Newspoll: 56-44 to Labor

Newspoll adds its weight to a grim new year polling picture for the Morrison government.

The first Newspoll of the year, courtesy of The Australian, is a horror result for the Morrison government, crediting Labor with a lead of 56-44, out from 53-47 in the final poll in December. Labor is up three on the primary vote and the Coalition down two, to 41% and 34% respectively, with the Greens up one to 11% and One Nation steady on 3%.

Scott Morrison has plunged five on approval to 39% and is up six on disapproval to 58%, whereas Anthony Albanese is up four on approval to 43% and down two on disapproval, also to 43%. Morrison’s lead on preferred prime minister is cut from 45-36 to 43-41. The poll also finds Albanese leading Morrison 33% to 32% as best to lead the country out of the pandemic and 39% to 21% for handling climate change, with Morrison leading 33% to 31% on creating jobs and growing the economy and 31% to 26% on dealing with the threat of China.

The poll was conducted Tuesday to Friday from a sample of 1526.

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. Today’s performance by Morrison at the NPC is the worst I’ve seen in a generation, and the more he babbled, the worse it got.

    I think many may forgive a prime minister for not knowing the cost of food staples, but not knowing the price of a litre of petrol is unforgivable given its high cost. Surely on his car trips around the traps, he would’ve observed its cost, but obviously turned a convenient blind eye to it.

    As for PvO’s contention that Berejyklian think he’s “horrible”
    and an unnamed NSW minister says he’s a “psycho”, Morrison
    looked like a stunned mullet, but I don’t think it will harm him
    much politically; indeed, he may garner some sympathy therefrom.

    That said, I think Morrison’s cactus, that a majority of the electorate have now formed a concrete view of him, which will be very hard to turn around, even given his gift of the gab. As stated some months ago now, Labor by 10.

  4. Mavis

    Was it an unnamed NSW minister? Someone on here said it was a Federal Minister and Marise Payne’s name was bandied around.

    Much bigger story if it is a Senior Federal Minister otherwise nothing much in it.

  5. Re Parramatta Moderate at 10.46 pm

    I recall Kevin Bonham saying that Sportsbet and sundry similar lotto look a likes are less reliable than opinion polls in suggesting a subsequent election result. It’s possible those most eager to part with their money are not the best informed about local campaigns. However, anybody who can afford to take their chances with those odds should back the Independent (an unspecified one) in Hughes.

    On serious matters Kristy McBain visited our local fire-shed today, at the other end of Eden-Monaro from where she lives. She is impressive in person, and is not taking anything for granted, although the Libs are still searching for their ephemeral celebrity candidate. Coatsworth’s name cropped up, as someone who lives in Canberra but owns property in Eden-Monaro. If he runs he will come a cropper.

  6. Betting markets have proven themselves pretty unreliable…

    @Steely – PvO made reference to ScoMo looking around his Cabinet table wondering, makes me think it’s definitely a Fed Minister – unless he’s bullshitting.

  7. jt1983says:
    Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 11:07 pm
    Betting markets have proven themselves pretty unreliable…

    @Steely – PvO made reference to ScoMo looking around his Cabinet table wondering, makes me think it’s definitely a Fed Minister – unless he’s bullshitting.

    Thanks, we will find out.

  8. Steelydan:

    Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 11:04 pm

    [‘Mavis

    Was it an unnamed NSW minister? Someone on here said it was a Federal Minister and Marise Payne’s name was bandied around.’]

    I could be wrong but I thought I heard it was a NSW minister – Treasurer Kean immediately coming to mind as he’s not a great
    fan of the Feds, evidenced by his current spat with them over the funding of small businesses and earlier criticism while Berejiklian was still premier.

    [‘NSW Treasurer Matt Kean has fired a broadside at the Prime Minister and Treasurer for not “stepping up” to contribute to a billion-dollar program to help the state’s small businesses hit by the impact of the Omicron outbreak that cruelled consumer confidence over summer.’]

    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/nsw-treasurer-matt-kean-fires-broadside-at-pm-and-frydenberg-over-funding-20220130-p59scc.html

  9. I am more worried about the media in general it seems that since 2007 we have had the media kicking the shit out of whoever is in power and it has given the impression that we have had awful governance for 15 years this is simply not the case, everything seems a fair go these days. It has not been great but comparatively speaking Australia has done as well as other comparable countries. Yeah yeah yeah I know Morrsion has to go because he is evil incarnate but I genuinely hope that if the labor party gets in they give them a real chance and don’t demand unachievable excellence. Obviously that won’t happen if Morrison does scrape back in, but hopefully a reset will cool them down a little. I fear though much money is to be had from tearing down. Just had a quick look on twitter and bloody hell the hatred is shocking.

