Essential Research has opened its account for the year with a poll that include its monthly-or-so leadership ratings, which record only slight changes on the end of last year: Scott Morrison is down a point on approval to 61% and up two on disapproval to 30%, Anthony Albanese is down one to 42% and up four to 33%, and Morrison’s lead as preferred prime minister goes from 50-24 to 51-25.
The survey also posed some semi-regular questions on climate change, finding a striking increase in the view that Australia is doing enough to address it (from 19% a year ago to 35%) and a corresponding decline in the view that not enough is being done (from 62% to 42%), with the “doing too much ” response up two to 10%. Despite this, 58% of respondents believed climate change related to human activity (up two on a year ago) against 32% who considered it part of normal climactic fluctuation (steady).
The other questions in the survey for the most part aren’t particularly political, relating to COVID-19 vaccine uptake and Australia Day. The change to the words of the national anthem finds 54% support and 16% opposition, with 30% on the fence.
In other poll news, The Australian yesterday related that polling conducted by Community Engagement for the CFMEU suggested Labor was in big trouble in the Hunter region seats of Paterson (Liberal up from 32.5% to 42.9%, Labor down from 41.1% to 30%, Greens down from 6.9% to 6.8%, and One Nation down from 14.2% to 6.9%, Nationals on 1.8%) and Shortland (Liberal up from 37.4% to 44.9%, Labor down from 41.1% to 28.3%, Greens down from 8.3% to 6.2%, One Nation on 8% and Nationals on 1.3%). The polls were conducted in November from samples of 955 per electorate. Given the evident interest of the client of putting pressure on the opposition leadership over coal mining, and all the other qualifications that apply to reports of private polling, a degree of caution is advised.
Rumour is that whenever possible, the gut is photoshopped away. I really don’t care much about Scotty’s figure or his health, but the smirk drives me up the wall.
C@tmomma @ #96 Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 – 11:42 am
That’s right ‘Moaner, all I’ve ever done is glorify Scrooter.
You really are a tedious hack.
C@tmomma @ #86 Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 – 8:27 am
Too many trips to Engadine Maccas?
boerwar @ #96 Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 – 8:41 am
So you think we should give up?
No point in aspiring to do better!
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, told a Senate committee that Australia’s proposed media bargaining code risks “breaching a fundamental principle of the web”.
His opposition lies in provisions which could compel internet giants like Facebook and Google to pay news publishers for hosting their hyperlinks.
The proposal “could make the web unworkable around the world,” Berners-Lee said.
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/media-bargaining-code-tim-berners-lee-2021-1
And those pork barrels are starting to cost the Morrison government dearly, ‘Home Builder’ up to and will exceed 2 Billion.
I guess there’s always going to be a poor person to kick in the financial guts to pay for it.
And mundo will applaud no doubt:
lizzie @ #98 Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 – 11:44 am
..the crooked smirk. It’s the crookedness that really gets to me…
C@tmomma @ #103 Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 – 11:47 am
I think it’s a little narcissistic of you posting a gif of yourself sweetie.
And for the record, moron, I resent having to subsidise my filthy rich brother- in-law’s reno….and his subsidised ‘private’ health care. I probably subsidise yours as well?
mundo @ #94 Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 – 11:10 am
Morrison is vain. Almost all politicians are. I dont really care if he wears a corset and has hair transplants. I certainly dont care if he is fat or thin. I also dont care much for inane retorts to idle chat.
mundo @ #102 Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 – 11:45 am
Yes, moano, all you ever do is glorify Morrison.
Oh wait, we are supposed to remember ALL the times you have criticised him? Sorry, but that equates to one of those books with blank pages.
And better a ‘hack’ than an obsequious toady to the guy you are supposedly opposed to. Not that I am a ‘hack’, mind you, as I’m capable of critising AND supporting Labor. Unlike you for whom the majority of your comments are criticisms of Labor, with the odd, very odd, supportive comment thrown in, probably to cover yourself against accusations of being totally, all the way with SJM.
Oh, and btw, how’s Blind Freddy’s Institute for the Bleeding Obvious going? Looks like it’s going to be a bigly Inauguration for Donald Trump’s 2nd Term tomorrow. Oh wait…
Simon Katich @ #109 Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 – 11:52 am
Isn’t Simon the precious today.
Try and play quietly kids, Simon’s having a rough day.
‘Barney in Tanjung Bunga says:
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 11:46 am
boerwar @ #96 Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 – 8:41 am
‘Barney in Tanjung Bunga says:
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 11:37 am
boerwar @ #90 Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 – 8:33 am
B
Uh, no.
