It’s an off week for Newspoll and Roy Morgan, but this week should see the release of federal polls from Essential Research and, I would assume, Resolve Strategic. With all the SA election post clogging up the board though, I need a new open thread sooner than that, so I’ll hang one off the latest release of JWS Research’s occasional True Issues survey of issue salience.
This finds very little change since the previous survey in November, with the war in Ukraine only eliciting a slight bump in defence, security and terrorism, which remains well down the list.
The biggest movers are cost of living, the index score of which is up from 11% to 16%, and housing and interest rates, up four to 14%.
Respondents continue to rate health as the issue governments should be most focused on, which would not surprise observers of the South Australian election campaign. The level of concern is unchanged on November with a score of 37%, but still well down from earlier in the pandemic. In second and third place are the environment and climate change on 27%, down one, and economy and finances on 24%, up two. The survey was conducted March 4 to 8 from a sample of 1000.
According to Greg Sheridan – the electorate may be cranky but they ‘have no reason to be so’!
Seriously
UK Cartoons:
Harry Burton on Irish Prime Minister #MicheálMartin testing positive for Covid:
Martyn Turner: I was going to do something on P&O, but all I could think was that P&O stands for Piss and Off, so here’s someone else who should piss off:
Insiders talking up a pre-election cash splash in the budget.
Kenny says Labor is convinced people won’t be moved by a pre-election bribe
Greg Sheridan. “The electorate is grumpy but it has nothing to be grumpy about..”
Which world do some of these political commentators live in?
I’ll fix it
“The electorate is grumpy as it has any number of reasons to be grumpy about..”
7h
Good show by YouGov/Newspoll – a bit high on the Liberal primary vote in the pre-election Newspoll, just about nailed it in their poll a few days earlier for The Advertiser. Creditable performances now at three state elections post-2019. #savotes
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Some caution…. No UAP in SA for Newspoll to contend with. There were some FF and PHON but this isn’t the same and the advertising power of UAP and their expected anti ALP fed election campaign crescendo.
Birmo now on to spin the dreadful Liberal result in SA
35.5 primary can’t be spun away
Birmo says Marshall was unlucky by going with Domicron and ScoMo’s ‘let her rip’ Covid policy
ha ha haha haha
Boo “scare campaigns” says a federal Liberal
Speers: Are you more nervous after last night’s result?
Birmo: Here are my memorised talking points..
If his cameo on ABC last night is anything to go by, David Speers should give Birmingham a pretty easy run on the question of the federal relevance of SA’s election result.
Birmo says prices are going down…
Birmingham: SA was a perfect government that didn’t make any mistakes, beaten by Labor lies and their own lacklustre campaign.
Shame, really…
Birmo – a complete waste of space. Why do they have him on? They will never learn!
But Rushton said Marshall was just a nice guy who was beaten because the Labor leader said mean and nasty things about him.
So which is it: lacklustre or mean and nasty?
Whatever the budget bribes amount to, this endless big build up risks over expectation and the instilled belief that the punter is due the money, anyway, so thanks very much, and now let’s try Albo.
Birmo about to break into Bing Crosby mode…
You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
E-lim-i-nate the negative
And latch on to the affirmative
Don’t mess with Mr. In-between…
If your convinced the Liberal are full of bullshit, Birmingham is reinforcing the idea.
Speers: you are forecasting budget deficits as far as the eye can see!
Birmo: yeah, nah
Birmo always reminds me of the cartoon kid on the front cover Mad Comics.
Morning all. Thanks for the roundup BK. A bit overcast here in Adelaide but I slept well after last night’s result, unlike Simon Birmingham.
If the Liberals don’t blame the SA loss on the Morrison factor, what do they blame? Marshall was personally a decent man but still lost in one term.
They can’t blame it on corrupt MPs rorting their expenses, because that could carry over to the Federal election.
They can’t blame it on opening up to covid too soon, because that could carry over to the Federal election.
They can’t blame it on rising inflation or the economy, because that could carry over to the Federal election.
So it will be amusing to see how they spin it.
I personally think the Libs will see a bigger swing in SA in the Federal election than they did in the State election.
Now on MeanGirlsGate..
C@t’s vaunted wunderlaws – The Magnistky Act – are sitting on the bench regarding the sanctions being imposed on Russia: Birmo.
Also Birmo: dodges a senate inquiry into Kitchings. Probably because he knows its a complete farce that would only expose the Grouper Wolverines and the MSM faux outrage. And the fact that Kitchings was no shrinking violet either.
I was impressed by the way SA Labor went after the Liberals bribes for sports stadium upgrades instead of hospitals.
There’s a whole swag of MPs who have loved nothing more than spending money of sports facilities, places of worship, private schools, security cameras, car parks and other assorted waste here in Victoria.
Victoria records no new COVID-related deaths and 6,694 new cases, hospitalisations at 215
it takes the total number of active coronavirus infections to 49,921. No new COVID-related deaths were recorded on Saturday.
Of those in hospital, 21 are in intensive care and six are on a ventilator.
Health authorities say the tally of new cases comprises 4,483 positive rapid antigen test results and 2,211 from PCR swabs.
Sub judice out the window on Insiders
Samantha Maiden thinks she is bigger than the country…I know people gives me the right to make points to sell my book.
Buy Samantha’s book, to find out about what bullying occurred.
Speers throwing out sexual assault reporting allegations re Brittany Higgins.
