The post-budget polling bonanza continues to unfold, our first item of business being the latest fortnightly Essential Research poll courtesy of The Guardian. On voting intention, the poll finds the Coalition primary vote steady on 37%, Labor down one to 36%, the Greens up one to 10%, One Nation up one to 4% and the United Australia Party up one to 3%. A lower undecided rate and a stronger flow of preferences to Labor causes the gap to widen on the pollster’s 2PP+ measure, which has Labor up two to 50% and the Coalition up one to 45%, with 5% undecided.
The poll suggested the budget had received a lukewarm response, with 25% saying it had made them more likely to vote Coalition and 19% less so. Twenty-five per cent said it would be good for them personally, 33% rated that its inducements would make a significant difference to them, and 56% believed the budget’s main purpose was to help the Coalition win the election. The poll was conducted Thursday to Sunday from a sample of 1086 – more comprehensive results will be along with the publication of the full report later today.
UPDATE: Full results here. Also out today is the monthly Resolve Strategic poll from the Age/Herald, showing Labor up three to 38%, the Coalition up one to 34%, the Greens up one to 11%, One Nation down one to 2% and the United Australia Party steady on 3%, and a Roy Morgan poll with Labor leading 57-43, which I’ll cover in a new post overnight.
Also out today from The Australian is the regular annual Newspoll results on response to the budget. Here too the results are not as strong as the government might have hoped, the clearest indication of which is the finding that 40% thought the opposition would do a better job with 42% thinking otherwise. As shown in the chart below, this is the weakest result on this question since the Coalition came to power, and the third weakest for any government since the inception of the series all the way back in 1988. While quite a few other results are within its margin of error, all were notably recorded by governments in their last terms before losing office.
The poll nonetheless found that 26% of respondents felt the budget would be good for them personally compared with 25% who thought the opposite and 49% who opted for neither, the net positive rating of 1% being the ninth best result out of the 35. However, the respective results of 33%, 23% and 44% for impact on the economy were relatively poor, with the net positive 10% rating being the worst since the Abbott government’s politically disastrous debut budget in 2014 and the eighth worst overall.
The following chart shows the relationship between the net results on personal and economic impact going back to 1988, with the current budget shown in red. Its position below the trendline is consistent with a budget that was perceived as prioritising votes over the economy – a budget received favourably enough to score a near net zero result on personal impact would typically land at around plus 25% for economic impact, rather than plus 10%.
Also out today courtesy of the Financial Review are state breakdowns from yesterday’s Ipsos poll. Given the poll’s large sample size of 2510, these results are quite robust for New South Wales (sample size 818), Victoria (644) and to some extent Queensland (514). Not much should be read into the results for the smaller states, although I’m actually quite pleased that the paper has gone so far as to provide the results for Tasmania and even the Australian Capital Territory (the Northern Territory is rolled together with South Australia), while making it clear that the error margins in these cases are in the order of 15%.
At the business end, the poll finds Labor leading 53-47 in New South Wales (a swing of around 5% with an error margin of 3.5%), 56-44 in Victoria (swing of 3%, error margin of 4.1%) and 54-46 in Queensland (swing of 12.5%, error margin of 4.4%). From here on, proceed with caution: 54-46 in Western Australia (sample of 251, error margin of 6.5%), 62-38 in South Australia/Northern Territory (sample of 186, error margin of 7.3%), 64-36 in Tasmania (sample of 54, error margin of 14.0%) and 57-43 in the ACT (sample of 43, error margin of 15.3%).
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Tuesday, April 5, 2022 at 7:13 am
What tripe by Reed.
ALP support ‘Wide but shallow’.
Governments lose elections. Opposition’s just finish them off.
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Howard’s last years were bad but not a patch on the incompetence, the corruption, the disunity of this farce of a government. A sewerage treatment plant would come to a shuddering halt trying to clean up the effluent flowing from them.
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These turkeys are stuffed and in the oven, basted in their own juices, they are just waiting to be served up to the population who are itching to carve them up.
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Excellent!
Mundo @7.59
“I’ll relax when I see Albo standing in front of the GG being sworn in as PM.”
That’s exactly the feeling for all non Morrison LNP voters.
A repeat of 2019 regardless of the outcome reminds me to qualify every election with:-
“they’re a weird mob”
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Robert Leesays:
Tuesday, April 5, 2022 at 7:18 am
And boom! Morgan bounces back for the ALP.
