The Australian has dropped a new Newspoll a fortnight rather than three weeks after the last, perhaps portending a quickening of the schedule as the federal election approaches. Labor’s two-party lead is unchanged at 53-47, from primary votes of Coalition 37% (steady), Labor 37% (down one), Greens 11% (up one) and One Nation 2% (down one). Scott Morrison is up two on approval to 48% and disapproval to 49%, while Anthony Albanese is steady on 37% and down one to 47%. Morrison’s lead as preferred prime minister edges from 47-35 to 47-34. The poll was conducted Wednesday to Sunday from a sample of 1545.
UPDATE: The poll also found 59% approval and 31% disapproval for Australia “building and operating nuclear-powered submarines”, which was put to respondents after an introductory spiel explaining the AUKUS deal. Forty-six per cent felt it would make Australia more secure, compared with 14% less secure and 29% for no difference. Seventy-five per cent rated that China posed a significant threat to Australia’s national security, compared with 15% who did not.
The conspiracy of the Democrats to deny the Republicans vaccines is an excellent move.
That should definitely drive up vaccination rates in the red states.
‘ By turns troubling and entertaining, Beyond Belief exposes the Pentecostal agenda: not just saving souls, but transforming societies and controlling politics.
These modern prophets, embedded in our institutions, have the cash and the influence to wage their holy war.’
https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/beyond-belief/
UK sitting steadily at around 35,000 infections per day. That’s 7 times the rate per capita as Australia.
They’re also averaging around 150 deaths per day equivalent to 65 deaths per day in Australia, or 23,000 deaths per year in Australia.
This is a country with a double-dose vaccination rate of 65% which in Australia would be called 80%. Plus the UK has a large fraction of its population already immune from having been infected in the first place.
So, this is the future for Australia at 80% vaccination.
The thing about the UK is, there’s no sign of a peak. Rather and ongoing health disaster that could go on for many months if not a year or more.
https://www.pollbludger.net/2021/10/03/newspoll-53-47-to-labor-10/comment-page-2/#comment-3718653
The UK has only been vaccinating 12-15 year-olds for a couple of weeks (and they are only getting a single dose of Pfizer).
We will have been vaccinating 12-15 for weeks when the targets for the over 16s are reached, slightly increasing the proportion of the overall population who are vaccinated with both doses when the targets are met.
A Newspoll on a long weekend? I thought this was verboten.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/labor-s-year-long-plan-to-take-on-a-premier-perrottet-20211003-p58wt6.html
Apparently he tweeted that Trump’s 2016 victory was a win for people taken advantage of by elites, clearly demonstrating his cluelessness because Trump is the ultimate elite. I wonder if he still feels the same way.
Ditto his remarks about Mark McGowan.
Cud Chewer says:
Monday, October 4, 2021 at 1:32 am
UK sitting steadily at around 35,000 infections per day. That’s 7 times the rate per capita as Australia.
They’re also averaging around 150 deaths per day equivalent to 65 deaths per day in Australia, or 23,000 deaths per year in Australia.
This is a country with a double-dose vaccination rate of 65% which in Australia would be called 80%. Plus the UK has a large fraction of its population already immune from having been infected in the first place.
This gives you some idea of what is coming.
Confessions says:
Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:25 am
A Newspoll on a long weekend? I thought this was verboten.
The Liberals just had the country spend 100 billion dollars and piss of the French for a poll bounce, if they had got one, anything, Morrison no doubt would have called an election.
Lib/nats combined primary vote seems to have settled below 40%,
If this were true on election day
Reasonable size Labor majority government
Given the Federal governments robo debt and their refusal to provide extra funding for hospitals to prepare for the shit fight that is coming, when we open up; all one can say is these Pentecostals are showing themselves to be a bunch of bastards.
Yay! Ed Husic’s team won the Rugby League Grand Final last night! Well, he shared about half of them with Lindsay. 😉
Abbott and Turnbull were replaced when the lib/nats combined primary vote , consistently stayed below 40% as it is doing under Morrison’s leadership
Frednk @ #12 Monday, October 4th, 2021 – 6:55 am
Their modus operandi is, as much money for them as they can get and a few crumbs for everyone else because they aren’t the ‘Chosen Ones’ by God. Which is nuts, but there you have it, it keeps them going. 🙂
‘fess,
I wonder with Matt Kean as Treasurer what he will do with Perrottet’s moves to play with taxpayers’ money in the markets?
