitigate the tendency to report on minor movements as some sort of political horse race”. This latest release confuses the issue by providing weekly numbers through June, but I believe this is an artefact of a temporary move to weekly polling to track reactions to COVID-19.
Essential will also make a point of not excluding the undecided from its headline results, arguing the conventional practice entails a “lack of nuance”, though no doubt rivals will accuse the pollster of hedging its bets. The pollster still follows the conventional practice of prodding the initially undecided with a follow-up that asks who they are leaning towards. A proportion of these persist in declining a response, but remain in the sample with responses included for the other survey questions.
The latest primary vote numbers show the Coalition on 38% (up one), Labor on 35% (up one), the Greens on 9% (down one), One Nation on 4% (steady) and others on 6% (steady). If the undecided were excluded, the results would be Coalition 41.3%, Labor 38.0%, Greens 9.8% and One Nation 4.3%, and 51-49 to Labor on two-party preferred (for the sake of consistency with other pollsters, it’s the latter figure that I will continue to use in my headlines). Compared with the 2019 election result, this leaves Labor up nearly five points but the Coalition hardly changed, with the slack taken up from smaller parties and independents.
Labor with 47% of the decided two-party vote (up one on a fortnight ago) to the Coalition’s 45% (steady), leaving an outstanding 8% potentially to be called on to fill the gap between the reported numbers and an actual result. The pollster’s two-party numbers look to be consistent with a 2019 election preferences allocation, although the report is not specific as to whether this method or respondent allocation was used. In his piece in The Guardian, Peter Lewis of Essential Research explains: “We will now be asking participants who vote for a minor party to indicate a preferred major party. Only when they do not provide a preference will we allocate based on previous flows.“
These results are obviously a lot better for Labor than what has come through from Newspoll and Morgan, and are clearly an established peculiarity of the series. Where headline results over the past two months have shown Labor matching or exceeding their primary vote at the election despite the inclusion of a 7% to 9% undecided component, the Coalition have been coming in two to four points lower. The Greens are reckoned to be about where they were and the election and One Nation a little higher, though the latter is complicated by their tendency to only run in selected seats.
Also featured in the latest poll:
• The federal government’s ratings for COVID-19 response are unchanged at 64% good and 16% poor, and the combined response for state governments has shifted only negligibly, with good and poor both up a point to 65% to 18% respectively.
• The small-sample results for individual state governments show the Victorian government up four points on both good and poor, to 53% and 30% respectively. This still leaves it with the weakest figures out of the mainland state governments, with the Western Australian government recovering its title of strongest performer (up five to 82%) from South Australia (down three to 76%).
• On JobKeeper and JobSeeker, 69% supported businesses being retested for eligibility, with 9% opposed; 66% supported continuing payments for six months, with 12% opposed; 54% supported reducing the amount of the payments, with 21% opposed; but only 29% supported excluding casual workers, with 40% opposed.
• Forty-three per cent rated themselves very concerned about COVID-19, up seven on a fortnight ago, with quite concerned down four to 44%, not that concerned down three to 9% and not at all concerned up one to 4%.
• Fifty-six per cent favour a “suppression strategy” and 44% an “elimination strategy”.
• Sixty-eight per cent support mandatory face masks. with 13% opposed; 19% believe them very effective, 46% quite effective, 20% not that effective and 5% not effective at all.
The poll was conducted Wednesday to Sunday from a sample of 1058.
Rick also says a modelling friend of his predicts that the GOP will lose seats in the House, probably lose control of the Senate, and lose 500-600 legislative seats across the country, critically in a year where redistricting will occur. 🙂
‘fess,
Not believing it until I see it, as much as I hope for it.
lizzie @ #100 Wednesday, July 29th, 2020 – 7:33 am
They shook hands with the Americans! 😯
Good morning Dawn Patrollers
Here’s a real pile-on from Ross Gittins who lampoons Frydenberg’s invocation of Thatcher and Reagan.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/thatcher-and-reagan-he-must-be-joshing-us-20200728-p55g4n.html
Michael Pascoe also joins in with a cracker of an article!
https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/news-federal-budget/2020/07/29/reagan-thatcher-fan-club-pascoe/
Reaganomics and Thatcherism were characterised by huge transfers of income and wealth from the poor to the rich, writes Roger Beale. Even such august institutions as the Productivity Commission argue that there’s little to be gained by going down the road of labour market flexibility.
