Resolve Strategic, Essential Research and more

A new federal poll from Resolve Strategic plus a data dump from Essential Research equals a lot to discuss.

First up, the Age/Herald bring us the forth instalment in its monthly Resolve Strategic poll series, which has so far come along reliably in the small hours of the third Wednesday each month, with either New South Wales or Victorian state numbers following the next day (this month is the turn of New South Wales – note that half the surveying in the poll due tomorrow will have been conducted pre-lockdown). The voting intention numbers have not changed significantly on last month, with the Coalition down two to 38%, Labor down one to 35%, the Greens up two to 12% and One Nation up one to 4%. This series seeks to make a virtue out of not publishing two-party preferred results, but applying 2019 election flows gives Labor a lead of around 51.5-48.5, out from 50.5-49.5 last time.

There seems to be a fair bit of noise in the state sub-samples, with Queensland recording no improvement for Labor on the 2019 election along with an unlikely surge for One Nation, which is at odds with both the recent Newspoll quarterly breakdowns and the previous two Resolve Strategic results. From slightly more robust sub-sample sizes, New South Wales and Victoria both record swings to Labor of around 2.5%; at the other end of the reliability scale, the swing to Labor in Western Australia is in double digits for the second month in a row, whereas Newspoll had it approaching 9%.

Scott Morrison records net neutral personal ratings, with approval and disapproval both at 46%, which is his worst result from any pollster since March last year. Anthony Albanese is down one on approval to 30% and up two on disapproval to 46%. Both leaders consistently perform worse in this series than they do in Newspoll and Essential Research, perhaps because respondents are asked to rate the leaders’ performances “in recent weeks”. Morrison’s lead as preferred prime minister is at 45-24, little changed from 46-23 last time. Labor’s weakness in the Queensland voting intention result is reflected in Albanese’s ratings from that state (in which he happened to spend most of last week) of 22% approval and 53% disapproval.

The poll continues to find only modest gender gaps on voting intention and prime ministerial approval, but suddenly has rather a wide one for Albanese’s personal ratings, with Albanese down five on approval among men to 28% and up six on disapproval to 51%, while respectively increasing by two to 31% and falling by two to 41% among women. The full display of results is available here; it includes 12 hand-picked qualitative assessments from respondents to the poll, of which four mention the vaccine rollout and two mention Barnaby Joyce. The poll was conducted last Tuesday to Saturday from a sample of 1607.

Also out today was the usual fortnightly Essential Research poll, which less usually included one of its occasional dumps of voting intention data, in this case for 12 polls going back to February. Its “2PP+” measure, which includes an undecided component that consistently comes in at 7% or 8%, has credited Labor with leads of two to four points for the last six fortnights. The most recent result has it at 47-45, from primary votes that come in at Coalition 40%, Labor 39%, Greens 11% and One Nation 4% if the 8% undecided are excluded. If previous election preferences are applied to these numbers, Labor’s two-party lead comes in at upwards of 52-48.

All of this provides a lot of new grist for the BludgerTrack poll aggregate, but it’s done very little to change either its recent trajectory or its current reading, which has Labor leading 52-48 on two-party preferred. The Resolve Strategic leadership ratings add further emphasis to established trends, which saw Morrison taking a hit when sexual misconduct stories hit the news in April, briefly recovering and then heading south again as the politics of the pandemic turned against him, while Albanese has maintained a slower and steadier decline.

The Essential poll also includes its occasional question on leaders attributes, although it seems to have dropped its practice of extending this to the Opposition Leader and has become less consistent in the attributes it includes. The biggest move since mid-March is a 15% drop in “good in a crisis” to 49%; on other measures, relating to honesty, vision, being in touch, accepting responsibility and being in control of his team, Morrison has deteriorated by six to nine points. A new result for “plays politics” yields an unflattering result of 73%, but there’s no way of knowing at this point how unusual this is for a political leader.

The poll also finds approval of the government’s handling of COVID-19 has not deteriorated further since the slump recorded a fortnight ago, with its good rating up two to 46% and poor up one to 31%. State government ratings are also fairly stable this time: over three surveys, the New South Wales government’s good rating has gone from 69% to 57% to 54%; Victoria’s has gone from 48% to 50% to 49%; and Queensland’s has gone from 65% to 61% to 62%. The poll was conducted Wednesday to Sunday from a sample of 1100.

