The fortnightly Essential Research poll includes the pollster’s monthly leadership ratings, which gives Scott Morrison his weakest results since the onset of COVID-19 – down six on approval to 51% and up four on disapproval to 40%, with his lead as preferred prime minister narrowing slightly from 48-28 to 46-28. Anthony Albanese is up two on approval to 41% and down one on disapproval to 35%. These numbers have been fed into the BludgerTrack poll aggregate, sharpening Morrison’s established downward trend.
Approval of the federal government’s response to COVID-19 has also deteriorated, with a nine point drop in the good rating since last month to 44% and a six point increase in poor to 30%. Among respondents in New South Wales, the good rating for the federal government has slumped from 62% to 44%, and that for the state government is down from 69% to 57%. A range of other questions are featured on matters relating to COVID-19, including findings that 36% would be willing to get the Pfizer vaccine but not AstraZeneca (5% said vice-versa); that 40% believe the vaccine rollout is being down efficiently, down from 43% a month ago (and 68% earlier in the year); and that 64% believe it is being done safely, down from 67%.
The poll was conducted Wednesday to Sunday from a sample of 1099; full results can be viewed here.
Elsewhere, the Age/Herald yesterday published results aggregated from the three monthly Resolve Strategic polls which compared current voting intention with how respondents recalled having voted in 2019, and found women were more likely to have shifted away from the Coalition (down four points to 37%) than men (down one to 41%). On the subject of Resolve Strategic, Macquarie University academic Murray Goot casts a critical eye over its (and to a lesser extent Essential Research’s) attitudinal polling in Inside Story and takes aim at its refusal to join the Australian Polling Council and adhere to its transparency standards.
Cud Chewer @ #652 Sunday, July 11th, 2021 – 8:30 am
How about a Public-Private Partnership with the Industry Super Funds then? 🙂
Confessions
Yep. However it surprises me that this hasn’t been mentioned since its obvious.
C@t
Pfizer has been criticised for making that statement, some have even accused it of “marketing”
Dr. Fauci weighs in on confusion surrounding Pfizer’s Covid-19 booster
After Pfizer announced that it is seeing waning immunity from its coronavirus vaccine and it will seek emergency use authorization from the FDA in August for a booster dose, the FDA and the CDC released a joint statement saying boosters were not needed yet.
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/07/10/coronavirus-pfizer-booster-confusion-sandoval-ndwknd-pkg-vpx.cnn
Frednk @ #2798 Sunday, July 11th, 2021 – 6:59 am
Or, how will Albo put Spews back in his box and tape the lid shut.
The media is the enemy.
Time to deal with it.
I thought I heard this morning that infections are spreading beyond the south west of Sydney. Today’s presser may be interesting. The ABC is annoying because it so often serves up yesterday’s ‘news’. I want mine fresh from the oven, please.
What would be good to see would that social behaviour has absorbed some infection control principles as a norm – cough and sneeze behaviour, hand washing, hand cleansing at entrances/exits, gloves (the Queen doesn’t wear gloves to keep warm, nor the Japanese) for public interaction, separation of driver and passenger (london cabs), hand cleaning in aeroplanes, etc etc etc
But if the instant reversion to crap behaviour during a pandemic is any indication, I don’t hold much hope.
Sceptic,
‘Yet’. How soon is now, as the song goes?
I think the caution is around getting their nation to two shots at this point in time, rather than moving to mandating three.
Andrew Gold
The apology requested by William was never made.
I don’t need an apology but the memory of Kay Jay deserved better particularly as his relatives may still have been reading the blog.
Been There @ #2787 Sunday, July 11th, 2021 – 2:07 am
Erm, Canada is still a monarchy. Also just because you are not a monarchist (neither am I, btw), there’s no need for gratuitous insults.
This is an interesting analysis of Resolve Strategic, the new polling company that has taken over from Ipsos at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald:
https://insidestory.org.au/the-resolve-poll-that-resolves-very-little/
Cud Chewer @ #2240 Sunday, July 11th, 2021 – 7:36 am
The problem is that the simplistic and stochastic physics models of engineering don’t encompass the messy and unpredictable emergent exceptions of disease biology. Membranes and receptor dynamics are the Maxwell’s demons of biology. Engineering hubris only goes part of the way. Virology has to encompass everything from molecular physics to political opportunism. It’s not of much comfort to grieving relatives to say “but the modelling shows that this case was an exception”.
Looking over the horizon a little, the EU has launched in Digital Covid Certificate as at July 1 – well thought through and documented. And it’s not just a ‘vaccine passport’, it’s evidence of:
1. Vaccination
2. Negative test
3. Recovery from C19
You get a personal QR code which can ease your way through travel, and avoid quarantine at your destination. Lots of detail involved as you would expect from the Brussels Bureaucrats.
https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/coronavirus-response/safe-covid-19-vaccines-europeans/eu-digital-covid-certificate_en
Including this:
Will the EU Digital COVID Certificate be compatible with other systems developed at international level?
