Resolve Strategic: Coalition 39, Labor 31, Greens 10

Another idiosyncratic set of voting intention numbers from the Age/Herald pollster, suggesting the Coalition would again be returned with a small majority.

The Age/Herald has published its monthly federal voting intention poll from Resolve Strategic, which appeared online yesterday and in print today. The series remains an outlier in its soft reading of support for Labor, who are down one point on the primary vote to 31%, with the Coalition also down one to 39% and the Greens down two on 10%.

With the main players all down, “others” has shot up four points to 7%, which if nothing else about this poll is consistent with this week’s Newspoll – perhaps suggesting that Clive Palmer’s expensive efforts to win support from lockdown skeptics may be having an impact. One Nation also enjoys a mini-surge, up two points to 4%. The remaining 9%, down one on last month, goes to “independents”, which the pollster contentiously includes as a distinct option despite uncertainty as to what candidates voters in most seats will have available to them at the election.

The pollster does not produce its own two-party results, but if preference flows from 2019 are applied to the primary votes, they come out with a Coalition lead of nearly 52-48 – quite unlike Newspoll’s and Roy Morgan’s Labor leads of 53-47 and 52.5-47.5. Anticipating a lively reaction from the Twitter mob, the accompanying report offers the following note of explanation:

The Resolve survey uses a different methodology from others. There is no “undecided” category because Resolve asks voters to nominate their primary votes in the same way they fill in their ballot papers for the lower house at an election. This means the final Resolve tables do not exclude the “uncommitted” group, which can be about 8 per cent of all respondents. There is no “uncommitted” cohort. Respondents have to choose an option.

As usual, breakdowns are offered for the three largest states (they used to have Western Australia as well, but seem to have dropped it now), which suggest a Coalition lead in New South Wales that has grown from around 51-49 last month to 53.5-46.5. In Victoria, the implication is of a stable Labor lead of around 51.5-48.5. In Queensland, however, Labor has done quite a bit better than a particularly bad result last month, suggesting a Coalition lead of 53-47 rather than 58.5-41.5, while tanking in “rest of Australia”, where both major parties lose share to independents and others.

On personal ratings, both leaders are up three on approval and down one on disapproval: Scott Morrison to 49% approval (by which I mean a combined very good and good result) and 45% disapproval (ditto for very poor and poor), Anthony Albanese to 31% and 46%. Morrison’s lead as preferred prime minister narrows from 46-23 to 45-26. I don’t normally pay much attention to breakdowns on leadership ratings, but it may be worth nothing that Albanese has a 30% undecided rating among women compared with 16% among men.

The poll was conducted Tuesday to Saturday from a sample of 1606. At some point in the future, I will take a deeper look at the pollster’s peculiarities relative to its rivals. Tomorrow we should get its bi-monthly read on state voting intention in New South Wales, combining results from this month’s and last month’s surveys.

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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  2. only once in the last 30 years in federal elections the lib/nats retain government with a combined primary vote under 40%, 1998 The howard government was retained due to a huge win in the 1996 , where the lib/nats could afford to lose 10+ seats and remain in government

    It will be impossible with 76seats which the lib/nats hold at the moment , can form any kind of government with a combined primary vote of less then 40 %

    The lib/nats combined primary vote will need to be over 40% to try to retain the 76seats they hold

  3. Former prime minister Paul Keating has escalated his attack on the new AUKUS security partnership unveiled by the Morrison government, unleashing fury on his own side for supporting the deal and characterising it as the “surrender” of Australia’s control of its military.

    In a no-holds-barred statement, the former Labor leader said Prime Minister Scott Morrison has led Australia away from the Asian century and back towards a “jaded and faded Anglosphere”, with the current ALP leadership “complicit in [a] historic backslide’.

    Mr Keating takes particular aim at Labor’s foreign affairs spokeswoman Senator Penny Wong, saying that in her five years in the role she has “by her muted complicity with the government’s foreign policy and posture… neutered Labor’s traditional stance as to Australia’s right to strategic autonomy”.

