The latest fortnightly Essential Research poll does not include leader ratings or voting intention, but does have the following:
• The regular question on COVID-19 response finds the federal government’s good rating suffering a seven point dip to 62%, returning it to where it was for several months before an uptick in November, with the poor rating up two to 14%. The small sample results for mainland state governments also record a drop for the Victorian government, whose good rating is down ten to 49%, while the New South Wales government holds steady at 72% and the Queensland government’s drops three to 73%. As ever, particular caution must be taken with the Western Australian and South Australian results given the sample sizes, but they respectively retain the best (down three to 85%) and second best (down one to 78%) results out of the five.
• The poll finds 50% of respondents saying they will get vaccinated as soon as possible, 40% that they will do so but not straight away, and 10% that they will never get vaccinated. Variation by voting intention is within the margin of error. By way of contrast, a US poll conducted by Monmouth University last month produced the same 50% result for the “soon as possible option”, but had “likely will never get the vaccine” markedly higher at 24%. This increased to 42% among Republicans, and doesn’t that just say it all.
• The poll includes a pared back version of the pollster’s semi-regular suite of questions on leaders’ attributes in relation to Scott Morrison, but not Anthony Albanese. The consistent pattern here is that Morrison is a bit less highly rated than he was last May, but substantially stronger than he was during the bushfire crisis in January. However, he has done notably better on “good in a crisis” (from 32% last January to 66% in May to the current 59%) than “out of touch” (from 62% to 47% and now back up to 59%), whereas his gains since January on “more honest than most politicians” (now 50%), “trustworthy” (52%) and “visionary” (41%) are all either 11% or 12%. Two new questions have been thrown into the mix: “in control of their team” and “avoids responsibility”, respectively 56% at 49%.
• Respondents were asked to respond to a series of propositions concerning “the recent allegations of rape and sexual assault from women working in Parliament”, which found 65% agreeing the government has been “more interested in protecting itself than the interests of those who have been assaulted”. Forty-five per cent felt there was “no difference in the way the different political parties treat women”, though the view was notably more prevalent among men (54%) than women (37%), and among those at the conservative end of the voting spectrum (53% among Coalition voters, 41% among Labor voters and 30% among Greens voters).
• A number of questions on tech companies found an appetite for stronger regulation, including 76% support for forcing them to remove misinformation from their platforms.
The poll was conducted Wednesday to Monday from a sample of 1074; full results here.
Crikey
David Hardaker
David has an extensive career as a journalist and broadcaster, primarily at the ABC where he worked on flagship programs such as Four Corners, 7.30, Foreign Correspondent, AM and PM. He spent eight years reporting in the Middle East and can speak Arabic
Sack him for that: a straightforward sleazy workplace issue, open and shut dismissal as a minister. Bye, bye Christian.
But don’t call for a bargain basement inquiry that sets out to use a civil standard of proof to establish serious criminal guilt.
Its over.
I could not cut and paste some of the crikey article but if accurate it is absolutely over and Porter will be applauded for how he has handled this.
Oh my God so many people went right out on a limb on this so much credibility lost.
Nsays:
Friday, March 5, 2021 at 11:20 pm
Akon says:
Friday, March 5, 2021 at 10:59 pm
Douglas and Milkosays:
Friday, March 5, 2021 at 10:57 pm
I don’t care about him being a married man, but the power imbalance with a staffer is what bothers me.
Well…adultery is not merely about sex. It’s also about betrayal, deceit and the breach of promises and trust. We are talking here about the personal qualities of a serial adulterer and misogynist.
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I don’t judge other peoples’ relationships. People can be in ‘open marriages’ or have certain understandings.
Alias said “It is fairly clear the deceased woman got counselling from this chap associated with recovered memories soon before her death”
The woman did NOT get counselling from anyone to do with the discredited ‘recovered memories’ movement so I called it out. William you have said I was wrong. William, you are wrong. As Catmomma said The victim did not get counselling from the recovered memories man – she read a book by a Professor of Psychology recommended by her therapist. Conflating EMDR therapy with the ‘recovered memories’ therapies is misleading. I’m pretty furious that of all the misleading sratements posted tonight you target ME for trying to correct the record. I have posted exactly why the comments are misleading. I gave the credentials of the Professor of Psychology who wrote the book.
