The Australian brings us a new result from Newspoll, suggesting it is moving to a fortnightly schedule now that the election is in view. It is only slightly better for the Coalition than the previous disaster, with Labor’s lead in from 56-44 to 55-45. Both major parties are unchanged on the primary vote, the Coalition at 34% and Labor at 41%, the two-party result reflecting a three-point drop in support for the Greens to 8%. One Nation is steady at 3%, with the lost Greens vote accounted for by a three-point increase in “others” to 14%.
The news for Labor is less good on personal ratings, with Anthony Albanese’s approval down three to 40% and disapproval up three to 46%, after the previous poll respectively had him up four and down two. Scott Morrison is up one on approval to 40% and down two on disapproval to 56%, and his lead as preferred prime minister is out from 43-41 to 43-38. The poll was conducted Wednesday to Saturday from a sample of 1526.
Praying is a way of comforting oneself. Nothing else. So Morrison has declared he’s spent a lot of time trying to make himself feel better. Terrific. His job is to improve the fortunes of the people using the powers at his disposal. Praying is an act of the powerless. It is as futile a gesture as there ever was.
Firefox, do you have a sister called Katharina?
Can you ask her to cut and paste a bit to establish her Green credentials?
Jt1983 – I am to some extent. But we shouldn’t forget the in-built advantages that the Bad Guys enjoy, such as a cheersquad media backing from News Corpse, the (misguided) common opinion that the Liberals run the economy better, and some of the culture war stuff that seems to play well for the Libs in regional and outer suburban marginals. For sure Labor is well-placed right now, and my gut feeling is the ALP will indeed form government after the election, but as always it’s an uphill fight.
Zerlo ,
As it’s said, god helps those who help themselves.
Scott is/was unique in his position as pm and as a religious man to actually dispense justice (not punitive) in a religious sense, doing good work for people in the spirit of jesus. Instead he seems to have learned the lessons of supply side jesus. Thus bootstraps
jt1983:
Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 10:39 pm
[‘@Mavis – 4.6% in Queensland isn’t going to be enough if the swing is actually on.’]
True but they seem to love their plod, armed with the white pages.
He has the personality of Hyde, even Shelley’s creation. In essence, what one sees…?
Firefox @ #2 Sunday, February 13th, 2022 – 6:51 pm
No apparent reason?
Maybe voters are starting to see through the ludicrous spin of this week and are starting to see the teals as a viable alternative.
It’s only one poll, so we don’t know yet, but to ignore it is dangerous.
What if these numbers pop up again next time?
What will you say then?
The vote for the Greens never peaks at an election when the Coalition are in Government and sorely on the nose. You can explain the preferential system all you like to people, but when voters are focussed on kicking out the Coalition, it’s natural that raises the ALP’s vote.
Rather, the Greens vote tends to go up after the ALP has been in Government and taken some decisions that don’t play well among that section of voters.
In the 14% Others in this poll, I am most concerned that it has picked up some movement to Clive Palmer’s front party.
Fulvio Sammut @ #52 Sunday, February 13th, 2022 – 8:05 pm
I wonder if she’s wearing socks?
Of course the drop in The Greens’ PV is significant, as is the Others vote share. It’s because the Teals are what The Greens should have grown up and admitted what they were all along and run with it. Blue Greens. Liberals with a coat of environmentally-responsible green paint.
If The Greens don’t wake up and smell the Fair Trade Organic Coffee and realise this basic fact, they are going to be replaced by the Teals and they WILL go the way of the Australian Democrats. And once the Teals get their Senate act together it will be game on with The Greens. Not Labor, as the numbers here tonight show. With. The Greens.
The take away for me on that Newspoll is LABOR holding that 40+ PV and the Coalition floundering still in the low 30s. I hope it stays that way for a little longer at least.
The Australian masthead is simply a click bait/buy bait strategy to con people into looking I reckon. Looks like fortnightly twists and turns in Newspoll and the commensurate spin from various parties and MSM hacks.
caf,
I think the ‘Others’ is mainly the Teals. And I think, contrary to your hypothesis, if Labor get into power, if things upset people they will gravitate to the Teals and strengthen them, not The Greens.
I just hope that The Australian gets the Newspoll pie charts right this time, and not Right. 😀
And with that, good night. I just dropped in to see if Newspoll had dropped.
