Nothing on voting intention, but there’s a bunch of polls around the place, the most useful from my perspective being the first fortnightly Essential Research survey of the year, as it includes the pollster’s monthly leadership ratings. Scott Morrison is at 46% on both approval and disapproval, respectively steady and up two since last month, which is the first time he has failed to record a net positive result since immediately before the onset of the pandemic in March 2020. Anthony Albanese is likewise equal on approval and disapproval, in his case at 39%, with approval down one and disapproval up three. Morrison’s lead as preferred prime minister is at 42-34, in from 42-31 last month and likewise his weakest result since March 2020.
There’s more bad news for Morrison on COVID-19 management, with the federal government recording a net negative result for the first time, its positive rating down six to 35% and negative up six to 38%. There has also been a sharp decline in the positive ratings for every state government except Victoria, most noticeably in the case of Western Australia, where the positive rating is down twelve to a new low of 66%. This remains nineteen points higher than nearest rival Victoria, up four points to 47%. New South Wales is down seventeen to 37%, now the lowest of the five, with Queensland down eleven to 46% and South Australia down fourteen to 43%. The results for the smaller states especially should, as always, be treated with caution here, but the near-uniformity of the sharp downward turn is impressive.
Respondents were also asked if various matters related to COVID-19 were likely to influence their chances of voting Coalition, an exercise I’m dubious about since it’s clear that many party loyalists respond without regard to the fact that their vote choice isn’t in doubt. For what it’s worth, 37% rated themselves less likely on account of Scott Morrison’s recent performance and 19% more likely; 30% and 15% ditto because of recent case numbers; 38% and 12% because of the shortage of rapid antigen tests (note the perversity of being more likely to vote Coalition on this basis); 22% and 19% because of reduced border restrictions; and, in the one net positive result, 23% and 27% for the Novak Djokovic affair.
The poll also finds 37% believe the choices of those who wish not to be vaccinated should be respected versus 63% who don’t, of whom 41% consider the unvaccinated ill-informed and 22% selfish. It was conducted Thursday to Sunday from a sample of 1062.
Various other polling around the place:
• A poll by Painted Dog Research for The West Australian recorded a 71-29 split in favour of the McGowan government’s indefinite postponement of the reopening of the state’s border. Respondents were also offered a poorly framed question as to whether they “agree the McGowan government could have done more to prepare to open up on February 5”, to which 51% agreed and 29% at least purported to disagree, notwithstanding the obvious absurdity of such a position. The poll had a sample of 637 Western Australian respondents; no field work date was provided, though obviously it was done after Thursday’s announcement.
• YouGov has conducted a poll for the News Corp tabloids that covers an extensive range of issues, but not voting intention, results for which are seemingly being published bit by bit (the full questionnaire is here). There have been two reports from this that I’m aware of, one dealing with state government COVID-19 management. Thirty-five per cent of New South Wales respondents rated their government’s performance positively, 28% neutrally and 34% negatively; Victorians, 42%, 21% and 36%; Queenslanders, 61%, 20% and 19%; Western Australians, 85% positively, 6% neutrally and 8% negatively; South Australians, 48%, 29% and 21%; and Tasmanians, 65%, 21% and 11%. Another report related results on election issue salience, in which respondents were asked to pick two issues out of eight, with 58% choosing cost of living, ahead of 37% for health care, 34% for the economy and 32% for climate change. The poll was conducted December 27 to January 10 from an overall sample of 2297, with state sub-samples ranging from 257 in Tasmania to 507 in New South Wales.
• The Conversation reports on a Deakin Contemporary History Survey of “a representative, random sample of more than 5,000 Australians” finding that 60% overall believe the current date of Australia Day should be maintained, but with a clear age effect in which 53% of those born 1986 or later felt otherwise, with 46% favouring no change.
