Resolve Strategic: Coalition 38, Labor 33, Greens 12

An extensive look at the debut entry for what promises to be a monthly federal polling series from the Age/Herald.

The Age/Herald have published their first poll of federal voting intention since the 2019 election, dispensing with the services of Ipsos (who happened to be the least wrong pollster at the election) and enlisting Resolve Strategic, which is run by Jim Reed, who once worked for Coalition pollsters Crosby Textor. As national political editor Tory Maguire explains, the polling failure of the last election has inspired the pollster and its publisher to cast around for a fresh approach, the salient feature of which is not telling us straight what the two-party preferred is.

We do get primary votes though, and they are quite a bit different from Newspoll’s, with the Coalition on 38% rather than 40% and Labor on 33% rather than 38%. This means higher scores for minor parties, which happens to replicate a peculiarity of Ipsos. The Greens are on 12% compared with Newspoll’s 11%, but most striking is a 6% reading for One Nation compared with 2% from Newspoll. The latter result is, hopefully, a teething problem: it approximates the party’s 5.4% Senate vote in 2019, but most assuredly would not be matched in the House of Representatives since the party contests few seats there. It also seems highly unlikely that One Nation would be bearing up so well given its recent performance at state elections, with its share of the upper house vote in Western Australia having crashed from 8.2% to 1.5%.

Applying preference flows from 2019, this lands pretty much bang on 50-50 nationally, with the Coalition leading 53.4-46.6 in New South Wales (a 1.6% swing to the Coalition) and 54.3-45.7 in Queensland (a 4.1% swing to Labor), but trailing 53.8-46.2 in Victoria (a 0.7% swing to Labor) and 52.4-47.6 in Western Australia (an 8.0% swing to Labor). The New South Wales result is more favourable for the Coalition than the recent quarterly breakdown in Newspoll, which had it at 50-50, but the results for the other three states are about the same. Distinctions by gender are slight in the case of voting intention, except that the Greens are three points higher among women and One Nation are two points lower, and confounding in the case of personal ratings: Scott Morrison’s net approval is four points stronger among women than men, while Anthony Albanese’s is five points weaker.

Personal ratings are measured on a four-point scale of very good, good, poor and very poor, which is similar to Essential Research but different from Newspoll’s straightforward satisfied and unsatisfied responses. Morrison registers a combined good rating of 50% and a poor rating of 38%, a net rating of plus 12% that compares with plus 17% from a recent Essential poll and plus 15% from a not-so-recent Newspoll. Anthony Albanese scores 35% good and 41% poor, for a minus 6% rating that compares with plus 5% from Essential and plus 2% from Newspoll. Morrison is credited with a 47-25 lead as preferred prime minister, compared with 47-28 in Essential and 52-32 in Newspoll.

The poll wins points for transparency, at least by Australian standards, in providing breakdowns by state (or at least, the four biggest states), gender and age cohort. If I’m reading the small print correctly, the New South Wales and Victoria breakdowns will be published as a two-month rolling average, combining the current and previous poll. The idea seems to be that these states will have results with sample sizes robust enough to allow the Age/Herald to analyse them with a straight face: readers who choose to probe deeper into the breakdowns will be advised to exercise their own caution. (UPDATE: It seems I’ve read this wrong, and that there will actually be state voting intention results published every two months, based on the combination of two monthly polling samples). However, the results as published still leave a fair bit missing, as the poll is also weighted for education and income (and the survey includes a question on religion), for which breakdowns are not provided. There is also the rather glaring absence of any detail on field work dates: we are told only that the survey was conducted “in April”.

One of two accompanying reports by David Crowe relates the following detail absent from the published numbers:

Support for the Coalition in primary vote terms has fallen since the last election among voters who described themselves as Christian, dropping from 56 to 49 per cent. While support for Labor among this group rose from 28 to 29 per cent, the change was within the margin of error. In a more significant shift, the same cohort increased its support for independents and minor parties from 15 to 22 per cent. The Coalition has lost ground among voters across the board since the last election, with its primary vote slipping from 41 to 38 per cent, but the shift was strongest among immigrants and people from “non-Anglo-Saxon” backgrounds. Immigrants have reduced their support for the Coalition from 48 to 40 per cent since the election, while increasing their primary vote for Labor from 30 to 35 per cent. Those from “non-Anglo” backgrounds reduced their support for the Coalition from 44 to 35 per cent, while increasing their support for Labor from 31 to 36 per cent.