Hmm, I wonder where that leaves Essential now?
One thing I will say is that my son is doing a 3 day survey for Essential this week. I don’t know what that’s about though. Issues was all I could garner from eavesdropping on the phone call. 😉
Bludging @ #51 Sunday, February 13th, 2022 – 11:03 pm
Did you see the footage of him preaching from the pulpit at an Orthodox Service in Adelaide today? Desperate.
[‘Jenny Morrison says she’s disappointed by Grace Tame’s lack of manners’]
I’m not sure Jenny gets it. Tame was sexually abused, manners surely inconsequential.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/jenny-morrison-says-she-s-disappointed-by-grace-tame-s-lack-of-manners-20220213-p59w35.html
I do not think there is a solid basis in evidence for this. The “Teals” aren’t running in most seats, aren’t advertising yet and basically aren’t known to anyone but a political tragic at this point.
Palmer on the other hand is carpet bombing advertising in places like YouTube.
If there are specifically environmental issues that play poorly they may lose some paint on their right flank to the Teals (from those that commonly switch their vote between Labor and Liberal), but on their left flank it would be the Greens still. Someone who believes in collective bargaining and social welfare isn’t in the Teal constituency.
Mavis_says:
Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 11:07 pm
jt1983:
Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 10:39 pm
[‘@Mavis – 4.6% in Queensland isn’t going to be enough if the swing is actually on.’]
“True but they seem to love their plod……”
Yes, a senior constable in the Qld constabulary. As they used to say “the best police force that money can buy “
https://www.pollbludger.net/2022/02/13/newspoll-55-45-to-labor-5/comment-page-2/#comment-3820062
The Teals are likely to do better in the House of Reps than the Senate, as they seems much better organised in there most likely house seats than the Senate. The Senate electoral system favours parties, including by not putting any candidate names (or the word independent) above the line for non-party groups, so the Teals` lack of a party will hurt their ability to get elected in the Senate.
The ALP is polling in a rage where it is, baring a significant recovery for the government, likely to get a majority in the House of Reps. The ALP+Teals would need to win around 26 of the 40 Senate seats up for election this year to be able to pass legislation without either the Coalition or the Greens but the ALP are very unlikely to get 20 or more and the Teals are unlikely to win a seat in each state without an organised party or parties (and even then it might be a tall order). The ALP are thus likely to need the Greens to pass anything the Coalition opposes but have a reasonable chance of not needing any Teals.
There are also issues, such as industrial relations and taxation, where there is a reasonable likelihood that the ALP will want to pass some legislation both the Coalition and at least most of the Teals oppose.
Also – based on anecdotal feedback, the Morrison chat on 60 Minutes has not gone down especially well.
Oddly, it’s Jenny’s cringe-worthy commentary on Grace Tame seemingly being the biggest takeaway. Wouldn’t have picked that one.
“Others” is Others. It includes independents (Teal and untealed) but also parties like the UAP, LDP, any number of batshit crazy antivax groups, Animals, HEMP….. the list goes on. Also people who answer they are going to vote for a particular party might find that that party is not running in their seat, but they will in end up casting a ballot for someone, and at the moment that someone is not going to the LNP in the majority of cases.
There are 151 seats and the Voice for (Teals) are only running high profile candidates in few dozen seats. People might think they are going to vote for one only to find they aren’t in seat where they are running. Believe it or not, a lot voters don’t pay anywhere near as much attention as some of us here do.
What date is the last date Morrison can call the election on?
Interesting by elections particularly Willoughby. Voters fled the RW Libs and with no Labor candidate had to decide whether they could go to those lefties the Greens. Overwhelming decision, Teal.
Over 10% of previous Lib voters are on the move. Incompetence, debt, climate change, women, covid. Have the Greens achieved anything for the planet in the last few years? Maybe give the new kids on the block a go! Or perhaps Labor might be better now it’s hit the fan. They couldn’t be worse than the headless chooks making the decisions now.
https://www.pollbludger.net/2022/02/13/newspoll-55-45-to-labor-5/comment-page-2/#comment-3820079
(presuming you mean writ issuing day, not voting day) I believe it is the 18th of April for the half-Senate election (so almost certainly then for the House of Reps but it could technically the as late as the 1st of July).