• According to an AAP report, a CoreData survey of 1292 respondents finds more than 80% of those under 26 and more than 70% of those aged 27 to 41 “support moving the date for the sake of improving relations with the Indigenous population” – a formulation that presumably elicits a more favourable response – which plummeted to “just over 30%” among the 56 to 75 cohort and 25% of those over 75. All that’s revealed of those of in the middle is that “the majority still supported keeping the holiday on its current date”.
• A Roy Morgan SMS poll of 1372 respondents posed the not-all-that-useful-to-my-mind question as to whether as to whether January 26 should be identified as Australia Day or Invasion Day, breaking 65-35 in favour of the former. Cross-tabs here if you’re interested.
“Finding a common ground between both sides of the political spectrum is key to saving democracy in Western cultures, writes Sue Arnold.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/saving-democracy-bridging-the-leftright-divide,15975”
Because I’m a masochist I was listening to a very centrist podcast from the US lambasting both the left and the right, BLM protests equated to the MAGA’s storming the capital. They also went very hard at Biden for trying to be way too progressive.
It occurred to me, much as I disagreed with almost all of their analysis, that there is a commonality between left and right discontent. They have been failed by the centre. For 40 years the centre has offered the a great dividend if they’ll just give up x, or y, and sure the is a dividend to all the sacrifices it just is never ever paid to those making them.
If you want to bridge the left right divide and avoid following the US down its very dangerous path the lazy rich entitled centre needs to deliver on the promises it has been making and breaking for 40 years.
I bet Grace Tame will not be seen in any labor election campaigning, no photo opps, nothing, she is about to see who her true friends are.
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I think Grace Tame would be the first to say that it is not about Grace Tame. It is inherent in the ugly right that if an individual is not playing the game for self-advancement then they are stupid dupes.
Grace Tame’s true friends will be those who do something about the ugly culture that excuses sexual assault and further victimises the victims. Whether or not she is in the photo is irrelevant to her. The fact that you don’t get it just shows how deep you are in that ugly culture.
citizensays:
Thursday, January 27, 2022 at 10:55 am
Streeydan
Did the people at your water cooler have any comment on this story?
New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern has said “at no point was I worried about my safety” after her van was chased and forced on to a curb by anti-vaccination protesters.
Footage of the incident, which took place last week, was posted to social media in recent days. It shows protesters shouting slogans at the van, including “shame on you,” and “we do not consent”. A person filming inside a car is heard saying “there’s Jacinda” and “Oh this is fun, we’re on a chase.” The car pursues the prime minister’s van and at one point someone inside calls the prime minister “a Nazi” and shouts various obscenities. As their vehicle tries to block the van, the van is forced on to the curb to avoid it, then continues on.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/26/jacinda-ardern-shrugs-off-car-chase-by-anti-vaccination-protesters
No they did not. But what is your point? Jacinda is a brave woman…she obviously is.
Snappy Tom at 10:16 am
Some years back I read an article about Sweden. They’d been doing a lot of road safety stuff including changing barriers . Their wire barriers had been a success but they’d found an unfortunate side effect. Motorcyclists were losing leg(s) in crashes involving the barriers. I’ve no idea what they did about that. Although I’m sure , unlike here, they would have got right on to doing something about it.
Steelydan @ #46 Thursday, January 27th, 2022 – 7:53 am
It’s quite telling and very sad that you consider advocating against violence towards women as radical.
Steelydan @ #51 Thursday, January 27th, 2022 – 9:59 am
The point is roughly that your watercooler chatters’ priorities are out of whack if they care more about a PM getting frowned at by one person than they do about a PM getting run off the road by a mob.
While it’s something of a relief that Associate Justice Breyer will seemingly retire this year, well before the midterm elections, in my view he should never have left it this late.
Like Ginsburg before him he held on for far far too long. He’s been on the bench for 27 years and given the risks of dying or becoming infirm whilst a Republican administration – backed by a Republican majority Senate – was in situ was far far too great for him to not retire well before the 2014 Midterms.
Even now, given Manchin and Sinema, its likely that Biden will only be able to safely nominate a centrist and not a progressive lion or lioness.