The other tells us the following:

The swing against the Coalition was spread evenly across most demographic groups but was more pronounced among those on higher incomes, with support falling from 49 to 43 per cent among those earning more than $100,000 a year. Labor gained support from the same workers, with its primary vote rising from 29 to 33 per cent.

There are further attitudinal results available in a nicely laid out results display page, including the finding that 44% expect the Coalition to win the next election compared with 28% for Labor. The display includes, under “comments”, sampling of qualitative responses that aim for an impressionistic view of why the ratings for each question are what they are. The poll was conducted by phone and online from a sample of 2000, compared with the Newspoll norm of around 1500. However, the phone sample of 400 appears to be a one-off of this “baseline survey”: it seems that in future the series will be a monthly online poll from a sample of 1600.

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. That’s from February 2020.

    Yes, you’re right. I don’t know why Twitter has sent me a notification “have you missed…” something from over a year ago.

    Moral: check the date.

  2. steve davis @ #2 Tuesday, April 20th, 2021 – 5:34 pm

    The Prime Minister will commit to slashing emissions by 78% by 2035 compared with 1990 levels, according to the Financial Times.

    It would mark a significant step forward on the current UK commitment to cut emissions by 68% by 2030 – already one of the most ambitious plans among developed nations.

    Would it really?

    If it applies consecutively to the “68% by 2030” target, then fair enough.

    On the other hand, if the new target replaces “68% by 2030” then it’s adding 5 years to the deadline and only 10% to the target emissions reduction. If the new target implies that the 2030 reduction will be something significantly below 68%, then on the balance it’s probably a step backwards.

  5. Cannabis use has been correlated with an increased risk of developing testicular germ cell tumours, e.g.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4642772/
    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2755855

    But more concerning I imagine would be the potential increase in road fatalities due to driving while stoned, and the associated impaired judgement when determining one’s own fitness to drive.

    I do think cannabis should be decriminalised, though. I’d rather see alcohol much more heavily regulated than it is, and its advertising banned.

  6. Newbie

    There is only one potentially good argument for criminalising cannabis use and that’s the argument that criminalising it reduces use and therefore reduces harm.

    Despite so many people believing that this is so, I’ve not seen one credible piece of evidence that criminalising cannabis reduces its use to a worthwhile extent. It is simply too widely available and it is too socially acceptable.

    The evidence of criminalisation causing harm is on the other hand abundant. The cost and trauma, the lives wrecked. There’s no good excuse for that.

    Plus, criminalisation gets in the way of treating cannabis usage as a public health issue. I don’t see widespread advertising discouraging its use, like we do with tobacco and its pretty clear why.

    On the issue of harm, yes it causes harm. As I pointed out the other day (and C@t jumped down my throat) I had a friend once who at age 21 was a sensible, happy, employed, loving person (he had a good girlfriend). I met him in his mid 20s. A cannabis and alcohol user. Moody, subject to self harm (including some reckless driving) and worse, subject to fits of paranoia. As I said, he tried to strangle me. One cannot say that his mental health issues were caused by cannabis use. One can say though that his life went downhill after he started using it.

    I’ll also accept the arguments that smoking is in itself harmful and that some people are genetic predisposed to mental illness as the result of drug use. The problem is that criminalisation doesn’t work and it certainly didn’t help my friend.

    Its not as harmful in general as alcohol and its not as harmful as tobacco smoking (but neither is it terribly good for you either). I’m firmly in the camp of decriminalisation but then going hard on educating and helping people. And if it boils down to doing genetic testing then that’s fine with me too. I’d rather see people not smoke anything. But criminalisation is a curse. Lets grow up as a society.

  8. https://theconversation.com/3-doses-then-1-each-year-why-pfizer-not-astrazeneca-is-the-best-bet-for-the-long-haul-159137

    The advantage of mRNA vaccines like Pfizer’s is they’re much easier to update than the “viral vector” vaccines like AstraZeneca’s. We should still use AstraZeneca now for over-50s, but our best long-term strategy is to use mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, and therefore to develop the capacity to manufacture them here in Australia.

    As I was saying….

  12. I second that…thanks, Cud.
    I make a point of wearing my mask because of those handdriers but then realise that these fine droplets would move beyond and into shopping centres. Remember reading an article where a higher faecal count of food in nearby shops was noted.
    Gladys’s stubborn refusal to wear a mask shows their determination to ignore the science and downplay the dangers.
    Have booked my trip to NZ in July and look forward to having a couple of weeks of secure common sense leadership, away from that feeling of being a passenger with a showy ‘no-hands ‘ driver !!

