The big issue

Issue polling, Tasmanian polling, election timing and preselection latest.

Note posts below this on latest developments in the Western Australian campaign and a new state poll from South Australia. In other polling news, we have the latest from a regular series on issue salience and a state poll from Tasmania that I don’t quite feel warrants a post of its own:

• The latest True Issues survey of issue salience from JWS Research records a slight moderation of the coronavirus-driven peculiarities of the mid-year results, in that 42% now rate health among the top three issues (down from 47% in June, but still well up on 24% in February) and 19% do so for environment (up three on last time, but still well down on 26% in February. However, a spike in concern about the economy (steady at 32%, compared with 18% in February) and employment and wages (up two to 30%, compared with 21% in February) has not abated. Nineteen per cent rate the federal government’s response to COVID-19 as very good and 37% as good, but state governments collectively fare better at 29% and 35%. Positive ratings are markedly lower in Victoria for both the federal and state governments. Plenty more detail here from the poll, which was conducted from February 18 to 22 from a sample of 1000.

• The latest quarterly EMRS poll of state voting intention in Tasmania is little changed on the previous result in November, with the incumbent Liberals steady on 52%, Labor up two to 27% and the Greens up one to 14%, with the only complication to a static picture being a four point drop for “others” to 7%. Peter Gutwein’s lead over Labor’s Rebecca White as preferred premier is unchanged at 52-27. The poll was conducted by phone from Monday, February 15 to Tuesday, February 23, from a sample of 1000. Much analysis as always from Kevin Bonham.

Other relevant developments:

• The conventional wisdom that the election would be held in the second half of this year, most likely around September, was disturbed by an Age/Herald report last week that the Prime Minister had “told colleagues to plan for two federal budgets before the Coalition government heads to the polls”.

• Sarah Elks of The Australian reports Warren Entsch, who has held the far north Queensland seat of Leichhardt for the Liberals and the Liberal National Party outside of a one-term time-out from 2007 to 2010, has gone back on his decision to retire. The 70-year-old announced this term would be his last on the night of the 2019 election, but now feels it “incumbent on me during these uncertain times to continue to support our community and its residents”.

• The Advertiser reports the Prime Minister has told South Australian factional leaders they are expected to preselect a woman to succeed Nicolle Flint in Boothby. This presumably reduces the chances of the position going to state Environment Minister David Speirs, who said last week he was “pondering” a run. The Advertiser suggests the front runners are Rachel Swift, a factional moderate and infectious diseases expert who currently has the unwinnable fourth position on the Senate ticket, and Leah Blyth, a conservative and head of student services at Adelaide University. Another woman mentioned as a possibility by Tom Richardson of InDaily was Marion Themeliotis, Onkaparinga councillor and staffer to state Davenport MP Steve Murray.

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.

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  1. Barney in Tanjung Bunga @ #2048 Thursday, March 11th, 2021 – 2:49 pm

    That sums you up perfectly.

    A policy would provide no change to your opinion as you would then try to cast doubt on the will or desire to implement it, or just say it’s not good enough.

    Quite the contrary. A policy that looks credible and practical is precisely what I am after. And I am sure it would also satisfy most other electors. You know, the 70% or 80% or so (depending on which poll you believe) that want to see action on this issue.

    But you don’t want that, do you?

    Why not?

  3. citizen

    May need to change those $24 million vaccine adverts a bit – perhaps a new slogan “Good things come to those who wait”.

    Or borrow..

    Meanwhile December 2021

  4. Player One @ #2051 Thursday, March 11th, 2021 – 11:57 am

    Barney in Tanjung Bunga @ #2048 Thursday, March 11th, 2021 – 2:49 pm

    That sums you up perfectly.

    A policy would provide no change to your opinion as you would then try to cast doubt on the will or desire to implement it, or just say it’s not good enough.

    Quite the contrary. A policy that looks credible and practical is precisely what I am after. And I am sure it would also satisfy most other electors. You know, the 70% or 80% or so (depending on which poll you believe) that want to see action on this issue.