  10. Mavissays:
    Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 11:21 pm
    Steelydan:

    Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 11:04 pm

    [‘Mavis

    Was it an unnamed NSW minister? Someone on here said it was a Federal Minister and Marise Payne’s name was bandied around.’]

    I could be wrong but I thought I heard it was a NSW minister – Treasurer Kean immediately coming to mind as he’s not a great
    fan of the Feds, evidenced by his current spat with them over the funding of small businesses and earlier criticism while Berejiklian was still premier.

    [‘NSW Treasurer Matt Kean has fired a broadside at the Prime Minister and Treasurer for not “stepping up” to contribute to a billion-dollar program to help the state’s small businesses hit by the impact of the Omicron outbreak that cruelled consumer confidence over summer.’]

    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/nsw-treasurer-matt-kean-fires-broadside-at-pm-and-frydenberg-over-funding-20220130-p59scc.html

    Cheers, I hope you are right 🙂

  11. Steelydan @ #1556 Tuesday, February 1st, 2022 – 8:30 pm

    I am more worried about the media in general it seems that since 2007 we have had the media kicking the shit out of whoever is in power and it has given the impression that we have had awful governance for 15 years this is simply not the case, everything seems a fair go these days. It has not been great but comparatively speaking Australia has done as well as other comparable countries. Yeah yeah yeah I know Morrsion has to go because he is evil incarnate but I genuinely hope that if the labor party gets in they give them a real chance and don’t demand unachievable excellence. Obviously that won’t happen if Morrison does scrape back in, but hopefully a reset will cool them down a little. I fear though much money is to be had from tearing down. Just had a quick look on twitter and bloody hell the hatred is shocking.

    😆 😆 😆

    How often have the media got stuck into the current Government?

  12. Infotainment has basically ruined most mainstream journalism – or at least, day to day.

    News now needs to be profitable, not a service. Many outlets have a bent and analysis/reporting have their role – but it’s not possible to present facts as facts. Most people, fundamentally, want their prejudices played to. That’s led to either false equivalence or complete demonisation.

    2007 is interesting – Howard was kicked the shit out of because he and his Government were there too long, lost touch and had run out of ideas.

    The purely toxic role Murdoch has played – and you cannot deny it has not been a positive one- was the primary driver. The left’s media machine does not have the reach – despite the bleats. But I do think Murdoch’s influence, while completely unacceptable, has significantly diminished. One of the many ways this election feels more like a traditional state election – is I don’t think what the media fixates on, will actually end up making much difference at all.

    The media is now part of entertainment and politicians are excellent fodder. The media will kick hardest, when they know they will benefit from the kicking and the media loves being part of the story. Something journos even 20 years ago would have been sickened by.

    Labor will be brutalised by the media once they’re in government.

    And on your other point – Morrison deserves to lose because he’s been a piss poor PM and his Government has been mediocre at my most charitable, also piss poor at my most honest. Evil incarnate is at least interesting and engaging.

    There’s a difference between governance and government – I think our governance has been pretty good.

  14. Today’s performance and the implications it carries for disunity added with the embarrassing prospect of bleeding votes of terrified LNP backbenchers on UAP matters in Parliament might prompt the PM to go earlier than he may otherwise. With his own side circling, a snap election would cut them off at the pass.

  15. jt1983says:
    Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 11:56 pm
    Sorry @Steely – just rewatched PvO’s report. Yup, it’s a Fed Cabinet Minister.

    Then it is huge news as bad if not worse than the Rudd/ Gillard, Abbott/Turnbull antics actually I am not aware of a senior cabinet Minister saying such disturbing comments about a PM maybe the sociopath comments about Rudd. Not only what was said but the leaking. It goes all the way back to the bushfires way before Covid basically the beginning of his prime ministership. This is the start of something if deliberately leaked by Liberals it is huge anyway. If true.

