As brought to you by The Australian, Newspoll maintains its sedentary ways in its latest poll, which repeats the previous result three weeks ago in recording a dead head on two-party preferred. Labor is up a point on the primary vote to 37%, while the Coalition on 42%, the Greens on 10% and One Nation on 3% are all unchanged. Despite a seemingly difficult week for Scott Morrison, he gains one on approval to 64% and drops one on disapproval to 32% and widens his lead as preferred prime minister from 57-29 to 61-26, as Anthony Albanese drops three on approval to 38% and rises two on disapproval to 45%. The poll was conducted Wednesday to Saturday from a sample of 1504.
There was also a poll on Friday from Roy Morgan, which sometimes publishes its regular federal voting intention polling and sometimes doesn’t. In this case Labor was credited with a bare lead of 50.5-49.5, from primary votes of Coalition 40%, Labor 34.5%, the Greens 13% and One Nation 3.5%. The poll was conducted over the previous two weekends online and by phone from a sample of 2824.
Between Newspoll, Roy Morgan and Essential Research, there are now three pollsters who rate the situation as steady of with Labor fractionally ahead. This is reflected in the BludgerTrack poll aggregate, now updated with the above results on both the voting intention and leadership rating trends, which has Labor edging ahead to a 50.2-49.8 lead.
Bitched whale?
Did you say that on porpoise?
meher baba:
Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 4:26 pm
[‘Thank goodness the LAPD wasn’t defunded, as many of Lady Gaga’s celebrity friends have called for.’]
I’m not sure they meant that in the real sense. More like this:
“Defunding the police” simply means reducing police department budgets and redistributing those funds towards essential social services that are often underfunded, such as housing, education, employment, mental health…’]
Many of those caught up in the criminal justice system are ill-housed, poorly educated, unemployed, and suffer mental health disorders due in part to drug & alcohol addiction. If some of the monies allocated to police departments were reallocated to social services, the crime rate would most likely decrease and the lot of police would improve
commensurately.
Fulvio Sammut @ #2901 Saturday, February 27th, 2021 – 4:44 pm
It was a misunderstatement!
Replying to
@RonniSalt
For those playing along at home; after a very stressful week he wore a pair of white flippers and frolicked in the water.
*struggles to maintain a straight face while typing*
No mention of the stressful weeks and years the rape victims have endured, but hey – what a guy.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/26/falling-sperm-counts-human-survival
P1: “Not trying to downplay the significance of a sexual assault accusation, but the reality is that in politics the dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on. I certainly hope some COALition heads do roll, but I’d be surprised if Morrison will still look like a bunny in the headlights in two months time.”
+1
Keith Wright being charged with serious offences in relation to teenage girls not long before the 1993 Federal election didn’t affect the result.
Milton Orkopolous being charged with 30 sex offences, including sex with underage boys, in November 2006 didn’t stop Morris Iemma winning the March 2007 NSW election, and the fact that Nathan Rees had been Orkopolous’s Chief of Staff didn’t stop Rees from entering Parliament at that election and soon after himself being elevated to the position of Premier.
I think the voters appreciate that all sorts of people in all walks of life are capable of violent/criminal sexual conduct and that they can also be very good at hiding it from their family, friends and work colleagues.
A lot of posters on PB appear to be excited about the prospect that this will all blow up into a major political brouhaha that will ultimately bring down the Morrison Government. Be careful what you wish for. The issue is certainly gaining a lot of momentum, but one strong possibility is that more complainants are now going feel empowered to come forward. And they might not just be complaining about Liberal politicians. Louise Milligan has already alluded to aggrieved women on the Labor side of politics.
I don’t think anyone can confidently predict just how this stuff will end up playing out. But, in the end, I think most voters will totally ignore it.
The amount of material the ALP has for the next election is staggering.
Need to formulate a repetitive message now.
Mavis @ #2882 Saturday, February 27th, 2021 – 4:10 pm
Here is a quote that was apparently originally written by Tony Blair about the UK Labour party, but which seems very appropriate for Australian Labor:
In politics, playing safe can be a risky tactic.
Why would you tell the police you no longer wanted to continue with the investigation one day, and then kill yourself the next, and what if any could be the relationship between the two. Asking for a suspicious friend with an imaginative mind, who keeps on wondering if she might have been threatened.