    But you don’t want that, do you?

    Why not?

    Ah!! That 70 – 80%, many of whom voted for the Government at the last election despite the Labor having a policy.

    They were so engaged with the debate that they failed to see the bullshit in the Coalitions arguments, but next time it will be different.

    😆 😆 😆

  6. OC, are you still counting on Wednesday next for the
    Porter matter to be swept under the carpet? Morrison has said he (Porter) is returning to his portfolios, not on the basis that if he didn’t return, his government would be in minority, but for the compelling reason (in his mind at least) that it would set a “shocking” precedent if a minister were to be sacked due to nothing more than tattle.

  8. Barney in Tanjung Bunga @ #2054 Thursday, March 11th, 2021 – 3:07 pm

    Ah!! That 70 – 80%, many of whom voted for the Government at the last election despite the Labor having a policy.

    They were so engaged with the debate that they failed to see the bullshit in the Coalitions arguments, but next time it will be different.

    Or perhaps those are the ones that saw the bullshit in Labor’s arguments last time around. It wasn’t that hard, unless you are a Labor “rusted on” well versed in the necessary doublethink. The COALition pointed it out often enough, as they will certainly do again next time around.

    So, back to the question. Is it just that you don’t want Labor to have a policy on this issue? Or is it that you don’t want any action at all?

  11. The New England transmission line is one example. Stop the fluffing with fuzzy PPPs and build it.

    They are!

    I heard the governments and Arena were funding initial works and then looking for private input. Although, it has been ages I have dealt with the transmission company. No idea what parts are public and private these days. what is 99year lease. Who profits from what investment. Makes skimming articles fraught with errors.

  12. They were so engaged with the debate that they failed to see the bullshit in the Coalitions arguments, but next time it will be different.

    Policy smolicy. Brand is still important and many find the ALP brand smells and the Liberal brand authoritative no matter the evidence to the contrary. The LNP understand this. It is why I get annoyed when Fran Kelly introduces a Liberal MP like he is some independent expert.

  13. Will BW’s next post:

    1. condemn Xi
    2. condemn Morrison
    3. praise Morrison for condemning Xi

    All we need are posts that praise Xi for condemning Morrison and the circle will be complete. 🙂

  15. Player One @ #2058 Thursday, March 11th, 2021 – 12:40 pm

    Barney in Tanjung Bunga @ #2054 Thursday, March 11th, 2021 – 3:07 pm

    Ah!! That 70 – 80%, many of whom voted for the Government at the last election despite the Labor having a policy.

    They were so engaged with the debate that they failed to see the bullshit in the Coalitions arguments, but next time it will be different.

    Or perhaps those are the ones that saw the bullshit in Labor’s arguments last time around. It wasn’t that hard, unless you are a Labor “rusted on” well versed in the necessary doublethink. The COALition pointed it out often enough, as they will certainly do again next time around.

    So, back to the question. Is it just that you don’t want Labor to have a policy on this issue? Or is it that you don’t want any action at all?

    Ah, so the Labor policy wasn’t good enough for you?

  18. E. G. Theodore @ #1816 Wednesday, March 10th, 2021 – 11:05 pm

    Itza:

    EGT – if by continous blood pressure monitoring you mean exactly that, then an (invasive) intra-arterial cannula* is needed along with transducers and all the bells and whistles it connects to. Non-invasive blood pressure monitoring relies on intermittent pressure reading of what pressure is needed to occlude blood flow. This is intermittent – as often as every few minutes – and can be set to continuously intermittent, but is still intermittent in the continuous scheme of things.

    I think the monitoring was due to the block for reasons mentioned by Rhwombat.

    It was put in by the really nice oncology anesthesia fellow. She had previously retrieved me from the admissions department who had somehow lost track, despite there being five surgeons waiting to knife me and perhaps wondering if I’d done a runner.