I’m still shocked that you support Alias’ crude characterisation of an admittedly shoddy article at Crikey. Thanks D and M for your contribution.
Steelydan says:
Friday, March 5, 2021 at 11:05 pm
It is about how any march will look. The signs wont read PM please do something we need change. They will be chanting and burning effigies and the leaders out front well you can only imagine…make many who watch want to keep the status quo.
This is sexist to the core. It entirely dismisses the claims of women because of how they might look and sound. In effect, women are to be dismissed because they are women. It is absolutely no wonder that women have had enough already.
I will be making it my business to march on IWD, hopefully with my daughter and grand-daughters, and with my son and his wife and her mother and their son, with my nieces and sisters-in-law, with my brother too. It will be a considerable honour to walk with the women of Perth.
I have really had enough already as well.
Mavis
Imagine the legal profession doing whatever it takes to protect one its own. Heaven forfend.
The toxic culture of the legal profession is inculcated from the very first lecture in every law school. Their enduring preference for victory on technicality over justice is plain.
We should not be surprised that a system designed by rich and powerful white men perpetually favours rich and powerful white men. But it is a critical plank of the white supremacist patriarchy that must be broken down if we are to ever have real justice.
Some of the stuff she has stated Porter has done sounds like it came from movie scripts after a detailing elaborate rituals by Porter “misted up the bathroom mirror with his breath and wrote “Christian Porter was ere 88”.
We are going to be a laughing stock if this gets in other countries media outlets.
Other journalist where offered the story and would not take it.
Akon says:
Friday, March 5, 2021 at 11:27 pm
Nsays:
Friday, March 5, 2021 at 11:20 pm
Akon says:
Friday, March 5, 2021 at 10:59 pm
Douglas and Milkosays:
Friday, March 5, 2021 at 10:57 pm
I don’t care about him being a married man, but the power imbalance with a staffer is what bothers me.
Well…adultery is not merely about sex. It’s also about betrayal, deceit and the breach of promises and trust. We are talking here about the personal qualities of a serial adulterer and misogynist.
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I don’t judge other peoples’ relationships. People can be in ‘open marriages’ or have certain understandings.
You can be absolutely certain that in these instances, adultery was about betrayal, deceit and the breach of trust…serial breaches of integrity, honour and commitment, by a privileged son of the gentry. Philandering. Sexism. The gratification of the self.
Mavis:
Allegedly in the analogous case of a prominent (male) neurosurgeon and the scrub nurse for an operation, the answer is (apparently) nothing.
Why does anyone think this is funny?
What happens if the nurse makes a mistake due to the comment? (unlikely she would, of course)
Steelydan says:
Friday, March 5, 2021 at 11:33 pm
Some of the stuff she has stated Porter has done sounds like it came from movie scripts after a detailing elaborate rituals by Porter “misted up the bathroom mirror with his breath and wrote “Christian Porter was ere 88”.
We are going to be a laughing stock if this gets in other countries media outlets.
Other journalist where offered the story and would not take it.
This episode is hideous enough without the post-scripting by a sexist apologist for the reactionaries.
N says:
Friday, March 5, 2021 at 11:20 pm
You know, not all workplace relationships are some type of power game. Plenty of people meet their life partners at work, often as subordinates and bosses and have happy life long relationships.
This has backfired badly the LNP are going to look like the only adults in the room by sticking to the rule of law.
Bucephalus says:
Friday, March 5, 2021 at 11:38 pm
N says:
Friday, March 5, 2021 at 11:20 pm
You know, not all workplace relationships are some type of power game. Plenty of people meet their life partners at work, often as subordinates and bosses and have happy life long relationships.
You know, this has nothing whatsoever to do with the violence that is implicit in sexism; nothing whatsoever to do with the experiences related by Rosie Batty, Grace Tame, Brittany Higgins or those centred on Porter.
The violence has to stop.
[‘The doubts over whether the key witnesses can enter the country has prompted lawyers for media companies being sued by Mr Roberts-Smith to apply for the villagers to give evidence via video link if they can’t attend a Sydney courtroom this year.’]
https://www.smh.com.au/national/doubts-over-witnesses-entering-australia-for-ben-roberts-smith-defamation-trial-20210305-p57828.html
There could be some logistical issues but this application should be get up. And a record of interview with V1 should have been conducted by NSW Police via similar technology, with SA Police attending the interview to counter any allegation that she may’ve been coached, and something the SA Coroner may ask a few questions about.