Libs have had the sports rort, the car part rort, the $480mil Great Barrier Reef fund for like 12 people, the fires, the alleged rapes for some very important people… and I probably missed a bunch of stuff.
And to all of that Australia says… 4% would make Libs win.
I am disgusted. We should be 100% to 0% Labor to Liberal right now but people see all that, the rape and the fire and the rort and the the barrier reef and say “THIS IS FINE!”
It’s bloody well not.
Confessions says:
Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6:25 am
A Newspoll on a long weekend? I thought this was verboten.
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Maybe they get a feeling this is the closest the lib/nats will get this year, why not sneak a poll in
Scott @ #17 Monday, October 4th, 2021 – 7:01 am
Do NOT count the Coalition out. They win election campaigns and that’s all that counts to them because that’s what gets them back into power again.
Which is why it’s good to see the polls where they are but they aren’t the main game.
Labor need to put the Coalition to the sword in an election campaign.
More than 400 Australians have been named in a huge exposure of companies and financial institutions that has revealed secret investments and real estate deals.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/pandora-papers-biggest-ever-leak-of-offshore-data-exposes-financial-secrets-of-rich-and-powerful
C@t:
One thing’s for sure, after 10 years there is a treasure trove of rich pickings for the opposition. Not the least of which is two premiers from the same government lost to possible corruption, and definite misleading the public.
… which is why I think a November elections remains unlikely.
It would have to be called within three weeks.
‘fess,
If Labor can’t fashion a campaign out of corruption adjacent whole cloth for both Coalition governments, then they shouldn’t be in the game!
Yep. The Pandora Papers is the big news of the day:
Pandora’s box of tax dodgers
At least 14 current heads of state, 330 politicians and 130 billionaires have been implicated in the biggest ever leak of offshore banking data.
What we know:
The Pandora papers leak includes 11.9m files from companies hired by wealthy clients to create offshore trusts in tax havens (ICJ);
Revelations include that Czech PM Andrej Babis, currently running for re-election on a platform against tax avoidance, moved $30m through offshore companies to buy a lavish French chateau (OCCRP);
An English accountant in Switzerland worked with lawyers in the British Virgin Islands to help King Abdullah II of Jordan set up 36 shell companies and secretly buy 14 luxury homes (ICJ);
Former UK prime minister Tony Blair, who campaigned against tax loopholes, used one to save himself hundreds of thousands of dollars in UK stamp duty (BBC);
The ATO will consider investigating the more than 400 Australians named in the leak, mostly clients of offshore services group Asiaciti (AFR);
The documents reveal alleged failings in compliance with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism funding rules by Asiaciti, founded by Australian accountant Graeme Briggs (The Guardian);
Briggs amassed a $62m fortune partly by helping high-risk clients keep their private financial dealings out of public view (ABC).
Morrison/Newspoll/business/Nationals/ and the rest of the gravy train have had their worst fears confirmed.
There’s only a miracle chance of the LNP avoiding defeat at the next election.
The 13% unaccounted in the Newspoll probably contains the truth.
53/47 is as good as it gets for Labor/Albanese.
The pandemic and the financial/economic fallout has a long way to go.
A 2022 election was not preferred with so few eggs left in the he basket.
Morrison may even go to Glasgow now to attempt to woo a very sharp and unforgiving audience.
Morrison’s safe at the moment from a possible insurrection as the probables detail their personal and political fortunes.
The pre-selection for Cook, the greasy pole acrobatics, the betrayals, the lies and self awarded nickname seem more akin now to the disingenuous prick that has appears in our now, very less frequent vision and appearances.
At this stage, the fantasy PM will begin the blame game while formulating his next cunning plan.
Morrison’s assembled loyal brigands will slip away.
It may well be a humble offer to resign for the good of the nation!!!
Morrison was an unfortunate choice for PM, the remaining mastication will be unpleasant.