The Commission is working to make sure that the certificates are compatible with systems in countries outside the EU. The proposal is open to global initiatives and takes into account ongoing efforts of the WHO and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to establish specifications and guidance for using digital technologies for documenting vaccination status. Non-EU countries should be encouraged to recognise the EU Digital COVID Certificate when lifting restrictions on non-essential travel. The Certificates could serve as an example for other certificates currently being developed around the world.
The Regulation allows the Commission to issue decisions recognising certificates issued by non-EU countries to EU citizens and their family members, where such certificates meet quality standards and are interoperable with the EU trust framework.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/QANDA_21_2781
OC, as you’re here. I’m well into “Say Nothing“. I suppose you’re familiar?
rhwombat at 8:32 am
Over the years I’ve had to become familiar with several sets of specialist languages. It really drove home how words have very different and specific meanings in specialist environments compared to colloquial usage. Medicine being such a vast field would be like that with the dial turned up to 11.
Shopping “off-peak” is a slippery slope to flexible working conditions and working from home…
A useful app from one of BK’s links – km from home: https://2kmfromhome.com/10km
Itza
I found it so distressing I had to stop reading.
I intend yo give it another go shortly
Read it too OC.
Did you see the picture of Donaldson and his deputy inspecting a planned bonfire which had been the subject of unsuccessful litigation?
Depressing.
Strong intro by Speers !
Bonfires tonight and marching tomorrow. Unfortunately the province may be about to go off.
Up the long ladder
Down the short rope
Long live King Billy
F**k the Pope
A snippet from ItzaDream’s link. GBS, were he alive today , would not change his opinion too drastically 🙂
20 years of Insiders. They should take the anniversary as an opportunity to ditch Talking Pictures, which has far outlived its relevance and interest.
poroti @ #2871 Sunday, July 11th, 2021 – 9:06 am
It’s a shockingly insightful read, really well written. Not easy, as OC notes.
Albo in Queensland – should spend the next few months going the length and breadth of the Canetoad State, trying to pry a few of those 23 LNP seats
Why hasn’t our federal govt had a multi pronged vaccination program from the get go?
– acquisition
– production
– distribution
We have only focused on the first, and have failed even at that!
Fess
Agreed. I have never found cartoonists laughing at their own jokes particularly funny and rarely watch it.
Donaldson is a bigot. With a divided unionist party(s) he’s likely to try to rally the base by playing to sectarianism.
The challenge will be for sf not to let that work for Donaldson politically.
Hate to say it but Albo is woefully underprepared for Insiders.. all these questions should have been anticipated..
The govt did spend on promoting the vaccine rollout, it’s just that they put LNP logos on all the collateral and now that the rollout is a failure, have had to pull back from advertising to limit brand damage!
Oakeshott Country @ #2311 Saturday, July 10th, 2021 – 11:28 am
Up to 3 minutes, max, of actual receptionist time, which is already paid for as a normal cost of doing business. Less than 50 characters of computer keyboard input, plus ~10 point and clicks. I have installed and maintained many such systems. You, I would presume, are thoroughly familiar with them. The ‘unreasonable’ fee is, in my opinion, simply a manifestation of greed.
Sceptic:
How can you tell he’s unprepared when he’s generally a poor media performer anyway?
Some measured responses from Albanese this morning.
Albo not going to fall for Speers gotchas
Rather than ‘unprepared’, Albo is staying on message
Speer going for a gotcha ‘when can we open up’. Dickhead.
Message is vaccination debacle, rinse, repeat, rinse again
ItzaDream @ #2235 Sunday, July 11th, 2021 – 9:15 am
Albo to Speers; ask Morrison.
Albo took a while to warm up, IMO.
And despite sQomo’s best outsourced efforts, Albo has more hair on display 🙂
Let the cartoonists keep their few minutes. I think we can agree that daily they nail it re current issues/situation far better and more often than the so called journalists. Although I’m quite willing to support a Leake boycott. RW cartoonists can prick the balloons of some LW crap and provide a laugh but Johannes just ain’t funny/ironic/humorous.
Albo getting caught on moral dilemma of “ place in the queue “ over Pfizer is unforgivable.
He had no answer.. just ignored the question, he could have mentioned NZ approving J&J or mentioned our own AZ supply not being full utilised.
With all the misery and low rent behaviour going on in Australia, it’s so welcome to have some pride in two great Australian sports stars in Ash Barty and Dylan Alcott. Everyone is so proud of them.
I like the format of the interviewee first up before the panel. That way you can still watch the horse’s mouth portion of Insiders, and bail when the show gets to the chattering classes section.
Albo now onto listing out the rorts of the Liberal government – well prepared for this…
Boom Crash WHAM Smash KABOOOM
Speer going for a gotcha ‘when can we open up’.
The correct answer is probably a polite form of something along the lines of “how the * would I know?”
Beautiful numbers, but I feel it inevitably won’t last with what’s going on with Delta in NSW around the globe.
Crabb delivered as smooth as silk….. “Threw a ring around the insular peninsular”…
Brad Hazzard belling the cat – let her rip is the LNP/Murdoch led mantra
Covid Earrings!!