  18. “C@tmommasays:
    Wednesday, April 21, 2021@6:48 am

    Why is it always the female who is the aggressor with this resource!?!”

    Could it be because people in this government think that is reason men in government have sex with women ( especially could one minister be thinking like that) not because they raped or tool advantage of women when women were drink.?

  20. Good morning Dawn Patrollers. George Floyd case jury has just this moment found the policeman guilty on all counts.

    David Crowe writes that threats to health and the economy are dominating Australian concerns about federal leadership in a new poll that shows stronger support for the Coalition over Labor on the key test of managing the pandemic.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/voters-back-coalition-to-manage-the-pandemic-but-labor-on-healthcare-20210420-p57kva.html
    Shaun Carney says Albanese’s small-target approach is missing the mark.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/albanese-s-small-target-approach-is-missing-the-mark-20210420-p57kpo.html
    As Josh Frydenberg prepares next month’s federal budget, one of the world’s most important economic institutions has offered some striking advice on what his priority should be. It’s fairness, writes Matt Wade.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/the-imf-has-offered-some-striking-advice-just-in-time-for-josh-frydenberg-s-budget-20210420-p57kta.html
    Australia’s ambition on climate change is held back by a toxic mix of rightwing politics, media and vested interests, say Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/21/australias-ambition-on-climate-change-is-held-back-by-a-toxic-mix-of-rightwing-politics-media-and-vested-interests
    The Prime Minister’s tone has been off-key for a range of audiences beyond inner-city cafes. He needs to read the national room better, says Jennifer Hewett.
    https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/morrison-picks-a-climate-change-fight-he-didn-t-need-to-have-20210420-p57ks6
    Cait Kelly tells us that farmers who have struggled through drought and floods have slammed Prime Minister Scott Morrison for pitting them against “inner-city lefties” and suggesting they don’t care about climate change. They have described Morrison’s comment as “very juvenile”.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2021/04/20/scott-morrison-climate-farmers/
    The Biden administration is ready to challenge countries whose inaction on the climate crisis is setting the world back, including those that fail to cut their reliance on coal, the top American diplomat has warned.
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/20/secretary-of-state-antony-blinken-countries-investing-new-coal-will-hear-from-us-climate-action
    Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese are targeting the blue collar and other workers who need to be assured that tackling climate change will be good for them as well as the planet, writes Phil Coorey.
    https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/two-leaders-two-speeches-same-target-audience-20210420-p57kop
    As the Prime Minister heads to US President Joe Biden’s summit on climate change this week, he lacks credibility on carbon reductions, says the AFR’s Chanticleer.
    https://www.afr.com/chanticleer/morrison-is-well-behind-in-the-climate-game-20210420-p57krv
    Katherine Murphy tells us that the former US director of national intelligence James Clapper has backed a call by former Australian prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull for a royal commission into the Murdoch media, saying Australia needs to take preventative steps to avoid any slide into “truth decay”.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/21/former-us-intelligence-director-backs-turnbull-and-rudds-call-for-murdoch-media-inquiry
    Matthew Elmas writes that Stuart Robert is being described as Darth Vader as the government moves to unauthorised data sharing about individuals. Where does this mob get off?
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2021/04/21/data-privacy-government-trust/
    Brittany Higgins will ask Scott Morrison to make sweeping changes to the culture of Parliament House in a meeting that could be held next week and may give a voice to other women on sexual assault.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/very-few-protections-brittany-higgins-wants-to-meet-pm-to-push-for-culture-change-20210420-p57kvu.html
    The federal government will not allow Australians to see the key instructions Scott Morrison has issued to his ministers, prompting criticism it is using cabinet “as a transparency shield”, write Daniel Hurst and Paul Karp.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/21/morrison-government-blocks-release-of-instructions-to-ministers-citing-cabinet-confidentiality
    In an op-ed in The Australian, Kristina Keneally pleads for the Biloela family to be set home.
    https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/please-send-this-family-home-to-biloela/news-story/feb47dbd2e5e2a67b6114cccc2d61223
    Nick O’Malley and Mike Foley report that international and domestic pressure is increasing on the Morrison government to raise its climate ambitions, with the UK government expected to announce an emissions reductions target of 78 per cent and Australian industry calling for bold climate policy.
    https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-pressure-mounts-on-morrison-government-before-us-earth-day-summit-20210420-p57kvi.html