I take 2% off the Labor 2 PP to get an indication of how things would go in an actual election. We’ve seen it before – projected landslides become comfortable wins (1983, 2007), projected comfortable wins narrow victories (1974, 2010) and projected narrow wins narrow losses (1980, 2019). There have been exceptions, e.g. 1996 but I think that there is an established pattern of Labor doing better in polls than actual elections. Nearly all the money and power are on the dark side, the mainstream media too, with much of it actively campaigning for the Government. Half-truths, disinformation and outright lies will go mostly unchallenged.
That’s the situation. Labor needs a plan to address and overcome or work around the disadvantages it faces.
C@tmomma @ #69 Monday, October 4th, 2021 – 7:25 am
Agreed. I haven’t followed NSW politics (for obvious reasons), but it seemed to me that the Labor leaders never really had cut-through and/or were poor public presenters. That doesn’t seem to be the case with the current leader though.
Steve777,
I understand that a lot of people make up their minds who to vote for as they walk into the voting booth, which is why the Coalition put so much money into their candidate adjacent corflutes, like ‘The Bill you can’t afford’ one from 2019. So Labor need to do the same. I reckon the photo of Morrison holding that lump of coal would be ideal.
53/47 is as good as it gets for Labor/Albanese.
That would be as good as any real election in 75 years. The most recent 53s (rounded) were Kevin07 (52.7%), Hawke 83 (53.2%) and Gough 72 (52.7%). The last better result was 1946 (54.1%) in a very different world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_federal_elections
‘Plus the UK has a large fraction of its population already immune from having been infected in the first place.’
Not immune.
Someone who is double dosed isn’t immune, and they’re seven times less likely to get the virus than someone who’s already had it.
Steve777,
“I understand that a lot of people make up their minds who to vote for as they walk into the voting booth, which is why the Coalition put so much money into their candidate adjacent corflutes, like ‘The Bill you can’t afford’ one from 2019. So Labor need to do the same. I reckon the photo of Morrison holding that lump of coal would be ideal.”
Thank god this person is not running the Labor campaign. No idea!
Steve777 says:
Monday, October 4, 2021 at 7:33 am
I take 2% off the Labor 2 PP to get an indication of how things would go in an actual election. We’ve seen it before – projected landslides become comfortable wins (1983, 2007), projected comfortable wins narrow victories (1974, 2010) and projected narrow wins narrow losses (1980, 2019)
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That pattern does seem to hold for Federal elections. As Mr Bowe commented up thread, the new *improved!* Newspoll has tended to err on the low side for the ALP in recent State elections. Maybe that holds out a sliver of hope that the – 2% rule of thumb is an over correction in this case.
Having said that, the Whitlam, Hawke and Rudd victories were preceded by an almost palpable sense of historical inevitability. That’s not a vibe I’m getting at the moment, even if there is a sense that Morrison is a waste of space. But I will defer to data over vibes any day.
Ah, science.
Conspiracy theorists are being sold Faraday cages to put over their WiFi routers to protect themselves from 5G and are finding that the Faraday cages work as advertised…but their routers don’t.
https://www.iflscience.com/technology/conspiracy-theorists-buy-faraday-cages-to-protect-themselves-then-complain-when-they-work/?fbclid=IwAR0GqGToKJTjWyhDXyqQCL_gS5TG7np6FgZpvedf8p4YkjetSIVZBGOku_s
Re Max @8:03.
”Having said that, the Whitlam, Hawke and Rudd victories were preceded by an almost palpable sense of historical inevitability.”
Yes, that’s how I recall it. Also changes the other way – 1975, 1996, 2013.
That’s not a vibe I’m getting at the moment, even if there is a sense that Morrison is a waste of space.
Nor am I, nor did I detect any such vibe in 2019.
Brilliant! 😆
I love reading this kind of stuff. Just when you think we’ve seen Peak Stupid, there are whole new levels of stupid that emerge!
The figure what flattering for the Liberal party is, the polling shows the combined primary vote of 37% for the lib/nats
The primary vote for the Liberal Party alone would be in low 20’s
zoomster says:
Monday, October 4, 2021 at 8:05 am
Ah, science.
Conspiracy theorists are being sold Faraday cages to put over their WiFi routers to protect themselves from 5G and are finding that the Faraday cages work as advertised…but their routers don’t.