In a similar vein, the Australia Institute has released polling tracking how the federal and state tiers are perceived to have handled COVID-19 since last August, which records a steadily growing gap in the states’ favour that has reached 42% to 24% in the latest survey. Breakdowns for the four largest states find Western Australia to be the big outlier at 61% to 11% in favour of the state government, with Victoria recording the narrowest gap at 34% to 25%. Fully 77% of respondents supported state border closures with only 18% opposed.

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. Good morning Dawn Patrollers

    David Crowe looks at Morrison’s rather pugnacious presser held yesterday.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/morrison-regrets-not-a-race-remark-promises-to-make-up-lost-ground-20210721-p58bq3.html
    The ‘it’s not a race’ vaccine mantra has been discarded, but the prime minister is still running around in circles trying to evade responsibility, says Katherine Murphy in a scathing assessment.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/21/morrison-offers-micro-aggression-and-deflection-when-all-we-want-is-an-apology-and-a-solution
    Scott Morrison needs to rehabilitate AstraZeneca to boost the vaccine rollout. After weeks of frustration, Morrison broke the thin facade of unity on Wednesday. With the Delta variant running amok, he put the medical experts under public pressure to rethink their advice on AstraZeneca, writes Paul Kelly.
    https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/scott-morrison-jabs-the-experts-into-rethinking-astrazeneca-vaccine/news-story/cf8c9e147668f9c178b135b410d267d7
    With growing criticism toward his poor leadership of our country, particularly through the pandemic, Scott Morrison’s popularity is slipping, writes Emma Dawson.
    https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/polls-show-morrisons-spin-wearing-thin,15316
    Just as it can’t speed up vaccine delivery, the federal government can’t slow the global timetable for joining the commitment to zero net emissions by 2050, opines Jennifer Hewett.
    https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/virus-climate-change-pose-tricky-timetables-20210721-p58br5
    David Crowe and Shane Wright report that a former supreme court judge has labelled the federal government’s $660 million car park fund “corruption” amid warnings that ministers may have breached laws that required them to spend taxpayer funds in an efficient and ethical way.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/former-judge-labels-660-million-car-park-fund-corruption-20210721-p58bo3.html
    Locked down and out-of-work Australians struggling to access Covid disaster payments are waiting hours on the phone for assistance, and even longer in some branch queues, with Centrelink staff worried in-person identification checks risk spreading the virus.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/22/totally-unacceptable-locked-down-australians-struggling-to-access-covid-payments
    Peter Brent says, “Morrison’s 2019 “miracle” can never be taken from him, and Covid still gives him purpose, but he’s not the prime minister he was two years ago. The lackadaisical attitude to the vaccination rollout, which was actually shared by others for a time, has truly come back to damage the country and the government.”
    https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7351201/political-authority-is-a-precious-commodity-use-it-or-lose-it/?cs=14246
    Berejiklian’s patchy lockdown performance has not translated into loss of votes according to a poll described by Aleandra Smith.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/voters-question-speed-of-lockdown-but-berejiklian-still-popular-20210721-p58bri.html
    Alexandra Smith writes, “If Sydney has any hope of leaving lockdown – even in some form – next Friday, that zero goal is surely now overly ambitious. Instead, it seems the government has accepted that with deplorably low vaccination rates, Delta is getting the better of it.”
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/the-thing-about-your-polls-being-in-rude-health-premier-20210721-p58bo2.html
    We’re paying companies millions to roll out COVID vaccines. But we’re not getting enough bang for our buck, explains Kesley Russell.
    https://theconversation.com/were-paying-companies-millions-to-roll-out-covid-vaccines-but-were-not-getting-enough-bang-for-our-buck-164550
    The SMH tells us that NSW is struggling to keep up with vaccination demand in south-west Sydney due to insufficient Pfizer doses and a reluctance of older residents to take AstraZeneca.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/struggle-to-meet-vaccination-demand-in-sydney-s-hotspots-as-older-residents-shun-astrazeneca-20210721-p58bq4.html
    Paul Sakkal writes about Liberal leader Michael O’Brien saying stricter border controls could have prevented Victoria’s fifth lockdown and has called for quicker closures, in a departure from the Opposition’s frequent warnings against disproportionate public health measures. O’Brien is useless!