57-43.
Leading in all states.
Yeah, wide but shallow.
Voters just waiting to crawl back to the Coalition.
My arse.
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Robert Lee is on fire today. 🙂
Henry @ #35 Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 – 7:59 am
If there has been such a significant swing away from the LNP, surely that previous support for Slomo could be described as wide but shallow. Or doesn’t that suit the narrative being offered?
I think we have a pretty good idea of the ‘wide’ it the proportion of the population that is prepared to change and vote for different parties. A concept I wouldn’t expect to be understood here.
But there is very little evidence of shallow, other than in relation to Morrison, he won the last election largely on lies and has been a truly terrible PM. If he does lose his greatest achievement will be in relation to covid, where every single time he publicly back the horse running in exactly the wrong direction, declared the most important race of pandemic not to be a race at all, and was only saved by the states, over and over again.
I’m still surprised he has a tpp over 40. But then again the ‘will support no matter what’ factor is strong on both sides, the kool aid flows and the believers drink, they most certainly do not think.
BK
Now that you’re here. Something I saw yesterday which I thought you might give you a smile. It was with regard to the supply chain issues t companies are having to deal with now. They noted a number of companies are moving from ‘Just in Time’ to ‘Just in Case’ .
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sprocket_says:
Tuesday, April 5, 2022 at 7:42 am
Morgan state breakdowns..
Voting Intention by State shows the ALP leading in all six States – including Queensland
Voting analysis by State shows the ALP leading on a two-party preferred basis in all six States during the past week after regaining a narrow two-party preferred lead in Queensland.
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Morgan is antidote for Resolve.
Wowza. Has long has it been since SfM had a day of clean air to spruik his ‘how good is Australia’ mantra ?
Another NSW Liberal (Catherine Cusack) gets on ABC News to tell us he is a liar, he is dodgy as all hell, he has politicised the flood relief responses from the Federal Government and she will not vote for him at the Federal Election after resigning her post in the NSW Upper House because he is “a self serving ruthless bully”.
CFW, Michael Towke and now a Guardian Op-ed for Scomo to answer uncomfortable questions about today. Scomo’s past is coming back to bite him on the ass from within Liberal Party ranks , hear hear !!
Shellbell @ #50 Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 – 8:18 am
So, wildly optimistic then? 🙂
Hidden in the Dawn Patrol is this:
‘And business leaders are calling on whoever wins government to urgently resurrect the dying collective bargaining system to allow for the productivity that underpins higher wages, and are willing to negotiate safeguards with unions if necessary.’
https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/a-disaster-ceos-want-urgent-bargaining-fix-to-restart-wage-growth-20220404-p5aanr
I think this is BIG!
David Crowe, per Bushfire Bill:
“… the post-budget survey for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age at exactly the same point in the election cycle showed Labor had a two-party lead of 53 per cent.“
Six weeks out from the 2019 election (more or less ‘exactly the same point in the election cycle’):
IPSOS 52 – 48
Newspoll 51 – 49
Essential 52 – 48
Mr Crowe is rewriting history, methinks.
https://www.pollbludger.net/bludgertrack2019/polldata.htm?
Immediate reaction to budgets is entirely media driven anyway. Noteworthy that the numbers for the infamous first Abbott budget, while not great, are not the worst. It took the media a week or so for the feedback to filter through from people who actually know what they’re talking about to understand exactly how evil and how promise breaking that budget was and to report it, after which all hell broke loose. The numbers in the polling would reflect the initial “meh” media response.
I know there are a lot here who are more comfortable losing, and very scared of change or ambition, perhaps best illustrated by the primal anger some treat ambition with, like the 1,000,000 homes idea, where the opposition to the idea is firmly locked into the suburban status quo, if not just an instinctive hate of ambition.
But it is funny not everyone lacks ambition and vision:
https://youtu.be/VWDFgzAjr1k
Updated to take into account the latest in the conga line of Liberal character assessments of Mr Morrison.
Morrison has allegedly or reportedly been called ‘menacing’, ‘controlling’, an ‘autocrat’, a ‘bully’, a ‘fraud’, a ‘complete psycho’, ruthless’, ‘not fit to be prime minister’, ‘a menacing wallpaper’, and a ‘horrible, horrible person’ by female Liberal colleagues.