    “Instead Wong went along with the stance of [former coalition foreign minister] Julie Bishop and [current foreign minister] Marise Payne … and did it with licence provided by Bill Shorten as leader, and now, Anthony Albanese”.

    Mr Keating’s furious broadside comes amid worsening diplomatic fallout from the AUKUS announcement, which saw Australia dump its $90 billion contract to acquire conventionally powered submarines from France in favour of a new, trilateral “security partnership” with the UK and the US which would provide the Royal Australian Navy with eight nuclear-powered submarines, at an as-yet-unknown cost.

    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/keating-turns-fury-on-labor-and-government-over-aukus-deal-20210921-p58tlc.html

    There’s more but Mr Bowe would chuck a hissy fit if I cut and pasted all of it.

  4. And Paul Keating would be wrong. He arguably lost Labor votes at the 2019 election with his intemperate broadside at Labor and in furious support of China. Sadly, he’s so embedded in China he can no longer see the wood for the trees.

    *runsandhidesfromtheincomingfriendlyfire* 😆

  5. At least The Age has the maturity to print Keating’s criticism of it.

    Labor is complicit in the historic backslide. The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age have been up to their necks in it also. Peter Hartcher’s bi-weekly froth-mouthed articles about China and its supposed threat, along with Chris Uhlmann and his wicked representation of China as marauding Nazis, has constituted an important part of the climate that has allowed Morrison to now shop the country to the Americans.

    China does not attack other states, unlike the United States, which does attack other states, yet the Herald and The Age have portrayed China as an aggressor power with malevolent intentions.

    In a measure of luck, Australians have been vested with a continent of our own. A continent having a border with no one – with no other state. And certainly, not remotely within any territorial contest or claim by China, which is 10 flying hours from Australia’s east coast cities.

    The notion that Australia is in a state of military apprehension about China, or needs to be, is a distortion and lie of the worst and most grievous proportions. By its propagation, Australia is determinedly casting China as an enemy – and in the doing of it, actually creating an enemy where none exists.

    So poisonous are the Liberals towards China they are prepared for Australia to lose its way in the neighbourhood of Asia, in search of Australia’s security from Asia, by submission to yet another strategic guarantor – 240 years into our history.

    https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia/morrison-is-making-an-enemy-of-china-and-labor-is-helping-him-20210921-p58tek.html

  6. mundo
    Definitely not happy Jan.

    “It takes a monster level of incompetence to forfeit military control of one’s own state”, he said, “but this is what Scott Morrison and his government have managed to do”

    .

    …. the former Labor leader said Prime Minister Scott Morrison has led Australia away from the Asian century and back towards a “jaded and faded Anglosphere”, with the current ALP leadership “complicit in [a] historic backslide’.

    .

    Mr Keating takes particular aim at Labor’s foreign affairs spokeswoman Senator Penny Wong, saying that in her five years in the role she has “by her muted complicity with the government’s foreign policy and posture… neutered Labor’s traditional stance as to Australia’s right to strategic autonomy”.

    “Instead Wong went along with the stance of [former coalition foreign minister] Julie Bishop and [current foreign minister] Marise Payne … and did it with licence provided by Bill Shorten as leader, and now, Anthony Albanese”.

  7. The Lib/nats decline in the primary vote after the 2013 federal election

    2013 Libs/nats won government with a combined primary vote of 45%+ = 91 seats

    2016 Lib/nats retain government with a combined primary vote of 42%+ = 76 seats

    2019 Lib/nats retain government with a combined primary vote of 41%+ = 77 seats

    It is clear as daylight the Lib/nats will lose the election easily with a combined primary vote of under 40%

  8. More rorts! Although most people knew this was happening.

    Landholders in far western NSW received a combined $300 million in public funds under a carbon credit scheme to not remove trees from their land, but experts say farmers were unlikely to have chopped them down even if they weren’t paid.

    Projects registered under the Commonwealth Emissions Reductions Fund (ERF) avoided deforestation scheme were required to provide additional carbon capture that would not have occurred without payments to farmers for forfeiting land clearing rights.

