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.
C@t, putting those in is obviously beyond my technical expertise.
Looking for a ‘Back in Black’ pic of Josh I found that Scrott had also posed for one. The bastard pinched the idea.
Never mind there’s always a nice souvenir .
PeeBee @ #201 Monday, August 31st, 2020 – 10:05 am
The scrunched up face emojis are easy. Just put lol between 2 lots of :
alfred venison @ #177 Monday, August 31st, 2020 – 9:27 am
There are large chlorine plants at Botany in Sydney, and Laverton in Melbourne. They have both had major chlorine release events over the years.
Albo didn’t need to say it, mundo.
Jim Chalmers did it but I agree that slotting the deleted bits of Frydenburg’s unhinged snark would be fun. His raised eyebrow got a good work out.
shellbell @ #71 Monday, August 31st, 2020 – 5:38 am
A blatant attempt of wealth shifting.
They’re attempting to give the taxpaying battler yet anther kick in the guts.
VicGovDHHS
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#COVID19VicData for 31 Aug 2020. There were 73 new cases and sadly 41 deaths. Today’s deaths total includes 22 people who died in the weeks leading up to 27 August and were reported to DHHS by aged care facilities yesterday. More info will be available later this morning.
Cat 😆
Rex Douglas @ #200 Monday, August 31st, 2020 – 8:04 am
That’s a stupid, head in the sand, response.
If a system breaks down then you want to find out why and make improvements.
Looking at how other jurisdictions are doing it can give you new ideas.
One of the main problems for Governments is that you are applying theoretical ideas in a real practical environment and either have to adapt existing systems, or create new ones from scratch.
Thanks C@t, Today has’nt been a complete waste, I have learnt something!
Just a small blip in the political scheme of things, but the hapless ACT Liberal leader Alistair Coe was on local redneck radio crying crocodile tears over poverty in Canberra.
Apparently the Liberals would reduce poverty by setting up an inquiry should they win the ACT election. That’s it.
The aged care owners are not reporting deaths promptly? Are they afraid of the bad publicity?
73 Cases – 116 same time last week.
Always seems to be a little dip in numbers on a Monday however the positive downward trend continues.
I think people will deal with an extra week or 2 of stage IV if it means eliminating all cases.
The death numbers are ramping up as predicted.
On the very same day, you have those who campaign loudly for Victoria or other states to open up and let more people die.
Here’s Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler for anyone yet to hear him.
Trump tweets about him:
Ted Wheeler, the wacky Radical Left Do Nothing Democrat Mayor of Portland, who has watched great death and destruction of his City during his tenure, thinks this lawless situation should go on forever. Wrong! Portland will never recover with a fool for a Mayor….
The big backlash going on in Portland cannot be unexpected after 95 days of watching and incompetent Mayor admit that he has no idea what he is doing. The people of Portland won’t put up with no safety any longer.The Mayor is a FOOL. Bring in the National Guard!
https://youtu.be/wFl210OhYfk
https://twitter.com/lidia__thorpe/status/1295576699044687872
RDN’s replacement in the Senate is certainly ready for action! Go Senator Thorpe!
Disappointing that some journos are not picking up the detail behind “41 deaths”.
You can see what Frydenberg wants to focus the attention elsewhere.
Aged care has been a disaster and the feds have not sorted it out yet
lizzie @ #220 Monday, August 31st, 2020 – 10:30 am
They don’t want to.
The number on ventilators 14 and in ICU 41 are also falling.
Thank you, Itza. 🙂
The appropriation of BLM by the Greens is a highly retrograde development. ETGTD.
lizzie @ #222 Monday, August 31st, 2020 – 10:35 am
What a pathetic stunt.
We all know a large portion of Labor are in the pockets of the thermal coal cartel.
From The Shovel
When it comes to progressive politics, the Greens come in and stuff it up.
Good Morning.
What a good poll result for progressives.
Despite the propaganda machine going on full bore for the LNP reality is breaking through with voters for Labor. I hope the movement is indicative of a trend.
I would like Labor to do more. I cannot complain about Labor over aged care. On this Labor has been excellent.
I still think it’s great the ACT is leading the way. The Labor Greens government doing excellent work. The lesson for Labor is that yes being strong on policy works.
The other lesson for Labor Mr Albanese seems to have nailed. Take marketing lessons from Morrison while pointing out he is Scottyfrommarketing. Australia’s empty suit.