ROFL love it.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers
The AFR’s Neil Chenoweth tells us how more than 400 Australians have been named in a massive leak of offshore company and banking details which has revealed secret investments, real estate deals and artworks of celebrities, politicians and business figures who control more than $1 trillion in assets.
https://www.afr.com/wealth/personal-finance/banking-leak-opens-pandora-s-box-of-offshore-accounts-20211003-p58wqj
At the top of the Guardian’s home page are many links to the Pandora story.
https://www.theguardian.com/au
Ever since Gladys Berejiklian first appeared in the grip of the corruption watchdog in October last year, the government’s opponents have been readying their war chest against the alternative, Mr Perrottet. Lucy Cormack and Tom Rabe tell about what they have been storing up.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/labor-s-year-long-plan-to-take-on-a-premier-perrottet-20211003-p58wt6.html
The next premier – likely to be Dominic Perrottet – will walk straight into one of the most critical junctures in NSW’s COVID-19 journey, writes Alexandra Smith.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/berejiklian-s-replacement-to-face-a-baptism-of-fire-20211003-p58wtb.html
The Reverend Dr Sephanie Berwick is unhappy with the gross over-representation of fundamentalist religion in politics and says “if this growing representation of highly conservative Christians in positions of great power is to be contained in Australia, NSW needs to do better (than to install Perrottet as premier). Far better.”
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/nsw-must-do-better-than-dominic-perrottet-as-premier-20211003-p58wtf.html
The NSW Treasurer believes conservative values of thrift, self reliance and morality can extend centre-right parties’ support into the working classes, writes Aaron Patrick.
https://www.afr.com/politics/perrottet-emerges-as-the-great-right-hope-20211003-p58wrv
Andrew Constance has quit State Parliament for a tilt at federal politics but is distancing himself from the support of Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Tom Rabe and Katina Curtis have a look at his tilt
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/i-m-independent-constance-quits-nsw-parliament-in-bid-for-federal-seat-20211003-p58wtg.html
Law professor, Rosiland Dixon, argues that the ICAC should have delayed its action until after the end of the pandemic hump.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/we-are-in-the-middle-of-an-emergency-the-icac-should-have-waited-20211003-p58wsk.html
ICAC is not a curse, and probity in government matters, and the Australian media would do well to remember that, writes Dennis Muller.
https://theconversation.com/icac-is-not-a-curse-and-probity-in-government-matters-the-australian-media-would-do-well-to-remember-that-169132
‘Poor Gladys’ Berejiklian passed the pub test, but the ICAC is another matter, writes former NSW minister Michael Yabsley.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/poor-gladys-berejiklian-passed-the-pub-test-but-the-icac-is-another-matter-20211003-p58wu4.html
If critics of the anti-corruption watchdog’s powers had their way, confidence in the political process would be the true victim, argues Craig Emerson.
https://www.afr.com/politics/taxpayers-lose-by-pulling-icac-s-teeth-20210930-p58vzp
Proving political idolatry and fanaticism doesn’t stop at the Victorian border, the Premier state’s own political uber-fans – BerejikliStans or Gladys Groupies? – have wasted no time jumping online in the outgoing MP’s defence, say Samantha Hutchinson and Stephen Brook.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/berejiklistans-come-out-in-force-for-gladys-20211003-p58wtr.html
Tawdry attempts by federal Coalition ministers to vilify Victoria’s Premier have now been shown to lack a factual foundation, reports Alan Austin.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/frydenbergs-hostile-attacks-on-andrews-covid-approach-are-baseless,15586
The federal government will cut assistance to the unemployed as states hit the 80 per cent vaccination target, but new research suggests thousands will suffer, explains Shane Wright.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/thousands-face-income-hit-as-disaster-payments-are-cut-unsw-20211001-p58wgc.html
Professor of public policy, David Haywood, proposes an AVT – anti-vax tax – ad s possible solution to the Covid policy muddle.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/anti-vax-tax-could-be-a-solution-to-covid-policy-muddle-20211001-p58wc3.html
NSW business owners will face fines if they do not take “reasonable measures” to stop unvaccinated people entering their premises when the state eases restrictions from next Monday.