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/are-thatcherism-and-reaganomics-your-best-answer-josh/
The SMH editorial says the Liberals should follow Thatcher on environmental policy.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/liberals-should-follow-thatcher-on-environmental-policy-20200728-p55gai.html
According to Nick Bonyhady and Mike Foley, Morrison’s hand-picked coronavirus manufacturing taskforce is urging the federal government to underwrite a dramatic expansion of gas supply through tax incentives and financial support for new projects.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/covid-taskforce-urges-government-support-for-new-gas-projects-20200728-p55g8q.html
Outbreaks and lockdowns in Australia are leading to job losses and tumbling consumer confidence with women bearing the brunt of the hit, writes Shane Wright.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/jobs-fall-and-women-bear-the-brunt-as-virus-hits-melbourne-and-sydney-20200728-p55g6a.html
Alexandra Smith tells us that NSW will give a 50 per cent discount on land tax to developers who invest in build-to-rent schemes, which are designed to provide better quality rental properties and long tenancy agreements.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/nsw-to-cut-land-tax-for-20-years-in-ambitious-build-to-rent-scheme-20200728-p55gbm.html
Clancy Yeates explains how National Australia Bank has vowed to stop dealing with unlicensed debt management firms, which promise to help people in financial trouble but have been labelled “debt vultures” by consumer advocates.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/nab-to-crack-down-on-debt-vultures-as-financial-stress-surges-20200728-p55g90.html
Caitlin Fitzsimmons explains what the companies faring the best in the pandemic have in common.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/what-the-companies-faring-best-in-the-pandemic-have-in-common-20200728-p55g9d.html
In the wake of the 4 Corners program, Lisa Visentin reports that NSW Treasury abandoned an independent review into the troubled state government-owned insurer icare after it complained the proposed investigation would be overkill.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/nsw-treasury-abandoned-a-review-into-icare-after-agency-complained-20200728-p55g6j.html
And The Age’s editorial says that compensation schemes must put injured workers first.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/compensation-schemes-must-put-injured-workers-first-20200727-p55fwk.html
Morrison’s election upset forced a reckoning on pollsters. Here’s what Essential changed, explains Peter Lewis.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2020/jul/28/morrisons-election-upset-forced-a-reckoning-on-pollsters-heres-what-weve-changed
This contribution for Michelle Grattan says that the aged care crisis reflects poor preparation and a broken system. She says that the real issue is that the aged care system is simply not fit for purpose in normal times and so was inevitably destined to fail when under this sort of extreme pressure.
https://theconversation.com/view-from-the-hill-aged-care-crisis-reflects-poor-preparation-and-a-broken-system-143556
Liam Mannix refers to a new report that says COVID-19 may have long-term effects on heart health, even for relatively young people who experienced only a mild illness.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/more-signs-covid-19-leaves-long-lasting-mark-on-the-heart-20200728-p55g4f.html
The Australian Medical Association is calling for every nursing home in Victoria to undergo an urgent risk assessment to measure its vulnerability to “disastrous” coronavirus outbreaks.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/doctors-demand-urgent-risk-checks-at-all-nursing-homes-as-crisis-grows-20200728-p55g7y.html
Dana McCauley reports on aged care employers saying they can’t afford pandemic leave without federal assistance, warning the new requirement could send agencies providing relief workers to Melbourne’s coronavirus-stricken facilities broke.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/aged-care-employers-say-they-can-t-afford-pandemic-leave-without-help-20200728-p55g87.html
Samantha Dick and Josh Butler explain how three months of errors left elderly Australians vulnerable.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/coronavirus/2020/07/29/aged-care-catastrophe/
If being ravaged by a deadly virus isn’t bad enough, Victorians living in aged care facilities are now caught in a blame game between the state and Commonwealth over why it took this long for decisive government intervention, writes Chip Le Grand as aged care is opening up a political divide.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/aged-care-crisis-lays-bare-political-divide-20200728-p55gbw.html
And The Australian says extra nurses, doctors and paramedics are being rushed into Melbourne aged-care facilities at the centre of a coronavirus outbreak killing elderly patients, as the relationship between the Morrison and Andrews governments publicly fractures and the Victorian Premier declares nursing homes unsafe.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/coronavirus-governments-argue-as-elderly-death-toll-rises/news-story/a7239aef2d4e406e2d1ad5f5726e369b
A new front in the home loan interest rate war has broken out, with variable interest rates falling below 2 per cent for the first time explains John Collett.