    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/analysis-finds-300m-paid-to-farmers-to-keep-trees-they-were-unlikely-to-clear-20210920-p58t4u.html

  9. C@tmomma says:
    Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 6:48 am
    And Paul Keating would be wrong. He arguably lost Labor votes at the 2019 election with his intemperate broadside at Labor and in furious support of China. Sadly, he’s so embedded in China he can no longer see the wood for the trees.

    *runsandhidesfromtheincomingfriendlyfire*
    ____________________________
    Agree he was wrong on this and wrong on Kristina Keneally.

  10. Given poll results are ‘analysed’ (ie justified by reverse analysis) by every commentator on morning radio & TV (bar competitor stations) I’d be cautious accepting Resolve at face value.
    Call me cynical but it’s obvious that Costello’s 9news wants the Liberals to win. Look how they reported the ratbag demo in Melbourne,
    Anyway, what happened to WA’s results? Too embarrassing for Scotty?
    Did they even poll WA? I guess we’ll never know.

  11. At the upcoming federal election i doubt very much Lib/nats combined primary vote and Labor primary vote will both be under 40%

    One of them will be over 40% in the primary vote

  12. Labor placed all its bets on the theme that the vaccine roll-out was botched after the media destroyed the viability of AZ.

    That was always a dangerous bet when Morrison had an open chequebook to buy vaccines around the world – which is exactly what he did.

    For all the sound and noise generated about the vaccine – the roll out will be pretty much done by the end of October as promised. Essentially Morrison will be able to say Promise Made, Promise Kept.

    This Resolve Poll may just be the beginning for Labor….

  13. I guess Narendra Modi doesn’t know what he’s talking about either:

    Three years ago, China’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Wang Yi, dismissed the Quad as something so insubstantial it would “dissipate like the foam on the sea”. Paul Keating agreed and predicted that it was “not taking off”.

    Wrong and wrong. The Chinese Communist Party and its leading Australian apologist are so captured by the idea of China’s inevitable dominance that they failed to understand that the world was reordering itself to resist.

    India’s Prime Minister Modi says that the Quad “will now remain an important pillar of stability in the region”.

  14. The US and British willingness to share their sensitive nuclear propulsion technology with Australia is a totem of trust rather than a contract to deliver a capability.

    Which is the point made by Rory Medcalf, head of the ANU’s National Security College: “This new triple near-alliance is based on capability, convergent interest and, above all, trust.”

    More relevant for the next 20 years than any submarines is all the other stuff. The arrangement is “nothing less than a merger of military, industrial and scientific capabilities” of the three maritime Anglophone democracies. It explicitly cites quantum, cyber, artificial intelligence and guided missile technologies, among others.

    Xi’s 2012 acceptance speech didn’t anticipate these sorts of balancing moves by other nations.

    Major European nations, too, have grown increasingly anxious about Beijing’s plans for dominance of the global commons.

    Britain, Germany and France have increased their naval patrols through the South China Sea this year to signal their interest in preserving an open and stable Indo-Pacific.

    https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/as-the-world-reorders-itself-to-resist-china-it-s-a-pity-the-latest-move-was-so-boofheaded-20210920-p58t3n.html

    Europe knows and will know the detail this week, of why this move was necessary.

  16. Does anyone else here think Scomo&Co. with the help of the compliant Murdochcracy,Ch9 and Ch7 media is whipping up sentiment for a khaki style election. Khaki- clad prematurely aged grey men running every government action and being a Shoe in for GG sinecure every time. Anti China hysteria in our yobbo/ bogan ( please send Karl,Koshie , Kerrie Ann and the Sixty minutes crew instead of me) media is stoking up the dopey amongst us to think of war as being a viable option, When the next war will involve long range missiles not just SAS guys running amok a long way away. ALP needs to get out of lockstep with these turds and find a constructive way forward. China is losing friends everywhere and is surrounded by pissed off neighbours I reckon there might be another way forward and ALP needs to find it or they risk the voters going back to Daddy LNP again when we desperately need a change of government.