    https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/delay-on-border-closure-exposed-victoria-to-more-risk-victorian-liberals-20210721-p58bpk.html
    The Age’s editorial examines the closing statement of counsel assisting the royal commission into Crown and wonders how that organisation, being too big to fail, can be repaired.
    https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/too-big-to-fail-how-do-we-solve-a-problem-like-crown-20210721-p58biv.html
    Buckle up! Peta Credlin writes, “The official orthodoxy, that high immigration boosts growth without depressing wages, looks like being exposed as bunkum.”
    https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/we-need-to-talk-about-immigration-policy/news-story/e69964385d02c171c6ba9586ee27cee8
    Right wing darling Nicole Flint is upset, saying that Annabel Crabb’s ABC show Ms Represented blatantly misrepresents conservatives.
    https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/annabel-crabbs-abc-show-blatantly-misrepresents-conservatives/news-story/e4c2ee4bb5b0211b77e097afec00e154
    Restoring our lives to normality after Covid is not the solution, it’s the problem, argues Jeff Sparrow who says that while Australians have been preoccupied by coronavirus, a wider environmental calamity has unfurled over the planet, manifesting in various ways in different nations.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/21/restoring-our-lives-to-normality-after-covid-is-not-the-solution-its-the-problem
    Professor of International Trade, Gary Sampson, argues that it is time to reform the global trade rules for agriculture. He says that without it, the consequences for Australian farmers will be dreadful.
    https://johnmenadue.com/reforming-global-trade-rules-for-agriculture-the-time-has-come/
    Barrister, and Labor MLC Adam Searle writes that Monday’s guilty verdict by the Supreme Court in the long-running corruption case against former NSW ministers Eddie Obeid and Ian Macdonald shows that the state continues to need a strong, well-resourced and independent anti-corruption body. Sadly, he says, this is not a universally held view.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/consider-the-obeid-result-before-meddling-with-the-icac-20210721-p58bl6.html
    Naaman Zhou reports that a private boys’ school in Perth that charges up to $27,000 a year in fees received more than $7m in jobkeeper subsidies in 2020 while declaring an operating surplus of more than $8m. The Hale School in Perth counts cabinet minister Christian Porter and Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith as alumni.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/22/hale-private-boys-school-in-perth-received-more-than-7m-in-jobkeeper
    The AFR tells us that BHP’s Australian oil and gas assets are ripe for divestment and shareholders say they would support a more aggressive exit plan from the petroleum industry
    https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/investors-would-cheer-bhp-oil-selldown-20210721-p58bny
    There is widespread political acknowledgement overseas that climate change is a serious issue that needs immediate attention. Meanwhile in Australia, pollies twist themselves into back-breaking knots to muddy the link between climate change and deadly extreme weather, laments Will Steffen representing the Climate Council.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/australia-lags-as-floods-fires-prompt-world-leaders-into-action-20210720-p58b90.html
    Westpac, one of the nation’s most corrupt major companies, has been aggressively recruiting prosecutors, lawyers and investigators from among the corporate regulator’s top brass, raising concerns the practice could further strangle its effectiveness, posits Anthny Klan.
    https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/exclusive-westpac-recruiting-key-asic-legal-figures,15318
    Jeffrey Sachs writes about the “idiocracy“ of America and how it is perilously close to becoming a failed state.
    https://johnmenadue.com/the-idiocracy-of-america/
    Alan Kohler reckons China was whacked with a wet lettuce over its cyber crimes.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2021/07/22/microsoft-exchange-china-alan-kohler/
    Craig Thomson is back in the headlines again, this time for alleged fraud against the federal government.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/former-federal-mp-craig-thomson-embroiled-in-new-fraud-investigation-20210721-p58bod.html
    Soon after withdrawing its troops, Australia is contemplating sending diplomatic and intelligence officers back to Afghanistan. China’s keen interest in the region may be the key to understanding this.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/why-return-to-afghanistan-as-fast-as-we-left-perhaps-because-china-is-filling-the-void-20210721-p58boz.html