SMH just in: the COVID love-in between NSW and Feds headed for the rocks?
Hazzard says Feds “ should be given time to improve its vaccine program in aged care, but would not rule out intervening in the scheme or in the mass vaccination of the population through general practitioners.”
Nothing like a good body surfing session to clear the mind.
I hope that was Morrison’s intention.
Comments regarding wearing a hat.
Hard to do when having a body surf.
There were some Scotty fans down Bronte beach.
Morrison at the beach with his family could mean
Federal election could be called within weeks ,
MIL in aged care (Sydney) which just sent a mail out to say they have no information on vaccination programme, except they expect to get only three days notice (the fridge life?) and need to get consents sorted out well in advance.
Spoke to my daughter about the rape allegations ( the PM hinted we have to do that). She said she has friends on both sides of the coin, one who put herself out to get a rapist convicted, he got three months. Was it worth it? The other accused an ex because she was upset at getting dumped.
Her view, while males boast to other mates about their “conquests” and don’t get told it is not OK, it will continue. The courts can’t solve the problem.
Mavis: “I’m not sure they meant that in the real sense. More like this:
“Defunding the police” simply means reducing police department budgets and redistributing those funds towards essential social services that are often underfunded, such as housing, education, employment, mental health…’]”
Some mean what you say, and some propose getting rid of the police altogether.
For instance, Colin Kaepernick, the guy who introduced “taking a knee”, argues that “Despite the steady cascade of anti-Black violence across this country, I am hopeful we can build a future that imagines justice differently. A future without the terror of policing and prisons.” Kaepernick, who grew up in a middle class White family rather than an inner city area, and who now, being very wealthy, no doubt has his own private security, cannot see any possible reason for police or prisons to continue to exist.
This naive nonsense has had quite a strong effect on the policy of large city administrations in some of the blue states, including LA. Police departments have had their budgets cut, but, even though some cities (including Milwaukee) have announced the abolition of their police departments and their replacement by some new sort of organisation, there has been no actual follow-through as yet.
As I’ve posted before, the only inevitability of removing all policing from inner city areas – which are predominantly occupied by African-Americans and Hispanics – is that those areas will become even more controlled and dominated by the criminal alpha males in those communities than is currently the case. That many well-educated and successful people in the US are unable to perceive this inevitability is an illustration of just how incredibly compartmentalised US society has become, so that educated people in the leafy suburbs have absolutely no appreciation of life in the inner cities.
The exception to this rule is New York, where the cultural boundaries between the richer and poorer areas are a little more porous.
Swimming cap Been There.
I’d wear one. Not sure if the narcissist in chief would though.
My cancer wasn’t a melanoma. It was a spindle cell but the specialist said they can be very nasty.
I took that to mean deadly.
LP
If the offence was committed when the person was a minor then the person’s name cannot be reported
A rashie when you can’t see your feet ain’t flattering.
You’ve seen the photo?
meher baba
I tend to agree that there won’t be as much fallout from any of the sexual stuff as we might have hoped, just because Morrison has most of the media and time on his side.
Itzadream
I am tangentially engaged with victims of abuse. My amateur and abstract view is that victims have some days of great resolve but more days of helpless surrender.
Those defending civil claims of abuse bide their time for the helpless days.
Player One says:
Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 12:01 pm
N @ #2728 Saturday, February 27th, 2021 – 11:46 am
Sustainable Australia represent totally reactionary and poly-phobic opinion. It’s no surprise they are consonant with The Player, for whom every post is a pretext for anti-Labor tropes.
In WA, it must be very difficult to know what is “anti-Labor”.
The phobic are always easily discernible….even from a great distance.
I see Scotty & the photographer invited Jen & the kids on a nice private family outing at the beach today…
Aqualung @ #2923 Saturday, February 27th, 2021 – 5:18 pm
His gut is the PMO of Morrison’s body.
Ensures he can’t see anything that might be embarrasing.
RonniSalt
RonniSalt
@RonniSalt
To give you an idea of how desperate the Morrison govt war-room is at the moment.
https://twitter.com/RonniSalt/status/1365537756944896007?s=20
When Morrison went to Hawaii , first polling show no damage , the weeks after that when Morrison & libs/nats plummet quicker than you could say Abbott.