  17. So it’s ok for Australia to acquire French diesel powered submarines, due to become available in ~15 years, because the PRC can live with that, but not okay for Australia to acquire US/UK nuclear powered submarines, due to become available in ~2o years, because the PRC will be upset about it?

    I have no particular views on what subs we should we have when, or how they should be powered – and if I did have views, as I lack expertise those views would be ill-informed.

    I can’t see that it makes any sense though to base that decision on whether or not the PRC will be upset. Based on experience, anything other than unqualified support for the PRC, including its activities in the South China Sea and its treatment of the Uighur and Tibetan minorities, will send the Chinese Communist Party into paroxysms of rage anyway.

  18. National MPs, including former leader Michael McCormack, have taken aim at controversial colleague George Christensen, accusing him of “stirring up” violent mobs at anti-lockdown protests and using his profile as a government MP to validate their behaviour.

    Mr McCormack said the controversial backbench MP needed to think “long and hard” about his actions and should publicly apologise for several incendiary statements on social media, which included calling for the arrest of two Victoria Police officers for using “excessive force” at protests at the weekend.

    Mr Christensen’s comments supporting “freedom fighters” at the ugly rallies in Melbourne have reignited fierce divisions within the party, with furious MPs swapping angry texts with each other on Monday on a group message service.

    The conversation became so heated Mr Christensen removed himself from the group on the encrypted messaging app Signal, as did Victorian MP Darren Chester, who has been a lead critic of his Queensland colleague.

    Mr McCormack, who was dumped as party leader in June, said Mr Christensen’s comments were “ill-informed” and potentially “inciting violence” against police. He said Mr Christensen was “hiding under the doona” and had become the “keyboard warrior” he had long rallied against.

    The former deputy prime minister also criticised his successor, Barnaby Joyce, for not publicly condemning Mr Christensen’s comments when given the opportunity on Monday.

    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/nationals-explode-over-george-christensen-s-call-to-arrest-police-officers-20210921-p58tj6.html


  19. Labor placed all its bets on the theme that the vaccine roll-out was botched after the media destroyed the viability of AZ.

    Lars always a sucker for the rope-a-dope strategy…

  21. Lars Von Trier says:
    Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 7:04 am

    For all the sound and noise generated about the vaccine – the roll out will be pretty much done by the end of October as promised. Essentially Morrison will be able to say Promise Made, Promise Kept.

    ——————–
    Not true at all

    Morrison broke his promise Australians would be first amongst the world to receive vaccines
    Morrison broke his promise of 4 million Australians being vaccinated by end of March 2021
    Morrison broke his promise of up to 90% Australians being vaccinated by October 2021

    The broken promises caused the mess Australians are in now

  25. lizzie says:
    Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 6:50 am

    …
    China does not attack other states, unlike the United States, which does attack other states, yet the Herald and The Age have portrayed China as an aggressor power with malevolent intentions.
    …’
    _____________________________________________
    Insanity abounds.
    We just came out of a two decade long lost war started, at least in part, because the fuckers who started it did not read history.
    Now a different set of fuckers are telling us that China does not attack other states. Try telling that to Tibet, India, Vietnam, Korea, the Phillipines, Russia, Taiwan…
    At least we could limp away from Afghanistan. We will not be walking away from a war with China.

  26. This sort of headline in The Australian will help relations with China. Rupe still really pissed at marrying Wendy for nothing as the Chinese still told Rupes to GAGF when he made his big play 🙂

    China’s the main game. Removing Xi is how to play it

    The only way to avoid a devastating conflict is to facilitate a coup within China’s Communist Party. This is how it could be done.

    By PAUL MONK

    https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/china-is-the-main-game-and-removing-xi-is-how-to-play-it/news-story/a22e5afbd7f2bc9df1437ec4ecf4fab5

  28. max says:
    Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 7:11 am

    …

    I can’t see that it makes any sense though to base that decision on whether or not the PRC will be upset.
    …’
    ______________________________________
    The binary is not that simple.