PaulTu:
Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 11:34 pm
It was similarly said of the NSW police. I was once an underling of Lusher, J, who found that corruption was not systemic – just a few rotten apples. He was a friend of Murphy, Wran & others. I refuse to suggest it was a case of the Rum Corps, as Poroti refers to from time to time.
C@tmomma says:
Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 11:24 pm
Bludging @ #51 Sunday, February 13th, 2022 – 11:03 pm
Praying is a way of comforting oneself. Nothing else. So Morrison has declared he’s spent a lot of time trying to make himself feel better. Terrific. His job is to improve the fortunes of the people using the powers at his disposal. Praying is an act of the powerless. It is as futile a gesture as there ever was.
Did you see the footage of him preaching from the pulpit at an Orthodox Service in Adelaide today? Desperate.
I didn’t see it. Do voters want to elect a preacher? An Imam? A monk? Or a cardinal? How truly nutty!! Preachers play dress-ups for a living. Weird. Morrison is dressing-up too. Politics as a costume panto….surely voters want more than that. What is it with the reactionaries? Downer liked to cross-dress in cabaret gear. Michael MacCormack impersonates Elvis. Morrison impersonates a PM.
Morrison is trying to anoint himself as a non-politician – as an extra-political authority figure. It’s not the first pseudo-religious charade he’s pulled. What a complete fraud he is.
RonniSalt@RonniSalt·1h
Could somebody let Entitled Jenny know that it’s our house – not hers.
Moreover, could you let her know those flat packing boxes from Bunnings are on special this month and she’s going to need to pack a lot of them.
Best to get started now.
Why isn’t the polling picking up the UAP and anti mandates? Are they in “others?” I would think there are more of them than “One Nation”. Were they all in Canberra for the convoy?
Nature Portfolio@NaturePortfolio·37mAn article published in @NatureHumBehav suggests that scientific authority is considered more of a reliable source for truth than spiritual authority. https://go.nature.com/3sBk5Qn
曹 毅 CAO Yi أبو وسيم@CaoYi_MFAAnyone here once believed the “Uyghur genocide” propaganda then realized it is actually a lie?
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/jenny-morrison-says-she-s-disappointed-by-grace-tame-s-lack-of-manners-20220213-p59w35.html
Jenny Morrison says she’s disappointed by Grace Tame’s lack of manners
The Prime Minister’s wife told 60 Minutes she wanted her own daughters to become fierce and independent but “be polite and have manners”, as she labelled Ms Tame’s refusal to smile at the couple “a little bit disappointing”.
So much selfishness and entitlement. They live on an entirely different planet (Planet Bonkers).
Mr Ed. The ALP’s usual primary vote in Willoughby is only 20-25% – it’s a quite conservative seat. The IND that made the last 2 has a fairly high profile having run multiple times before.
That we don’t have drill-down on that 14% is a failure of polling. UAP at least should be polled given how much noise they’re making, and for independents, I would follow up on whether it’s a known independent they’re voting for, or if they’re waiting to see who they have on offer, but just have a general preference for an independent. 14% is too high to be leaving unexplained.
An angry mob stoned to death a mentally ill man in Pakistan, authorities have said, in the country’s latest case of blasphemy-related violence.
Dozens of people have been arrested over the lynching, which happened on Saturday evening in a remote village in Punjab province, after it was alleged that the victim had burned some pages of the Qur’an, according to Tahir Ashrafi, the prime minister’s special representative on religious harmony.
Law-enforcement agencies were also monitoring hundreds of other suspects, he said.
The killing came just over two months after a Sri Lankan factory manager was beaten to death and set on fire by a mob over blasphemy in Sialkot city, also in Punjab.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/13/man-stoned-to-death-in-pakistan-after-desecrating-quran
The depravities of the devout. Organised religion…another name for organised crime.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/13/ill-fight-to-overturn-us-ban-on-my-queer-bible-says-jack-guinness-british-author
Religious absolutism in the US
A British writer, presenter and former model says he is shocked to find himself at the centre of an unprecedented wave of book banning in the US.