The hubris of people like Ginsburg and Breyer is astonishing. Especially given Obama’s attitude – if they retired a decade ago they could have effectively chosen their own replacements.
Steelydan at 10.53am
‘Radical’ comes from the Latin ‘radix’ – ‘root’ (e.g. the root of a plant, not the Australian euphemism for sex!)
To be ‘radical’ is to go to the root of a matter or issue.
It is interesting how scared right-wingers get when someone asks questions that go to the ‘root’ of a matter. For example, did Ben Fordham and other right wing commentators deplore people calling then-PM Gillard a ‘witch’ for their disrespect? Did they deplore Alan Jones for referring to her as ‘Ju-liar’?
I doubt they said anything, yet now they’re up in arms about Grace Tame. So, the radical question is about consistency: if one deplores Grace’s behaviour, but not previous behaviour by Jones et al, what does that say about oneself? What is going on to generate such inconsistency?
If Grace’s behaviour suggests the ALP is ‘radical’ (presumably ‘radical-left-revolutionary’) then does the behaviour of Jones et al suggest they’re ‘radical-right-revolutionary’? Which revolution is more to be feared, that of the left or the right? Why should revolution be feared (there may be valid reasons to fear it, but name what they are, don’t just assume it should be feared)?
Also, why would Grace’s action reflect on the ALP? Is she a member of the ALP, was she acting for the ALP?
By the way, while I do scan Pollbludger quite often, I did not see your photos.
Barney in Tanjung Bungasays:
Thursday, January 27, 2022 at 11:04 am
Steelydan @ #46 Thursday, January 27th, 2022 – 7:53 am
Griffsays:
Thursday, January 27, 2022 at 10:38 am
It is amazing how so many conservatives are upset at not getting a smile.
Well done Grace Tame, at the end of your tenure, to not go quietly into the night. You have been a catalyst yet again.
She has been a catalyst all right she has reminded those leaning towards voting Labor that radicals are still a big part of the ALP and the type of people they will be giving power to. When this sort of behaviour is seen as being endorsed by labor or part of Labor it detracts from Albo and Labor been seen as a safe pair of hands. Labor needs to stay away from from all radicals if it wants to win. I bet Grace Tame will not be seen in any labor election campaigning, no photo opps, nothing, she is about to see who her true friends are.
Lots of support but I just cant be seen with you at the moment Grace.
It’s quite telling and very sad that you consider advocating against violence towards women as radical.
Not supporting Grace Tame’s behaviour has nothing to do with advocating violence towards woman. How absurd of you.
Snappy tom
I am not looking for them again you are obviously quite lazy. Just look up Question Time and hit images it wont take you long.
I see that Steam Phallus hasn’t finished disgracing himself regarding Grace Tame. To parse a contribution from some else yesterday – lifted from Twitter I think – this whole event has been like paint thinner – stripping down the pretences to reveal people’s true character.
In my view Grace didn’t go to The Lodge on Tuesday to be a rat bag. Or to protest. Or to make a spectacle. She went to support the nominees for this year’s Australian of the Year Awards and was clearly and rightly annoyed when Scrott clearly attempted to manipulate her into his personal political photo op (100% Pure ScoMo). She was within her rights and frankly her non smile and side eyes was at the lowest end of reasonable responses to Scrott’s blatant manipulation. She could have rightly gone all Carbargo woman on him. Or all rural bush firefighter on him. Instead … she didn’t smile at the ‘appropriate time’ for Morrison’s personal photographers benefit. Sacrebleu!
The reaction from the reactionaries in this country says everything about their character – or lack there of – and has done more to sheer conservatives and middle of the road folk away from the RWNJ’s that have taken over the centre right via Howard’s ‘Cultcha Wars!’ than anything else in my living memory.
If Steely thinks this has any political negative consequences for the progress side of politics in this country … well he is entitled to his delusion I guess.
a rsays:
Thursday, January 27, 2022 at 11:09 am
Steelydan @ #51 Thursday, January 27th, 2022 – 9:59 am
No they did not. But what is your point? Jacinda is a brave woman…she obviously is.