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  2. Wat Tyler at 1:34

    Reagan got a bit of mileage in the 70s and 80s pushing the myth that welfare recipients were splurging on fancy goods (and neglecting their hungry kids of course) and of course, being American, it was also very racially coded too.

    The bloody Clintons weren’t too shy in using that crap either. The ‘reforms’ of Bubba Bill were shockers and yes ‘racially coded’.

  3. OMG those Fox Gnus peeps are a lol. Word must have gone out to switch from coverage that would encourage hesitancy to promoting vaccinations. So how to encourage ? Go a bit harder that them thar Chinese commies are to blame (hello boerwar) and as one of their hosts just told the viewers ‘The best way to get back at the Chinese is to get vaccinated’. As this would enable ‘us’ to resume their usual totally awesome Mercan life.

  4. We accept responsibility’ for slow vaccine rollout: Treasurer

    Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is doing the media rounds this morning.

    He was just speaking on Nine’s Today show to reiterate what the Prime Minister said yesterday: that the Morrison government accepts that the country’s vaccine rollout has been sluggish but will make up for lost ground.
    Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg.
    But co-host Karl Stefanovic was quick to point out that saying you regret something is different from saying sorry.

    Here’s the relevant exchange between the television personality and the Treasurer:
    Stefanovic: “People are angry, people are frustrated. The PM won’t say sorry. Are you prepared to say sorry for the rollout?”
    Frydenberg: “Well, we accept responsibility, that’s even more important, because what is key here is what takes us forward. Our focus is on ensuring as many people get the jab … but not country is doing it easy.”
    Stefanovic: “Sorry seems to be the hardest word, right?”
    Frydenberg: “Look, this is really, really difficult. This vaccine rollout…”
    Stefanovic: “Just say it, Josh.”
    Frydenberg: “We are accepting responsibility.”

  5. What an unprofessional and biased question. I thought Fran was supposed to be one of the “best”.

    @broomstick33
    #RNBreakfast Fran Kelly asks @KKeneally why Labor is engaged in ‘back-biting’ and sniping at the Morrison Govt during a pandemic

  6. Alastair Nicholson
    @alasnich
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    Morrison and Hunt fail again. ABC reports today that the Government has not taken sufficient steps to obtain advanced drugs to treat COVID.

  7. A story to go with this Dawn Patrol cartoon.


    US doctor reveals what she tells unvaccinated Covid patients

    As the US grapples with the surging Delta variant, a doctor has told of her heartwrenching deathbed conversations with unvaccinated patients.

    …………According to Alabama’s Department of Public Health, 94 per cent of the people hospitalised with covid there since April and 96 per cent of those who’ve died have been unvaccinated……………..“One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late…………………………….“They cry. And they tell me they didn’t know. They thought it was a hoax. They thought it was political. They thought because they had a certain blood type or a certain skin colour they wouldn’t get as sick. They thought it was ‘just the flu’.
    https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/us-doctor-reveals-what-she-tells-unvaccinated-covid-patients/news-story/d29fc8c4d526999d4c341e86ccf7a97c

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  8. True story:

    Back in the day, Howard was fond of saying that he couldn’t say sorry to the Stolen Generation, because he hadn’t been personally responsible.

    During the 2007 election campaign, Howard said he was sorry that interest rates going up.

    I picked up the phone, rang the ALP campaign, and pointed out that, logically, Howard was accepting personal responsibility for interest rate rises.

    Rudd used the line in a presser a few hours later.

  9. [‘We accept responsibility’ for slow vaccine rollout:

    He was just speaking on Nine’s Today show to reiterate what the Prime Minister said yesterday: that the Morrison government accepts that the country’s vaccine rollout has been sluggish but will make up for lost ground.

    But co-host Karl Stefanovic was quick to point out that saying you regret something is different from saying sorry.

    Here’s the relevant exchange between the television personality and the Treasurer:

    Stefanovic: “People are angry, people are frustrated. The PM won’t say sorry. Are you prepared to say sorry for the rollout?”

    Frydenberg: ”Well, we accept responsibility, that’s even more important because what is key here is what takes us forward. Our focus is on ensuring as many people get the jab … but no country is doing it easy.”

    Stefanovic: “Sorry seems to be the hardest word, right?”

    Frydenberg: “Look, this is really, really difficult. This vaccine rollout…”

    Stefanovic: “Just say it, Josh.”

    Frydenberg: “We are accepting responsibility.”] – SMH

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3nScN89Klo

  10. Fran Kelly asks @KKeneally why Labor is engaged in ‘back-biting’ and sniping at the Morrison Govt during a pandemic

    Let’s see, might it be because the Federal Government is corrupt and incompetent, failing badly in its response to the pandemic?

  11. That was a patronising tone by AOC President John Coates towards QLD Premier in a Press Conference. That was bloody mansplaining in front of everyone and that is not on.

  12. Top of the morning to you all and thank you BK.
    A brisk minus six overnight.
    I see that the brain dead elements of the MSM have a new gotcha: the ‘sorry’ word.
    It couldn’t happen to a worse bunch of second rate political thugs, crooks and sociopaths.
    These empathy deficient vultures can’t even bring themselves to pretend that they are sorry.
    EVERY.SINGLE.THING.THEY.TOUCH.

  13. Ven

    Coates gives the perfect example of an arrogant man who thinks he rules the world and has no respect for women. Gives his little patronising opinion and then leans back with his arms folded. I’ve seen that so often in committees.