    Josh Butler writes that people are saying it is unforgiveable that only 6 per cent of disability residents have received vaccines so far.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2021/04/21/vaccine-rollout-disability/
    Wages will have to grow at their fastest rate since Julia Gillard was prime minister before inflation is high enough for the Reserve Bank to consider an interest rate rise, even as businesses grow more confident about their financial future, explains Shane Wright. He says the RBA remains concerned about sluggish wages growth and how it will affect monetary policy in the coming years.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/wages-growth-like-it-s-2013-rba-says-a-long-grind-for-fatter-pay-packets-20210420-p57krl.html
    Professor Kim Rubenstein explains why she says MPs are unwilling to do more for Australians trapped by COVID travel bans.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/why-mps-are-unwilling-to-do-more-for-australians-trapped-by-covid-travel-bans-20210419-p57kkm.html
    Criminal lawyer Katrina Marsden says that the milkshake video the final straw in consent discontent.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/milkshake-video-the-final-straw-in-consent-discontent-20210420-p57kpn.html
    Following Michael West Media’s report on domain squatting by the NSW Nationals in the leadup to the Upper Hunter by-election, the Nationals candidate has directed the party to relinquish the domains, in apparent defiance of Nationals’ leader John Barilaro. Callum Foote reports.
    https://www.michaelwest.com.au/new-national-candidate-rejects-dirty-tricks-nats-pull-fake-websites-yet-john-barilaro-defiant/
    Lucy Cormack reports on John Sidoti’s stellar day of evidence at the NSW anti-corruption hearing in which his principal line of defence was that he often didn’t know what he was signing and that he was working very long hours.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/not-sure-what-i-ve-signed-sidoti-s-first-day-in-icac-stand-20210420-p57ko1.html
    Phil Coorey writes that Labor is saying aged care reform should be used as an opportunity for job creation in the same way as manufacturing and other traditional male-dominated employment strongholds are.
    https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/aged-care-should-be-on-par-with-manufacturing-construction-labor-20210420-p57knu
    With few exceptions, federal education ministers have followed a well-worn path of school reform that looks easy, resonates well but rarely delivers, and ignores entrenched problems. Alan Tudge fits neatly into this mould, says education researcher Chris Bonnor.
    https://johnmenadue.com/tudge-on-the-bludge-new-education-minister-offers-nothing-new/
    As Tasmanians head to the polls where health is tipped to be a major issue, Tasmania’s health system seems to be in crisis, explains Hayden O’Connor/
    https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/tasmanias-gutwein-government-patients-first-policy-puts-patients-last,15006
    As property prices surge, a key question facing regulators is whether it’s time to throw some sand in the gears to slow growth, writes Clancy Yeates.
    https://www.smh.com.au/money/borrowing/why-regulators-aren-t-alarmed-by-the-housing-boom-yet-20210415-p57jma.html
    But Karen Maley writes that APRA faces the formidable task of taming a real estate bubble, without choking off the supply of credit to first home buyers.
    https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/apra-s-daunting-double-challenge-20210420-p57ko5
    Rob Harris writes that a half a billion-dollar investment to develop emerging low-emissions energy production will form a key part of next month’s federal budget as Morrison attempts to signal to world leaders that his government is playing its part to reduce global carbon emissions. It has now morphed into a “not quite so dirty” energy policy.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/risk-stranding-jobs-morrison-promises-regional-areas-500m-hydrogen-and-carbon-fund-20210420-p57ku0.html
    A single lawyer volunteering for two days a week is shouldering the burden of providing freely accessible workplace legal advice to women in NSW. In Victoria, there’s no specific women’s employment law service, writes Katina Curtis.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/enormous-unmet-need-women-s-employment-legal-services-running-on-a-shoestring-20210420-p57kp1.html
    Black deaths in Australia and the United States follow a similar historical pattern of racist institutionalism and disregard for the sanctity of human life, writes Dr Rashad Seedeen.
    https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/death-by-design-a-history-of-systemic-racism-and-brutality-in-the-us-and-australia,15004
    Today’s nomination for “Arsehole of the Week” must surely go to the Queensland man who has been charged with murder after the discovery of the burned body of 27-year old Gold Coast mother of three Kelly Wilkinson in her own back yard with her three children under nine nearby.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2021/04/21/kelly-wilkinson-murder-burned/

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  21. Derek Chauvin found guilty in the death of George Floyd
    From CNN’s Aaron Cooper in Minneapolis

    Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted on all charges by a jury in the Hennepin County court.