The point is roughly that your watercooler chatters’ priorities are out of whack if they care more about a PM getting frowned at by one person than they do about a PM getting run off the road by a mob.
I get what your saying but the average joe talks about what they see on the news. I am sure you know how it works.
Steelydan @ #57 Thursday, January 27th, 2022 – 8:25 am
Really?
Her behaviour seemed to be a direct response to to how Morrison and his Government have dealt with this issue.
How long will the Murdoch media and RW commentators will be able to maintain the rage over Morrison being snubbed by an Australian of the year?
max says:
Thursday, January 27, 2022 at 10:33 am
Right wingers have jumped the evolutionary shark it seems. Natural selection is coming for them.
There’s plenty of evidence that phobias can be heritable. So, yeah. Fear of vaccines might well contribute to higher death rates among the rejectors. That would be (a very slow) evolutionary improvement for the species. Misogyny is a form of phobia too, so the propensity to degrade women is possibly a heritable characteristic. Racist phobias are almost certainly heritable. What other explanation is there for the plainly profound stupidities and cruelties of racist behaviours and values?
If phobias are heritable, then other traits might also be heritable. The propensity to develop religious attachments would be a candidate, imo. There’s no other really good explanation for the willingness of seemingly rational actors to subscribe to the completely irrational propositions advanced by religious characters.
Maybe widespread subscription to irrational beliefs worked to advance hunter-gatherer survival. Is the propensity to believe in and live out wacky religious ideas a positive or a negative thing for humans these days?
We have a Pentecostal government. We are very much the worse for wear because of it. The loonies of Islamic State, the Taliban and the Jihadis have caused immense harm to the populations where they have had dominion. The same sort of thing – religious enmity – has certainly applied in Europe for centuries, and even in the recent past past (Northern Ireland and the Former Yugoslavia). Sectarian hatreds and associated violence have been spectacular in India/Pakistan, in Turkey/Armenia. They still figure in relations between Greece/Turkey. This is all completely fucking crazy. Yet it’s recurrent and pervasive.
Religious susceptibility is probably heritable. It is certainly contrary to human welfare.
Re Tame.A definite +1 for……….
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Steelydan @ #60 Thursday, January 27th, 2022 – 10:30 am
Yes. We are poorly served by our fourth estate. 🙁
citizen @ #62 Thursday, January 27th, 2022 – 8:32 am
They might have to get used to it.
Alcott hasn’t been singing from the Government song sheet.
Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan’s decision to keep his borders shut indefinitely could backfire on football fans, with the relocation of the state’s two AFL teams among the options being considered ahead of the 2022 season.
While no decision has been made, The Australian Financial Review understands that relocating the West Coast Eagles and the Fremantle Dockers to the east coast has been canvassed at senior levels of the AFL, in the event the border closure is still in place when the season begins on March 16.
How long will the Murdoch media and RW commentators will be able to maintain the rage over Morrison being snubbed by an Australian of the year?
Well it is the nations most pressing issue, worthy of a dozen commentators writing columns….
“If Steely thinks this has any political negative consequences for the progress side of politics in this country … well he is entitled to his delusion I guess.”
Steam powered, obviously poor quality, likely subject to internal corrosion leading to defects already demonstrated and ongoing degradation. I think this device reviews as a curio of no real function that doesn’t say anything good about its users habits, and is at best treated as the dirty little secret under the bed.
Morrison is the full suite of contemporary Pentecostal misogyny. Why should any woman indulge him? Why? Rather, he is to be reproached for his failures, his neglect, his stupidities, his lies, his arrogance, his reactionary dismissal of the concerns of women, and his utterly cynical attempts to use these concerns for his own political advantage.
Morrison is a thorough-going patriarchal reactionary. He should not be gratified. He should be exposed.
As I sometimes like to do I took one for the side last night had a look at what the Sky after dark mob were on about. Fittingly, they were discussing Australia day and in the bit I saw the presenter was interviewing the fire chief who headed up the battle against the terrible bush fires in NSW two years ago.
