Roy Morgan has produced its second federal poll in a fortnight, and will hopefully make a regular habit of this going forward. The poll credits Labor with a bare lead of 50.5-49.5 (Morgan’s rounding being done to increments of half a percentage point), down from 51-49 last time. On the primary vote, the Coalition is up 1.5% to 41.5%, Labor is down half a point to 34.5%, the Greens are up half a point to 12% and One Nation is up half a point to 3.5%. State two-party breakdowns have the Coalition leading 51-49 in New South Wales, 56-44 in Queensland and 52-48 in Western Australia, but with Labor leading 55-45 in Victoria, 52-48 in South Australia and 57-43 in Tasmania.
The poll was conducted by telephone and online surveys over the previous two weekends from a sample of 2782. Since we will presumably be hearing more from Morgan in future, it’s worth pointing out that the company is not a member of the Australian Polling Council, and thus does not observe the standards of transparency demanded of its code of conduct.
Other news:
• Peter Law of The West Australian reports that Labor’s candidate for the key Perth seat of Swan will be Zaneta Mascarenhas, an engineer who runs an energy management consultancy. This comes after the state party’s Left-dominated administration committee blocked the nomination of the only other contender, former South Perth councillor Fiona Reid, on the grounds she had run as an independent candidate at the 2017 state election, to the displeasure of the Right faction Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association. Mascarenhas is aligned with the Left faction Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union. The West’s report also relates that Tania Lawrence, a manager at Woodside who ran unsuccessfully for Labor in Darling Range at a state by-election in 2018, is the party’s only nominee in the seat of Hasluck.
• Pollster John Utting has told The West Australian that his recent polling leads him to expect that Labor will win Swan and possibly Pearce. He also believes that Labor will “probably” win the election off the back of wins in Chisholm, Boothby, Longman and potentially Leichhardt, Braddon and Bass, although they could potentially lose Eden-Monaro and Macquarie. Utting has polled extensively for Labor and provided polling for The West Australian five months out from the March state election that had the measure of the eventual result.
• Roxanne Fitzgerald of the ABC reports a complaint has been lodged with the Human Rights Commission accusing the Australian Electoral Commission of discrimination against indigenous voters, having failed to provide sufficient polling facilities to remote communities and directly enrol people who do not receive mail at a residential address. The complainants are Matthew Ryan, mayor of West Arnhem Regional Council, and Ross Mandi, chairman of Yalu Aboriginal Corporation in Galiwinku, with the support of the Maritime Union of Australia and the United Workers Union.
After the last Fed. election pollsters suddenly ‘discovered’ the 50/50 tree and by golly they are hanging on tight to it.
Leichardt!?! I thought Warren Entsch had decided to be carried out in a box and never retire?… Because he knows what will happen when he does. 🙂
Cue delirious gloating and blogorrhea all day and all night by Firefox2 because The Greens are up half a point to 12%! 🙄
Lol C@tmomma
Its interesting that Morrison is trying to blame NSW government for not doing the job which the federal government is responsible for
Vaccinations for front line workers such as quarantine
We may have poked fun at Michael McCormack and his team of Nationals Ministers, but there was some genuine talent among them, like Darren Chester, but it seems embittered Barnaby is having none of that:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/nationals-mps-fear-vindictive-reshuffle-of-cabinet-posts-rewarding-joyce-backers-20210624-p5843s.html
The article C@t posted @ 6:49 includes a picture of Barnaby.
He does a fine impersonation of a Fathead Sculpin aka (Tasmanian) Blobfish.
Tony Smith should stand down as speaker, the scars of the infighting in the house chamber between the National and liberal party , he did not recover from it at all
Print news media is just about finished in Australia: https://www.crikey.com.au/2021/06/24/last-days-of-printed-news/
poroti has no respect for people eating their breakfast! 😆
How could you put that picture of Bananasby up so early in the morning! 😉
Pretty amazing stuff. With the samples sizes used you should expect spread of about 2% in polling result yet they all come in at 50/50.