https://www.afr.com/politics/businesses-face-5000-fines-over-unjabbed-customers-20211003-p58wqt
Luke Henriques-Gomes reports that the disability royal commission has called the vaccine rollout ‘seriously deficient’ and warned against opening up before everyone’s had a chance to be vaccinated.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/oct/04/immoral-and-inexcusable-how-australians-in-disability-homes-fell-from-the-front-of-the-vaccine-queue
On Covid, Alan Kohler laments that there are so many pandemic questions, so few answers, and so much spin. He says, “For the first time in any of our lives, Australians might be unable to simply rely on the health system, which is an astonishing thought.” A worthwhile read.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2021/10/04/pandemic-spin-alan-kohler/
According to Katina Curtis, some childcare centres are seeking legal advice on whether they can exclude children whose parents aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/childcare-sector-examines-how-to-protect-workers-and-families-from-unvaccinated-parents-20211003-p58wrb.html
Julia Leask says that Victoria’s mandatory jab for authorised workers was a difficult but necessary decision.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/mandatory-jab-for-authorised-workers-a-difficult-but-necessary-decision-20211003-p58wrr.html
Victorian authorities are turning their attention to a fast-growing coronavirus outbreak in Melbourne’s south-east, opening pop-up vaccination clinics as the rate of infection causes concern among health officials.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/fears-grow-about-rising-covid-19-infections-in-melbourne-s-south-east-20211003-p58wsd.html
No, it’s not a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’. It still threatens us all, warns Kate Hennessy.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/04/no-its-not-a-pandemic-of-the-unvaccinated-it-still-threatens-us-all
A senior intensive care nurse at a major Melbourne hospital has described holding patients’ hands as they died from COVID-19 in their hospital rooms without their families as she implored Victorians to get vaccinated.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/victoria-records-1220-covid-cases-and-three-deaths-as-experts-predict-when-cases-will-plateau-20211003-p58wpv.html
With malls nationwide likely to open by Christmas, just in time for a “revenge spending” shopping spree, retailers and landlords are on a collision course over who is responsible for managing the proof of vaccination process.
https://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/from-rent-war-to-vaccine-battle-landlords-and-retailers-at-loggerheads-20210929-p58vny.html
There aren’t many rules in politics. But one of them is ‘don’t get caught’, writes Nicholas Stuart.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7454502/the-one-golden-rule-of-politics-is-dont-get-caught/?cs=14264
The economists’ theory of how markets work is grossly oversimplified. In the real world there are lots of problems that can’t be solved just by leaving it to market forces, argues Ross Gittins.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/the-economy-can-self-correct-but-only-up-to-a-point-20211003-p58wru.html
Better building standards are good for the climate, your health, and your wallet and The Conversation explains how the National Construction Code could do better.
https://theconversation.com/better-building-standards-are-good-for-the-climate-your-health-and-your-wallet-heres-what-the-national-construction-code-could-do-better-166669
The Age reveals that in an anonymous building on the edge of the Melbourne CBD, one of the state’s most powerful law enforcement agencies runs a court-like office extracting information from Melbourne’s underworld and where the goal is to break the underworld “code of silence”, a wall of deceit and defiance that protects murderers, drug traffickers and standover men from law enforcement.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/where-hard-men-are-broken-inside-the-victorian-legal-system-s-secret-place-20211003-p58wrl.html
John Warhurst, a member/delegate at the Catholic plenary, is writing a daily blog on his thoughts from the assembly.
https://johnmenadue.com/insights-from-the-catholic-plenary-assembly-where-reaching-out-can-be-difficult/
Scott Morrison has 27 days to break a decade-long impasse on climate change. Again holed up in The Lodge for two weeks of quarantine, Mr Morrison could face an uncertain political future if he fails to stitch together a plan that goes far enough to satisfy his inner-city Liberal MPs, without going so far as to anger his rural Nationals MPs, writes Josh Butler.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2021/10/04/road-to-net-zero-coalition-policy/
Offshore wind power proponents say the industry can be the key to unlocking a deal with Nationals MPs over a net zero emissions target as the federal government has still not legalised the industry despite three years of planning, writes Mike Foley.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/winds-of-change-blow-hope-into-industrial-towns-and-net-zero-deal-20211001-p58wjs.html
Angela Macdonald-Smith reports that Andrew Forrest has slammed long-term net zero emissions targets as a “cop-out” for corporate chief executives and voiced scepticism about the “failed” technology of carbon capture and storage, in comments that look set to reignite tensions with Australian oil and gas producers.