https://www.smh.com.au/money/banking/home-loan-war-heats-up-with-rates-under-2-per-cent-20200723-p55esi.html
Patrick Hatch reports that a NSW government inquiry yesterday Crown Resorts’ chief legal officer says he was unaware of concerns that Macau-based “junket” tour operators were poorly regulated and faced scant probity checks when it was revealed that some of his casino’s junket partners had links to organised crime.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/crown-legal-boss-unaware-of-concerns-over-junket-operators-inquiry-hears-20200728-p55g6z.html
Super fund members are facing a conundrum thanks to the pandemic: Accept that the cost of retirement will need to be funded by additional current income or risk having less to live off when they stop work.
https://www.smh.com.au/money/super-and-retirement/low-rates-long-term-threat-to-retirement-funds-20200727-p55fyg.html
Peter van Onselen and Richard Gluyas write that Christian Porter has launched a stinging attack on Westpac and its new chairman, John McFarlane, over their dealings with the financial crimes regulator, accusing the big-four bank of arrogance and running a PR campaign while in delicate mediation talks over millions of transgressions of anti-money laundering laws.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/financial-services/attorneygeneral-christian-porter-launches-stinging-attack-on-westpac-chairman-john-mcfarlane/news-story/835d6743e854f824d7ced2a935206f9b
The editorial in the AFR says that Australia’s bank borrowers have been spared from ASIC’s regulatory overreach at a crucial time as it “gives up on its fruitless case of shiraz”.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/asic-gives-up-on-its-fruitless-case-of-shiraz-20200728-p55g2l
A fossick into the Coalition’s new university fees policy reveals a schedule increasingly onerous for students, inconsistent in government contributions, shallow in economic rationales and not serious about equity issues opines Stephen Saunders.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/job-ready-graduates-package-inequitable-and-just-poor-economics,14145
John Lord begins this contribution with, “The economic news last week was enough to make the depressed reach for an extra anti-depressant tablet or two. Yes, it was bad economic news, folks; as bad as I have ever heard in my lifetime.”
https://theaimn.com/so-what-is-an-economy-now/
Rio Tinto is expected to deliver strong results on Wednesday but the damage to its reputation and that of the entire iron ore industry won’t be quickly fixed after its detonation of 46.000 years of cultural heritage, writes Jennifer Hewett.
https://www.afr.com/companies/mining/rio-tinto-s-detonation-of-trust-adds-up-20200728-p55ga5
Matthew Cranston explains how Victoria has lost more jobs, and is losing them faster than any other state in the country, as the COVID-19 lockdown bruises its economy and forces businesses to cut staff.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/victoria-jobs-losses-gain-momentum-20200728-p55g58
According to Stephanie DeGooyer and Srinivas Murthy, the best lessons on eradicating coronavirus come not from Spanish flu, but smallpox.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/28/coronavirus-smallpox-vaccine-eradicated
Harriett Alexander reports that the peak cotton industry body is refusing to release a report into the cause of trees losing their leaves in the central west of NSW, despite saying there was no evidence chemical sprays were to blame.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/the-chemical-report-cotton-australia-will-not-release-20200728-p55gak.html
Telstra has accused rival Singtel Optus of misleading customers over the size and quality of its mobile network in a new court case that re-ignites a long-standing dispute between the telco carriers reports Zoe Samios.
https://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/telstra-sues-optus-in-long-simmering-dispute-over-mobile-networks-20200728-p55g6d.html
Elliott Williams writes that the Australian War Memorial has sent an email to volunteers warning them they face losing their position if they make public comment on its $500 million expansion.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6848886/war-memorial-volunteers-told-they-could-lose-roles-if-they-comment-on-expansion/?cs=14225
Tim Biggs tells us how Google harvests and uses our data, and what we can do about it.