Steelydan says:
Friday, March 5, 2021 at 11:41 pm
This has backfired badly the LNP are going to look like the only adults in the room by sticking to the rule of law.
The LNP appear to operate as a protection racket for sexual predators and their enablers. This is the import of the revelations we’ve seen….revelations that are emanating from within the LNP itself.
3z
When i read your kind of comment about “white men” which in itself is racist but not the point. But its laughable because rape happens in practically all cultures so targeting “white men” wont bring so called justice because nothing has stopped the police from investigating Porter’s alleged actions.
Bushfire Bill:
I don’t think anyone here is calling for such an inquiry, and in any event no inquiry that could conceivably be held on the current facts could reach any conclusion regarding criminality. Instead people have “called for” an inquiry regarding continued fitness to hold office (a la that into Justice Murhpy after his acquittal) and separately for a coronial inquiry into the factors contributing to the complainant’s death
Again and as with the COVIDSafe App episode, this seems mostly to be a quixotic misadventure, with the proponent tilting at imagined windmills and speaking mainly to himself.
N old buddy YOU guys made this hideous. I said days ago that everything this woman ever done will now have to dug up and a microscope gone over it and it has and will continue to happen. You and people like you hyped the hell out of this that is why we are here. And the original legitimate complaint about how a young Lib staffer was treated will now be overshadowed because people like you became rabid animals.
N – looking forward to the march in Perth too
https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/christian-porter-minterellison-law-firm-in-chaos-after-taking-on-attorneygeneral/news-story/746df3e4a7bd52a7a7c31c7a2af65b99
The head of the law firm representing Christian Porter is facing calls to resign after she emailed staff criticising the decision to take on the Attorney-General and apologising for any “pain” caused.
Annette Kimmitt, chief executive at MinterEllison, told employees in an email sent on Wednesday that defamation lawyer Peter Bartlett had not advised the firm before accepting Mr Porter as a client, the Australian Financial Review reported.
“The acceptance of this matter did not go through the firm’s due consultation or approval processes,” Ms Kimmitt told staff at Australia’s largest law firm. “Had it done so, we would have considered the matter through the lens of our Purposes and Values.”
The woman who accused Porter still believed they could have a long term future together. This goes from worse to just plain sadness.
Steelydan says:
Friday, March 5, 2021 at 11:50 pm
N old buddy YOU guys made this hideous. I said days ago that everything this woman ever done will now have to dug up and a microscope gone over it and it has and will continue to happen. You and people like you hyped the hell out of this that is why we are here. And the original legitimate complaint about how a young Lib staffer was treated will now be overshadowed because people like you became rabid animals.
I’ve done nothing at all but look upon this completely shameful episode while working all week and standing quietly at a considerable distance. Whaddya mean “YOU guys”? This is stereotyping in itself. The media may try to rescue Porter, but they will fail. They are robbing a grave. But they will not save Porter, who will be always known as the Minister for The Denial of Anal Rape of a Teenager.
Unlike you perhaps, I know Porter. Members of my family have worked alongside him in the law. Friends have known him since his schooldays. He’s not an unknown quantity to us. We know his game. We also know the sexism of the Liberal Party. I have been observing it for half a century.
The degradation of the innocent and the betrayed at the hands of the LNP obviously has no limit.
Zerlo
Annette must be new to law because lawyers are there to practice law not to make moral judgements about innocents or guilt and the courts expect lawyers will defend their client regardless of any moral judgement.
“ Steelydan says:
Friday, March 5, 2021 at 11:41 pm
This has backfired badly the LNP are going to look like the only adults in the room by sticking to the rule of law.”
That would be a pretty amazing outcome considering we still have the alleged Brittany Higgins rape and its coverup, three other complainants, and an unknown number of other harassment claims that could end up in court yet, all in addition to the Porter case. Federal Libs could be fighting sexual assault stories from now till the next election.
Steelydansays:
Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 12:03 am
Your sick puppy.
Where I live, today is junk mail day. Amongst all the advertising material and the free newspaper was an A4 sheet of bright yellow paper with black printing on both sides. It was sage advice from all Sandgroper’s dear friend, Mr Clive Palmer.