Fiji has an openly racist constitution.
So, are the countries that do it more subtly are any better?
Or, should we praise hypocrisy?’
Sure. Every state in the world is as unfit as Fiji to hold a significant human rights role in the UN.
So you think we should give up?
No point in aspiring to do better!’
The UN is corrupt when Fiji is given a significant human rights role because Fiji has an openly racist constitution.
Simon Katich @ #109 Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 – 11:52 am
Actually Simon, my comment related to the repetitious, tedious crap on here that passes for commentary a lot of the time these days owing to the tacet acceptance of Scrooter’s unassailabilty.
boerwar @ #112 Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 – 8:55 am
Praise be to all the hypocrites.
For they are the only ones pure enough to hold a position on the UN!! 😆
I might have over-reacted. But not as much as that.
Why is it when I look in on my good friends on pollbludger, you c@t r fighting with someone new ?
It is extraordinary how reluctant even educated people are to admit the gig is up for (at least thermal) coal if global warming is to be combated.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jan/20/bhp-cuts-mount-arthur-coalmine-valuation-by-15bn-after-thermal-coal-price-plunges
Yet there is one line in this article which shows BHP is only being dragged kicking and screaming towards reality.
“BHP predicts demand for steel will almost double if the world is able to keep global heating to below 1.5C.”
Talk about denial! Even if all the Paris signatories meet their promises, the world will barely limit global warming to 2 degrees, not 1.5 degrees. Many countries, like Australia, are not taking serious enough action to meet even those commitments for 2 degrees. I have not seen any credible climate scientist say in the five years since Paris was signed that we are on target to meet 1.5 degrees warming. Yet BHP want to pin their valuations on it! This borders on misleading conduct.
C@tmomma @ #110 Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 – 11:54 am
Sounding a little sad and ever so slightly unhinged dear.
Calm down you’ll blow an o-ring.
But just for the hell of it, find one example – sacasm aside – where I have ever said anything even remotely kind or supportive of the Appalling Scrote.
Good luck!
Sounds like a job for HackMoaner!!!
I think it’s a little narcissistic of you posting a gif of yourself sweetie.
And for the record, moron, I resent having to subsidise my filthy rich brother- in-law’s reno….and his subsidised ‘private’ health care. I probably subsidise yours as well?
Oh dear, you are really showing your true colours now, moano. Scratch your slavish support of all things Scott Morrison and the fangs come out.
I mean, only a Liberal would criticise a person who can barely walk, let alone work, being paid a Disability Pension by the government. They’re YOUR taxes that fund it, are they moano?
Fyi, have never had Private Health Insurance. I stick to my principles, not that I can afford it.
And taxpayer-subsidised home renovations? I didn’t know renters were eligible?
Now, admit it, you’re the one who got up on the wrong side of the bed today and decided to come onto PB and be a Grade A Arsehat.
Or is it because it’s an election year and your lord and masters have told you to up your game? You have a Labor Party and its supporters to destroy by, is it September or October? 😀
Lars Von Trier @ #116 Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 – 11:31 am
Change is as good as a holiday.
Coffee anyone?
I’ve just received my weekly groceries from Woolies, and they have included two raison loaves I didn’t order. How can a girl ever hope to lose weight? Life’s tough. Even my worms are over fed. (Guilty emoji)
But just for the hell of it, find one example – sacasm aside – where I have ever said anything even remotely kind or supportive of the Appalling Scrote
ROFLMAO 😀
Yep, ‘Scrote the tactical genius’ is such a put-down. 😆
C@tmomma @ #119 Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 – 12:03 pm
I don’t know anything about you dear. You’re just a post on a screen.
You know even less about me.
If you did, you’d be rather embarrassed by your absurd bullshit.
I too am a public health citizen by choice and principle.
I owe just about everything in life that is good or has served me well to the Australian Labor Party of which I have been a financial donor for over 35 years.
Shut.
The.
Fuck.
Up.
Is Lars suffering relevance Deprivation Syndrome? 🙂
LvT just ignore all the debates I engage in, there’s a good troll.
There, there, moano. You might bust an o ring. 😀
lizzie
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 12:04 pm
I’ve just received my weekly groceries from Woolies, and they have included two raison loaves
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Raison d’etre loaves ? No wonder they seem so tempting 🙂
Soc
Yep.