A Mississippi mayor has told the Madison County Library to remove LGBTQ+ books from its shelves or lose funding. One of the books singled out as an example was The Queer Bible, a collection of LGBTQ+ history essays edited by Jack Guinness. Ridgeland’s Republican mayor, Gene McGee, has refused to release funds to the library until “homosexual materials” are withdrawn.
Tonja Johnson, executive director of the Madison County Library System, said when she told McGee that the library served the whole community, he replied that he only served “the great Lord above”.
Guinness discovered his anthology had been caught up in the book ban on Twitter. “I couldn’t quite believe my eyes,” he told the Observer. “When you write a book, you kind of imagine people might read it, but you don’t imagine anyone will ban it. Referring to it as ‘homosexual material’ – that’s the sort of phrase my grandmother would have used to talk about my jeans.”
The drop in Greens vote by a quarter is a terrible result for that party. Clearly Bandt running around telling everyone they’ll be determining government in a hung parliament has voters saying ‘no thank you’ in response.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/climate-warrior-zali-steggall-failed-to-declare-six-figure-donation-from-family-trust-of-coal-investor-20220213-p59w0x.html
Oh dear, Zali. Though I do find the timing of the release of the information convenient for the government.
jt1983 @ #69 Sunday, February 13th, 2022 – 11:49 pm
That’s interesting. However, it mirrors the generational divide. Grace Tame is a bigger star in the Australian firmament these days than Jenny Morrison, and her old-fashioned mores, that’s for sure.
doyley says:
Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 10:15 pm
With the coalition PV looking solid at 34 it means the liberals must be around 30-31.
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The liberal party primary vote would likely be in the mid-high teens
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/he-does-hold-a-ukulele-mate-scott-morrison-plays-the-man-not-the-prime-minister-20220213-p59w2s.html
I didn’t watch the show so can’t comment other than to wonder who after 3 years of monumental failures as a leader wouldn’t see through the interview for the classic Scotty from Marketing set piece that it was?
C@t:
I found this bit laughable too.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/jenny-morrison-says-she-s-disappointed-by-grace-tame-s-lack-of-manners-20220213-p59w35.html
Perhaps instead of being on his knees he should’ve been on his feet organising vaccines, appropriate quarantine, RATs etc for the pandemic. Not praying for god’s sake!
That ukelele was pretty new and it was obvious to me that Scott Morrison had had it bought for the precise purpose of the 60 Minutes interview and had done a couple of lessons beforehand to learn a minimum number of chords to facilitate the latest Everyman schtick from him.
So what did it achieve? Not what he wanted to I think. In the end, it was just another Morrison stunt by Scotty from Marketing Scotty.
‘fess,
Exactly. We don’t want a PM who wastes his time on his knees. We want a PM on the job 24/7. As Sean Kelly says, we have pretty much no idea, even after 3 years, what Morrison’s plans for the country are. Except for entrenching religion. But, at the end of the day, that IS all that the man is, as the ‘worn out carpet’ attests.
Perhaps more tome doing stuff and less praying for god to do his chores.
Mrs Morrison apologised for her family’s holiday during the Black Summer bushfires. “I am more than sorry … if we disappointed. We did disappoint. Did we make the right decision? I thought I was making the right decision for my kids. I obviously was wrong,” she said
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She and her daughters could have gone how many people would had really cared , trying to make the Australian people feel guilty for her husband fleeing to Hawaii when he is the prime minister and should have stayed in Australia to help those who needed it.
Jenny Morrison comments were pathetic
It shows how low the corrupt lib/nats propaganda media and Morrison will go , by allowing Jenny Morrison to personal attack a former Australian of the year, because Grace Tame did not smile at her husband.
so much for keeping your wife and family out of politics
Would “cool” Scott have dragged out Jen and the girls if the polls weren’t so ugly?
A bit too much Hyacinth about the “our home” in the middle of the harbour as
most Australians struggle in the “burbs”. They shouldn’t drag in complete strangers into their other home either. (called the Lodge)
What’s wrong with their “home” in the electorate and a sing-along with the neighbours ?
Morrison is all about playing “dress ups”. Morrison should never have been given the top billing and ain’t no chook wrangler.
The circus now moves on to the town called “Budget”. The spruiker and his understudy will need plenty of wool and buckets of sheep dip to both satisfy the squatters and the flies.