  14. Ellen Fanning:Journo
    @ellenmfanning
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    Watch how John Coates speaks to Qld Premier @AnnastaciaMP … at a press conference on an international stage, turns mike on, arms folded, repeatedly insists she go to the Opening Ceremony despite the COVID risk rather than “hiding in your room”. Quite quite extraordinary.

  15. Steve777 says:
    Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 8:08 am
    _______________________
    1m people being vaccinated per week now Steve777.

    Thats about 2-2.5 % per week becoming fully vaccinated.

  16. Morning all. Thanks BK. Twitter shows Morrison’s laughable press release boasting of how he and Colbeck “secured” the games. Curious that the IOC invited Anna Palaszczuk to Tokyo and not Scomo if that were true.
    https://mobile.twitter.com/colonelhogans/status/1417975208019783685/photo/1

    Morrison is simply a shameless liar, and happy to do it speaking and in print.

    He has been more bashful about his role in securing covid lockdowns for Sydney, Melbourne and now Adelaide, and protecting all three from adequate vaccine supplies.

  17. ‘poroti says:
    Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 7:33 am

    OMG those Fox Gnus peeps are a lol. Word must have gone out to switch from coverage that would encourage hesitancy to promoting vaccinations. So how to encourage ? Go a bit harder that them thar Chinese commies are to blame (hello boerwar) and as one of their hosts just told the viewers ‘The best way to get back at the Chinese is to get vaccinated’. As this would enable ‘us’ to resume their usual totally awesome Mercan life.’
    ______________________________________
    Tsk, tsk.

    There IS a binary here. The comrades are constantly waging international vaccination programs as war by other means, of course. There are five comradely vaccination memes: China v US in Taiwan, the comparative efficacy of Sinovac, the hundreds of millions of jabs in China, how wonderful China is in getting vaccines to favoured international clients, and how nefarious the US is in its international vaccination initiatives. There is a constant blizzard of comradely MSM and social media propaganda in all five memes.
    Is the Fox/far right nutter v Xi/vicious comrade vaccine ‘struggle’ a framework I support as the best way of discussing national and international vaccination policies?
    No.

  18. #WeatheronPB: It’s a crisp blue-sky morning in Sydney, the coldest so far this year and likely the coldest for 2021 given that we’re almost in August: 5.2° in the City, 1.5° at Bankstown and as low as -2.1° in the outer West. Meanwhile, Marangaroo in the Blue Mountains (a frosty hollow at about 950 metres) dropped down to -7.9°.

  19. Ah, so the ‘free thinking’ Lars advocates here consists of sticking up for the government at all costs.

    And then he has the cheek to accuse others of being unobjective and partisan!

  20. We are a first world country. Why are we not completely vaccinated, with booster shots, right now?
    Yet another FAIL by Morrison, Hunt and Frydenberg.

  21. ‘Thats about 2-2.5 % per week becoming fully vaccinated.’

    And a year before everyone is. Well after the next election has been held.

    We were meant to be at over a million a week months ago.

  22. boerwar at 8:41 am
    You scored a mention for your position re the origin of the virus. Nothing at all to do with vaccines in any way shape or form.

  23. There is a media release from Morrison re QLD securing the Olympics for 2032. He’s basically taking the credit for it. Annastacia Palaszczuk wasn’t mentioned once but federal Minister Colbeck was mentioned several times. The govt apparently ‘backed the bid’ every step of the way.

    Lots of anger growing about the way that Annastacia is being treated.

  24. boerwar:

    Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 8:24 am

    [‘I see that the brain dead elements of the MSM have a new gotcha: the ‘sorry’ word.’]

    It is, however, not a bad word to press. Morrison has no doubt been advised not to use the word “sorry” as it
    personalises the bungled rollout. He may also think that apologising or saying sorry gives rise to a tortious admission. While an apology can be used in evidence,
    it depends on how it’s expressed. Generally, an apology is not an admission of guilt.

    https://www.gerardmaloufpartners.com.au/publications/apology-liability/

    Disclaimer: those facing legal liability should say nothing until they see their solicitor.

  25. zoomster says:
    Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 8:45 am
    ‘Thats about 2-2.5 % per week becoming fully vaccinated.’

    And a year before everyone is. Well after the next election has been held.

    We were meant to be at over a million a week months ago.
    _______________
    No zoomster. Even Steve777 and his good friends at the Guardian now say February 2022

  26. Why can’t the government assure those that take up the AstraZeneca vaccine that they will get a Pfizer (maybe Moderna) top up by mid next year?
    Somehow we have to significantly and quickly boost the proportion oof the vaccinated in the community.