    The 12 jurors found him guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in George Floyd’s death in May 2020.

    The maximum sentence for second-degree unintentional murder is imprisonment of not more than 40 years. The maximum sentence for third-degree murder is imprisonment of not more than 25 years. The maximum sentence for second-degree manslaughter is 10 years and/or $20,000.

  23. “but most striking is a 6% reading for One Nation compared with 2% from Newspoll”….

    Yes, I agree with William that this PHON result is not really credible. Therefore, calculating the 2PP based on 2019 preferences is misleading, as the PHON strongly directed their preferences to the Coalition.

  24. Prosecution moved to have Derek Chauvin’s bail revoked. Judge Peter Cahill granted the motion.

    Chauvin was handcuffed in the courtroom and taken into custody by the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office.

    Cahill said “eight weeks from now we will have sentencing.”

  28. Xi won’t be happy – Iron Ore at a new all time high @ $189.61 and up over 9% in the last 5 days.

    Australia production costs probably under $30 or so.

  29. C@tmomma @ #114 Wednesday, April 21st, 2021 – 4:48 am

    Douglas and Milko @ #56 Tuesday, April 20th, 2021 – 7:22 pm

    The “Good Society” agenda just gets weirder and weirder:

    In which the government advises boys how to cope when their girlfriends demand sex & even get them drunk to take advantage. Check it out pic.twitter.com/aQZoE0th31— Dr Spikey Sheep Person (@noplaceforsheep) April 20, 2021

    Why is it always the female who is the aggressor with this resource!?!

    These are very religious people, to them the women is always the temptress who leads good men astray. That concept probably predates the myth of Adam and Eve.

  30. Scottish elections 2021: Could SNP and Greens form a coalition at Holyrood after May 6?

    Depending on the result of the election on May 6, Scotland could soon end up with its first coalition government for 14 years.

    If the SNP falls short of an overall majority of seats in Holyrood, it will certainly hope for support from the Greens over an independence referendum, but there may also be talks between the two parties over a broader partnership.

    The Greens have played a crucial role in helping the SNP government get its annual budgets passed by parliament – and won significant policy and spending shifts as a result.

    Could the co-operation now go further and take the shape of a formal coalition, with Greens in the Cabinet?

    Many European countries have already seen Greens in power as part of a coalition.

    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/scottish-elections-2021-could-snp-and-greens-form-a-coalition-at-holyrood-after-may-6-ian-swanson-3206157

    Greens here, Greens there, Greens everywhere! 😀

    Hopefully the Scots end up with a SNP/Green pro-independence majority and get another referendum. The sooner they leave the crumbling conservative old UK and rejoin the EU the better. Get out while you can, Scotland! Run!

  31. Why is it always the female who is the aggressor with this resource!?!

    Because the main focus is on teaching males and by setting them up as the hypothetical victim in the situation, it allows them to be more empathic to it. Basically “You wouldn’t like it if it happened to you, would you?”

  32. Good verdict. Hopefully it remains upheld if it gets appealed.

    Only a small victory over all, of course, but good to some justice. A lot more needed though.

  34. SA Liberal Party sponsored ads starting to litter my Facebook feed. As I said the other day, Steven Marshall has begun his re-election campaign. Labor need to make sure they’re active in this period too and don’t just snooze until 2022, then start campaigning.

  37. I nearly skipped that Shaun Carney article. I should have.

    His tea leaf prognostications – if true and applied to the recent US presidential election – would have seen Joe Biden lose in a landslide.

    The polling demonstrates that support for Morrison -and the rabble pretending to be a government -mare very soft. He might not want to mention ‘the war’, but the polling shows Labor ahead – even before kicking with the wind in the 4th quarter – to use Albo’s metaphor of the strategy he outlined when assuming the leadership two years ago – and which he has scrupulously stuck to.

    NSW polling can be explained – and obviously is explained – by the fact that KoalaKiller’s personal popularity – on the back of her perceived ‘good handling’ 0f covid (yeh I know – that triggers me as well).

    None of this means that Labor will win, or are even the favourites. Just well placed. Exactly in the position that Albo – in his wildest dreams – would have hoped he’d be about now.