It was a long interview and I was astounded at some of the things he said. For instance, during that terrible period the fire fighters had to deal with over 12500 separate fires. Just incredible. He said he had never seen anything like it before in his whole career.
Surprisingly perhaps, it was an excellent interview, but I couldn’t help wondering later just what it would take for the penny to drop with that interviewer and others like him at Sky overnight that there just might be something in this climate change stuff that they need to start taking seriously. I won’t be holding my breath.
People here need to get their head around the concept that Grace Tame culture wars are a storm in a tea cup compared to the supermarket shelves emptying and not being refilled due to Covid-19 as it rips through the childhood population starting from the end of next week.
It’s interesting to note that in this run of Coalition Governments two Australians of the Year have been advocates against violence in families and towards women in general.
How have these Governments responded to these issues being given such a high profile?
There doesn’t seem to be much, with their major focus being the political spin when a potentially embarrassing situation occurs.
How much of this “booster hesitancy” can be sheeted home to the constant messages from Perrottet, Morrison and Murdoch that we’ve reached the peak, it’s all sunny skies ahead, nothing to worry about?
imacca @ #69 Thursday, January 27th, 2022 – 8:43 am
The problem with traditional steam powered devices, is that the smoke can often effect the clarity of your view.
Greg Rudd says:
Thursday, January 27, 2022 at 11:48 am
People here need to get their head around the concept that Grace Tame culture wars are a storm in a tea cup compared to the supermarket shelves emptying and not being refilled due to Covid-19 as it rips through the childhood population starting from the end of next week.
Absolutely correct. Responses to Grace Tame are unlikely to shift votes. But lived experiences in the time of covid, this will elicit change.
Andrew_Earlwood @ #59 Thursday, January 27th, 2022 – 9:59 am
Scrotty got off very lightly, IMHO. He deserved a lot worse.
Steelsh1t…whenever you posted it…
I didn’t ask you to re-post your photos, I simply said I did not see them. Your assessment that I’m lazy has no basis.
You continue to confirm my assessment that the Right take every opportunity to make sh1t up, avoid substantive issues and ‘play the man/woman.’
So, thanks.
Socrates @ #21 Thursday, January 27th, 2022 – 8:51 am
I’m sorry, Socrates, I have great respect for your reasoned input on multiple subjects, but your throw away line on the duplication of the Hume and, in particular, Pacific Highways is simply wrong. Accident rates on both of these came down by way more than half as duplication was accomplished, as shown clearly by AUSRAP data, which is available on a section by section basis.
‘poroti says:
Thursday, January 27, 2022 at 11:35 am
Re Tame.A definite +1 for……….
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Bronwyn Clark @BronwynHill1
If the people you’ve upset today include Lyle Shelton, Chris Kenny, Prue MacSween, Adam Creighton and PVO, fucken well done!
3:04 PM · Jan 25, 2022·Twitter for iPad
Separately:
Greg Rudd says:
Thursday, January 27, 2022 at 11:48 am
People here need to get their head around the concept that Grace Tame culture wars are a storm in a tea cup compared to the supermarket shelves emptying and not being refilled due to Covid-19 as it rips through the childhood population starting from the end of next week.’
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Yet another ‘win’ for Morrison’s approach to both Covid management policy and the Liberal Party approach to women?
A wonderful unicorn when a unicorn is desperately needed? A wonderful dog whistle to the misogynist base? Not a vote changed on either side? What?
This week’s dumbarse article of the week.Some dill writing about WA and covid who obviously has no idea about how free we have been for the past two years .Flippancy seems a specialty. Gems like this, gee so much ‘fun’ for the hundreds of grieving families …..my mission is to give peace of mind. Reassure you it’s possible to have a simultaneous Omicron wave and a fun 2022 summer.
I suppose ‘mission accomplished’ for the publisher, bound to attract a lot of ‘interest’ from WA readers 🙂
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/hello-from-the-other-side-a-letter-to-wa-from-your-friends-in-the-open-east-20220126-p59ra6.html
Steelydan
How dam pathetic, the radical right are upset the PM didn’t get a smile from a young lady. It underlines how irrelevant and pathetic the Liberals have become with the religious right right takeover.
