Things other than Queensland and the US

Some minor news on the local opinion polling front to keep things ticking over.

With the last open thread threatening to fall off the bottom page amid a thicket of Queensland and US-specific posts, here’s a refresher. Newspoll is having an off-week to avoid Queensland election static, although Essential Research should be along with its fortnightly attitudinal results tomorrow. All I have to relate other than that is:

• There has apparently been progress in the establishing of an Australian Polling Council, potentially meaning a new age of full disclosure by pollsters of their weights and breakdowns. Its members are YouGov, Essential Research, Ipsos, uComms, JWS Research, Lonergan Research and Telereach.

• The Australia Institute has published a report on attitudes to climate change that I’m a little too busy for right now, but you can find it here.

Kos Samaras of RedBridge Group discusses polling conducted in September showing 57% of Melburnians think the state Liberal opposition has not “played a constructive role during this pandemic.

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.

663 comments on “Things other than Queensland and the US”

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  1. Wokeism is a dead end for the left. For every hipster doofus who casts a vote for the Greens and feels good about themselves for doing it, five suburban working class voters cast a vote for the Tories or ON. Instead of appealing to a category who will probably move the the Tories anyway as they get older and their share portfolio matures, Labor needs to focus on the suburbs.. The Woke have no interest in re distributive economics, they don’t care about welfare, public election or health. many despise unions and worker’s rights too. Labor needs to focus on jobs, jobs, did I say jobs, public health, education and the environment. Leave all the personal pro noun stuff to the Greens, they are welcome to it.

  2. Who cares if racing is called the sport of kings. I call it crooked. You would find more dodgy types at a race meeting than probably any other walk of life. How many ‘respected’ trainers, owners and jockeys have been busted for corrupt behaviour? Over time, thousand of kids have gone hungry because their father or mother gave the pay packet to the bookies. It’s fucking evil whatever you want to call it.

  3. “ Wokeism is a dead end for the left. For every hipster doofus who casts a vote for the Greens and feels good about themselves for doing it, five suburban working class voters cast a vote for the Tories or ON. Instead of appealing to a category who will probably move the the Tories anyway as they get older and their share portfolio matures, Labor needs to focus on the suburbs.. The Woke have no interest in re distributive economics, they don’t care about welfare, public election or health. many despise unions and worker’s rights too. Labor needs to focus on jobs, jobs, did I say jobs, public health, education and the environment. Leave all the personal pro noun stuff to the Greens, they are welcome to it.”

    Here him. Here him!

  4. The Greens will have to choose (eventually) between a yogic, boutique neo-Marxism and representing the bourgeois economic values and political interests of their Labor-phobic constituents. Ultimately they will out themselves as instruments of the establishment they purpose to replace.

  5. Public housing is where the woke die. Apparenrly we’re building 500,000 new public housing homes Australia-wide. How wonderful!

    That’s about 3300 per Federal electorate. Do ask the woke where these 3300 homes will be built in their electorate. Or in Kooyong, or Wills, or Grayndler, or Griffith. I’m sure they’ll wrlcome more public housing in their suburbs with open arms.

  6. This is “not the Queensland” thread. But with all this talk of public housing I have to point out that Palaszczuk’s electorate literally is public housing. Houses were built to house immigrants. “Council Houses” we called them back then. I was a child and assumed this was merely the way of things, but back in the 60’s Inala was where friends lived. Those houses are still there today. Small. Brick. Sturdy. Many. Labor.

  7. Good Morning

    To cope with the nervous anxiety I have decided The Young Turks is a good way to watch the election fold in the US.

    Plus if as polls have indicated Biden does win through the night Cenk Uygur will be very entertaining

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