  16. i mean oh wow someone in his own party doesnt think much of ScoMo…

    isnt this true in just about all political parties? remember Peacock & Kennett discussing Howard, Keating was pretty blunt shall we say on Hawke, i’ll bet many on the left hated Shorten and on the right arent mega fans of Albo. Really, this is nothing new

    unless a deliberate leak signalling a challenge, of course that would be very interesting. But it makes no sense… Dutton might salvage a few seats in Qld but would fare much worse everywhere else in the country relative to ScoMo. Mind you, i thought burning ScoMo going into 2019 was a strategic risk – though the idea being that Turnbull or Dutton would lead to a rout and he would keep them in touch and be ok to continue as Opp Leader… that turned out better than expected. As others opine, i cant see Frydenburg salvaging much furniture really? If they had an older moderate like Bishop maybe it might make sense. But burning Frydenburg (assuming he is the natural heir with a long term outlook) in a bad loss makes no sense. Its sad i think of eg Bishop… Carmen L, Joan K, Kristina K… the hopeless furniture save move only to then move on to the next bloke is a bit cliche now

  17. Rewisays:
    Wednesday, February 2, 2022 at 12:03 am
    Today’s performance and the implications it carries for disunity added with the embarrassing prospect of bleeding votes of terrified LNP backbenchers on UAP matters in Parliament might prompt the PM to go earlier than he may otherwise. With his own side circling, a snap election would cut them off at the pass.

    He wont go early and if the story is true the plotters will be electoral poison not sure what is going on. Much depends on if it was a deliberate leak by the Minister in the emails or just a minor player who found something very juicy. Phone’s running hot tonight.

  18. The UAP plans to put all sitting members of parliament last on its how-to-vote cards in the coming federal election – a strategy prompting significant anxiety among Morrison government MPs, given the Coalition was the primary beneficiary of preference flows in the 2019 election.

    I’m skeptical about this. Clive Palmer still has strong links to the LNP. I will believe it when I see it. Palmer admitted he ran advertising against Labor in the last federal campaign because he wanted the Liberals to win. Despite this posturing as they are not favoring either party. Don’t be surprise if they decide to preference the Liberals/Nationals at the 11th hour.

  19. The Federal chookhouse is a mess. Every chookhouse that has housed Morrison bad become a mess immediately prior to his exit.
    Morrison doesn’t hold a shovel.
    The bantam cocks in the press have been waiting for the right time to upset the layers and have picked the bullshitter to be at his weakest.
    Morrison finds himself stuck with Covid, a polling trend looking ominous and all the exits firmly shut.
    Morrison has short time frame to pick up the shovel and clean a path forward.
    There are a number of positives still in the oven and perhaps a sprinkling of the infamous Morrison miraculous sauce may yet come to the fore.
    But right now plenty of eggs have been broken or cracked at a time when Morrison has to re stack the shelves.
    Easter is looking wobbly and a long way away.

  20. When aged care resident Jane Malysiak was called up to receive her COVID-19 booster vaccine in a photo opportunity with Prime Minister Scott Morrison in November, her 100 fellow residents were told they would have to wait until February for their shot.

    The facility’s chief executive Alexandra Davis thought that was “not good enough” and organised boosters through a local GP instead, which she believes helped the facility avoid an outbreak despite staff testing positive.

    The story is one of many instances of Sydney aged care residents being asked to wait prolonged periods for a booster clinic as infections rose in early December. Many facilities were forced into lockdown due to outbreaks before their clinic was scheduled – despite being eligible for weeks.

    Many of the largest outbreaks in aged care facilities in Sydney – totalling more than 100 cases each across residents and staff – had not received a booster clinic before their first infections were recorded in December.

    https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/jane-received-her-booster-with-the-pm-her-fellow-residents-had-to-wait-20220131-p59skt.html

    You had one job!

    Jane Malysiak’s fellow residents apparently had their initial jabs in March and April last year for goodness sakes! You’d think that aged care residents would be the first to get the booster shots, not among the last. I got mine before christmas, no waiting, no fuss so there’s no excuse for aged care residents to be waiting, waiting, waiting….

  22. Morning all. This article is interesting in that the RBA is trying to understand why wages aren’t rising when unemployment is low. Of course, what it completely ignores is the huge pool of people in Australia, up to a million, here on various forms of working visas short of permanent residency. They have very few legal rights, and are afraid to use those they have for fear of sacking and deportation. Then there is the Fair Serfdom Commission, stacked with employer advocates reluctant to make award wage increases. All deliberate policy.