He has also been described as ‘lacking a moral compass’ and has been called out for using ‘offensive’ words by Liberal women.
A current female Liberal MLC publicly accuses Morrison of ‘self-serving ruthless bullying.’
Another former Liberal female minister was head of the organisation that sacked him. Why was Morrison sacked? Well, the relevant documents seem to have disappeared. Conjecture around the words ‘lie’ and ‘probity’ and industry complaints about the ‘process’ in relation to an $184 million contract have never been tested. So, all we know for sure is that he was sacked. But for 100% we certain don’t know why. It might even have been an unfair dismissal!
But is all this this some sort of weird woman thing?
Well, no. Michael Keenan, a former Liberal minister, allegedly called Morrison an ‘absolute arsehole’.
What does a former (male) Liberal Prime Minister say? ‘He is a liar. He has lied to me many times. He has a reputation for lying.’
What does the current (male) Deputy Prime Minister say about Morrison? ‘He is a hypocrite and a liar.’
What did Towke, Morrison’s (male) Liberal pre-selection opponent, say: Morrison ‘engaged in racial vilification’.
Well, what about an independent female senator who held face-to-face negotiations with Mr Morrison? Morrison is ‘bullying’ and ‘intimidating’. It is like dealing with ‘a two year old with a temper tantrum.’
Well, what about an independent female MP? She calls Morrison ‘disrespectful’.
Maybe these character assessments are some sort of weird Aussie tall poppy thing?
Here we have the thoughts of Ventner, the editor of the Dominion Post? ‘like a cross between Rasputin and Crocodile Dundee’.
What about other reports from New Zealand? They allege ‘rottweiler’ and they allege ‘arrogance’.
And just to round things off, French President Macron called Morrison a ‘liar’.
We must have balance. Balance is only fair.
Current Deputy Liberal Party leader, Freydenberg: ‘He has never lied to me.’ ‘He doesn’t have a reputation for it…’
Current Liberal Minister, Payne doesn’t ‘support’ Mr Turnbull’s accusations.
And finally…
It is only fair to give Morrison a voice, ‘I don’t believe I have told a lie.’
Oliver – Crowe specifies he’s referring to the post budget poll. If you disagree about the point in the electoral cycle we’re at, that’s fine, but he’s not rewriting history, his numbers are explicitly comparing post budget poll to post budget poll. Why have you even bothered “proving” the numbers were different at a point he didn’t specify?
Your number of 6 weeks out is even merely an informed guess.
“56% believed the budget’s main purpose was to help the Coalition win the election.”
There you go, the persistent Voter De-Moronisation effort is showing some tangible results….
Scomo is being seen more and more for what he really is: an opportunistic liar who is ready to break all rules in order to win, for the sake of winning and for the sake of his rich mates in the big companies.
Another Liberal party MP has come out today in The Guardian strongly criticising Scomo for betraying the party and ideals of Robert Menzies…. Well, she is probably a bit too late, those ideals that combined social conservatism with the then prevailing economic Keynesianism, were betrayed by Howard, the Neoliberal lying rodent, long ago. But I agree that since Abbott, and continuing with Turnbull, but then going crazy with Morrison, the Liberal party has truly gone to the dogs….
‘WeWantPaul says:
Tuesday, April 5, 2022 at 8:40 am
I know there are a lot here who are more comfortable losing, and very scared of change or ambition, perhaps best illustrated by the primal anger some treat ambition with, like the 1,000,000 homes idea, where the opposition to the idea is firmly locked into the suburban status quo, if not just an instinctive hate of ambition. ‘
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Nothing like psychobabble to cloud the policy debate, eh?
Perhaps you would like to identify the 100,000 hectares upon which the Greens will build a million houses – you know, given how the local Greens nimbies routinely object to development?
Morning all. And a good morning it is. No budget bounce here, just signs of an unpopular bully as PM. Even allowing MOE, the Newspoll 54/46 to Labor result looks about the worst case for Albo.
Like others I agree the Qld result in Ipsos, off a 500+ sample size, is very encouraging. We can put down our glasses if that is half right.
I was also thinking about one comment on the indie/Green vote and the presence of Teals in so many electorates. Teal votes may count as “independent” but they are really anti-government votes. In some Teal seats Labor is hardly running a campaign. It would not surprise me if this is why the party shares are flowing into such a large 2pp to Labor. If the Teals are scoring 25% of the votes in a dozen seats, it becomes nationally significant.