    I have this strange memory of the block being put in, namely that it was complicated and involved some sort of design exercise, the process went on for some time and her whole role seemed to relate to it, whilst the consultant anaesthetist looked after other stuff . Is that real?

    Block gave out after about 36 hours in ICU and I started hitting the button which I hadn’t previously touched. Someone did some testing involving an ice pack and they decided they could put it back, and did. No more button pressing. My question is why can’t they just keep the block going?

    As for stand-off sensing of BP by high speed video, it would be using a technique similar to that pioneered by Bill Freeman (@MIT) here:
    – https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/19dt5a/mit_algorithm_shows_blood_flow_in_any_video_eg/

    Not only “see” the pulse as in that video, but actually the flow of blood in the major vessels (down to some depth). This should allow reconstruction of the BP at essentially any point within the circulatory system, a much richer set of data than from in line BP monitoring – updated every 10 milliseconds or so. Don’t know enough about saturation to know if it can be reconstructed from video – Dandy Murray can tell us about Green’s and Stokes’s theorems perhaps?

    EGT – there’s not much I can contribute here. I can’t relate it to drwombat’s post – don’t think I’ve seen it.

    I’m not sure what an oncology anaesthesia fellow is, but the best I can guess is that it was an anaesthesia registrar, a trainee anaesthetist, some four plus years post graduate. As to the block, if I remember correctly that you had a pelvic exenteration, then I suspect (guessing again) it was an epidural with a catheter left in the epidural space (common practice) and local anaesthesia with or without some other adjuncts continuously infused. Why ‘it stopped’ at 36 hrs is again a guess, but that they restarted it suggest the catheter was still in place, and they had ceased the infusion to test sensation in your lower parts (ice), were reassured, and restarted the infusion. All surmise.

    That blood flow signal exaggerator is interesting. It’s worth noting a few things, and pardon if I’m saying the bleeding (sic) obvious, but there’s a lot of issues with extrapolations. Certainly flow is the critical thing, but you can’t exactly determine pressure from it, without knowing what the resistance to flow is. Not that you need to know pressure if you accurately know flow, but actually knowing flow looks oversimplified in the short video. Knowing skin flow for example means little. The skin vessels can be shut down (cold, disease etc) with virtually now flow, to the point of tissue death (frost bite say) but the blood pressure is fine where it counts viz to the vital organs – heart, brain, kidney.

    Just saying, as quickly as I can, the considerations are 1) the relationship between pressure, flow, resistance and 2) the extremely wide range of variations in tissue resistance for any given pressure.

    It is not uncommon the try to decrease flow in the operative area (to decrease blood loss, and facilitate good surgical conditions) while maintaining flow where it is essential. The juggling of pressure and resistance is one of the things anaesthetists do, using everything from posture to pharmacology, and applied physiology.

    I think I’m saying that knowing accurately skin blood flow means bugger all in the scheme of major surgery things, and relating skin blood flow to the pressure driving flow in relevant organs a step too far, so far, as I understand it.

    If I’m not understanding or addressing your points I apologise.

    (Sorry that’s rushed – there’s a bloke about to arrive to discuss a housing for a new generator. Finally)

  20. ‘rhwombat says:
    Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 3:52 pm

    He said, Xi said?’

    haha. good one. The answer in China is ‘Xi said’. If you want any other answer do not pass go, go straight to jail.

    I was wondering whether there are material differences between the experiences of Jews in the early years of Hitler’s Germany (pre WW2) and the current Uigher experience.

    It rather seems as if the early experience is worse for the Uighers than the early experience was for the Jews. A large number of german Hews were able to escape Germany, for example. This does not seem to be an option for the Uighers. In some of the other genocidal elements, millions in concentrations camps, splitting families, forced labour, forced dispossession, forced ethnic cleansing and institutionalized rape China is so far well outperforming early Hitlerian Germany.

    The Uighers are only a work in progress but the trajectory does not look promising.

  21. Since Inciticus has reappeared on the WA election thread I decided to revisit the question of the great Chilla Porter-the-rorter. I wanted to shed some light on the guiding ethics and morals of the lame duck AG, Chilla’s privileged offspring.