But the main thing to remember is that, according to Morrison, McCormack, Payne and Hunt, Australia is doing its share.
C@tmomma @ #122 Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 – 12:06 pm
You idiot.
Context please.
Give up.
You always go to far when u get into these shouting matches c@t.
Lars Von Trier @ #116 Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 – 12:01 pm
Can you take over, I’m bored.
mundo @ #128 Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 – 12:10 pm
The examples are too numerous to list here. 😐
Here all day. 😉
TTFN.
You were better behaved c@t when dear nath of blessed memory took a personal interest.
C@tmomma @ #124 Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 – 12:08 pm
‘debates’
Oh deary me ‘Moana you have a rather overstated estimation of your contributions here 🙂
mundo @ #130 Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 – 12:12 pm
Yet you can’t help yourself. You know you wouldn’t feel defensive at all if there wasn’t a kernel of truth in what I am pointing out.
Anyhoo, that’s enough from me, your responses are illogical and it’s hard to argue with smoke that has no substance.
C@tmomma @ #131 Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 – 12:13 pm
Liar.
poroti
You got me there! Obviously over excited at the raisins.
C@tmomma @ #134 Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 – 12:16 pm
‘Moaner withdraws.
Thank goodness.
Please block me, I beg you.
boerwar
“But the main thing to remember is that, according to Morrison, McCormack, Payne and Hunt, Australia is doing its share.”
Indeed we are. Under Morrison I would say we are doing as much to fight climate change as we are to help in the fight against right wing extremism. Similar effort in the fight against political corruption.
I think Mundo has a fair point there c@t, if you disagree with people so virulently why not block them ?
Seems to me you love the drama of conflict on here ?
mundo
You may not intend it, but you certainly do come across as admiring Morrison.
Maybe you need to use a few more sarcasm emojis, but I certainly have the impression that you think more of Morrison than you do of any Labor politician.
An hilarious Tesla model 3 review..
https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/tesla-model-3-review/
This is worth keeping an eye on. How to take fossil methane (natural gas) and take the carbon out of it, leaving only hydrogen.
https://www.fool.com.au/2021/01/19/asx-stock-of-the-day-hazer-group-asxhzr-share-price-surges-14/
Well done to the Indians, who, apart from one disaster, essentially showed more grit than our much self-hyped Test side….
Apart from the grit shown by one side, the feebleness and inconsistency of so many of the Oz batting crew plus the inability of “the world’s best pace attack” to get wickets (on home turf no less) when it counted were factors in India’s success.
The knives are out for Paine of course.
It seems Wonder Boy Green thinks he can get batsmen out in Tests as easy as he could in lower order cricket. He has the goods but not while he bowls too short……..
In actual fact, we were walloped and the closeness of the scores covers some deep cracks in the Test side……..Cummins for captain for mine…….he never gave up……….
As far as politics goes ….roll on Inauguration………
The Age.
Tennis Australia boss Craig Tiley told Melbourne radio station 3AW on Wednesday morning the bill for the quarantine program is expected to top $40 million and will be partially paid by the Victorian government.
That was strongly disputed by Ms Neville.
“I want to be really clear about this,” she said, “hotel quarantine for the Australian Open is fully funded by Tennis Australia, I’ve triple confirmed that again today.
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Can they please get thier stories straight or is that too much to ask.
Tricot,
I admit I know next to nothing about cricket, so I was just wondering why you would recommend Pat Cummins for captain? Wouldn’t it be hard for a bowler to be captain? (He’s a bowler, isn’t he?)
Taylormade says:
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 12:33 pm
Can they please get thier stories straight or is that too much to ask.
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Tennis Australia is funded by the federal government yes or no
Morrison trying to weasel himself into world leadership by congratulating Modi on the cricket win?
Westralia rides again 🙂
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9News Australia
@9NewsAUS
A group of business leaders in Western Australia want the state to break away from Australia… calling the campaign WAXIT.
Should WA be allowed to form an independent nation? #9News
https://twitter.com/9NewsAUS/status/1351667874599845894
Again it is the responsibility of the federal government border force to determine International visitors do not carry a bio risk into Australia, Border force has failed to do that by allowing International tennis Players into Australia .
Greg Hunt , Peter Dutton , Scott Morrison and the federal CMO should be resigning if the corona virus spreads
My my, I didn’t realise that mundo is such a precious little snowflake.
Frankly, you were more fun when you were just trolling with your “I tells ya” routine. Might want to stick to that instead of spamming us with all your insecurities.
Or better still, just fuck right off.