https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/forrest-slams-carbon-capture-as-failed-technology-20211002-p58wne
Zac Credlin tells us what the rest of the world thinks about Australia’s climate policy.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2021/10/04/australia-climate-change-world/
Chinese authorities had become alarmed at the level of demand for power as the northern part of the country headed into winter. There was not enough coal to keep the Chinese economy humming. The coal that was coming in was so expensive that the power stations were operating at a loss to keep the lights on. They had to prioritise homes over businesses and infrastructure, explains Eryk Bagshaw who does not paint a pretty picture.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/a-desperate-china-is-turning-its-lights-off-but-could-there-be-a-long-term-gain-20210928-p58vcr.html
The intimidating power of Australia’s pro-Israel lobby limits what mainstream media outlets dare publish about Israel and forces self-censorship on editors and journalists alike, writes John Lyons in his latest book Dateline Jerusalem: Journalism’s toughest assignment. Kim Wingerei reports.
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/crossword-clues-and-bullying-the-influence-of-australias-pro-israel-lobby-unveiled/
Boris Johnson has described the petrol crisis and pig cull part of the necessary post-Brexit transition.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/03/boris-johnson-petrol-crisis-and-pig-cull-part-of-necessary-post-brexit-transition
The ever-entertaining John Crace tells us how Tetchy Boris tries to play down shortages as bumps on the Brexit road.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/03/tetchy-boris-tries-to-play-down-shortages-as-bumps-on-the-brexit-road
For his sake, and Britain’s, now is the time for Boris Johnson to ride off into the sunset, opines Max Hastings.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/03/for-his-sake-and-britains-now-is-the-time-for-boris-johnson-to-ride-off-into-the-sunset
A whistleblower at Facebook will say that thousands of pages of internal company research she turned over to federal regulators proves the social media giant is deceptively claiming effectiveness in its efforts to eradicate hate and misinformation and it contributed to the January 6 attack on the Capitol in Washington DC.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/03/facebook-whistleblower-capitol-attack
Cartoon Corner
David Rowe
Peter Broelman
Jim Pavlidis
Mark David
Warren Brown
Bloody Leak
From the US
The vibe is there, together with millionaire status house prices, superannuation balances and the start of a era of new technology creating a standard of living only ever existing in dreams.
It very hard to vote against such wealth.
The moment before death will be chillingly obvious for many of the beneficiaries of the last 50 years
The primary vote for the Liberal Party alone would be in low 20’s
That’s complicated by the fact that the Liberals and Nationals are merged in Qld (LNP) and the NT (CLP).
The primaries would be something like LNP + CLP about 9, National about 5 —> Liberal about 23.
Thank you, BK. You are a continuing star shining in the bleak firmament of Covid.
‘Law professor, Rosiland Dixon, argues that the ICAC should have delayed its action until after the end of the pandemic hump.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/we-are-in-the-middle-of-an-emergency-the-icac-should-have-waited-20211003-p58wsk.html‘
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Dickheads abound. Does the Coalition stop its systemic and continuous corruption because of Covid?
The forecast peak in Victoria later this month will get the conservative press licking their lips in anticipation.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/fears-grow-about-rising-covid-19-infections-in-melbourne-s-south-east-20211003-p58wsd.html
John Barilaro resigns
John Barilaro has just resigned!
spr
Cos eCACed his pants?
Who is the premier of NSW today
By-election for Monaro coming up.
Dom Perrotet doesn’t iCare
Steve777 says:
Monday, October 4, 2021 at 8:28 am
The primary vote for the Liberal Party alone would be in low 20’s
That’s complicated by the fact that the Liberals and Nationals are merged in Qld (LNP) and the NT (CLP).
The primaries would be something like LNP + CLP about 9, National about 5 —> Liberal about 23.
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Good break up of primary votes , that is how the opinion polling should show
Friendlyjordies has just opened a case of Bollinger
I read an ABC article on the ACTA grant in Wagga and Barilaro was mentioned. So now he has resigned hmmm…..