  29. ”Does anyone else here think Scomo&Co. with the help of the compliant Murdochcracy,Ch9 and Ch7 media is whipping up sentiment for a khaki style election.”

    Yes.

    Should there ever be an actual war in which Australia was threatened, the Coalition would prove as corrupt and incompetent as they have proved in dealing with the pandemic, global heating and submarines.

  30. Good morning Dawn Patrollers. Chew on this!

    Australia’s forecast economic growth has been sharply downgraded by the OECD as COVID-19 Delta outbreaks leave major cities in lockdown, but the nation is expected to avoid a double-dip recession, report Shane Wright and Jennifer Duke.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/oecd-cuts-australia-s-economic-growth-outlook-20210921-p58tj3.html
    And Wright tells us that almost nine in ten Australians will face higher average tax rates over the next decade despite the federal government’s three-stage income tax cut plan, with new independent analysis showing the budget will increasingly rely on ordinary workers to recover from the COVID-19 recession.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/tax-cuts-to-soon-disappear-as-budget-relies-on-workers-to-recover-from-covid-19-20210921-p58tfj.html
    He adds to the story, saying Sisyphus pushed a boulder up a hill. Australian treasurers face a similar problem with the nation’s tax system.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/sisyphus-and-treasurers-face-the-same-problem-the-work-doesn-t-stop-20210921-p58tj2.html
    Looking ahead to the next election and its timing, Ross Gittins points out that models, based on unmentioned explicit and implicit assumptions, inevitably give politicians and punters a false sense of certainty. He reckons national security and climate change will be neutered issues, leaving the economy as the battleground.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/timing-the-economy-to-fit-a-pandemic-election-is-a-tricky-business-20210921-p58tf5.html
    Phil Coorey reckons the Morrison government will give itself the option of a March poll by adding unspecified spending into the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook in December.
    https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/government-to-add-election-war-chest-to-myefo-20210921-p58tfq
    The Doherty Institute’s modelling has been endlessly debated, dissected and criticised. Here, scientists speak for themselves, as they answer the big questions about the report.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-doherty-reopening-report-all-your-questions-answered-hopefully-20210921-p58teo.html
    Matthew Knott reports that Joe Biden has declared Australia is America’s closest and most reliable ally during his first one-on-one meeting with Scott Morrison.
    https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/we-re-in-lockstep-biden-hails-australia-at-meeting-with-morrison-20210922-p58tnf.html
    Not content with accusing the government of selling out Australia’s security interests, Paul Keating has opened fire on his own side as well, writes Deborah Snow.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/keating-turns-fury-on-labor-and-government-over-aukus-deal-20210921-p58tlc.html
    Here is Keating’s op-ed, headlined, “Morrison is making an enemy of China – and Labor is helping him”.
    https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/morrison-is-making-an-enemy-of-china-and-labor-is-helping-him-20210921-p58tek.html
    The Australia Institute’s Alan Behm writes that Australia’s decision to join with the United States and the United Kingdom to build Australian long-range nuclear-powered submarines has little to do with the defence of Australia.
    https://johnmenadue.com/scott-morrisons-giant-nuclear-election-ploy/
    Bevan Shields tells us that one of Europe’s most senior leaders has reminded Prime Minister Scott Morrison of the need for “transparency and loyalty” during an awkward encounter in New York, as more countries openly criticise the new AUKUS defence pact.
    https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/top-eu-leader-rebukes-scott-morrison-during-awkward-new-york-encounter-20210922-p58tnd.html
    Australia’s nuclear-power submarines will greatly enhance Australia’s ability to provide for its own self-reliant defence. Nevertheless, the new strategic approach confronts us with a number of almighty challenges, says Jon Stanford.
    https://johnmenadue.com/the-aukus-pact-if-you-want-peace-prepare-for-war/
    Anthony Galloway informs us that Australia could take up to three years to formally break away from the $90 billion submarine agreement with France as it looks to build a nuclear-propelled fleet with the United States and Britain.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australia-france-submarine-deal-could-take-three-years-to-terminate-20210921-p58tfd.html