Ven @ #45 Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 – 8:13 am
More interesting is that the Lab/Lib/Other split is now 33% each. We may not see it play out in this election, but the demise of the two-party system in Australia cannot come soon enough. We deserve better than just two parties spruiking essentially the same policies but using different rhetoric.
ABC RN:
Tim Wilson announcing that the “Star of the south” off shore wind tunnel will go ahead.
This is a project that the Vic. Gov. has worked to bring market and granted them $40m but as far as I am aware have made no grants.
The work and risk was taken by a private company and a state but the government takes the credit, just like the pandemic.
Bass straight is one of the world top 3 sights for wind and had the government not suppress renewables the first stage at least would probably have started.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/three-offshore-wind-projects-get-40m-boost-from-victorian-government/
In 1982-83, 1995-96 and 2007 change was in the air. The Government of the day seemed terminal, nothing was working for it. In 1983, after the ascension of Hawke, and to a lesser extent in 2007, there was enthusiasm for the alternative. In 1996 there wasn’t much enthusiasm for the alternative but there was for turfing the current lot.
In 2019, in spite of what the polls were saying, there was no sense of a change on the way. As we found out, that’s because it wasn’t.
What about this time? The Morrison Government is definitely on the nose out in voter land. Everything it touches turns to crap. Money and the Media are still in its corner but they have a hell of a job putting lipstick on this particular pig. We’ll see how it goes when the campaign proper gets underway, I’m not seeing much enthusiasm for the alternative, but there wasn’t in 1996. As they say, its Governments that lose elections. Change is definitely in the air.
Not gonna lie, I’ll occasionally watch the 2015 Queensland election coverage to enjoy the sight of Tim Nicholls dying inside.
Boerwar
You know there are good arguments and bad arguments, but for some reason you end up at stupid arguments…
“Perhaps you would like to identify the 100,000 hectares upon which the Greens will build a million houses – you know, given how the local Greens nimbies routinely object to development?”
Why on earth are you thinking the houses need 1000m2? Why would they not be apartments? or Triplex blocks etc?
Why do you always reach for the stupid?
Much thanks BK!
Now that you’re here. Something I saw yesterday which I thought you might give you a smile. It was with regard to the supply chain issues t companies are having to deal with now. They noted a number of companies are moving from ‘Just in Time’ to ‘Just in Case’ .
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poroti
Yes, such a reaction is not unusual. There is a middle ground, though. Lean, responsive supply chains and manufacturing processes are based on maintaining a planned minimum stock of items that is reflective of the capacity and capability of suppliers, the supply chain transit times, regularity and reliability.
When circumstances change, the planned minimum stock levels are adjusted to suit in the case of permanent changes to the above parameters. Where there is what is considered to be a transient, temporary change, a safety stock level can be set for the affected items. This will ensure that there should be enough total planned stock to absorb the new effects of the new reality whilst assuring continuity of the manufacturing (or distribution) operation at its original level of efficiency and effectiveness. When things get back to normal, the safety stock can be removed.
Going the whole “just in case” hog carries with it considerable risk.
“We deserve better than just two parties spruiking essentially the same policies but using different rhetoric.”
INDEED!
@Asha – me too, and 2020 …
“In 2019, in spite of what the polls were saying, there was no sense of a change on the way.”
This is an interesting observation. What if we went and looked at the pollbludger comments in the lead up to the election in 2019?
Another day, another female Liberal MP confirms Scott Morrison is a bully.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/04/liberal-mp-catherine-cusack-scott-morrison-ruthless-bullying-flood-victims
To me this one is particularly damning, because Cusack is sitting safely in a NSW upper house seat. She is resigning, but did not have to. She was safe till next up for re-election. I hope Labor is looking at campaigning in NSW north coast seats.
“WeWantPaulsays:
Tuesday, April 5, 2022 at 8:26 am
I think we have a pretty good idea of the ‘wide’ it the proportion of the population that is prepared to change and vote for different parties. A concept I wouldn’t expect to be understood here.”
Have you ever heard of the preferences system, WWP? Thanks to the preferences system what matters is not just your N.1 (whether it’s the same as last time or different), but also your N.2….N.3….N.Last. A population change towards more Independents N. 1 doesn’t necessarily translate into more Independents in parliament. If you don’t believe me, just ask the Greens, with their 10% primary vote and just 1 member in the H. of Reps.