    So I went to the http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au site to check out the Hansard on the Chilla Porter shenanigans relating to the outrageous pocketing of charity funds. Hansard appears to have been “curated” to expunge said records. These records were chapter and verse details provided by Jim McGinty AM former ALP leader. I guess those who were very busy last week curating Wikipedia and Hale School sites were also doing a job on the government website. This is very disturbing.

  22. https://www.theage.com.au/national/republicans-flag-new-model-in-renewed-push-to-sever-royal-ties-20210310-p579jh.html

    I suspect the Australian, British, Canadian and New Zealand Republicans are more likely to have bad luck out of the current mess the Royal family is in, rather than good luck. This is because I get the impression that the majority of the problems are coming from Charles and/or Camilla and they have long been good weapons for Republican movements (a large part of the when the Queen dies strategy of the Australian Republicans is probably Charles`s comparative unpopularity) and that this is likely to become public knowledge and has a reasonable chance of causing Charles to be removed from the line of succession (his history of controversial public opinions (on architecture, homeopathy, religion, etc) has long made people nervous about him being King). If they were removing Charles from the line of succession, they would likely remove Andrew as well and with both gone the monarchy is much more popular.

  24. EGT (and apologies to others for whom this is of no relevance), me again.

    Just quickly, that block, if it was an epidural, or spinal (similar but very different !) is a good illustration. The resistance of the smaller blood vessels in the lower body drops because they dilate because of the interruption in nerve supply from the block (it gets all nerve modalities to a varying degree, agent depending), so their blood flow increases, and the local and general blood pressure drops. So, general systemic blood pressure monitoring is critical (continuous, invasive) to maintain (pharmacologically or mechanically eg compression suit trousers, airforce style) ,a blood pressure of an adequacy for vital organ perfusion. A tragic example of things going wrong which I can note as it got wide public press at the time was a patient having a shoulder replacement who woke up ‘brain dead’, and stayed dead. The problem was inadequate cerebral perfusion, and the reasons don’t need to be detailed here. But knowing the skin blood flow would have meant zip.

  25. Barney in Tanjung Bunga @ #2065 Thursday, March 11th, 2021 – 3:50 pm

    Ah, so the Labor policy wasn’t good enough for you?

    Which one? The one they spoke out of the left side of their mouth, or the one out of the right side? The pro-coal mining one? Or the pro-renewables one? They one they tried to run in Queensland, or the one they tried to run in Melbourne?

    BTW – I have not missed (and I expect others have not) that you have still not answered the question, but insist instead on these rather silly deflections.

    What a surprise. Not.

  26. https://t.co/3kdwHKI7qc?amp=1

    This is an amazing piece by Wendy Bacon. Towards the end of a longish article she examines a case with Christian Porter the DPP lawyer involved. Ms Bacon is writing a part two in which she will more closely examine Porter’s tenure at the Perth DPP.

    “The 23-year-old man had pleaded not guilty to three counts of indecent assault and one count of sexual penetration and was due to appear in the District Court next month. But because his student visa expired, the Director of Public Prosecutions needed to seek a ‘criminal justice stay visa’ which would have meant that his costs of staying in Australia would need to be covered.

    The DPP lawyer was Christian Porter. He told that paper that a number of matters were considered including the prospects of conviction, seriousness of the case and the importance to the alleged victim. “In these circumstances the decision was made not to apply,” he said. “We advised her of the decision and she told our office and she told me that she was relieved with it.”

    The idea that the Mary was relieved seems to have been a case of miscommunication. Mary said she was “completely terrified” when the man attacked her. “I absolutely froze, I was scared for my life,” she said.

    She described how she has struggled to get her life back on track since, attempting suicide six months after the incident, and is undergoing counselling. “It’s destroyed me, so I want something done. I don’t want him to get off,” she said. “I want some form of justice. By him just being deported and going home, he’s not having to face up to his actions at all.”