I presume it is similar to the criticised full page ads that reportedly was in The Australian.
The crux of his concern is that COVID-19 vaccines are being administered before the usual lengthy testing period for new vaccines.
I don’t get why he is doing this. His big beef previously was border closures. Surely if we all become immune from being vaccinated, the borders will be permanently opened. If he is spending all this advertising money out of pure love for us ordinary folks you would think that he would also spend some of his money on his workforce that missed out on payments due to them.
Kate,
Suspect a lot of women who have never marched before will be there.
These last weeks have hit a nerve and a lot of fury has been unleashed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/us/politics/stimulus-senate.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
The maneuver by Mr. Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, was unlikely to change any minds about the sweeping pandemic aid plan, which would deliver hundreds of billions of dollars for vaccine distribution, schools, jobless aid, direct payments to Americans and small business relief, and has broad bipartisan support among voters. Republicans signaled that they would be unified against it, and Democrats were ready to push it through on their own, using a special fast-track process to blow past the opposition.
Zerlo
Front page of the Australian, yeah I know a murdoch rag but there it is in black and white.
Steelydan
Had Porter come out last Saturday with a far better speech that showed empathy to the women he actually knew then maybe you would be right but this has not been a good few weeks for the Liberals because they now look shifty and unprofessional. All governments reach a point where they start to politically die and this week looks like that for the Morrison government.
Mexicanbeemersays:
Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 12:05 am
It wasn’t Annette who hired the law firm, it was some guy in the law firm who didn’t clear with the law firm itself.
Socrates
yes they do have baggage but the Christian Porter issue will make them look like they kept cool heads. Time to start reading.
Worth reading:
– https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/03/david-shor-2020-democrats-autopsy-hispanic-vote-midterms-trump-gop.html
So, obviously something disgusting and foul has reared its head as the SteamDriven one is out and about being a generally sad case…again. 🙁
3z:
Friday, March 5, 2021 at 11:33 pm
[‘Imagine the legal profession doing whatever it takes to protect one its own. Heaven forfend.’]
Yep, and it’s very bad timing that it occurred at the same time as what’s been going on in Canberra. When barristers are elevated to the bench, some have been tainted and some go on being tainted but it’s swept under the carpet. Can’t bring the judiciary into disrepute. I don’t know what the outcome was for the female clerk but I’d imagine by lodging a formal complaint, her career prospects as a clerk have been severely diminished. And what was her sin?
Zerlo
Yes but for someone in law its odd that Annette would suddenly put moral considerations ahead of the role of practicing law. That doesn’t mean she has to be happy about it and i know lawyers that think their client is guilty or is a prick but they will still put their professional obligations first.
“It was sage advice from all Sandgroper’s dear friend, Mr Clive Palmer.”
Why on earth would Palmer wast money on advertising in W.A. ?? Over here he is toxic. ALP will take every opportunity to link the Libs to Palmer as he is seriously noxious as far as the oldies here are concerned. 🙂
Mexicanbeemersays:
Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 12:20 am
I agree, maybe it has legs.
Kate says:
Friday, March 5, 2021 at 11:52 pm
N – looking forward to the march in Perth too
Very much so, Kate.
Tonight I’m looking after my two grand-daughters. Their parents are out with friends and I’m attending to them….ensuring they’re safe, protected and contented, as grand-parents do.
The idea that these small girls, whom I love beyond measure – or any others – will be raised into a culture where sexist norms and pressures will impinge on them…will hurt them…is profoundly upsetting for me.
I recall how keenly this affected me while my daughter was growing up too. I have seen others in my family – most particularly a niece – cruelly affected by sexist discrimination in their study and work. I know my own mother and her generation – my many aunts – encountered discrimination in their lives; and that my wife has also had to face this in moments of crisis during a very arduous struggle with ill-health.
I have absolutely had enough of this.
I know full well what violence consists of. I cannot bear to think that those I love will also have to experience violence…will have to meet the face of hate and cruelty.
Mexicanbeemer
So your saying the allegation against Porter now looks like it was made up by a very sick woman? You still believe so vehemently in an enquiry or should we leave the family alone?