    So this isn’t a mystery when you consider the whole picture.
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-02/how-is-the-unemployment-rate-falling-to-such-low-levels/100796028

  24. After yesterday I’m thinking this is a ‘blood in the water’ moment and Asha’s Event Horizon comment applies more than ever.
    SfM has been around long enough to have told every lie that has ever been told and our digital world has him recorded for posterity telling it.
    If you like, imagine standing on the deck of a ship with the anchor chain tied to one leg as the anchor is dropped, the chain is long, the seas are deep but you are going over the side, no question. History (the anchor) is catching up with the Prime Liar.

  25. Cat

    It couldn’t happen to a nicer “fella from down under”.

    If the media were even half consistent with what they put Gillard through, Morrison should be asked who he thinks the PvO email critic is in every press conference from now on.


  26. Steelydan says:
    Wednesday, February 2, 2022 at 12:16 am
    …
    This is the start of something if deliberately leaked by Liberals it is huge anyway. If true.

    On something we agree, the news isn’t that someone thinks he is mad, that only requires observation. The news is someone leaked a frank exchange between Liberal ministers discussing the matter.

  30. David crowe isn’t impressed:

    Blame Omicron, not me. That is the distilled version of the message from Scott Morrison on Tuesday that was crafted to perfection to ask voters to give him the benefit of the doubt.

    The Prime Minister appealed to the natural instinct of many Australians to give a man a break when he is down. He admitted to some mistakes, said he took his share of responsibility but avoided an abject apology that would be replayed by his enemies when the election comes.

    Scott Morrison tried to turn the government’s mistakes, such as the slow arrival of vaccines last year, into an assurance to voters about his experience.

    Most of all, he reshaped the terms of the election itself.

    “It’s not a referendum on the government,” he said. There is a simple reason Morrison does not want people to think of this as a “yes” or “no” verdict. He suspects he would lose. So he turned the question into a broader choice about who was up to the job of leading a government.

    The tacticians around Morrison continue to believe the Prime Minister has the edge over Labor leader Anthony Albanese when voters think about choosing who runs the country.

    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/why-pm-does-not-want-a-referendum-on-his-job-20220201-p59sqx.html

    And those tacticians haven’t been looking at how he has been running the country (hint: badly), over the last 3 1/2 years?

  31. If Labor members have been doing what Kristy McBain has been doing in Eden-Monaro there will be a strong result for the party in May. She has been everywhere and her support for constituents through the pandemic has been clear and well informed (often her Facebook posts were the difference between trying to understand government directives and information and getting some well needed clarity.)
    Given that SfM has chosen the ‘Presidential’ style of campaign focusing on himself, his performance will have to influence voters in the electorates. This in turn should render betting on individual seats difficult I’d imagine.