  27. Try to remove Chuckie from the line of succession and you would have a constitutional crisis on your hands.
    Camilla would never stand for it.

  28. ‘I didn’t see any woke supremacists storming the blanking Capitol!’: CNN’s Don Lemon nails racist Republicans

    CNN host Don Lemon typically delivers a calm rebuke of racism, but this week they pushed him too far.

    After a confluence of racism this week, Lemon unleashed a furry of fact-checks and accountability for Republican officials who took their words a little too far.

    In one case, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), the only Black Republican in the U.S. Senate, said that “woke-supremacy” was just as bad as “white supremacy.”

    “Do you want to explain who these woke supremacists are?” Lemon asked. “Because I looked really carefully and I didn’t — hang on before we go with the video, I haven’t seen any woke supremacists. I never saw — I’ve never seen a woke supremacist lynching anybody. Never saw a woke supremacist denying anybody access to housing or a job or education or voting rights. Never seen any woke supremacists enslaving anybody. Never saw any woke supremacists trying to keep people from marrying amongst different races. Come on, Tim Scott! I didn’t see any woke supremacists storming the blanking Capitol. Where are the woke supremacists attacking Capitol Police? Where are the woke supremacists hunting people in the halls of the Capitol and beating them with blue lives matter signs with white supremacist insignia on their shirts? Guess who I saw. Guess who police officers were beaten by? Guess who wanted to hang the vice president? White supremacists, Tim Scott! What are you doing! The only Black Republican with a white supremacist carrying the confederate battle flag in the nation’s Capitol, Tim Scott. Tim! Tim, I have to — I know you don’t want me to yell, but this is — this is ridiculous. You are gaslighting people. You are giving people misinformation. What are you doing, brother? What are you doing? What are you doing? You’re not helping.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/woke-supremacists-racism-don-lemon/

  30. Kate says:
    Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 4:13 pm

    ‘…a case of miscommunication.’

    Mr Porter seems to have been unlucky when it comes to cases of miscommunication.

  31. [‘Two Melbourne academics — including Julian Webb from Melbourne Law School — are now in the process of lodging a complaint against Mr Porter.

    “The proposal is that we put a request in to the legal practice board of WA to consider whether Christian Porter should be considered as a fit and proper person to be a member of the legal profession,” Mr Webb told 7.30.

    “A number of us involved in this would have liked to have seen further inquiries of and by the Solicitor-General, as has been suggested.

    “But if that is not the move forward, then this seems to us to be one of the few remaining options to ensure accountability, and to ensure that the Federal Attorney-General — the Commonwealth’s most senior officer — is held to the same standards of accountability as any other lawyer in Australia.

    “That is a job for the legal practice boards.”‘]

    Lawyers generally are expected to act in a proper and dignified manner, both publicly and privately; they should be above reproach. Of course, a number of them
    don’t and they’re sometimes referred to a tribunal of fact for a determination of whether their practicing certificate should be suspended, withdrawn, or whatever other punishment is considered appropriate. But when it comes to the most senior lawyer in the land, his/her conduct is expected to be absolutely squeaky clean. Apart from the rape allegation against Porter, his past behaviour has at best been inappropriate. This is the guy who has a great deal to say on the appointment of federal and High Court judges, plus myriad other important functions. It would be surprising indeed if Porter enjoys the confidence of the legal profession in toto.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-11/lawyers-christian-porter-subjected-to-codes-of-conduct/13235176

  32. More from Wendy’s piece.

    “In April 2005, The West Australian newspaper reported on a rape victim who was very upset that the man who allegedly raped her had been allowed to leave the country, rather than go to trial.

    Mary, a social work student who was 19 when she was attacked in her home at Rockingham. She told The West Australian that she was “devastated by the decision. “I don’t know how they can put a price on what he’s done,” she said. “For a long time I had to deal with the guilt of it, thinking I had brought it on myself. When the DPP won’t go after him it makes me wonder and brings it all back to me.”