  38. Seems the Germans are having a very similar conversation to us at the moment…

    Germany: Greens campaign for legal cannabis on 4/20

    April 19 will go down in German political history as the day Annalena Baerbock was elected the Green Party’s first-ever chancellor candidate. Assuming the party is ready to govern, the very next day may well be remarkable as well.

    April 20, referred to among marijuana enthusiasts as 4/20, has become an international counterculture holiday, where people gather to celebrate and consume cannabis. Many such events have a political nature to them, too, advocating the legalization of cannabis.

    On Twitter, the Greens wrote: “Cannabis is the most consumed illegal drug in Germany — the proportion of minors consuming it is increasing. For real youth & health protection there must be rules for the trade and a controlled distribution of cannabis!”

    The position is also part of their draft party platform for this September’s federal election.

    https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/germany-greens-campaign-for-legal-cannabis-on-4-20/ar-BB1fRs7r

  39. total fertility rate TFR

    2.1 is more or less equivalent to population maintenance.

    China is in at 1.7 but some people think that China’s State Department for Habitual Statistical Lying is flubbing the number and it could be as low as 1.2. (In this case the State Lie is absolutely necessary because the CPC comrades cannot possibly admit to creating China’s demographic catastrophe with its draconian one child policy). Taiwan is not listed separately but is 1.2 according to the CIA which, between knocking off democratically-elected enemies of the US, does some good counting of lots of things. Australia is 1.7. The World is 2.4.

    There are a lot of self-solving problems in this list. But there are some looming massive demographic disasters in terms of human pressures on the environment as source-and-sump. Embedded in the whole and in the trends is your primary reason for the Anthropocene Extinction Event:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependencies_by_total_fertility_rate

  40. Rex Patrick
    @Senator_Patrick
    ·
    1h
    It’s outrageous that @ScottMorrisonMP won’t let Australians see the charter of responsibility he has given to each of his Minister. He arrogantly commits transparency fraud against us. Transparency is to Morrison as kryptonite is to Superman.

    Does this mean that we are not allowed to know what each minister is responsible for? Nor the media (Not that they’re much use.)

  42. Kafka would have approved.

    If we don’t know what ministers are accountable for then they can’t be accountable for it. It stands to reason.

  43. April 20 is also the birthday of a well-known 20th century German leader.

    April 20 is a day celebrated by potheads on the left and neo-Nazis on the right. A day for coming together.

  47. “ April 20 is a day celebrated by potheads on the left and neo-Nazis on the right. A day for coming together”

    Maybe if the neo-Nazis had a spliff … and the pot heads got a bit of the Nazis ‘Snell!!’ The world would be a better place …

  48. boerwar says:
    Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 8:18 am

    BW is using Wikipedia for supporting his brainwashed anti-Asia rants.

    Lol.

    Also good news in the USA for the verdict this morning! It’s a small step what seems like a mountain.

    But it maybe just a start of things to come.

  49. Happy Birthday to Our Queen! Long May She Reign Over Us!

    I was with a group of upper middle class anglophiles the other day and we discussed the Late Prince’s contribution to humanity. They were as one in rating him well. They forgave his serial cheating on the misses with a plethora of prostitutes and willing commoners. They forgave his serial racism. Barely worth a passing tut tut.
    Speculation then turned to whether the Brits would skip Chuck but that was considered to be de trop. Against the rules of succession.
    We then briefly canvassed whether Her Madge would retire to give Chuck his turn. They thought not because She is wtte, a right royal trouper. Doughty Duty and Mon Droit.
    They seemed astonished when I proferred the perfectly obvious reason why her Madge would not chuck in her crown before taws: She enjoys her power.
    Doddering in Chuck’s background as the Queen Mother is not her thing. Barring tripping over a corgi, sudden late onset dementia, or an inconvenient Covid variant, her Madge will be reigning over us until at least 2026.

  50. I have never known very much about the problems of trans people. In my innocence I couldn’t see why they couldn’t be accepted as any gender they chose. However, it seems that in NSW there is a battle going on led in part by Mark Latham and it is causing great angst.

    Mark Latham has introduced another piece of legislation that directly attacks LGBTIQ+ people. The Education Legislation Amendment (Parental Rights) Bill 2020 harms trans and gender diverse students by denying their existence and preventing teachers and counsellors from supporting them. It allows parents to withdraw their child from a class or program which tells them LGBTIQ+ people are just like everyone else.

    https://equalityaustralia.org.au/ignoranceineducationbill/

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