    Australia is drawn more closely into the web of American anti-Chinese warmongering. President Joe Biden speaks of peer competition, yet on all fronts, and importantly on the domestic front, China is winning hands down, opines Dr William Briggs.
    https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/china-and-how-america-lost-peer-competition,15540
    After mishandling its cancellation of the French submarines contract, the Morrison government is making things worse by suggesting the French really must have, or should have, known what was coming. Michelle Grattan says Morrison and Macron need to talk.
    https://theconversation.com/view-from-the-hill-morrison-and-macron-need-to-talk-168390
    While our Prime Minister receives criticism for steering us down a path of warmongering with the AUKUS alliance, this course was initially started prior to Scott Morrison. In this article from 2019, Dr Binoy Kampmark examined the roles of Tony Abbott and Christopher Pyne in Australia’s nuclear submarine development and how the French contract was bound to fail.
    https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/flashback-2019-like-a-fish-out-of-water-australias-submarine-project-is-a-flop,15542
    Michael Pascoe criticises our Acting PM’s loose lips when it comes to national security.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2021/09/22/michael-pascoe-barnaby-joyce-iran-threat/
    A clear majority of Australians want the federal government to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, lifting support for the target to 60 per cent as Scott Morrison faces pressure from world leaders to take more action on climate change, says David Crowe about a new Resolve poll.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/clear-majority-of-australians-want-net-zero-emissions-by-2050-20210921-p58tkk.html
    In this op-ed Boris Johnson, ahead of the Glasgow Summitt, stridently declares that in the years to come, the only great powers will be green powers.
    https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/in-the-years-to-come-the-only-great-powers-will-be-green-powers-20210921-p58tkr.html
    Landholders in far western NSW received a combined $300 million in public funds under a carbon credit scheme to not remove trees from their land, but experts say farmers were unlikely to have chopped them down even if they weren’t paid, reveals Mike Foley. A rural rort? Surely not!
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/analysis-finds-300m-paid-to-farmers-to-keep-trees-they-were-unlikely-to-clear-20210920-p58t4u.html
    About 20% of carbon credits created under the federal Coalition’s main climate change policy do not represent real cuts in carbon dioxide and are essentially “junk”, new research suggests.
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/22/one-in-five-carbon-credits-under-australias-main-climate-policy-are-junk-cuts-research-finds
    Sarah Martin tells us that Labor candidate Daniel Repacholi deleted his Instagram account that followed a range of accounts that included naked women posing with assault rifles and near-naked women in sexually provocative poses after he was selected by the party to run for the federal seat of Hunter, in New South Wales. Labor shot in its own foot, by the look of it!
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/22/labor-captains-pick-for-hunter-followed-sexually-suggestive-gun-toting-instagram-profiles
    Elizabeth Knight explains why China’s property mess is Australia’s problem. Hint: iron ore.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/why-china-s-property-mess-is-australia-s-problem-20210921-p58tk4.html
    Writing about Victoria’s road map, Julie Szego says the inoculated sensible cannot be made hostage to the wilfully unprotected – but there will be a cost.
    https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/road-map-leads-us-to-stark-choices-20210921-p58tfl.html
    The SMAge tells us about the protests in Melbourne yesterday and that the police have said they will use “different tactics” if they happen again today.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/victoria/fury-on-melbourne-s-streets-as-police-change-tactics-and-prepare-for-more-20210921-p58tkg.html
    The far right are capable recruiters and have found fertile ground thanks to COVID, explains research fellow, Josh Roose.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-far-right-are-capable-recruiters-and-have-found-fertile-ground-thanks-to-covid-20210921-p58tn7.html
    The editorial in the SMH says that the riots in Victoria could easily spread to NSW. If they do, the government should take firm steps in the interest of community health.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/nsw-is-not-immune-from-anti-vax-tensions-rampaging-in-victoria-20210921-p58tkx.html
    According to Rob Harris, National MPs, including former leader Michael McCormack, have taken aim at controversial colleague George Christensen, accusing him of “stirring up” violent mobs at anti-lockdown protests and using his profile as a government MP to validate their behaviour. The man is a fool!