On the situation with lockdowns and borders closing
Morrison and Gladys were the ones to start playing politics
Morrison and Gladys attacked the Labor premiers while ignoring Liberal party premiers who were doing the same thing as the Labor premiers
Pretty amazing stuff. With the samples sizes used you should expect spread of about 2% in polling result yet they all come in at 50/50.
Incredible, in the sense of in-credible.
Why are many coalition people desperately defending against something they supposedly don’t believe in? Climate change has them rattled and scurrying all over the main stream media and social media. Latest examples Joyce and how cold it was at his farm last week.(a farmer who doesn’t know the difference between weather and climate?) Then Canavan and his farting cows.
Gentlemen the argument is lost- stop your Trumpian sulking and represent in the best interests of all Australians.
“The NSW government will hold a crisis meeting to review the state’s response to a growing number of Covid-19 infections across Sydney, which has so far avoided a lockdown.
The cabinet gathering due to take place at 9.30am on Friday will come ahead of the official release of the latest infections data later in the morning.“
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2021/jun/25/australia-news-live-nsw-crisis-sydney-covid-outbreak-gladys-berejiklian-scott-morrison-lockdown-bondi-cluster-melbourne-contact-tracing
We’ll see what comes of it…
Good morning Dawn Patrollers
David Crowe and Mike Foley report that Nationals MPs fear a ruthless reshuffle of their federal cabinet posts to reward those who voted for Barnaby Joyce to lead the party, amid Labor scorn that he will join a cabinet taskforce on women’s safety. Joyce vindictive? Never!
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/nationals-mps-fear-vindictive-reshuffle-of-cabinet-posts-rewarding-joyce-backers-20210624-p5843s.html
Crowe says that Barnaby Joyce’s frenzied energy is keeping all alert to being burned. He examines Joyce’s propensity to be a disrupter.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/barnaby-joyce-s-frenzied-energy-keeps-all-alert-to-being-burned-20210624-p5840u.html
The facade of tranquil unity within the Coalition over climate change policy has collapsed over the past fortnight, as those pushing for rapid cuts in emissions have lobbed bombs at the climate sceptics inside the party who back the status quo or worse, declares the SMH editorial. It says the Coalition can no longer hide its internal divisions over climate policy.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/coalition-can-no-longer-hide-internal-divisions-over-climate-policy-20210624-p5841z.html
To make matters worse, Rob Harris reckons Barnaby Joyce hoping to persuade George Christensen to remain in politics.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/barnaby-joyce-hoping-to-persuade-george-christensen-to-remain-in-politics-20210624-p5840x.html
Tony Wright tells us how Barnaby found himself – briefly – up the Darling without a paddle.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/how-barnaby-found-himself-briefly-up-the-darling-without-a-paddle-20210624-p583zn.html
Scott Morrison is fond of telling his troops they’re in a boat. On Thursday he said Barnaby Joyce was “a wind in the sails”. Perhaps better described as a gale hitting the craft, some nervous Liberals would think, writes Michelle Grattan.
