After blowing out to 53-47 in favour of the Coalition two Newspolls ago, the latest result, courtesy of The Australian, has two-party preferred back at 50-50. The Coalition is down two on the primary vote to 41% and Labor is up three to 36%, with the Greens steady on 11% and One Nation down one to 3%. Similarly, Scott Morrison’s still-healthy personal ratings are down on the last three weeks ago, with approval at 64% (down four) and disapproval on 32% (up three). Anthony Albanese is up on both approval, by two points to 43%, and disapproval, by three points to 41%. Morrison’s lead as preferred prime minister is now 58-29, in from 60-25. The poll also includes a finding that “80 per cent of Australians support border closures if the health situation demands it”, which I’ll go into in greater detail when I see the full results.
UPDATE: The wording to the latter question was, “do you think premiers should have the authority to close their borders or restrict entry of Australians who live in other states”, which drew responses of 80% yes and 18% no. State breakdowns: 76-22 in New South Wales, 74-23 in Victoria, 84-15 in Queensland, 92-5 in South Australia and 91-7 in Western Australia, from respective samples of 475, 371, 311, 119 and 146. The overall sample of the poll was 1507, and it was conducted from Wednesday to Saturday.
UPDATE 2 (Tuesday): Today The Australian brings further findings on attitudes to the leaders, specifically that Scott Morrison is rated as experienced by 79% and Anthony Albanese by 63%; Morrison is reckoned to have a vision for Australia by 72% compared with 52% for Albanese; and that Morrison is rated arrogant by 46% and Albanese by 37%. In all three cases, Morrison’s ratings have improved by either 11% or 12% since the questions were last posed in December, which is fairly typical of such polling in closely tracking the leader’s overall approval rating.
There is only one poll to win and you don’t have to win it in a landslide.
D @ #90 Monday, August 31st, 2020 – 7:26 am
Mundo certainly hopes Labor states aren’t going to bend over for the pronging.
C@t
The ABC parrotting the same headline, which was created by the Murdoch papers.
And Sara Henderson is an evil chancer. Just jumps on every bandwagon. I can’t forget the stupid way she was a standout noddy for any Liberal in the HoR.
Also
No credit for bringing the numbers down from 700.
Frydenburg lies, this appearance and playing Trump politics is pathetic.
Disgusts me, don’t know how people get sucked in by his non answers, lies and fear mongering. When asked what is the alternative – should the virus be let run rampant he answered that is up to Victoria to step up and provide a plan.
Why do we have a Federal Government?
Oh dear, just saw Frytheplanet giving Andrews a spray while being interviewed by Michael Rowland. Josh sounded unhinged.
lizzie @ #84 Monday, August 31st, 2020 – 7:06 am
The Liberal party?
PeeBee @ #105 Monday, August 31st, 2020 – 7:45 am
They think it works for Trump, so why not do it here? 🙄
Not to mention that Michael Rowland is a pantywaist who never bites back.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/covid-19-class-actions-hit-victoria-20200830-p55qoi
There goes my irony post about it being the firms which have benefited handsomely from (and presumably lobbied heavily) the Victorian government to allow lawyers to charge more for bringing class actions
Frydenberg’s demand for a “road out NOW!” just confirms that he has an unwillingness to look beyond his own privileged position as a Morrison lickspit. As well as showing his lack of intelligence.
Cameron @ #62 Sunday, August 30th, 2020 – 11:18 pm
Rodent ’98….thought he’d lost…
lizzie @ #109 Monday, August 31st, 2020 – 7:54 am
Someone -anyone- from Labor should do a Portland Governor and rip into him. There has to be a line drawn somewhere.
lizzie @ #109 Monday, August 31st, 2020 – 7:54 am
It’s almost as if the Coalition want the number of cases in Victoria to trend upwards again.
mundo
Did you see the mayor unload?
Just had a look at a short cartoon on twitter, which apparently is a wake up call to us all.
In one frame, Trump is being (unfairly, it is suggested) blamed for the pandemic.
On another, he is meekly doing the bidding of Lord Rothschild, who is (apparently) a communist.
C@t
It’s really hard to understand, unless they count human lives as worthless.
Quote Morrison “I really don’t care.”
Frytheplanet seems to think that because the slope is going down, we should open up. What he doesn’t realise the slope is going down BECAUSE of the lockdown.
Lack of mental furniture.
Barney in Tanjung Bunga
Monday, August 31st, 2020 – 7:19 am
Comment #90
Norty. Can you imagine the length of the queue (socially distanced) of those willing to insert the “plug” ❓
🔌 That’s an electric plug which could be suitable if connected to the correct power source.
Apropos of not much – one of my sons in law made me a nice little wooden Christmas tree 🎄 which looks like the type of plug you have in mind.
Amy Siskind
@Amy_Siskind
Portland Mayor Wheeler to Trump:
“You want me to stop the violence that you helped create. What America needs is for you to be stopped.”
It’s about time Democrat political leaders started showing the President of the United States the lack of respect he shows them.
Morning all. Thanks BK for the roundup. On current trends NSW could have more daily Covid infections than Victoria by the end of this week. So the desire for the LNP to blame Victoria for all Covid issues is more urgent.