Incompetent, irrelevant, pathetic cultural warriors.
I can’t help but think that RW framing of the Grace Tame issue is probably net corrosive on Morrison’s standing. Ultimately it’s just bringing the question of why Tame might be unhappy with Morrison to the front of peoples’ minds. Perhaps if the right think they can character assassinate Tame to the extent that her negative reaction to Morrison becomes a net positive for him … I can’t see that happening.
More likely it’s just a reflexive exercise in demonstrating culture war credentials to their base and won’t shift many opinions, but will firm up negative sentiment about Morrison.
Comment from the Age blog. If this view is wide spread – and I think it is, they are gone.
For all those who constantly argue that prices and cost of living always go up under a Labor government… remember this.
Petrol is currently at record prices, house prices have reached ridiculous levels, electricity costs have risen over past few years, inflation is on the increase… all under a Liberal government!
LNP are NOT the superior economic managers that many keep insisting.
‘I found out at around 1 o’clock today’: Fans in shock as Covid forces Sixers to play assistant coach in BBL knock-out
https://www-hindustantimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/i-found-out-at-around-1-o-clock-today-fans-in-shock-as-covid-forces-sydney-sixers-to-play-assistant-coach-jay-lenton-in-bbl-knockout-101643186696659-amp.html?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a8&usqp=mq331AQIKAGwASCAAgM%3D
Having recently driven up the Pacific Highway north of Coffs Harbour for the first time in five years, it is pretty good.
I’m fortunate enough to know lots of women of all ages, from the very young to some in their 90s. I know plenty of young women…women in their teens and 20s and 30s. Without exception, they would be impressed with and be supporters of Tame. She speaks for them. She stands up for them. They deal with sexism every day of their lives and know that she’s on their side. We should all be on their side…standing with them against violence and fear; with their equal rights to self-fulfilment; with them in the struggle against patriarchy.
Sean Carney is another of the 9Fax agony aunts (along with Waterford, Hartcher and Crowe).
Like Waterford, he runs an nice turn of phrase in pointing out the horrors of a Morrison-led Australia, but always comes back to base by telling his readers that Labor still isn’t good enough to win, even against Morrison’s low standards.
He shifts blame for his conclusions, Pontius Pilate-like, to the mob. His ultimate message is that Albo just doesn’t “have it” to beat Morrison. So we may as well make the best of a bad lot, wash our hands of responsibility, and hope for the best, in the meantime doing what we can to take some of the rougher edges off Morrison (or Turnbull, or Abbott, or Turnbull before him, or Howard before him, and probably Hewson before them).
Such a pity that, in the eyes of the mob as faithfully observed by Carney, Labor leaders always have a fatal flaw that renders them unfit for office. The usual one trotted out is that they’re not adventurous enough, playing it too safe, being too small a target. The conceit is that “Labor just can’t get its message out…”, says the messenger. There’s not enough vision, until there’s too much vision, of course.
If a Labor leader takes temporary leave of his or her senses, then comes the old Reverse Ferret: “What possessed Mr {insert generic Labor leader name here} to think he could win by upsetting the apple cart with new policy? Doesn’t he realise the mob hates new policy?”. And, bonus points, if he doesn’t realise that, then he has no business being in politics anyway.
With an adventurous Labor leader suddenly the Carneys of this world, usually reluctant to discuss Labor policy (because, well, what’s the point, they’re not going to win anyway), are all over it like an attack of hives. And none of it is any good, because it seeks to change things the mob have gotten used to under the Coalition. Even if Labor wins the election (a prediction that, after years of reading Carney’s handwringers and of personally communicating with him, I have never seen him reach) they’ll only be caretakers until the grown ups (the name begins with “L”) reorganize themselves into what can be put up as a sufficiently plausible political force, enough to fool the mob anyhow.