https://theconversation.com/grattan-on-friday-blowin-in-the-wind-with-barnaby-163381
The Guardian describes yesterday’s farcical events where the Nationals sensationally claimed that science does not support South Australia “needing fresh water” through the Murray-Darling Basin plan, while suggesting rising sea levels could replace environmental flows to the lower lakes.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/24/south-australia-does-not-need-fresh-water-nationals-claim-in-fiery-murray-darling-basin-plan-debate
Barnaby Joyce is back in and, as a result, women are out, laments Madonna King.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2021/06/25/barnaby-joyce-women-politics/
Michelle Pini outlines Barnaby Joyce’s 14 greatest achievements.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/barnaby-joyces-14-greatest-achievements,15224
According to The Australian’s Greg Brown, a federal Labor government would unlock billions of dollars of investment in offshore wind farms by prioritising a regulatory framework that would be used to assess eight proposed renewables projects off Australia’s east and west coastlines.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/offshore-wind-farms-will-create-tens-of-thousands-of-jobs-under-labor-chris-bowen/news-story/175ce8df1b50c529b6b6cbb774324270
With Scott Morrison, things are too often not what he claims them to be, writes John Hewson. He says that sometimes to his ultimate embarrassment, Morrison consciously oversells, only to have it come back to bite him. Moreover, rather than admit the excess, he doubles down. Hewson believes that it is essential to cut through the marketing blurb to get a real measure of the substance of the Morrison government.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7311342/with-scott-morrison-things-are-too-often-not-what-he-claims-them-to-be-john-hewson/?cs=14258
Shane Wright previews the upcoming intergenerational report that he says will point to a sober future for budgets.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/greece-no-longer-the-word-sober-outlook-for-budget-future-20210623-p583nr.html
The SMH tells us about the 24 hours that plunged NSW Parliament into COVID chaos.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/the-24-hours-that-plunged-nsw-parliament-into-covid-chaos-20210624-p58436.html
Here we are on the knife’s edge of a Delta epidemic in Sydney. As always, it was a breach of our borders: this time, one of the forgotten frontline workers, a driver who transports international arrivals to hotels, explains Raina McIntyre.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/we-re-sitting-ducks-the-case-for-a-short-sharp-lockdown-to-battle-delta-variant-20210624-p5840i.html
The AFR says that Gladys Berejiklian is resisting growing calls for an economically damaging Melbourne-style lockdown as Sydney’s latest outbreak nears 50 cases and other states slam shut their borders.
https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/berejiklian-resists-calls-for-lockdown-20210624-p583wx
Jennifer Hewett writes that a lot rides on Berejiklian’s COVID-19 gamble paying off.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/a-lot-is-riding-on-berejiklian-s-gamble-paying-off-20210624-p5840o
The new Australian head of Singapore Airlines has said Australians need to speed up their vaccination take-up rates and the federal government should open more local bubbles beyond New Zealand, or the country risks falling behind as the world races to open up.
https://www.afr.com/companies/tourism/speed-up-vaccinations-or-get-left-behind-singapore-airlines-boss-20210624-p583zx
Rachel Clun tries to get to the bottom of what happened to our chances to get early supplies of the Pfizer vaccine.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/deal-or-no-deal-what-really-happened-in-last-july-s-pfizer-meeting-20210622-p5838e.html
With the government choosing to shelve the AstraZeneca vaccine, it’s time they tell us how much this failure cost the taxpayer, writes Metthew Reddin.
https://theaimn.com/how-much-did-the-astrazeneca-vaccine-cost-us-scott-morrison/
Melissa Cunningham reports that the nation’s peak medical body and vaccine experts say the federal government made the right call at the time to back AstraZeneca, but public health specialists warn Australia was let down by a ‘narrow’ immunisation strategy.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/australia-let-down-by-failure-to-hedge-bets-on-enough-vaccines-experts-say-20210624-p583v5.html
Phil Coorey says that this government, or the next, will have to fix the NDIS.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/this-government-or-the-next-will-have-to-fix-the-ndis-20210623-p583fa
Paul Karp examines the court document that show Peter Dutton has accused refugee activist Shane Bazzi of showing malice, in the minister’s defamation suit, citing a tweet labelling him a “cunt” and a “fucken scumbag”.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/25/peter-dutton-accuses-shane-bazzi-of-malice-over-abusive-tweets-in-defamation-case
Michaela Whitbourn outlines another less than stellar day in court for Ben Roberts-Smith.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/ben-roberts-smith-used-software-to-scrub-laptop-but-denies-destroying-evidence-20210624-p583w9.html
Yesterday the ABS released a report that shows a quarter of businesses are struggling to find staff, with the hard-hit food and accommodation industry more than 50,000 positions short of its pre-coronavirus levels as workers flock to the health sector.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/businesses-struggle-to-find-staff-in-post-pandemic-world-20210624-p583yo.html
Andrew Charlton says that it’s Australia’s springtime for workers, and we’re more likely to be in jobs than at any time in our history.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/it-s-australia-s-springtime-for-workers-we-re-more-likely-to-be-in-jobs-than-at-any-time-in-our-history-20210624-p583wt.html
Veteran political commentator Niki Savva has quit her column for the Australian after editors told her she had to share a page with the paper’s new recruit Sky News host Peta Credlin, reports Amanda Meade. I hope Savva does not disappear as I regard her quite highly.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jun/24/political-commentator-niki-savva-quits-the-australian-after-peta-credlin-joins-as-columnist
Ten years ago, the Great Barrier Reef was almost placed on the “in danger” list. A decade of further decline shows why that listing must happen now, urges Professor of Marine Studies, Ove Heogh-Guldberg.