Morrison’s memoirs will be called “the slow and exasperating extraction of the tooth fairy”
” Climate and integrity crusading independent federal MP Zali Steggall failed to disclose a six-figure political donation from the family trust…”
Dividing donations among family members or employees into chunks below the threshold is standard practice allowed by our ludicrously weak reporting regime. In this case they were submitted in a single cheque, so they weren’t so good at hiding it.
How many of Morrison’s and Dutton’s donors are doing the same thing?
The Dirt Units have been busy.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers
Growing inflation and earlier-than-expected interest rate rises are forcing the Morrison government to reconsider its pre-election tax cut promise.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/inflation-threat-poised-to-kill-pre-election-tax-cut-sweetener-20220213-p59vzt.html
And social services groups are urging the federal government to cut generous tax breaks for wealthy earners and increase support for low-income households in a bid to boost spending activity and economic growth.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/scrap-tax-cuts-for-wealthiest-earners-and-increase-low-income-support-acoss-20220211-p59vm3.html
Sean Kelly headlines this contribution with, “He does hold a ukulele, mate: Scott Morrison plays the man, not the Prime Minister”.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/he-does-hold-a-ukulele-mate-scott-morrison-plays-the-man-not-the-prime-minister-20220213-p59w2s.html
John Kehoe writes that the tax system is near breaking point as it stings workers too heavily, deters investment and penalises homeowners relocating for jobs, according to political, policy and business leaders who have warned the Coalition and Labor will be forced to confront tax reform after the federal election.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/no-choice-broken-taxes-must-be-fixed-20220210-p59vc7
Alan Kohler says that the Reserve Bank is fiddling while inflation burns.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2022/02/14/reserve-bank-inflation-alan-kohler/
Boring auditors-general are our last defence against dodgy governments, says Ross Gittins.
https://www.theage.com.au/business/the-economy/boring-auditors-general-our-last-defence-against-dodgy-governments-20220213-p59vz7.html
The religious discrimination bill “was bad law, mendacious politics, and in the end, hopelessly executed. After all the other problems, the defeat put the sword to Morrison’s central justification as Liberal leader: his political smarts. He is now a drag on the Coalition vote, a PM trading while insolvent. The evidence is everywhere you look”, concludes this very readable contribution from Mark Kenny.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7617931/liberals-weigh-their-own-futures-as-morrison-flails/?cs=14329
Pessimism about the next election is deepening in Liberal ranks after heavy swings against the NSW government during the Super Saturday of byelections cast a cloud on the party’s prospects of picking up a seat crucial to Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s hopes of clinging to power, writes Andrew Tillett.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/byelections-cast-doubt-on-liberals-hope-of-gaining-key-federal-seat-20220213-p59vzr
Roughly one in three Australians have confidence in the Morrison government, which is the lowest approval since the 2019-20 summer bushfires, according to a new survey conducted by the ANU.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/14/only-a-third-of-australians-have-confidence-in-morrison-government-survey-finds
The protesters in Canberra “were searching for leadership. They didn’t find it in Canberra. They needed someone who would explain to them why Australia has implemented the public health measures that have saved thousands. They needed somebody prepared to say that by living together as a community we can enjoy better, stronger, and more fulfilling lives than we can by standing apart as individuals. Someone who would explain why this is a great country. What did they get? A shrinking simulacrum of a leader. A man desperately weaving, squirming and dodging his responsibility as leader of this country. Writes Nicholas Stuart in this scathing assessment of the PM.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7618464/a-pox-on-both-of-your-houses/?cs=14264
Oh Zali! Rob Harris reports that the climate and integrity crusading independent federal MP failed to disclose a six-figure political donation from the family trust of a multimillionaire coal investor, who is accused of tax fraud, for almost two years, an audit of her campaign financing has found.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/climate-warrior-zali-steggall-failed-to-declare-six-figure-donation-from-family-trust-of-coal-investor-20220213-p59w0x.html
Natassia Chrysanthos outlines Jenny Morrison’s 60 Minutes performance for those of us who could not bring ourselves to watch it.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/jenny-morrison-says-she-s-disappointed-by-grace-tame-s-lack-of-manners-20220213-p59w35.html
Why the hardest lesson for Liberals is in Willoughby, not Bega, argues Michael Yabsley.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/why-the-hardest-lesson-for-liberals-is-in-willoughby-not-bega-20220213-p59w30.html
Strathfield byelection Labor candidate Jason Yat-sen Li, who will most likely be elected, has had to call out racism during the campaign. And it’s not the first time, explains Anna Patty.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/it-s-not-ok-strathfield-candidate-takes-a-swing-at-racism-in-campaign-20220213-p59w0j.html
Scott Morrison is keen to avoid any suggestion that swings against a state Coalition government the weekend by-elections reflect badly on his government’s chances, writes Jennifer Hewett in this examination of the NSW Liberal Party.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/morrison-accentuates-the-positive-in-nsw-byelections-20220213-p59w2w
The country’s biggest coal power generator has attacked the rapid shutdown of coal plants envisaged by the Australian Energy Market Operator as not “credible” in the latest questioning of the organisation’s draft blueprint for the power grid, explains Angela Macdonald-Smith.