It will be yet to seen if the trend follows, first poll after the alleged rape made public no damage , the next polling if they follow the hawaii trip ,Morrison will be sweating like he was in Hawaii
The Daily mail article on Morrison has a video and several photos of him.
Would make good “before” photos for Weight Watchers adverts.
And the photos were taken yesterday while the rape story was big news.
Aqualung
Didn’t you say a hat?
Swim cap is not a hat.
But fully agree with that in terms of protection.
Would help against blue bottles as well, a vest and cap.
ItzaDream @ #2918 Saturday, February 27th, 2021 – 5:05 pm
That certainly can’t be ruled out given the horrific nature of the alleged offence and the crazed mind behind it.
N @ #2926 Saturday, February 27th, 2021 – 5:23 pm
As are Gibbons.
Morrison is adapting to climate change – he is ready for the next big drought.
I love the way the media just happen to have camera crews handy while Morrison takes a dip with his mob at a local beach. I can’t imagine it would be a staged photo op to distract from and play down the implosion of his government.
Meanwhile, over in the USA.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-27/donald-trump-statue-unveiled-as-gop-gathers-at-conference/13200034
In news that will traumatise Taylormade, Roy Morgan reports that 60% of Victorians support Dan Andrews SOE and are happy to extend it till December 2021.
Player One says:
Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 5:36 pm
N @ #2926 Saturday, February 27th, 2021 – 5:23 pm
Player One says:
Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 12:01 pm
N @ #2728 Saturday, February 27th, 2021 – 11:46 am
Sustainable Australia represent totally reactionary and poly-phobic opinion. It’s no surprise they are consonant with The Player, for whom every post is a pretext for anti-Labor tropes.
In WA, it must be very difficult to know what is “anti-Labor”.
The phobic are always easily discernible….even from a great distance.
As are Gibbons.
The routine characterisation of Labor-leaning bludgers as sub-human is just plain phobic in itself. The language used by The Player is systematically derogatory. It is political hate-speak. They are a disgrace.
N @ #2939 Saturday, February 27th, 2021 – 5:49 pm
One of us is indeed a disgrace to Labor.
Although Bronte is a beautiful beach, and would be (and was) my own choice among the Eastern Suburbs attractions, why wasn’t ScoMo at Cronulla, Wanda or Shelly? I thought he was “Sharkies” through and through? (Yes, I know he used to live in Bronte).
Secondly, at Bronte it is notoriously hard to get a parking spot. Most walk down locally or use public transport. Did ScoMo use a fleet of VIP cars? Did he park in a No Stopping or Bus zone? Or did his minders drive around the block until he called them in? How much did this photo op cost the taxpayer?
Thirdly where are the by now obligatory photos of him shaking hands, elbow-bumping and greeting locals? Didn’t anyone want to say “Hello” to the Father Of The Nation?
Months to prepare and Ghunt, Scotty and crew ………………………..
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/hazzard-weighs-intervention-in-disappointing-federal-vaccine-rollout-20210226-p5765z.html
And it looks like Jen has been appreciating the live in cook at Kirribilli House….
poroti @ #2942 Saturday, February 27th, 2021 – 6:01 pm
The Liberal Feds couldn’t organise a shit fight in a country dunny!
It’s just you are not very good and your team has only won 2 of the last 10 matches.
https://www.cricket.com.au/news/justin-langer-emotional-toll-of-criticism-coaching-style-marnus-toastie/2021-02-27
Gillespie with Waugh and Ponting to assist and Rick Charlesworth with a limited but important role of scaring the shit out of everyone.
test.. fail..
Bronte isn’t the first beach that comes to mind for kids.
There’s a rock pool but it’s a pretty rough surf spot.
Seen on Youtube, on a channel that debunks Elon Musk 🙂
And the PVO segment on CH10 News re alleged Cabinet Rapist is worth a look…
https://twitter.com/10newsfirst/status/1365550330918887424?s=21
poroti @ #2942 Saturday, February 27th, 2021 – 6:01 pm
Months to prepare and Ghunt, Scotty and crew ………………………..
Organising the vaccine roll out would take valuable time away from important work like making chook pens, showing off your body in the surf, having innumerable press conferences to say the same thing over and over…