Courtesy of The Australian, the first Newspoll in four weeks has Labor leading 51-49, down from 52-48 last time, with similarly slight movement on the primary vote, with the Coalition up a point to 41%, Labor steady on 38%, the Greens down one to 10% and One Nation up one to 3%. Scott Morrison recovers much of the ground he lost on personal ratings in the last poll, being up four on approval to 59% and down three on disapproval to 37%, while Anthony Albanese is down three to 40% and up two to 43%, though these changes do not alter the general stability of his position over the longer term. Morrison now leads 56-30 on preferred prime minister, out from 52-32 in the last poll and identical to the result in the previous poll six weeks ago. The poll was conducted Wednesday to Saturday from a sample of 1514.
If you want to be really depressed, have a look at this article on New Zealand’s retreating glaciers 🙁
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/apr/29/end-of-the-ice-new-zealands-vanishing-glaciers
Player Onesays:
Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 8:07 pm
“If you are bored, try not responding. I won’t be offended.”
…….
Common decency would suggest that if you are going to cut and paste a portion of another person’s post, you should only reference the part you have quoted.
It is a further affront, that you would do so in such a way that all context is removed, and then give a meandering, longwinded reply.
Google CEO, Sundai Pichar, on the Covid situation in India and the way America is working with him and Indian NGOs, Public Health organisations, and its government, to help out.
https://youtu.be/_9PgVUXM3WI
Arthur @ #412 Thursday, April 29th, 2021 – 8:38 pm
Welcome to the world of Player One’s supercilious contributions to the blog.
Arthur,
Don’t bother trying mounting a demand side-pull argument with P1.
Many days have been wasted trying the same wrt coal.
Zerlosays:
Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 8:20 pm
“Reporter resigns because she was ordered to falsify reports on migrants: The west has serious ethical problems so it can’t bitch or moan about other countries.”
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I think you’ll find that they can.
The New York Post is New York’s Daily Telecrap.
boerwar says:
Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 8:35 pm
I raise you police in UK to be given more powers.
Campbell Newman liberal premier on unions and protests,
I give you Donald trump and protests in USA – unarmed thugs kid napping protestors.
Nath aka Michael was cherry picking the Essential earlier – now THIS is a cherry pick..
‘Women are abandoning the Morrison government in the wake of parliament’s #MeToo moment, with the latest Guardian Essential poll showing fewer than one in three giving their primary vote to the Coalition.
In mid-January the female primary vote peaked at 37% for the Coalition compared with 33% for Labor but, after months of damaging revelations about the government’s attitude towards women triggered by the mishandling of Brittany Higgins’ rape allegation, this has now collapsed to 31%. Labor’s primary vote among women is now 37%.
On a two-party-preferred “plus” basis, this gives the Coalition just 38% of the female vote, compared with 50% to Labor. Twelve per cent of women remain unsure. In mid-January the gap between the two parties was just three percentage points, with the Coalition marginally ahead of Labor among women, 47% to 44%.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/29/women-abandon-coalition-with-fewer-than-one-in-three-backing-it-essential-poll-shows?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Dandy Murraysays:
Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 8:47 pm
Arthur,
“Don’t bother trying mounting a demand side-pull argument with P1.
Many days have been wasted trying the same wrt coal.”
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But I was expressing myself in such simple terms.
I blame Rational Leftist! Didn’t he say how great it was not to have to wake up every day and read about Donald Trump’s latest outrage? Well, guess who’s cranking up his rally machine again from next month!?! Yep. That guy.
Also applies to the Daily Telegraph and its equivalents in other states:
Tomorrow is Morrison’s meeting with Brittany Higgins.
“Tomorrow is Morrison’s meeting with Brittany Higgins.”
I have no comment on that. 🙁
Mavis says:
Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 8:06 pm
[‘Former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd said Australia’s escalating military rhetoric this week was driven by the need to shift the domestic political agenda, “not any substantive change in regional security over recent weeks, while recklessly throwing fuel on the China fire”.’]
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/value-of-australian-wine-exports-to-china-falls-96-per-cent-20210429-p57ngx.html
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Mavis, do you consider one K.Rudd to be a democratic socialist ?
It’s great that Donald Trump is gone, that adults are now in charge of the USA, or at least its Federal Government.
The mini-Trumps are still in charge here, but at least they’ve lost a great wellspring of their mojo.
William Bowe @ #1897 Thursday, April 29th, 2021 – 6:32 pm
OUCH!!!!
@mansillo tweets
The @LiberalAus staffer who masturbated over @NolaMarinoMP’s desk in Parliament in that infamous video has filed a police report over ‘revenge porn’ smh.com.au/politics/feder… #auspol This is not ‘using a carriage service to cause offence or to harass or menace another person’
C@tmommasays:
Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 8:56 pm
“Tomorrow is Morrison’s meeting with Brittany Higgins”
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If he lays his hands on her, I will personally drive the 1600 miles to Canberra and snot him in the nose.
Arthur says:
Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 9:18 pm
C@tmommasays:
Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 8:56 pm
“Tomorrow is Morrison’s meeting with Brittany Higgins”
……..
If he lays his hands on her, I will personally drive the 1600 miles to Canberra and snot him in the nose.
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How chivalrous of you
Hilarious by Stephen Colbert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8nuuvWDJHk
Lars Von Triersays:
Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 9:21 pm
“How chivalrous of you”
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Fuck off, you degenerate miscreant.
I’m so sorry! 😆
Seriously, if it’s any consolation, he’s just a private citizen leading those rallies, not the guy who could actually nuke the hurricane if he wanted to…
Arthur says:
Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 9:24 pm
Lars Von Triersays:
Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 9:21 pm
“How chivalrous of you”
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Fuck off, you degenerate miscreant.