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/how-google-harvests-and-uses-your-data-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-20200728-p55g95.html
Christopher Knaus reveals that an American thinktank funded partly by undisclosed donations from Google tried to convince Australia’s competition watchdog not to regulate the media giant during a landmark digital platforms inquiry.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/29/us-thinktank-linked-to-google-donations-criticised-problematic-accc-digital-media-inquiry
The conviction of Najib Razak, Malaysia’s former prime minister, is a landmark moment in the country’s politics and on the face of it, a victory for anti-corruption forces. However, James Massola writes that there is a long way to run yet before the final legal judgement on him is delivered.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/najib-s-conviction-could-trigger-a-snap-election-in-malaysia-s-unstable-politics-20200728-p55g9j.html
A coronavirus surge in Florida, California and a handful of other hard-hit states could be peaking while other parts of the country may be on the cusp of growing outbreaks.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/covid-19-outbreak-in-hard-hit-us-states-may-be-peaking-fauci-says-20200729-p55gds.html
US Attorney-General William Barr has faced pointed questions from Democrats about the government’s response to protests across the nation over police brutality, his controversial interventions in high-profile cases and an array of other matters.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/shame-on-you-mr-barr-attorney-general-defends-blm-protest-response-in-hearing-20200729-p55ge1.html
The New York Times’ Bret Stephens writes that if Donald Trump stages another come-from-behind victory in November – helped, in all likelihood, by the collapse of public order in American cities – the Republican Party will become an oddity for the Trump Organisation: the only entity it owns but does not brand.
https://www.afr.com/world/north-america/what-will-the-republicans-look-like-after-trump-20200728-p55g9w
Today’s nomination for “Arsehole of the Week” comes courtesy of The Adelaide Advertiser as it tells us how the disgraced former MP Bernard Finnigan pocketed more than $14,000 in taxpayer-funded travel perks after he moved to Mount Gambier while awaiting the outcome of his child pornography trial.
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/disgraced-former-mp-bernard-finnigan-pocketed-14000-in-taxpayerfunded-travel-expenses-during-child-pornography-trial/news-story/dfb0aa5697115d2101d53cdf990bda5d
Cartoon Corner
Simon Letch
Andrew Dyson
Cathy Wilcox
Mark David
Matt Golding
Fiona Katauskas
Peter Broelman
Alan Moir
Glen Le Lievre
Mark Knight
David Rowe
John Shakespeare
Johannes Leak
From the US
I love that the cartoonists are making the distinction between Private and Public Aged care.
C@tmomma @ #102 Wednesday, July 29th, 2020 – 5:36 am
Me either.
Meanwhile, the latest ad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45S8hrCmhwo
Hmmm, I must say though, take the poll summaries at Realclearpolitics for example, I’d like to see some prominence given to country on the right/ wrong track.
Not just PPM, net satisfaction, decided/ undecided 2PP and primary voting intention.
Hmmm!
Threatening to sack volunteers?
Now that’s respect!!!!
This is brazen even by today’s conservatives standards!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/28/coronavirus-live-updates-us/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_virus-luf-1230am%3Aprime-time%2Fpromo#link-KK3VJ244Q5E7XATGRPVKKUWXYA
Hmm this Essential Poll seems at odds with the “rally round the flag” response to COVID that we’ve been seeing in most places. Not quite sure what to make of it to be honest. Nice to see them return to polling voting intention again though. About time.
Quick, shut the gate!!!
How much warning did the Government need?
Aged more at risk.
Newmarch
International reports of the infection running through aged facilities
Maybe the RC can look into this too?
“CBD Melbourne: No hotel iso for returning ministers
Canberra sources tell us that Payne and Defence Minister Linda Reynolds will both be exempted from compulsory hotel quarantine when they return to Australia.”
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While typical of the Party of Privilege, this is very wrong.
They went to the USA the world’s most infected country and actually touched residents there and who knows what else.
What sign does it send to us plebs if Liberal Grand Pooh-bars are exempt from basic infection controls?
Mexicanbeemer, I did not say that the entire FIRE sector is parasitic and needs to be eliminated. I said that the parasitic elements within that sector need to be eliminated. There is a lot of FIRE activity presently that is purely extractive, parasitic, wasteful. We need to get rid of that.
Full employment does not require that there be only one suitable job vacancy per job seeker. Multiple suitable vacancies per job seeker is consistent with full employment – and is in fact better because it gives job-seekers and workers even more options, flexibility, and bargaining power.