  27. ‘poroti says:
    Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 8:47 am

    boerwar at 8:41 am
    You scored a mention for your position re the origin of the virus. Nothing at all to do with vaccines in any way shape or form.’
    _________________________________
    No worries. The comrades have a sixth meme which, out of a sense of delicacy for the feelings of some fellow Bludgers, I forbore to mention: the origins of the virus. Inter alia, they have a social media campaign running in China in which over four million Chinese ‘netizens’ have signed a ‘petition’ to WHO to investigate Fort Detterick. They recently touted an article proving conclusively that it was impossible for a Wuhan lab misadventure to have occurred. They are attacking the head of WHO for raising the possibility that the decision to exclude the Wuhan lab complex was ‘premature’, etc, etc, etc. The comrades are engaged in a constant blizzard of aggression, deflection, pseudo science, personal attacks and institutional ‘initiatives’ in relation to Wuhan.
    The only thing Xi’s comrades will not do is supply the 2019 and 2020 raw samples.
    Strange, but true.

  28. Mavis
    All true. The element that I appreciate most is that Morrison is being hoist on his pet petard: fatuous bullshit framing of serious policy issues.

  29. zoomstersays:
    Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 7:57 am
    True story:

    Back in the day, Howard was fond of saying that he couldn’t say sorry to the Stolen Generation, because he hadn’t been personally responsible.

    During the 2007 election campaign, Howard said he was sorry that interest rates going up.

    I picked up the phone, rang the ALP campaign, and pointed out that, logically, Howard was accepting personal responsibility for interest rate rises.

    Rudd used the line in a presser a few hours later.
    ________________________
    Strange that it took you so long to drop this anecdote of influence. Should we expect a slow leak of similarly themed power moves?

  30. It’s Scotty so an apology would go like this “I would like to offer my deepest and most sincere apologies for the disastrous vaccine roll out that Greg Hunt was totally responsible for.”

  31. Certainly one million doses per week is an improvement but vaccine is still very much in short supply. With a bit over ten million administered, we need about another 30 million. We might get there by February next year, at least four months later than it should have been. Meanwhile, right now, most of our working-age and younger population remain fully exposed.

  32. I’m just back from taking my son to get his first Pfizer shot at the local hospital. Quite the line up to get it. At 7.30am! Whilst waiting for any immediate allergic reactions to occur (none, thankfully), he was sat next to a couple of cops and apparently Gladys is planning for a good news announcement to revive her fading fortunes, with the Central Coast, and likely the Illawarra, to be allowed out of lockdown sooner than the rest of Greater Sydney. As we have not had one case of Delta here.

  33. VicGovDH @VicGovDH

    Reported yesterday: 26 new local cases and 2 new cases acquired overseas (currently in HQ).
    – 14,230 vaccine doses were administered
    – 43,674 test results were received
    More later: https://t.co/lIUrl1hf3W#COVID19Vic #COVID19VicData pic.twitter.com/7j1ACJv4i7

    “The good news is 24 out of the 26 cases were in quarantine throughout their entire infectious period and all of the cases are linked to known outbreaks.”

  34. We should be 100% vaccinated right now.
    This ‘we’ll be home by Christmas’ is an extremely low expectation when half of us are locked up right now.

  35. July 21, 2021 at 7:18 PM Edit
    I can’t wait to hear Scotty regale us with tales of how he single handedly won us the ‘Lympics’

    What an easy prediction to make. Fulfilled within hours 😆

    lizzie at 8:48 am
    There is a media release from Morrison re QLD securing the Olympics for 2032. He’s basically taking the credit for it.

  36. Daughter went to Prahran Market last Saturday. Now she is in isolation until she gets a negative test result. Her police work now has to be done online.

  37. Steve777 says:
    Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 8:59 am
    Certainly one million doses per week is an improvement but vaccine is still very much in short supply. With a bit over ten million administered, we need about another 30 million. We might get there by February next year, at least four months later than it should have been. Meanwhile, right now, most of our working-age and younger population remain fully exposed.
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    True that.

  38. Another reason Morrison & his obsequious underlings won’t say “sorry” is that he wants to spread the blame for the fumbled rollout, in particular, ATAGI (Re. its advice on A-Z) and of course Labor premiers and chief ministers.

  39. 24 of 26 new cases in Vic already in isolation.
    Very promising. Thanks to everyone who’s corralling this bastard of a virus.

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