A judicial inquiry would be used to guide a decision about whether Christian Porter should be fired from high office. Not whether he should go to prison. Not whether he should get a criminal record. It is extremely dishonest to claim that a judicial inquiry would be a “bargain basement” substitute for criminal justice.
People in jobs with far lower stakes than the one Christian Porter holds get fired for far less serious misconduct than what Christian Porter is alleged to have done. Why should Christian Porter be allowed to avoid a thorough inquiry and potential dismissal if the allegation is found to have merit?
Steelydansays:
Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 12:33 am
Stop using the excuse that she was sick as a escapegoat for little liberals to bread rapists.
Have some balls and man up.
Steelydan:
Actually if that means anything at all it increases rather than decreases the likelihood that the event occurred as alleged, or similarly. Many women (including the deceased person in this instance) have strong inclinations towards what one might call “emotional healing”, that is seeking to find some way to repair damage by finding some sort of positive path forward, even in cases where this is futile (as very likely in this case). If you care to look at her body of work (as opposed to regurgitation of shit sheets) you will find several other instances of this. Now as a clue, the South Australian equivalent of Hale (in WA) is St Peter’s College: go look.
You hurting there Imacca? After all you have banged on about Porter just to be so absolutely wrong. Ouch gotta hurt.
Steelydan
So your saying the allegation against Porter now looks like it was made up by a very sick woman? You still believe so vehemently in an enquiry or should we leave the family alone?
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This lady has maintain friendships with people that have gone on to become prominent in their fields and that tells me she was not some random weirdo because people as they move up in life will disassociate with random weirdos. Something has happened to this lady to cause her trauma but on the question of holding an inquiry i’m not convinced one way or another.
EGT, you’re dead wrong on that.
Many here want an inquiry into Porter, to trawl through the circumstances of the alleged rape case, in order to establish some kind of abusive connection between him and the woman that would result in his being declared unfit for office.
It been just about the only subject discussed tonight, all day today, and yesterday. In great detail, now right down to the books the alleged victim was reading. Have you been asleep?
What possible finding could any inquiry make that see him declared as “unfit”? Here are some suggestions:
Option 1.
He had a relationship that ended badly, but one short of rape, 33 years ago when he was a teenager?
Even if true it would hardly render him unfit for high office for life. People DO grow up and move away from their adolescent pasts. The idea that we were as pure and sainted when we were teenagers as we undoubtedly are now, is a crock, and you know it.
Option 2
The rape occurred as alleged, but is only proved on the balance of probabilities.
In other words, not worth the effort in writing it up, or the paper it’s printed on, with the police unlikely to prosecute to criminal standards.
Option 3
Nothing happened. No rape, no assault.
End of story. Waste of time, except that the Twitter lynch mob will still call for his head.
By all means conduct an enquiry into Porter’s morals and ethical standards, but not into whether he’s a criminal based on allegations and evidence that no police force would regard as sufficient.
Criminal prosecution is the ambit of the police and the courts. It does not arise out of an ad hoc commission of inquiry trying to leverage a budget criminal verdict out of a civil framework.
But first… we need some complaints. If the rape allegation is not eligible because it should be dealt with only via the criminal justice system, where are the other complaints?
Find them and I’d be the first to cheer them on. I can’t stand the bastard, but I respect his rights to due process: because his rights are our rights too, should we ever need them. You can’t just open an inquiry like a lemonade stand, in the hope someone turns up.
Any rumours of pollsters active in Pearce?
E. G. Theodore:
Friday, March 5, 2021 at 11:34 pm
[‘Allegedly in the analogous case of a prominent (male) neurosurgeon and the scrub nurse for an operation, the answer is (apparently) nothing.
Why does anyone think this is funny?’]
What happens if the nurse makes a mistake due to the comment? (unlikely she would, of course)’]
The scrub nurse would be blamed after accidentally severing the patient’s penis after hearing what the surgeon had suggested and the surgeon would be hailed as a hero for quickly stitching it back on. At the subsequent inquiry, the medical profession would do what it always does, close ranks. Poor scrub nurse ends up in a woman’s shelter seeking solace in the demon drink, a broken woman, all predicated on an improper advance. But a white knight solicitor, acting pro bono, hears of her plight and eventually rights a terrible wrong.
E.G better read everything that has come out. The Crikey piece worth a read.