What chance SFM uses his concocted NSW selection mess, heading off to HCofA on appeal after today’s decision, as an excuse for a split election? (Yes, I have read some of the earlier expert options on the low chances of a split election)
“What chance SFM uses his concocted NSW selection mess, heading off to HCofA on appeal after today’s decision, as an excuse for a split election?”
Absolutely none. 0%.
Boerwar at 8:44 am
I saw in the news a ‘norty’ Dutchman got the boot from Ukraine. Not really ‘norty’ but the Ukraine gov thought he was. Banned from returning for 10 years.
His ‘crime’ ? Filming this report of the rocket strike on the fuel depot in Odessa.
https://twitter.com/Saint_Just1965/status/1510473883798937601
@Itep – I admit being carried away – I only told a few of my misgivings.
1. Labor ran on an aggressive tax reform agenda from oppositition *RED FLAG*
2. Shorten was actively unpopular – Morrison was new and clearly not unpopular *RED FLAG*
3. There was not the febrile atmosphere usually accompanying a change of government *RED FLAG*
4. The campaign was about the Opposition, not the incumbent *RED FLAG*
Much like 2016 US, I was nervous/concerned more than excited/optimistic… I didn’t feel right and I just wanted it over with so it could be done. In both cases, I talked myself (and, unfortunately, others) out of thinking “it” could happen. Polling gave many of us cover.
BUT I’ll be honest, I don’t see any of the same red flags for Labor this time…
@ Snappy Tom, last night, previous thread, responding to me:
“ If so, why not some of the US’ late-model Los Angeles-class?
Both options would require refueling. Rubis – smaller, in some ways less capable, but perhaps a better ‘bridge’ to an Astute size Aussie SSN…”
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My reading of the current literature indicates that the USN fully intends to use its late model Los Angeles Class boats for as long as possible given its operational requirements. Therefore there won’t be any ‘spares’ available to lease to australia as a bridge.
However, IF we do go with an American SSN design AND there are 3-4 spare Los Angeles Class boats to lease for between 7-15 years each as a bridge then I would not be opposed to the concept. Same goes with the Brits, but I think they are in an even worse situation than the Americans.
On the other hand the French fully intend to take out of service their 5 Rubis class boats this decade and the capabilities of these boats, which have been progressively upgraded over the past 30 years are first class. For stealth for Sea Denial operations they are by far the quietist western SSN subs in service, with the exception of its successor, the Suffren class. They carry the F21 heavy torpedo, the short range Exocet, the long range cruise missile (I think) and mines: all the capability we need for the next 20 years. Moreover, in between being retired from the French navy and entering the RAN, as part of an extended overhaul they could be retrofitted with US Combat and Weapons systems, if that was thought necessary (obviously Los Angeles Class boats wouldn’t need that upgrade/repackaging, but the British boats would, just like the French).
All of these SSN lease options would require the boats that are to be leased to be refuelled and overhauled in their country of origin first before being handed to the RAN for between 7 and 10 years further service. They should probably be handed over one boat at a time, in two year intervals from say 2026.
If we were to lease between 2-3 Rubis class we could lease the three oldest boats for 7 years, starting in 2026, and replacing them with the two youngest boats in the mid 2030s (leaving them in dry dock for a few years) to supplement the first two Aussie Suffren class boats to be built at Cherbourg. This would ‘buy us time’ to start production of our own in Adelaide and bring into service the first four locally built SSNs by about 2045.
If we go with either of the AUKUS partners, the same principles should apply:
1. Lease old boats from the mid 2020s;
2. Start laying down Aussie SSN hulls in Adelaide by 2028;
3. Have the AUKUS partner country build the first 2-4 boats in their ship building yard at the same time as steps 1 & 2 are happening concurrently.
4. Upgrade and extend the Collins – but with long range cruise missiles – as per the current plan.
This way we should actually have 9-10 boats in service from 2030 all the way until we have a completely mature SSN program by 2045.”
He spilts this coming poll into two elections – it will be more than just baseball bats waiting for him.
But given his innate ability to read the room, would it surprise? No.
WeWantPaul @ #44 Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 – 8:40 am
I note the road is flat. ‘Nuff said.