Going through Kimberley Kitching’s drawers before she’s even in the ground.
This yarn is far better as a rumour than as fact.
It’s the Samantha Maiden show
Breaking news on Insiders!
There are factions in the Labor Party
Samantha Maiden is truly making a fool of herself. What a wank.
Albo has been ‘hiding’ on the Central Coast campaigning with his candidate
Believe Albanese’s response re Kitchener is totally appropriate.
The front page of the Herald Sun was not legitimate reporting
Very inside baseball stuff at the moment.
Penny didn’t trust Kimberley. What an absolute wank. Birmingham bullshit from one end to another.
Sam Maiden: ‘bullying’ was a gripe about being kicked off tactics.
The consequence of being a disloyal leaker perhaps. But no. maiden – Linda Reynalds set her up. So KK was being ‘unfair’.
You see, Sam, when one palls around with the enemy and things are also being leaked, then its pretty easy to draw the natural conclusion. Besides, why would the Labor leadership ever trust her after this incident? The leadership clearly thought that they were being forced to nurse a viper to their breast as a legacy of the ‘captain’s pick’ three years prior. Someone who was more interested in prosecuting 1950s DLP politics and whose power base (more accurately the power of her patron) had collapsed.
The “In crowd, out crowd” – what is this? High school? Kitchings and Carr had lost power. As simple as that. “Unfair”? It probably wasn’t ‘fair’ to a lot of other ‘talented people’ whose political corpses that both were happy to step over in ascension. So, what has ‘fair’ got to do with any of this? ‘Fair” – Albo was kicked off tactics at one point in the RGR era. It happens. Politics. Boo Hoo.
Sheridan’s DLP genuflection is sick making: ‘we all respected her’? Who are this‘we’? Certainly not over 90 members of FPLP caucus, that’s for certain. Not all the political victims from her home state either, I’d suggest.
Please come back Barry Cassidy,Speers has lost control.
Amazing on Insiders spending 10 minutes on the “Mean Girls” regarding disagreement among ALP members. Yet no mention of the inside brawling in the NSW Libs and all the corruption, unearthed by Friendly Jordies, by the LNP. It seams that the Media are embarresed by all the corruption and they don’t want us and the World to know.
From this morning’s Herald Sun.
It’s disappointing when all the reporting on PB overnight has been so inaccurate!
Thanks BK for the dawn patrol. Judging by the comments on here, it appears I had an extra hour in my Sunday by not watching Insiders 😉
All the right wingers loved Kitching and the reasons why that is put her into conflict with the rest of the party, in particular, the senate leadership, who are the people being accused of being “Mean girls”.
Samantha Maiden is trying to hog the limelight. Claiming inside information, she’s portraying normal human relations and the ups and downs of party politics as some kind of justiciable rights that workplace investigations and media post mortems can get to the bottom of.
She died. Penny Wong didn’t kill her. Neither did Albo. No-one has alleged this, even her friends. She had a bad heart, weakened by hyperthyroidism. THAT is what killed her.
That, rightly or wrongly, she was upset with the attitudes of some of her colleagues, that she was being treated as a junior (which she was, actually), would normally not be the subject of a national scandal.
Kitching, as even Maiden today attests, just couldn’t keep her mouth shut. So they iced her out. Thaf’s Life.
GG – The Sunday Papers are going to print earlier and earlier, so the copy was probably finished at 4 yesterday. Another reason print media is dead for news, not opinion.
Samantha Maiden only came to my attention because of drink driving charges. Other than that, what has she done?
Shock me: Sheridan says that the government is overdoing the anti-china rhetoric. geez, when a hawk like Greg can’t support you on war talk and sanctions, you’re in a pretty fucked position, aren’t you ScoMo? Dutto?
On Insiders.
Samantha Maiden comes across as a high smug quotient nasty piece of work?? 🙁 Kitching excluded from ALP “tactics” group as the leadership did not trust her. Fine, story over, but no, Maiden needs more strokes and attention.
I liked talking pictures though. 🙂
Sohar says:
Sunday, March 20, 2022 at 9:56 am
Samantha Maiden only came to my attention because of drink driving charges. Other than that, what has she done?
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For starters, she drove the disclosure of the Brittany Higgins alleged rape when it had been well and truly buried by the political careerists in the Liberal party.
Oh, and let’s have a Senate inquiry into why Kim Carr hasn’t had a question since 2019. The Australian people demand an answer!
THAT will surely set the cat amongst the pigeons. Another miracle win for ScoMo!
NSW :
NSW has recorded 16,813 new cases of COVID-19 and four further deaths in the most-recent 24-hour reporting period.
There are 1,124 people with COVID-19 in hospital. Of those, 33 are in intensive care.
Slightly more than 58 per cent of people aged over 16 years have received three vaccine doses, and nearly 95 per cent have received at least two doses.
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Victoria :
Victoria has recorded 6,694 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total number of active infections to 49,921.
The number of people in hospital has risen to 215, including 21 in intensive care, six of whom are on ventilators.
There have been no further deaths recorded.
Re GG @9:52. Surely that story was written before the vote count. Or maybe someone wrote different versions in advance for possible results and they printed the wrong one.
TPOF @ #96 Sunday, March 20th, 2022 – 10:00 am
I was about to post the same thing. She’s been good on the reporting of how women are treated within the Liberal party when the MSM in general didn’t.