  33. Kate @ #2047 Thursday, March 11th, 2021 – 4:13 pm

    https://t.co/3kdwHKI7qc?amp=1

    This is an amazing piece by Wendy Bacon. Towards the end of a longish article she examines a case with Christian Porter the DPP lawyer involved. Ms Bacon is writing a part two in which she will more closely examine Porter’s tenure at the Perth DPP.

    “The 23-year-old man had pleaded not guilty to three counts of indecent assault and one count of sexual penetration and was due to appear in the District Court next month. But because his student visa expired, the Director of Public Prosecutions needed to seek a ‘criminal justice stay visa’ which would have meant that his costs of staying in Australia would need to be covered.

    The DPP lawyer was Christian Porter. He told that paper that a number of matters were considered including the prospects of conviction, seriousness of the case and the importance to the alleged victim. “In these circumstances the decision was made not to apply,” he said. “We advised her of the decision and she told our office and she told me that she was relieved with it.”

    The idea that the Mary was relieved seems to have been a case of miscommunication. Mary said she was “completely terrified” when the man attacked her. “I absolutely froze, I was scared for my life,” she said.

    She described how she has struggled to get her life back on track since, attempting suicide six months after the incident, and is undergoing counselling. “It’s destroyed me, so I want something done. I don’t want him to get off,” she said. “I want some form of justice. By him just being deported and going home, he’s not having to face up to his actions at all.”

    And the NSW Coalition government, the Murdoch tabloids and S.A.D. all wanted NSW Labor Opposition Leader, Jodi Mackay, to resign because she wrote a pro forma cover letter for a constituent who was accused of being a paedophile.

    Double Standards abound with this mob in power federally, as well as wherever they are in power in the States.

  34. Mavis

    I assume that the referral would have to include some specifics underpinning the reasons why.

    In this case, what would they be?

  37. Poliphili
    Yes indeed a nice little charitable earner.
    .
    FUND-RAISING COSTS SWALLOW SWEET CHARITY
    Feb 6, 1996 – 11.00am
    CHILLA Porter, the Federal Liberal Party’s campaign manager in Western Australia, is in the limelight for the second time in recent days, this time over a reported $150,000 in costs incurred in a fund-raising campaign by his fund-raising firm, Controlled Marketing.

    Controlled Marketing raises money for several WA charity foundations.

    Last week it was revealed that of the $1.08 million raised in the 1993-94 financial year, Porter’s firm incurred $997,000 in fund-raising costs and commissions while the charity received $38,000.

    Now the Perth Sunday Times reports the firm recently collected more than $170,000 for the Motor Neurone Disease Association of Western Australia, of which $20,000 went to the charity.

    The association secretary, Mrs Marie Macdonald, is made of philosophical stuff.

    She is quoted as saying, “Anyone would be disturbed at the small percentage which comes through to us and we would obviously prefer to get a larger amount.

    “But it is impossible to access large sums of money without incurring costs,” she added.
    https://www.afr.com/politics/rear-window-19960206-k6rf6

  38. So, it is kind of “official”….The 4 million jags by the end of March was nothing more than advertising man puffery from Morrison…..That such a ‘promise’ was made in the first place – and is likely prove to be nowhere near the mark is one thing (like, no surprise) but the fact that the October date for completion is also another piece of puffery as none of the mouth pieces for the government can say if this is for one, both or some jags…….What a mess – being passed off, of course, as kind of minor glitches…
    Now if this was Labor…..we would not hear the end of it………………………………….

  40. P1 you have a real problem
    Howard’s height 1.76m
    Hawk’s height 1.73
    Albo’s height 1.78
    Morrison is just a fraction higher at 1.82.

    it sounds like the sort of shit you pick up on a right wing site.

  41. P1

    Labor’s policy at the last Federal election was that Adani stood or fell on its own financial merits. It was the coalition and the Greens who turned this policy into neither for nor against.

    Also, there is a party that has one-to-one mapping with your climate policy, but rather than support this party you instead say you support Labour, but that Labor will not win because it does not have the identical environment and energy policy to SA.