Barney:
Quite obviously the govt has sat on its hands in terms of aged care facilities. I can’t remember the federal health or aged care minister giving one media appearance where they talked about the sector and what they intended to do to strengthen infection prevention in those places.
lizzie @ #112 Wednesday, July 29th, 2020 – 8:19 am
‘If you want a bit more background on the complete disaster in aged care in Victoria (a fed govt responsibility) then let’s revisit the Morrison governments disasterous aged care policy over the last seven or so years. . Short answer: the sector was already on its knees pre-Covid.’ Mr Albanese said in Melbourne this morning.
mundo
You are really annoying me. Please stop re-posting me with just your silly additions.
Given the neo(con)lieberals mantra that says the rich and those in jobs are worthwhile, by extension it seems to have meant that those in need of care and not in jobs, like retired aged, well are not so deserving.
After a lifetime of contribution they are meant to be having a go at consumption through international travel or cruising, otherwise endowments, and by all means not be a burden.
The so-called prosperity gospel to the extreme, and just sign here to hand over your assets to the deserving religious con …
“Not willing to be caught out twice being away in a crisis, Prime Minister Scott Morrison yesterday announced he would return to Canberra to deal with the disastrous situation of COVID-19 infections in aged care in Victoria. As Michelle Grattan writes, aged care is the responsibility of the federal government, while state governments are in charge of health – and there has been no small amount of tension between the governments over the handling of Victoria’s coronavirus outbreak.
In terms of protecting older Australians in aged care and the sector’s workforce, it is difficult to escape the conclusion the federal government has failed on its own maxim in handling the economy: go hard and go early. This has hit hard in a sector that has long been given inadequate attention or oversight. The interim report of the aged care royal commission found older people and their families have been left “isolated and powerless in this hidden-from-view system”. The COVID-19 pandemic, Grattan writes, has provided a tragic vindication of this finding.“
(The Conversation)
Let’s play a round of Where’s Can’t See Colbeck the Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians. Oh wait, I forgot that Saint Scotty of the Marketing is ruining, I mean running, everything.
https://inqld.com.au/news/2020/07/28/aged-deaths-catastrophe-pm-rushes-back-to-canberra-for-emergency-talks/
Thanks BK for the Dawn Patrol.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/science/mars-sample-return-mission.html?surface=home-discovery-vi-prg&fellback=false&req_id=297768401&algo=identity&imp_id=947529223
Immediately following a successful landing on our home planet – testing will begin to determine whether a box of Mars rocks is as dumb as the standard box of Earth rocks used to test the competence of our MPs.
Newcastle weather – 14℃ – Projected top of 18℃
A look out the window reveals a clear blue sky. Bottle brush tree with little movement. ☀️ ☕
KayJay (Block)
Wednesday, July 29th, 2020 – 6:56 am
Comment #121
Thanks BK for the Dawn Patrol.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/science/mars-sample-return-mission.html?surface=home-discovery-vi-prg&fellback=false&req_id=297768401&algo=identity&imp_id=947529223
Bringing rocks back to Earth from Mars just highlights how much of a one way trip people going to Mars would be initially. 🙂
It’s not pandemic isolation that’s so depressing. It’s the utterly negative, self-serving LNP politicians who are beating us down.
My Mother in law, well over 80, was a nurse, sharp as a tack, not in age care, noted the other day that the age care sector trains people for two weeks and calls them nurses ( the old folks talk to each other). Hunt invokes this disaster waiting to happen (using the word nurse to describe age care workers) when he tries to defend the federal government handling of the sector.
Who invented this two hour window? If I stay in the supermarket for less than two hours does this make it safe? (Rhetorical)
lizzie @ #115 Wednesday, July 29th, 2020 – 8:27 am
Mr Albanese said in Sydney this morning.
And “publicly voicing” can mean “liking” on Twitter.
Someone’s paranoid.
lizzie @ #125 Wednesday, July 29th, 2020 – 7:24 am
Sorry lizzie, that’s Cabinet in Confidence material.
Mundo is flogging a dead Mundo with Mundo’s now very tiresome and childish repeating of what other people post with added “Mr Albanese said in Sydney this morning.” and other such idiot comments. Maybe Mundo should tell Mundo to give it a rest.