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/this-time-the-danger-sign-must-go-up-20210624-p583w0.html
Politicians criticising women for ‘outsourcing’ parenting need a reality check. Here it is, explain these two academics.
https://theconversation.com/politicians-criticising-women-for-outsourcing-parenting-need-a-reality-check-here-it-is-163357
The Conversation explains how the US scheme used by Australian farmers reveals the dangers of trading soil carbon to tackle climate change.
https://theconversation.com/us-scheme-used-by-australian-farmers-reveals-the-dangers-of-trading-soil-carbon-to-tackle-climate-change-161358
Michael Pascoe warns us that after the house building boom comes the bust.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2021/06/25/michael-pascoe-house-building-boom-bust/
Recent discussion has highlighted how rising house prices are rationing growing numbers of younger Australians into rental housing and lifestyle choices falling short of aspirations. Now there are warnings that future falling homeownership rates across most age cohorts could hit the NSW Government’s budget balance.
https://johnmenadue.com/australias-high-house-prices-damage-economic-productivity-financial-stability-and-equity/
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is using temporary contractors in its financial crime team, sparking fresh concerns that workers on insecure contracts have cut corners on critical compliance tasks, reports Charlotte Grieve. Not a good look.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/cba-s-contractor-use-sparks-financial-crimes-compliance-concerns-20210624-p583vf.html
Katina Curtis writes that Australia will vigorously defend a new dispute raised by China with the World Trade Organisation claiming tariffs imposed on wind towers, stainless steel sinks and railway wheels over the past seven years breach international rules.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/after-stopping-china-throwing-kitchen-sinks-at-us-they-re-raising-a-wto-dispute-20210624-p5843w.html
The original dossier detailing a rape allegation against Christian Porter has been made publicly available for the first time, including allegedly contemporaneous diary notes written by the woman who accused him shortly before taking her own life last year. (Not suitable for children!)
https://www.smh.com.au/national/christian-porter-rape-allegation-documents-revealed-20210624-p5844m.html
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/24/dossier-detailing-christian-porter-allegations-made-public
According to Kate McClymont and Adele Ferguson, the Australian Federal Police raided the offices of Macquarie-backed tech group Nuix as well as an apartment in Pyrmont yesterday following the launch of a criminal investigation by the corporate regulator.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/pyrmont-penthouse-owned-by-former-nuix-cfo-raided-in-criminal-probe-20210624-p5842u.html
Rob Harris tells us that the federal government will increase its efforts to find alternative arrangements for Australians under 45 who are living in residential aged care under several ambitious targets (shouldn’t we say “horizons?”) to address the issue.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/government-lifts-efforts-to-get-young-australians-out-of-residential-aged-care-20210624-p5843u.html
Jordan Baker reveals that two of Sydney’s highest-fee private schools collected more than $15 million in JobKeeper payments between them, while others took advantage of government cash flow boosts to business during COVID-19. Scandalous.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/high-fee-private-schools-reap-more-than-6-million-each-in-jobkeeper-20210624-p58400.html
Everyday racism is real, and the research says it makes people unhappy and sick, writes Julie Power.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/everyday-racism-is-real-and-the-research-says-it-makes-people-unhappy-and-sick-20210624-p583y4.html
Law enforcement agencies have a cavalier attitude to the right to privacy and a “whatever it takes” attitude to raiding databases of personal information, writes Greg Barns. Given the treasure trove of information now available from all the Covid tracing apps, strong penalties and laws are needed to ensure evidence obtained from those apps cannot be used in legal proceedings.