This before the recession hits the headlines in a big way.
Frydenberg is trying to set it up to blame Victoria.
The problem for him being Basic Income with no mutual obligation worked. People know the rate of payment and lack of mutual obligation had no effect on the unemployment rate.
The government can determine if someone lives in poverty and give them mental health problems with stigma about “lazy” people. Or it can keep people out of poverty with good mental health making them far more likely to be job ready.
The problem for the LNP 1 in 10 people are a huge political shift doing self interest with the hip pocket nerve.
By the way, if anyone (such as Buce) is in any doubt as to whether racism exists and is a massive problem in Australia, you need look no further than the disgusting replies being directed at Australia’s newest Senator: https://twitter.com/lidia__thorpe/status/1295576699044687872
A topical subject
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-false-logic-behind-science-denial/
The unholy alliance between Palmer and the LNP in Queensland – but some hardheads are concerned there may be a voter backlash.
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Lessons in Gaslighting:
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Give Americans a taste of what an
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Problem for Briefly and FredNK.
The ACT Labor Green Government is an accurate description.
C@tmomma @ #234 Monday, August 31st, 2020 – 8:45 am
Or;
You’ve already got it, so why change?
guytaur @ #235 Monday, August 31st, 2020 – 8:49 am
Your problem is that the ACT is tiny and unique, so very few things translate easily if at all to other jurisdictions.
So the logic of using it as example rarely exists.
Best thing Morrison has done for Albanese and federal labor is to exclude them from National Cabinet.
At the time it was established the MSM were all on heat claiming how smart Scott was to side line labor , make them irrelevant etc etc etc.
Well, it is all starting to bite Morrison on the arse now and the rantings of Josh this morning are the perfect “ canary in the coal mine” as to how much the cracks in the national cabinet are hurting Morrison.
Right from the start Albanese did not attack any of the state or territory decisions around borders and other restrictions. He supported each of the leaders following the advice of their own chief medical officers and has continued to do so.
We are now at the point in time where Morrison is the one looking more and more impotent and is increasingly being sidelined by the state/ territory leaders while Albanese rides on the coat tails of the huge support for state / territory leaders and their decisions.
Fancy that !
Barney
Your problem is trying to pretend the ACT is somehow uniquely UnAustralian.
The ACT like Tasmania is not that unique.
Ten in NSW today, but 6 of those were in HQ and 4 linked to existing CBD cluster.
Along with yesterday’s numbers, this is about as good as could be expected in the current circumstances.
United States :
Coronavirus Cases:
6,173,236
Deaths:
187,224
– 33,981 new cases and 369 new deaths in the United States
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
guytaur @ #240 Monday, August 31st, 2020 – 9:04 am
The demographics of the ACT suggest it is very different to any other State.
What is this UnAustralian thing?
Last time I heard about it was from a RWFW saying we all need to conform to their idea of it.
Kerry Chant talking about examining Opal Card (NSW travel card) data to contact people who may have been exposed to the virus on public transport. Then CCTV footage to further examine how (or if) transmission might have occurred on a bus. These people aren’t mucking about.
(No mention of the Covid-Safe app though).
The covid app has been an utter failure.
Didnt help us in Victoria.
Spray, just listening to the NSW presser. One worry is the person who travelled on a bus. The health officer bangs on about wearing masks (why not make it mandatory?).
No mention of holding the same pole/strap etc as the COVID case or of washing your hands. (Ie consider everything is covered in wet paint).
You have to do everything.
Spray
When the NSW alerts are announced, naturally the feeling is that there are stacks of cases (maybe there will be) but, it seems that this reflects the great detail of the movements of sufferers.
I will be listening out to hear the Victorian commentary on its contract tracing set up when it gets down to a score or less daily cases.
Barney
You are trying to pretend the ACT is so different that a Labor Green government is impossible elsewhere.
Tasmania has had one too.
You would have been better off arguing the electoral systems are the difference.
Spray @ #244 Monday, August 31st, 2020 – 9:13 am
The App is a classic case of what I was saying before about the challenges of applying theory to reality.
Great idea, but practical limitations have made it worthless.
Barney
To be clear you commented because of my specific comment aboyut Briefly and FredNK.
The existence of the ACT Labor Green government is a factual contradiction to their narrative.