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/nationals-explode-over-george-christensen-s-call-to-arrest-police-officers-20210921-p58tj6.html
    Unionists are talking at cross purposes after rolling protests by construction workers over the past few days exposed fault lines in the movement, writes Nick Bonyhady.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/unions-stance-on-vaccine-mandates-clear-as-mud-20210921-p58tky.html
    Here’s a solid contribution from union leader Luke Hilakari on vaccinations.
    https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/unions-support-vaccination-to-keep-workers-safe-20210921-p58til.html
    The government shutdown of Victoria’s construction industry has prompted one of the largest protests staged in Australia since the start of the pandemic, with frustrated labourers, libertarian activists and anti-vaxxers occupying Melbourne’s streets and clashing intermittently with riot police. The Age says that it has given opportunity for others to vent their anger at Melbourne’s protracted lockdown.
    https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/construction-shutdown-sparks-huge-protest-as-fault-lines-exposed-20210921-p58tkw.html
    New South Wales is turning to other states and overseas to recruit nurses to help cope with the predicted peak in Covid cases requiring hospitalisation next month, with some regional hospitals offering generous travel and pay incentives, reveals Elias Visontay.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/22/nsw-recruiting-nurses-from-interstate-and-overseas-to-cope-with-rising-covid-cases-in-hospitals
    Privately practising nurse practitioners offer the best solution for vaccinated marginalised populations, but they have been excluded from access to Commonwealth emergency pandemic vaccines, complains Mary Chiarella.
    https://johnmenadue.com/how-nurse-practitioners-have-been-shut-out-of-the-vaccine-rollout/
    The Guadian has approached Sydney’s health workers on whether or not the system is coping under Covid. The workers complain of a lack of staff and have blunt messages for the NSW premier and Prime Minister.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/21/we-are-absolutely-in-crisis-sydneys-health-workers-on-whether-the-system-is-coping-under-covid
    Here’s what happens when you’re hospitalised with COVID, explain these health professionals for The Conversation. Very interesting.
    https://theconversation.com/heres-what-happens-when-youre-hospitalised-with-covid-167544
    Scott Morrison and the Liberal Government are heading Australia towards a Handmaid’s Tale scenario in terms of women’s rights, writes Labor MP Graham Perrett.
    https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/morrison-government-setting-australia-backward-in-womens-rights,15541
    For months, markets shrugged off signs that giant Chinese property developer Evergrande was in distress. But some believe they’re ignoring another huge risk, writes Karen Maley who points to the acrimonious stoush in Washington over the debt ceiling – the maximum amount the US government is allowed to borrow.
    https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/the-other-big-risk-markets-are-underestimating-20210919-p58sw5
    The high fashion house which counts Cartier and Piaget among its brands took JobKeeper, enjoyed a sterling rise in profits and gave local executives a pay rise while their Luxembourg parent, Richemont, helped itself to a large dividend, explains Michael West.
    https://www.michaelwest.com.au/jadore-josh-not-just-gucci-and-louis-vuitton-cartier-and-burberry-got-jobkeeper-too/
    Peter Dutton intends to take the stand in his defamation trial against a refugee activist scheduled to begin next month.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/21/peter-dutton-to-be-sole-witness-in-defamation-case-against-refugee-activist
    A nephew of Prime Minister Scott Morrison has narrowly avoided jail after carrying out illegal and defective building work for multiple clients in an apparent bid to fuel a cocaine habit.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/prime-minister-s-nephew-on-the-cusp-of-jail-fined-26k-over-building-offences-20210921-p58tfm.html
    Epik long has been the favourite Internet company of the far-right, providing domain services to QAnon theorists, Proud Boys and other instigators of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol – allowing them to broadcast hateful messages from behind a veil of anonymity. But that veil abruptly vanished last week when a huge breach by the hacker group Anonymous dumped into public view more than 150 gigabytes of previously private data – including user names, passwords and other identifying information of Epik’s customers.
    https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/huge-hack-reveals-embarrassing-details-of-proud-boys-qanon-and-other-hate-groups-20210922-p58tnu.html