  32. Good morning Dawn Patrollers

    The increasingly strained relationship between the NSW and federal Liberal governments has been further inflamed after explosive and damaging texts were revealed in which former premier Gladys Berejiklian purportedly labelled Prime Minister Scott Morrison a “horrible, horrible person”, writes Alexandra Smith.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/horrible-person-berejiklian-texts-reveal-antagonism-towards-pm-20220201-p59syy.html
    Blame Omicron, not me. That is the distilled version of the message from Scott Morrison yesterday that was crafted to ask voters to give him the benefit of the doubt, says David Crowe.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/peter-van-onselen-named-in-reporter-s-bullying-action-against-network-10-20220131-p59sp1.html
    Martin Luther King used the cadences, phrasing and devices of a Christian Baptist pastor to deliver soaring rhetoric; Scott Morrison took his sky pilot familiarity to the National Press Club on Tuesday for as platitudinous and dulling a sermon as you’re likely to hear, says Michael Pascoe in this scorching evaluation of the NPC appearance.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2022/02/02/michael-pascoe-scott-morrison-declares-war/
    The election’s not over yet, but Morrison may need another miracle, suggests Chris Uhlmann in a reasonable contribution.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/election-s-not-over-yet-but-morrison-may-need-another-miracle-20220201-p59ssz.html
    No matter how he has tried to escape responsibility, including blaming the states, the public has seen through Morrison’s bluster, writes Jack Waterford following on from yesterday’s article.
    https://johnmenadue.com/out-of-touch-and-out-of-time-another-2019-looks-impossible-for-morrison/
    When it comes to deflecting inconvenient questions, the prime minister has all the moves, writes Paul Karp who tells us about the five ways Morrison dodged questions at the NPC yesterday.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/01/were-all-terribly-sorry-five-ways-scott-morrison-dodged-questions-at-the-press-club-qa
    Phil Coorey reckons Morrison has two months to make it all about the economy.
    https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/morrison-has-two-months-to-make-it-all-about-the-economy-20220201-p59sz2
    Management of the Omicron outbreak is primarily a national responsibility, writes NSW treasurer Matt Kean
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/31/nsw-businesses-need-federal-leadership-to-ensure-strong-economic-recovery
    Ross Gittins writes that there is a long way to go for our economy to be less unequal.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/long-way-to-go-for-our-economy-to-be-less-unequal-20220201-p59suc.html
    Covid becoming endemic doesn’t mean it will be mild – or that there won’t be new variants, warn Hassan Vally and Catherine Bennett.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/01/covid-becoming-endemic-doesnt-mean-it-will-be-mild-or-that-there-wont-be-new-variants
    Aged care workers want respect, not loose change, writes Joseph Ibrahim. He says that if the government was truly interested in our aged care workers, more would have been done with the royal commission’s recommendations released 11 months ago.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/aged-care-workers-want-respect-not-loose-change-20220201-p59swq.html
    Dana Daniels reports that unions and aged care providers say Scott Morrison’s bonus payments for about 230,000 workers aren’t enough to fix the sector’s staffing crisis as employees battle exhaustion and struggle to care for residents.
    https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/aged-care-bonus-totally-inadequate-in-staffing-crisis-unions-providers-20220201-p59src.html
    Queensland authorities abandoned their own contingency plans to protect vulnerable disability housing residents in the event of a Covid outbreak, instead telling accommodation providers to manage positive cases themselves and just “do what you reasonably can”. Emails obtained by Guardian Australia reveal the extent to which Queensland’s health system planning quickly became overburdened by the Omicron outbreak.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/02/do-what-you-reasonably-can-queensland-disability-homes-told-to-manage-covid-alone
    I’ve worked in aged care for eight years – but now I want out, writes a South Australian aged care worker who says, “The bonus payment is not going to keep aged care workers in the game because it’s a temporary handout. It’s a Band-Aid – it’s not addressing the problem.”
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/02/ive-worked-in-aged-care-for-eight-years-but-now-i-want-out
    When aged care workers earn just $22 an hour, a one-off payment won’t fix the wage problem, say these contributors to The Conversation.
    https://theconversation.com/when-aged-care-workers-earn-just-22-an-hour-a-one-off-payment-wont-fix-the-wage-problem-176136
    Tom Burton writes that experts have warned that a new rapidly spreading omicron sub-variant is 13 per cent more infectious, threatening to prolong the current wave well into autumn, stymying business and government hopes for an early end to the shadow lockdown and an outbreak-free election period.
    https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/new-omicron-sub-variant-threatens-to-prolong-case-wave-20220201-p59syl
    The Perrottet Government isn’t doing enough to ensure the safe return of kids to schools amid the Omicron wave, writes Karen Armstrong.
    https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/perrottet-ignores-school-covid-safety,16001
    The politically driven demise of well-run public institutions has had damaging consequences, with the COVID pandemic providing a wake-up call, writes Terry Moran who says the private sector is no place for essential services.
    https://johnmenadue.com/delivery-failure-the-private-sector-is-no-place-for-essential-services/
    Fossil fuel companies, the Big 4 accountants, billionaires and the usual suspects. The Coalition came out on top, with more than $15 million more payments given to them than Labor. Callum Foote and Stephanie Tran wrap up 2021’s political payments.
    https://www.michaelwest.com.au/quid-pro-quo-donations-data-shows-billionaires-and-corporations-fix-politicians-for-another-year/
    Using gender-neutral language as an example, Julie Szego argues that progressive politics is going wrong.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/birth-givers-to-pride-jumpers-how-progressive-politics-is-going-wrong-20220201-p59ssu.html
    Australia will pour more than $60 million into countering violent extremism amid an increase in conspiracy theories during the COVID-19 pandemic and concerns from MPs about their safety following last year’s murder of British MP Sir David Amess.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/zero-tolerance-more-than-60m-to-combat-violent-extremism-20220201-p59sw9.html
    Federal moderate Liberal MPs will renew their push for fast-tracked protections for LGBTQ school students when Parliament returns next week, as Scott Morrison aims to deliver on his election promise to legislate to protect religious freedom. Fresh controversy over the federal government’s proposed religious discrimination bill was ignited yesterday after reports that Citipointe Christian College in Brisbane had issued contracts requiring students to agree to specific gender roles and denounce homosexuality.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/moderate-liberals-to-push-protections-for-gay-students-after-queensland-case-20220201-p59syu.html
    Moved close to tears, Queensland’s Education Minister, Grace Grace, has promised a swift response to complaints about Citipointe Christian College requiring students to agree to specific gender roles and denounce homosexuality – a move she described as “unacceptable”.
    https://www.theage.com.au/national/queensland/unacceptable-education-minister-promises-action-over-christian-college-contracts-20220201-p59sw4.html
    Borrowers have long been accustomed to seeing their borrowing capacity expand as interest rates have fallen over the past 11 years to hit record lows. That trend now appears over, explains John Collett.
    https://www.smh.com.au/money/borrowing/homebuyers-to-lose-significant-borrowing-capacity-20220131-p59sit.html
    The Morrison government is actively supporting new coal mines and massive new gas developments that will overwhelm all other efforts to protect the Great Barrier Reef, writes Imogen Zethoven who says the biggest barrier is a political class in climate denial.
    https://johnmenadue.com/biggest-barrier-to-saving-the-reef-is-a-political-class-in-climate-denial/
    After blowing up 46,000-year-old archaeologically precious Indigenous rock caves in Western Australia Rio Tinto is dealing with the unearthing of a new culture catastrophe – endemic harassment, sexism, racism and gender discrimination. Elizabeth Knight tells us that, for the second time within a year, Rio’s chief executive Jakob Stausholm has issued an apology – this time to the mining giant’s victimised workforce.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/another-culture-catastrophe-rio-tinto-s-horror-report-card-20220201-p59svd.html
    Miah Hammond-Errey explains how Big Data is changing our lives.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/you-re-being-watched-how-big-data-is-changing-our-lives-20220201-p59st0.html
    Rob Harris tells us that Boris Johnson will turn to his longtime ally, Australian political strategist Lynton Crosby, to help save his leadership after vowing to get a grip on his government following a damning report into lockdown parties at Downing Street.
    https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/boris-johnson-to-reunite-with-veteran-australian-political-strategist-to-save-job-20220201-p59svp.html
    Never mind wine fridges, the Tory party is drunk on Kool-Aid, writes Marina Hyde,
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/01/wine-fridges-tory-party-kool-aid
    Some of the White House records turned over to the House committee investigating the January 6 attack were ripped up by Donald Trump, the National Archives has said.
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/01/trump-tore-up-records-turned-over-house-capitol-attack-committee