And…
Kronomex
Sometimes using the Block function gives relief for a while. 🙂
Kronomex @ #129 Wednesday, July 29th, 2020 – 7:41 am
C+ is your friend, when it comes to Mundo.
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2dtra3/i_categorise_people_into_two_types_because_of_an/
I picked up this Pig and Fox thingy from my current Stephen King novel “If it Bleeds”. I have read most of Ed McBain’s books and plan on rereading very soon.
I’m not sure – I might be a pig.
Even with this duality many of either type are just arseholes.
I’ve never blocked anyone but I have made an exception with mundo. The ‘I tells ya’ stuff was just intolerable.
KayJay,
I’ve never read any McBain, so which would you consider a good place to start; Matthew Hope or his Precinct 87 series?
As someone who can literally find my namesake on the AWM roll of honour, with immediate family contributing over 50 years of service to the Australian military.
What a complete pile of BS it is to see scumbags plying coercion and bullying tactics against volunteers under the guise of patriotism or some such campaign, in order to justify the idiotic waste of half a billion dollars on their plans.
I have no doubt that those who have served this country most in my family, believe the whole new-thing of the AWM to be a total crock and waste of money.
Haven’t seen boerwar around lately, but this is probably be of interest to him:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/27/chinese-fishing-vessels-galapagos-islands
Kronomex @ #134 Wednesday, July 29th, 2020 – 9:53 am
Either is good. I will start re reading with the 87th precinct books. A quick google shows that he wrote some books under various other names which I might try to obtain. The changes over time from say 1954 onwards are very interesting.
Good reading mon ami. 📚📖
I always assumed you were the same perky pesky poster pest.
Tony Bartone
said he had some concerns about how well the response was being coordinated, saying it is an “enormous implementation when you’re actually replacing at very short notice, even less than an hour an entire cohort of a facility staff with another outside set of staff”.
“Regardless of the capability and how exceptionally trained they are, they don’t know the residents. The residents don’t have a name tag. They need to identify who’s who, look at their charts, rapidly acquaint themselves with their relevant history and details and clinical care needs and then coordinate that. They’re not aware of what is where in the facility because they have just come in cold. So enormous, enormous emergency response challenges at a particular facility and unfortunately we’re seeing that in a number of other facilities as we speak and so that’s the challenge.”
The residents don’t have a name tag. They are not real people.
I dont think this Essential is any more an outlier than the last Newspoll.
KBs article he posted last night is worth a read.
Didnt the Fed Govt remove the need for nursing homes to have a registered nurse on site at all nursing homes a couple of years ago? What could go wrong?
Torchbearer
I wonder which of their donors persuaded them to do that.
Guardian
Simon Katichsays:
Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at 10:04 am
I’ve never blocked anyone but I have made an exception with mundo. The ‘I tells ya’ stuff was just intolerable.
I always assumed you were the same perky pesky poster pest.
________________
Really? You really don’t like me much anymore? What happened? we used to get along.
Throw the book at them.
Aged care facilities, shops and schools shut down in southeast Queensland after two women who allegedly broke border restrictions test positive to Covid-19
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2020/jul/29/coronavirus-australia-victoria-aged-care-outbreak-melbourne-sydney-nsw-qld-andrews-berejiklian-morrison-latest-updates?page=with:block-5f20bef38f085e929a8a6e7f#block-5f20bef38f085e929a8a6e7f
The deliberate breaking down of the system. Make a big song and dance about all the “help” you’re giving, while whittling away at the base.
Nothing wrong with being pesky. I personally have no issue with Mundo/Jimmy.
Wow. Just heard about the two Queenslanders who returned from Victoria and didn’t quarantine. Some people are so unbelievably selfish.
Firefox
Quelle surprise. Selfish people come from other states. Not just Victoria…….
Firefox says:
Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at 8:12 am
Hmm this Essential Poll seems at odds with the “rally round the flag” response to COVID that we’ve been seeing in most places. Not quite sure what to make of it to be honest.
The diminution of Greenist attacks on Labor since covid19 has helped Labor, whose support as apparently rising. There have been very few opportunities for Greenism in recent months. The attempt by Bandt to assault Andrews clearly backfired.
Needless to say, the prospect of a resurgent Labor will dismay the Greenists, who will do their damndest to upset it.