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/privacy-in-jeopardy-with-covid-apps-tracking-every-move/
ICAC tried 11 years ago to persuade the NSW Government to introduce a basic system to regulate lobbyists in the state, but only the bare bones of its proposals (essentially, just 5 out of 17 recommendations) were put into effect. It has now revisited the problem and determined a far more comprehensive scheme that would allow an independent official to monitor not only lobbyists but the ministers and government officials that they try to influence, explains David Solomon.
https://johnmenadue.com/icac-wants-real-regulation-of-lobbying-with-its-unfairness-and-the-inherent-risks-of-corruption/
With Australia raising its hand to be part of joint naval exercises in the South China Sea, its departure from the G7 in Cornwall continues the “down-under” tradition of following U.S. foreign policy, writes Barbara Hartley.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/australias-collective-voice-should-silence-the-drums-of-war,15219
After a three-decade long battle by voluntary euthanasia campaigners, South Australia has become the fourth state in the nation to pass legislation on voluntary assisted dying, after eleventh-hour amendments to the bill. At last!
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/sa/2021/06/24/voluntary-assisted-dying-south-australia/
The AIMN gets behind Helen Haines’ call for a proper federal ICAC.
https://theaimn.com/were-with-you-helen-we-need-an-integrity-commission/
Disgraced former NRL star Jarryd Hayne will face court in November to appeal against his conviction for sexually assaulting a woman in her Newcastle home.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/jarryd-hayne-to-appeal-sexual-assault-conviction-in-november-20210624-p583tb.html
An appeals court has suspended Rudy Giuliani’s law licence in New York because he made false statements while trying to get courts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the presidential race.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/new-york-court-suspends-rudy-giuliani-s-law-licence-over-bogus-election-fraud-claims-20210625-p58458.html
The Queen meets Boris Johnson in person again with weary resignation, writes the erudite John Crace.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jun/24/the-queen-meets-boris-johnson-in-person-again-with-weary-resignation
Top Democrats in the House are investigating whether Trump justice department officials ran an unlawful shadow operation to target political enemies of the former president to hunt down leaks of classified information, according to a source familiar with the matter.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/24/house-democrats-justice-department-shadow-operation-investigation
Today’s nomination for “Arsehole of the Week” goes to this Melbourne plastic surgeon.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/cosmetic-surgeon-faces-legal-action-over-operation-on-teenager-s-labia-20210623-p583k4.html
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The Age
Local emergency workers in the Dandenongs say the urgent delivery of generators to storm-hit homes last weekend was delayed by 24 hours in freezing temperatures after authorities failed to supply batteries and fuel, then made emergency services workers wait until television crews arrived.
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What’s the go with waiting for the TV crews ?
Spin, spin,spin from the Victorian public service.
I am sick of it.
The Coalition, Nationals and Liberals, simply copy the playbook of the Republicans in America. It involves catastrophising, brazen assertion and muscling up against your political opponents despite all rational analysis being against what you are saying.
As this article outlines:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/for-republicans-crisis-is-the-message-as-the-party-outrage-machine-fires-up-20210618-p5822e.html
BK at 7:59 am
Too many articles from NewsCorp publications ?
What’s the go with waiting for the TV crews ?