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  34. How about if the party room went to Morrison and told him to call a Half-Senate Election for mid-March which would act as a “referendum” on Morrison’s leadership.

    Presuming he fails that test – he’s out, to the backbench and not standing again.

    Then the new team of Frydenberg/Dutton comes in with 6 months to turn the ship around…

  35. Joe @ #1584 Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022 – 4:48 pm

    How about if the party room went to Morrison and told him to call a Half-Senate Election for mid-March which would act as a “referendum” on Morrison’s leadership.

    Presuming he fails that test – he’s out, to the backbench and not standing again.

    Then the new team of Frydenberg/Dutton comes in with 6 months to turn the ship around…

    That would be Josh Frydenburg, who gave away TENS OF BILLIONS OF TAXPAYERS’ $$ to vested interests and mates of the Liberal Party. Neither of them will arrive on the scene with clean hands. Remember how Dutton’s seat received proportionately more pork, by many multiples, of the Labor seat next door to his?

    Bring it on!

  36. Remember how Dutton’s seat received proportionately more pork, by many multiples, of the Labor seat next door to his?“

    One problem is, no one remembers.

  37. It’s soon back to the school routine and the Coalition has always had an obedience discipline policy in the school education curriculum for students. And Morrison is the main driver for that corporal obedience discipline. Therefore it’s hard not to think that Coalition will be the central nervous system mechanics of the corporal obedience discipline punishment for students in unfair pedophile ways and child pedophile methods to students. 10 0r 15 years later the students become adults and the students who were abused with teacher’s pedophilia become diplomatically active who protest legally against the teachers using Labor party, against the Coalition, the culprits of child abuse based on the court hearing subject (pedophilia) which will damage and embarrass the Coalition reputation for any future Coalition supporters. So Scott Morrison would have a lot of moments of truth to explain if he wins the 2022 federal election.

  38. Ex PM Turnbull said he would out the Morrison abuser and then went on to hint about Mr Mustard being the culprit. No points for guessing who Turnbull is calling out.

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