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  33. poroti
    Xi has by now judicially murdered well over over 30,000 of his enemies. There have been several attempts on his life to date.
    When you are dealing with a genocidal megalomaniac putting a bit of asymmetric effort into having him assassinated is not at all a bad idea, IMO. Xi has tied himself to the mast with respect to the forthcoming Taiwan War. But helping his internal enemies to assassinate him won’t solve the essential problem: China is being run by the PKI and the PKI is the sum of its parts, Xi notwithstanding.

  34. ‘Jaeger says:
    Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 7:31 am

    Insects are vanishing from our planet at an alarming rate. But there are ways to help them

    In Germany, flying insects have declined by 76% in 26 years. In the UK, common butterfly populations have fallen by 46% since 1976. We should be alarmed by this insect apocalypse

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/21/insects-vanishing-alarming-help‘
    __________________________________
    I’d like to find a way of getting rid of European honeybees from Australia. They are massive interceptors of of nutrients which would otherwise go to native Australian insects.

  37. Just imagine if Morrison and his cronies did not break their promises on the Vaccine Rollout

    Australia would be close to being over 85% vaccinated at this point

  38. Lars Von Trier

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-03/covid-19-vaccine-rollout-scott-morrison-original-timetable/100342474
    During a December 28, 2020 news conference, he said the government expected the population to be fully vaccinated by the end of October.

    “Our goal is always under-promise, over-deliver, and we expect that Australians will be fully vaccinated by the end of October, on the basis of it’s free, it’s universal, and it’s entirely voluntary,” Mr Hunt said.

    ——————–

    Morrison and his cronies should be apologising for breaking their promises

  39. max @ #NaN Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021 – 7:11 am

    So it’s ok for Australia to acquire French diesel powered submarines, due to become available in ~15 years, because the PRC can live with that, but not okay for Australia to acquire US/UK nuclear powered submarines, due to become available in ~2o years, because the PRC will be upset about it?

    I have no particular views on what subs we should we have when, or how they should be powered – and if I did have views, as I lack expertise those views would be ill-informed.

    I can’t see that it makes any sense though to base that decision on whether or not the PRC will be upset. Based on experience, anything other than unqualified support for the PRC, including its activities in the South China Sea and its treatment of the Uighur and Tibetan minorities, will send the Chinese Communist Party into paroxysms of rage anyway.

    Exactly.

  41. If Morrison and his cronies were not incompetent , would the Australian international borders and state/territory borders be closed at present time

  43. Is this the “quality” Labor should be looking for?

    The former Olympic shooter and coalminer, described by outgoing Hunter MP Joel Fitzgibbon as a “normal larrikin Australian”, has already been forced to apologise for some of his social media activity, including describing India as a “shit hole” on his return from the Commonwealth Games in 2010.

  44. From BK’s roundup (thanks, as always, BK):
    “Matthew Knott reports that Joe Biden has declared Australia is America’s closest and most reliable ally during his first one-on-one meeting with Scott Morrison.”

    Now the British will really be pissed off. They think they’re America’s closest ally! LOL. Why do world “leaders” say rubbish like this to every foreign dignitary visiting them? Still, Scotty will have got a warm and fuzzy feeling out of it. I imagine Biden had his fingers crossed behind his back when he said it.

  45. Morning all.

    Much thanks BK!

    This piece by Sally McManus is spot on.
    There is no leadership at the federal level whatsoever. Morrison and co are incompetent at everything they do.

    These people are a danger to us all. They are spreading covid & undermining vaccines. This will cost lives. Unions are standing up to them. Where is our Prime Minister? https://t.co/zokZIaGKsU

  47. Notice how the corrupt lib/nats propaganda media units and Gladys already lied about freedoms being restored after the 70%/80% double dose being reached .

    The Sydney new years eve fireworks at 9 pm being cancelled – the reason is covid 19

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