The Carney political calculator allows you to punch in anything you like as an input, but when you press the
ENTERbutton if always gives the same answer: “LIBERAL BAD. LABOR STILL NOT GOOD ENOUGH.”Don’t be fooled by his pseudo “concerned citizen” posturing. He’s just another Pontius Pilate, looking down upon the mob, unable to figure out why he prefers the Libs, washing his hands of responsibility as another LOTO fails his test.
Let’s see if this works…
Samantha Maiden clearly doesn’t hang around the water-cooler with our resident misogynist.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/grace-tames-true-intentions-with-scott-morrison-revealed/news-story/9d480f5f1093c9729ed886b44af264a5
The ‘concern’ over Ms Tame and her lack of submission to our pig of a PM is probably of no account, except in the teal independents corner. Women in those conservative seats were just reminded how terrible the current LNP is how poorly it neglects their needs and concerns.
How bad might the teal independent be, well terrible, but not possibly Morrison bad.
Yabba
I didn’t say there was no evidence road duplication saved lives. I should have said the safety benefits from four lanes were less than claimed. YOu are correct – there is some benefit, though less than is claimed.
The problem is you can’t separate the reduction in crashes from duplication from reductions in crashes from other factors. e.g. policing, speed management, more crash-worthy cars. Over the last 20 years fatal crash rates on all roads have halved, not only the ones we duplicate.
Do you agree/disagree with the rest of my list? Most of those are more cost-effective ways of reducing crashes.
I suspect that there are many many conservative leaning women – and men for that matter – who are simply appalled at the way this Morrison LNP Government have gaslighted women who have spoken up for sexual abuse victims (many being victims themselves) and are equally appalled by the way that the issues have been trivialised by the LNP and their ‘crumb collectors’ (as Amy called them in her Guardian article today). Contrary to Boer’s otherwise quite reasonable take on this, I think the ‘Tame Grace Kultcha Wars’ that have been launched over the past two days will change votes: from Libs to Teals and probably ultimately to preferences to labor over the LNP.
Unreconstructed Kultcha warriors in the nuttersphere are not for turning, so their votes are baked in. So nothing that Maddie says on the front pages of the Daily Turd, or the very preppy Very Important Man, PVO pontificates in the unAustralian will matter a spent piss as helping the RWNJ cause. Or a stinking decaying corpulent LNP Government.
Boerwar at 11:53 am
A great big shout out to the ‘misogynist base’ for sure. However they’d be ‘rusted on’ voters and wouldn’t be looking to vote Labor or Green . Winning extra votes ? Maybe not so much.
On the other hand a vote loser is his covid screw ups. So maybe a plus for him having attention drawn away from them. However there is something that will counter the unicorns the presstitutes of the fourth estate serve up to the public. The public’s lived experience. Things like trying to get or afford RATs . Ghunt and Bullshit Man blather on a about millionsthousandseleventy RATs “have been ordered” .But every day people will be confronted with the reality of the meaninglessness of their words and promises.
I did not see Albo’s speech at the NPC yesterday, but just saw his excellent answers to questions, notably, “Who is Anthony Albanese”? (Shame on Andrew Probyn for not knowing.)
In case others have not seen it, this tweet series is worth reading. It damns Scomo, and has a much more encouraging insight into Albo’s personality.
Yasmin Poole
@yasmin_poole
A thread about Parliament, power and photo ops.
When I was 20, I visited Parliament with a group of young women advocating for gender equality.
We were told we would meet Scott Morrison. We waited next to groups of school kids. He went around the circle posing with each group.
A-E
I hope you are right and I am wrong.
p
I believe you are right.
Bushfire Bill at 12.01pm
This Pontius Pilate?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuALwLhUmKY
@Boerwar
The point I am making is, that a lot of tome is being generated over Grace when there is a very real risk that supermarket shelves are going to be running short or empty from the end of next week. I have seen it myself this morning at the local Coles. And a damming indictment upon Scomo and the NSW Premier. It is this that people needed to be reminded of before they enter the ballot box.