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Fear leads to anger , anger leads to hate, hate is the path to the dark side.
Arthur @ #1904 Thursday, April 29th, 2021 – 8:38 pm
If I was too complex for you, I can only apologize.
C@tmomma @ #1906 Thursday, April 29th, 2021 – 8:43 pm
Feeling left out again, C@t? Did someone forget to unbolt your cat flap?
Dandy Murray @ #1907 Thursday, April 29th, 2021 – 8:47 pm
How interesting that the same people who insist that demand side restraint is the answer wrt global warming, don’t insist the same wrt China.
Lars Von Trier @ #434 Thursday, April 29th, 2021 – 9:47 pm
And if you are a sociopath you have no emotion.
Rational Leftist @ #433 Thursday, April 29th, 2021 – 9:27 pm
But he is going around supporting Mini Mes who may one day be in that position. 🙁
Sometimes I log in here, read the recent posts and end up confused, unable to follow any logical sequence of subjects.
I think I’m getting old.
Actually, sociopath’s do have emotions, but they are all self-focused.
davidwh @ #1932 Thursday, April 29th, 2021 – 10:09 pm
David, I’d be more worried if things here started to make sense.
Cud Chewer @ #441 Thursday, April 29th, 2021 – 10:09 pm
So, is it psychopath’s that have no emotions? I imagined socio
Preferred Prime Minister poll:
Boris Johnson: 40% (+5)
Keir Starmer: 24% (-4)
Via @BMGResearch, 22-26 April
Changes w March
🙂 thanks Spray I needed that.
Its the same thing.
Apparently there is a new thing called ‘woke corporations’ invented by Republican Party.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/04/26/get-woke-go-broke-gop-calls-grow-to-punish-woke-businesses-with-legislation/?sh=58df02b61fac
Bucephalussays:
Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 10:12 pm
Preferred PM doesn’t mean much in a bias poll.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-untrustworthy-poll-keir-starmer-ipsos-mori-poll-b931903.html
Boris Johnson is regarded as “untrustworthy” by six in 10 Britons and is being beaten on trust by Sir Keir Starmer, reveals an exclusive new poll that will set alarm bells ringing at 10 Downing Street.
The findings by Ipsos MORI in tonight’s Evening Standard will increase the alarm in Tory circles after weeks of leaks and allegations about sleaze.
With the Prime Minister battling claims about his conduct on several fronts, he is revealed to be trusted by just 35 per cent of voters and deemed untrustworthy by a clear majority of 59 per cent.
Labour leader Sir Keir is regarded as trustworthy by 42 per cent and not to be trusted by 41.
Those whingeing about loss of the Edit function should try disregaging themselves from the obviously unstable and version-unreliable C-plus-whatever, try surviving in this hard world by eliminating the blocking function they loudly proclaim, open their ears and listen to the music of ideas and alternative viewpoints.
I have never blocked anyone, installed any filters, add-ons or plug-ins, bragged about how I don’t listen to certain others, or waxed lyrical on the virtues of being able to quote a long post with a single keystroke so that I can add a pithy but devastating 5-word riposte.
I know you think this blog is read by movers, shakers and policy makers, but it isn’t really. Notwithstanding William’s professionally set out articles at thread’s head, most of the stuff here is penny-ante political claptrap and humbuggery, ill thought out, trite in premise and consequence, tribally self-referencing, and meaningless in anything but the minutest of minute “Grand Schemes”.
So, if you want to be able to edit out your typos with the Edit function (which I, in my basic WordPress version of PB enjoy and have always enjoyed, uninterrupted), sharpen a point, correct grammar, or add something brilliant you hadn’t already included in your post: delete C, take the blinkers off your eyes, remove the memory foam plugs from your ears, and let the light shine in.
Sociopaths have emotions. They lack the ability to feel or empathise with the emotions others around them are feeling. A good marketing man.
The psychopath shares this trait and also does not have a conscience. A good border security minister.
P1,
How exactly could we force China to show restraint in its demand for coal or iron ore?
Sprocket I posted the overall essential poll primaries and 2PP. If that’s cherrypicking, someone obviously needs help.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/29/ben-roberts-smith-threatened-to-sue-estranged-wife-if-she-testified-against-him-court-hears
How the mighty have fallen:
‘But the former soldier replied threatening an injunction, or to sue his wife for damages and to abandon their family court property settlement if she gave evidence, Nicholas Owens, acting for Nine, told the court.’
Isn’t blackmail illegal?
Arthursays:
Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 9:18 pm
C@tmommasays:
Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 8:56 pm
“Tomorrow is Morrison’s meeting with Brittany Higgins”
……..
Arthur says:
“If he lays his hands on her, I will personally drive the 1600 miles to Canberra and snot him in the nose”
I will pay for the fuel.
This will be in BK’s Dawn patrol. I had to post it though.
I didn’t think we would have Royal Commission hearings into the vaccination rollout this fast.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/disability-royal-commission-calls-hearing-into-vaccine-rollout-with-just-101-care-homes-receiving-first-dose-20210429-p57nh5.html
Westminster Voting Intention:
CON: 44% (=)
LAB: 33% (-1)
LDM: 7% (+2)
GRN: 7% (=)
SNP: 4% (-1)
RFM: 3% (+1)
Via @YouGov, 27-28 Apr.
Changes w/ 21-22 Apr.
Nicholas Owens
Could be SA’s first HC judge
New thread.
So, people are still coming in from India (via Doha).
Yet another Morrison f-up.
You just can’t trust the Libs with ANYTHING !