I don’t know. You should ask your mates in the federal Liberals. 😐
Barnaby might run a few animals on his land, but he’s no farmer in the modern sense. In the Tassie edition of The Drum this week, we heard how they use practical science to balance animals’ diet and look after the soil. They also understand climate/weather. Barnaby’s a charlatan.
Scott.
I blame KK. She was the 1st to start playing Covid politics with the Ruby Princess.
Morning all. I have to agree with the following from Cat.
“ We may have poked fun at Michael McCormack and his team of Nationals Ministers, but there was some genuine talent among them, like Darren Chester, but it seems embittered Barnaby is having none of that:”
The proportion of Ministers in the nationals ranks is extraordinary to start with relative to their numbers. Chester is wanted to be retained by Veterans advocates, a demographic that normally votes for the government. So incredibly short sighted to boot him out.
Also Barnaby only won the leadership by one vote. His hold on power is tenuous. If he had brains he would try to woo more MPs to his side. He is no master strategist; just a bullying exploiter.
GrogsGamut on Auspol bipartisan-shit
Greg Jericho @GrogsGamut
Would love to have heard this discussion:
“Hey mate, we hate the Greens making us look like the fossil fuel loving party we are”
“Maaate, we hate One Nation forcing us to show how racist we are”
“I got it, let’s kill these things”
“Done! Gotta love bipartisanship!”
Greg Jericho @GrogsGamut
In effect the LNP hated having to put on record their agreement with One Nation on race issues, and the ALP hated having to put on record their lack of agreement with the Greens on climate change (and other) issues
Taylormade
Batteries ? From your article.
Gossip from one crew ?
From yesterday
Thinks of all the profits made by cleaning firms and hand sanitisers, Dettol has become a TV star. I’d like to see stats on other infections that have become less frequent because of handwashing, tho (E.coli?).
Taylormade says:
Friday, June 25, 2021 at 8:07 am
Scott.
I blame KK. She was the 1st to start playing Covid politics with the Ruby Princess.
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Kristina Keneally wasn’t playing politics, she was staring the facts , the federal government’s border force did let the ship into Australia waters, and then we know the incompetence which followed
That’s the problem you see. He doesn’t have much and most of what he does have is not located on the “head” sitting on his shoulders.
Australia is fast becoming fascists:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/sky-news-confirms-place-in-regional-australias-future/100231242?fbclid=IwAR2MU61d9dDJz6XWomHV6vu_Qc64RbCbhHgcQOfQBMGMj-Z-HY8MKyTESXk
A dedicated 24-hour Sky News Regional channel will become available on free-to-air television to an estimated 7 million rural and regional Australians in August across the Southern Cross Austereo network.
It will carry the metropolitan-based channel’s daily news coverage, as well as its evening line-up of conservative commentators like Alan Jones, Andrew Bolt, Chris Kenny, Paul Murray and Tony Abbott’s former chief of staff, Peta Credlin.
The announcement has been welcomed by some in regional communities, but former prime minister Kevin Rudd believes Sky News’ continued presence in the regions will influence political debates and even local elections in the coming decade.
– regional Australia don’t need 24/7 brain washing news.
They want action.
Taylormade says:
Friday, June 25, 2021 at 8:00 am
The Age
Local emergency workers in the Dandenongs say the urgent delivery of generators to storm-hit homes last weekend was delayed by 24 hours in freezing temperatures after authorities failed to supply batteries and fuel, then made emergency services workers wait until television crews arrived.
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What’s the go with waiting for the TV crews ?
Spin, spin,spin from the Victorian public service.
I am sick of it
Are you sure it was the state government. The only footage I saw was the ADF putting together and delivering Generators.
And I agree it was pretty tacky.
Socrates
The Nats pool of MPs is so small it is all up close and so would be very personal. Nothing more bitter than a family quarrel.
Taylormade says:
Friday, June 25, 2021 at 8:07 am
Scott.
I blame KK. She was the 1st to start playing Covid politics with the Ruby Princess.
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Boarder fuckers are in charge of who is allowed and who doesn’t the same way refugees get treated.