https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/power-grid-plan-not-credible-agl-20220212-p59vyf
Vulnerable Australians are being forced into “hiding at home” and lower-income workers are skipping meals because of the cost of rapid Covid tests, unions and welfare charities warn, as they plead with the Morrison government to reverse its opposition to providing free testing kits for all, writes Elias Visontay.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/13/a-rat-means-a-missed-meal-morrison-government-urged-to-make-rapid-covid-tests-free-for-all
Confining aged care residents to their rooms must be replaced by managing coronavirus like flu or gastro outbreaks, says the boss of a nursing home group that has successfully fought back the virus.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/end-lockdowns-treat-covid-19-like-flu-and-gastro-aged-care-boss-says-20220210-p59va6.html
Clive Palmer and Mark McGowan will finally face off in court as a defamation trial begins in the Federal Court in Sydney today, writes Hamish Hastie.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/stage-set-for-mcgowan-v-palmer-defamation-case-showdown-20220211-p59vtm.html
Jordan Baker tells us that powerful university chiefs have ordered a review of International Baccalaureate results amid concerns that overly generous marking gave private schools an ATAR advantage after more than one in 20 IB students in NSW achieved 99.95 last year.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/nsw-uni-bosses-order-review-of-perfect-atars-after-ib-students-beat-james-ruse-20220210-p59vi3.html
Few Christian schools want to discriminate, and there’s a better way forward posits Melbourne’s Anglican archbishop, Philip Freier.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/few-christian-schools-want-to-discriminate-there-s-a-better-way-forward-20220213-p59w0b.html
Scott Morrison has said he is “devastated” by failing to deliver the religious discrimination legislation but declared he would rather lay down the attempt than see the protections compromised, reports Michelle Grattan.
https://theconversation.com/morrison-draws-on-bible-story-to-explain-refusal-to-compromise-on-religious-discrimination-package-177043
The “big four” banks started pulling out of regional Australia more than 30 years ago, but lack of transparency has made confirming the scale of closures difficult explains Dale Webster.
https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/piggy-banks-rack-up-rural-closures-,16035
The sooner that technology companies can admit their US parent companies do business in Australia and have to abide by local laws, the better, argues Nick Bonyhady who looks at last week’s potentially pivotal decision in the Federal Court.
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/tech-giants-can-claim-they-re-everywhere-and-nowhere-but-it-s-not-smart-20220210-p59vep.html
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NSW Liberal grandee Michael Yabsley exhumes the memory of another, pointedly tipping a bucket on the Morrison/Hawke delayed preselections in NSW.
The article also comments on the Teal movement, and general dysfunction in the NSW Liberals..
The only candidate with a real chance of returning that seat to the Liberal fold from the independent Zali Steggall, who defeated former PM Tony Abbott, has walked away in the face of internal Liberal Party dysfunction.
Repeated delays in the Warringah preselection meant that standout candidate was staring down the barrel of endorsement a matter of a month before campaigning would start for a May election. That is two minutes to midnight in anyone’s language.
Liberal Party statesman Sir John Carrick was fond of saying “you can’t fatten the pig on market day”. That was a quaint, old-fashioned but profound way of saying that successful campaigning is all about being on the field early, with a good candidate, and a well-resourced campaign.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/why-the-hardest-lesson-for-liberals-is-in-willoughby-not-bega-20220213-p59w30.html