“Would opposition have done better”? graph…
That’s truly interesting. I invite everybody to focus on the pattern for each period when one or the other major party was in government. The usual dynamic seems to be that the opposition is regarded as performing more poorly than the government at the beginning of the cycle, and then, over time, the difference narrows until the government loses an election to the opposition. That sounds kind of a rational natural cycle. But then, look what happened since 2014. There isn’t an obvious indication of a natural cycle. The fortunes of the government have been going up and down in an almost random manner, with their chances obviously shrinking significantly now.
I invite everybody here to suggest some cause/s for such a recent difference in the pattern….
I suppose it’s better than the Greens and their hangers on screaming rhetoric and no policies.
” Mr Crowe is rewriting history, methinks.”
My memory of 2018-19 was that Labor had a strong lead in the polls between the overthrow of Turnbull in August 2018 and the run-up to the Christmas (54-46 or better). On the resumption of political argy bargy after Australia Day 2019, the polls settled around 52-48 or 51-49 to Labor. We might have seen the odd 53-47 or 50-50 but the polls were remarkably (even suspiciously) stable, as noted by many here. Bludgers were saying the next poll will be 54, 55 or 56 to Labor but it never happened, certainly not with the Only Poll That Matters.
We’ll see how it goes once the campaign proper kicks off, but this time definitely seems different.
Everyone should read this article …
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/goal-of-holding-global-warming-to-1-5-degrees-no-longer-plausible-20220404-p5aaso.html
Vote as if your life depended on it, because it does.
BK at 8:50 am
Quite a balancing act. Re the ‘Just in Case’ is that an actual term used in industry ? Initially I thought it a witty take on Just in Time but reading your reply made me reconsider.
“Queensland (swing of 12.5%, error margin of 4.4%)”…
So, in the worst of circumstances that’s a swing in Qld of 8.1% to the ALP.
Comparing that with Antony’s 2022 Federal Election pendulum, we may expect a win of 6 additional seats by the ALP in Qld…. I would be quite happy with that, if that’s all what the ALP gets in Qld, given that additional wins are expected in the other states.
In any event, there is nothing so far to suggest anything even remotely close to a “hung parliament”.
Let’s keep watching…. 🙂
poroti
“Just in case” arises from decisions made without understanding of the entire process and with a paranoid fear of missing a single sale – no matter what it costs.
There are so many hidden costs and risks of having high inventories within the supply chain.
Kirky at 9:01 am
I would not be at all surprised if the does split them. It would mean he gets to keep his arse on the throne a little longer and as the saying goes ‘It’s good to be the king’.
“Perhaps you would like to identify the 100,000 hectares upon which the Greens will build a million houses – you know, given how the local Greens nimbies routinely object to development?”
This is a reasonably good point, because the debate on any new development will be clouded by loud ignorant selfish voices of nimby’s if you let them. Leadership is doing something good even when the nimby’s attack.
One of the real problems with nimby’s that try to use confected environmental concerns to stop developments, is the damage they do to actual environmental concerns when they are raised. As someone who use to vote on development proposals it became almost impossible to differentiate between a genuine concern and one driven solely by greed and dishonesty.
I recently saw a ‘save this kind of bird’ petition and I refused to sign it because last I’d seen such a protest it was by people already living in a particular area not wanting the same development they’d bought into to continue. It was one of the dumbest nimby things I’ve seen.
“I would not be at all surprised if the does split them. It would mean he gets to keep his arse on the throne a little longer and as the saying goes ‘It’s good to be the king’.”
I wouldn’t either, the rules don’t apply to him and he has a media body absolutely unwilling and unable to criticise him, and determined to praise everything he does.
But with each poll I’m less and less concerned it could work.
“Just in Time” assumes that everything works 100%. It’s a recipe for eventual trouble, especially if most of the actual work is done overseas. No disruptions, no bad weather, no adverse trade conditions. It’s like maximising your returns by not bothering with insurance.
On seeing Morrison on the telly this morning Mrs Mundo commented ‘wouldn’t you like to punch him in the face’ followed by..’oh no, I’m turning into you’
43 years of marriage and I’m finally having some influence.
“Vote as if your life depended on it, because it does.”
The problem is, with the possible exception of those who’ve lost homes and loved ones in Lismore, everyone thinks it is a problem for tomorrow, but the willingness indeed eagerness of in particular baby boomers to create conditions that have already started killing and will slaughter future generations is hard to understand.