Nsw parliament in which the Ruby was docked in.
After all the most famous speech:
“We will decide who comes to our country”.
Frednk @ #NaN Friday, June 25th, 2021 – 8:17 am
So it was Scotty from Marketing behind it!?!
Cat:
From what I’ve heard, Entsch was planning to retire but has since changed his mind. Given how marginal Leichhardt is, its traditional status as a bellwether, and Labor’s recent success in the corresponding state electorates, I imagine ensuring the seat doesn’t fall played a part in his decision.
EDIT: Of course, Entsch already retired in 2007, which was also the one time Labor has won the seat since 1993, before coming back three years later.
And the Liberal Party have never played politics with the virus!?!
Pull the other one, Taylormade, what do you think we are? Murdoch media consumers!?! 😆
From William’s post:
Poor sample, or is something going on down there I was unaware of?
Asha Leu @ #NaN Friday, June 25th, 2021 – 8:25 am
I just read, for probably the same sort of reason, that Barnaby Joyce is trying to talk George Christensen out of retiring at the next election as well.
Thanks BK. On Ben RS I dod not know how the legal decision will turn out as defamation can occur even with truth. But in the war for public opinion I think the defense has already won because BRS’s own words show at least some of the reported allegations had substance.
On Gladys and the Sydney outbreak, you have to wonder if health advice was not for a lockdown already. Was Gladys delaying to Friday to manage news cycles? I hope not.
Have a good day all.
Can’t Entsch retire and tweet like Kernot and Cameron?
Brian Mitchell has been a fantastic Member for Lyons. Maybe he has engendered a revival of fortunes for Labor in Tasmania? 🙂
Gladys Berejiklian will delay calling a Lockdown full stop. It’s School Holidays from today and her popularity would take a hit if she did.
Anyway, the NSW CHO, Dr Kerry Chant, has stated that the Contact Tracers are on top of it and we don’t have to have a Lockdown.
We’ll see.
Virginia Trioli reporting no new infections in Victoria …….
The ABC understands Victoria has recorded no new local COVID cases beyond the two positive results announced yesterday that were linked to the Sydney outbreak.
A Melbourne man in his 60s tested positive yesterday after returning from Sydney on the weekend, and his co-worker at the Sandringham Dry Cleaners has also tested positive.
Today’s official numbers from Victorian authorities will list those two cases.
Asha Leu at 8:26 am
Given the sample size of 2780 Tassie’s share would be 60. So plenty of room for non representitive sample.
The ABC needs to seriously consider whether Hamish is up to the job of controlling his panellists on Q&A. Trioli would never have allowed Hollie Hughes to get away with that screeching farrago of lies and rudeness.
Some experts, like Bill Bowtell, could well decide never to appear again.
C@tmomma,
Bass is currently the LNP’s most marginal electorate, held by a 0.41% margin on the 2PP. From memory (not my best feature) we only need about 260 people to change their vote for the seat to swing back to Labor.
Probably the right call, as much as I may loathe Christensen. One Nation seems to have collapsed, Palmer is a joke, QLD Labor did (relatively) well in many of the coal seats in 2020, and federal Labor seems to be pitching things right in its approach to regional Queensland. I think we’ll probably see a reversal of a lot of the 2019 mining-seat swings – maybe not enough for Labor to get over the line in many of them, but enough to make the LNP justifiably nervous.
memory isn’t doing too bad
Liberal Bridget Archer 34,648 50.41 +5.83
Labor Ross Hart 34,085 49.59 −5.83
Taz @ #NaN Friday, June 25th, 2021 – 8:40 am
Thanks for that, Taz. How’s the Liberal MP travelling there?
For a year and a half we have been fed a false narrative that has seen people obsessively washing their hands and being reassured by “deep cleaning”
Certainly normal colds and flu are way down, as attested by peoples’ personal experience and statistics. Don’t know about gastro but I expect that it would be way down also.