Yet on Covid politics I take heart from the opinion poll results William posted:
“ 84-15 in Queensland, 92-5 in South Australia and 91-7 in Western Australia”
Those are amazingly strong results. Most people want Covid19 dealt with. Labor can legitimately paint the Federal LNP as jeopardising the national response, with aged care, relaxing lockdowns and interfering wtih Clive Palmer’s challenge to WA’s hard border all being their positions. The more Josh demands Victoria open up, the more it shows the Federal LNP are not serious about covid19 protection.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/30/trump-unleashes-barrage-tweets-response-portland-violence-says-big-backlash-protests-cannot-be-unexpected/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-high_portland-politics-1130am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans
I suspect the push by Morrison to define hotspot is a sneaky backdoor way of forcing states to drop restrictions. Morrison will want a very loose description and then, hey presto, no more hotspots…. Open up states!
Morning all
Much thanks BK
Time for a silly joke, I think.
https://twitter.com/ShoebridgeMLC/status/1299481343760367616
A win for the good guys! While Morrison was laying back on a beach in Hawaii, Australia was burning and those who dared to speak up about it were being silenced. Says it all really. The Greens will continue to fight for the environment no matter what.
Socrates, if what you say is correct regarding numbers in NSW and Vic. It would be very damaging for Josh if he spends the week bagging Andrews only to have NSW re-introduce restrictions next week.
NB. I do NOT hope NSW does has a runaway spread. Restrictions are the pits.
Socrates @ #119 Monday, August 31st, 2020 – 8:12 am
‘Labor can legitimately paint Federal LNP as jeopardising the national response’
It could, yes.
But will it, no.
PeeBee @ #121 Monday, August 31st, 2020 – 8:21 am
The only definition of hotspot that the Premiers will agree to is one that fully preserves their rights to impose necessary restrictions. They’re not as stupid as the Federal government.
Frydenburg was quite unhinged this morning – the Newspoll turnabout must really have them spooked!
https://twitter.com/ShaneRattenbury/status/1299853070503800832
William
Done. Thanks for your great work.
@ajm
The Hungarian will have access to feedback directly from MP’s offices. I speak regularly to one about the feedback she gets, and should the Feds be successful in bringing down the hard WA border, the response is going to be beyond feral.
We need to have the Covid numbers down to a manageable number by October, before the fire season.
ajm @ #127 Monday, August 31st, 2020 – 8:27 am
Someone should point out to them that their blatant politicking over COVID-19 is what is crueling their numbers, not the fact they haven’t attacked Dan Andrews enough.
As I have said previously.
Daniel Andrews hasnt taken aim at the feds so far, as he needs the funding that only the commonwealth can provide, to continue for as long as required.
Jim Chalmers says that the Feds are trying to blame their own budget problems on Victoria. I’d say that’s the reason for Josh’s emotional “think about the deprived children” nonsense.
C@t
As said on Insiders, the border closures are very popular with the people. And the states are enjoying huge support as a result.
Meanwhile it is the feds footing the bill.
Having said that.
The feds have failed miserably on border control and aged care. They have been trying to sheet all the blame at Andrews and co.
Lizzie
As mentioned on Insider yesterday, the feds have not yet got the aged care situation under control.
If I were Andrews I would be reminding them that until all the proper measures are put in place, Victoria cant ease restrictions
Peter Nicholas
@PeterAtlantic
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Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, at news conference just now: “Do you seriously wonder, Mr. President, why this is the first time in decades that America has seen this level of violence? It’s you who have created the hate and division.”
FWIW I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask the Vic govt to provide a roadmap out of the emergency. McGowan’s government gave us a roadmap months ago, however the main difference between the two states is we got control of coronavirus here before outlining the way out. It is entirely appropriate that the Victorian govt get control of the virus first and then start to talk about what the next steps are.
@ Victoria
The Hungarian is having great difficulty coming to terms with the fact he won’t be delivering a surplus anytime soon. More likely, he’s got a $100b+ deficit to deliver, followed by an election.
Thanks Victoria 🙂
Josh’s concerns are obviously financial, and presumably selfish: “Will somebody please think of the tax collectors!” Andrews does not have to attack Josh. He simply has to say he will keep sticking to the medical advice, until the danger has passed. Josh then looks to be the extremist.
Have a good day all.
Grimace
Seriously I would be asking the feds what the plan is to get the rest of returning travellers back to Australia.
The virus is running rampant around the globe and until a vaccine is available, we will be playing whack a mole.
The govt can forget more than a balanced budget.
Socrates
Have a good day
This is how they work.
C@t:’Someone should point out to them that their blatant politicking over COVID-19 is what is crueling their numbers, not the fact they haven’t attacked Dan Andrews enough.’
I thought that Dan would be very pleased with Josh’s rant this morning. The more they attack Andrews, and Andrews responding with a straight bat, the more popular Andrews becomes.
Fess
Andrews fronts up every day and is asked quite a lot of repetitive questions. Based on the daily figures and the situation in aged care, he is being guided by the medicos.
Business knows that and so do the feds.
Well, well, well, something we suspected about Kushner all along – he’s a security risk. Remember Trump intervened to ensure his son in law was able to get top security clearance.
https://www.axios.com/jared-kushner-security-clearance-mcgahn-ecca918e-2685-473a-9504-cd412da301bf.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100
lizzie @ #109 Monday, August 31st, 2020 – 5:54 am
The Fraud seems to think there is a magic button that can be pushed.
If I was him I’d be happy with the continued lockdown, as it delays the time when his out “road out” will need to be produced.