    I would say you are as much a Labor supporter as former Labor MP Kelvin Thompson.

    Edit: Which is why I think that you are not posting honestly about your point of view.

    You are absolutely wrong (out of date by about 10 years) about current baseload power requirements, but rather than moving on as technology moves on, you just try and change the definition of baseload power to suit your preferred mix of generation sources.

  43. So Hunt, Porter and Reynolds are in witness protection. Morrison is holding a rolling pin one day and the controls of an Airbus the next.

    They feed a billion plus into the airline industry. The vaccine program is being run with the military precision that gave us Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

    And Xi is busy trying to wreck Australia’s economy a chunk at a time.

  44. So, should Australia withdraw from ANZUS, kick the US out of Darwin and the spy bases, declare armed neutrality as our preferred foreign policy, provide open slather to Chinese investment in Australia, and promise never to say bad things about Xi again?

  45. Kate,

    More from Wendy’s piece.

    “In April 2005, The West Australian newspaper reported on a rape victim who was very upset that the man who allegedly raped her had been allowed to leave the country, rather than go to trial.

    Mary, a social work student who was 19 when she was attacked in her home at Rockingham. She told The West Australian that she was “devastated by the decision. “I don’t know how they can put a price on what he’s done,” she said. “For a long time I had to deal with the guilt of it, thinking I had brought it on myself. When the DPP won’t go after him it makes me wonder and brings it all back to me.”

    I am very concerned that Brittany Higgins’ case seems to have been all but forgotten.

    There are rumours that the alleged perpetrator has left the country. In addition to Higgins’ case there are 4 other credible sexual assault allegation which I hope will all be prosecuted.

    Godwin Gretch being spirited away after the Ute-gate fiasco, to be never be heard about again until he died, does not give me faith in the equality of all before Australian law.

  46. Dutton shows that he is all class.

    New Zealand should automatically review all citizens who are jailed in Australia.

    It should automatically relieve such prisoners of New Zealand citizenship but with one proviso: there is an opt-in citizenship policy which can be exercised at any time by prisoners when they come out of jail.

    That would leave Australia with no way of forcing such people into New Zealand against their will.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-11/tensions-new-zealand-australia-criminal-deportation-peter-dutton/13238244

  47. Ah the olden intertubes days. The Chilla Porter artice linked earlier was from 1996.On the same page, back when a new web page was ‘news’ , check out the ‘full length’ description of a web site.
    .
    PRACTICE AT THE NET

    THE Sri Lankan Cricket News launched a World Wide Web page on the Internet on Friday.

    The page is complete with a brief history of the Sri Lankan cricket team and an exhaustive set of match statistics. It also contains a schedule of soon-to-be-played fixtures against other countries, carefully constructed and presented

  48. As with the legal profession, a requisite level of behaviour is also expected in the ADF, beyond that of civilians. Thus where a member of the forces is convicted of an offence or crime, he/she not only cop a punishment from a magistrate or judge, they face double jeopardy in the form of an administrative consequence, which can range from an admonishment to a dishonourable discharge, the tenets of procedural fairness applying.

  49. Capital cities have been ignored even though they are popular destinations.

    Acting Premier James Merlino has lashed out at the federal government’s plan to subsidise 800,000 half-price flights to 13 airports across Australia, arguing the $1.2 billion tourism package short-changed Victoria.

    Mr Merlino revealed his government will lobby federal Tourism Minister Dan Tehan to expand the flight discounts to Melbourne Airport so that the city and eastern parts of Victoria such as Gippsland, Albury and the High Country would benefit from the program.

    https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/it-is-not-fair-merlino-not-happy-with-1-2b-half-price-flight-scheme-20210311-p579sw.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1615440222

  50. boerwar
    The Liberals sold the port of Darwin to China.
    What I want to know, when the federal Liberals use the agreement signed by Victoria with Chine as the fig leaf for their latest stuffup, is the Federal government going to buy back the port of Darwin.

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