US pollster Morning Consult, which conducts monthly international polling on world leaders’ domestic personal ratings, has found Anthony Albanese with an approval rating of 51% and a disapproval rating of 25%. Its final result for Scott Morrison was 40% approval and 54% disapproval. The poll was conducted May 23 to 31 from a sample of 3770.
Essential Research published its usual fortnightly poll this week, which had nothing to offer on voting intention or leadership ratings, although it did find that 23% rated themselves more likely to vote Coalition with Peter Dutton as leader compared with 27% less likely. Questions on attitudes to Labor policies found 70% support for increasing the minimum wage and 69% support for a federal Independent Commission Against Corruption, with only 9% opposed in each case. Fifty-two per cent felt Labor should “look for opportunities to rebuild relations” with China, with only 19% favouring a more confrontational position and 12% favouring the current set of policies. Support for the Uluru statement was found to have increased significantly since November 2017, with 53% supporting an indigenous voice to parliament in the constitution.
Some notable state news that got lost in the federal election rush:
• A by-election will be held on June 18 for the Queensland state seat of Callide after its Liberal National Party member, Colin Boyce, moved to federal politics as the Nationals member for Flynn. This is a very safe rural conservative seat, but Labor has nonetheless endorsed Bronwyn Dendle to run against Bryson Head of the LNP, a 26-year-old mining industry geologist. Also in the field are candidates of One Nation, Katter’s Australian Party, Legalise Cannabis and Animal Justice.
• The by-election to replace Vickie Chapman in the safe Liberal seat of Bragg in South Australia has been set for July 2. The ABC reports four nominees for the Liberal preselection: Jack Batty, adviser to the Australian High Commissioner in London; Sandy Biar, national director of the Australian Republic Movement and public affairs officer with the army; and Melissa Jones, a law firm director; and Cara Miller, former co-owner of a radiology business.
• Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff has announced he will introduce legislation this year to increase the size of the state’s House of Assembly from 25 seats to 35, reversing a change made in 1998. The move has the support of the Liberals, Labor and the Greens.
The monarchists have to ask themselves: Will they be happy when the Queen dies and
(1) King Charles III doesn’t shut up about climate change
(2) PM Albo doesn’t shut up about climate change
(3) Adam Bandt doesn’t shut up about climate change
(4) The Teals don’t shut up about climate change
I think they will find it much preferable themselves if Australia becomes a republic: Just think If we are
Republic and the Liberals are voted back in, No Leaders will be talking about climate change again 😆
Puffy: I’m up for another SA Chapter get-together!
I wouldn’t mind venturing out to a country pub or winery, especially with winter hitting.
Generous sized, cheap-ish meals in a room with a great roaring fire …
https://glamadelaide.com.au/south-australias-ultimate-fireplace-guide/
The linked information on the Essential poll on the Uluru Statement hasn`t published the strength of support data or the oppose, neither, or unsure data, even though the disclosure statement says they were asked. No state by state data either, which would matter in an actual referendum. So only of limited use in determining if a referendum could pass.
@Scomo
A future Charles III knows full well his constitutional duty and won’t be making any sorts of political statements.
https://www.pollbludger.net/2022/06/03/honeymoon-polling-and-state-by-election-news/comment-page-1/#comment-3932336
He knows his duty but I will believe him keeping his mouth shut on his pet issues when I hear the absence of it.
Tom the first and best @ #3 Friday, June 3rd, 2022 – 2:38 am
What you fail to appreciate is that climate change is not a political issue in the UK.
All the major Parties accept it and support action.
When the opposition finds its voice and if they oppose the Uluru statement then that figure could well fracture.
I hope they don’t oppose it but history shows the Liberals and Nationals are well prepared to play politics with indigenous issues in an attempt to divide the country.
Millions of Australians in multiple states are being warned of gas and power shortages over the next 24 hours as the east coast cold snap pushes the country’s energy supplies to the limit.
In an emergency phone conference on Wednesday, the energy regulator warned that Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania are facing gas shortages, while power supplies in NSW and Queensland will be stretched, The Australian reported.
The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) told more than 100 industry players they may be forced to cut gas use. AEMO has also invoked an emergency supply guarantee mechanism on gas producers for the first time.
“This is the biggest energy crisis in 50 years,” Energy Users Association of Australia (EUAA) chief executive Andrew Richards told 2GB.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/gas-and-power-outages-to-sweep-australia-as-cold-snap-deepens-energy-crisis/news-story/3322404fe6f1f2de3133a0a206ecfdeb
The Guardian
“Crossbenchers urge new attorney general to end prosecution of Bernard Collaery
Greens and independents back calls for Mark Dreyfus to withdraw commonwealth consent to all charges in alleged Timor-Leste bugging case.”
Hopefully this will then lead to prosecution of the Lying Rodent & Downer for leaking classified intelligence to the benefit of foreign commercial interests
Well, doesn’t that just say it all about the Queensland LNP?
A by-election will be held on June 18 for the Queensland state seat of Callide after its Liberal National Party member, Colin Boyce, moved to federal politics as the Nationals member for Flynn. This is a very safe rural conservative seat, but Labor has nonetheless endorsed Bronwyn Dendle to run against Bryson Head of the LNP, a 26-year-old mining industry geologist.
Confessions @ #7 Friday, June 3rd, 2022 – 5:58 am
Didn’t they just select an Indigenous Woman from the NT to run for the Senate!?!
I’m with you kid!
C@t:
That won’t stop them.
Well, we’ve got a stupendous roll call of Bludgers to come to the Nine Dragons in Dixon Street on June 22 at midday till 3pm so as to celebrate the glorious win of the dear leader 😉
So far we have:
yabba
shellbell
Douglas and Milko
Itza Dream
C@tmomma
Confessions (maybe)
Themunz
Quasar
Hawksfan
outsideleft
Griff
Spray
leftieBrawler
ImaxxxxxandIvote
It’s not too late to add your name. Partners welcome. Just let me know.
I’ll make the booking next week to give others who may not have seen the shout out time to respond. 🙂
It looks like it’s going to be mega!
I don’t think Jacinta Price supports the voice to Parliament? Could be wrong but thought I’d read something. Not all indigenous people do of course.
Confessions @ #7 Friday, June 3rd, 2022 – 5:58 am
Support for the Uluru statement was found to have increased significantly since November 2017, with 53% supporting an indigenous voice to parliament in the constitution.
When the opposition finds its voice and if they oppose the Uluru statement then that figure could well fracture.
I hope they don’t oppose it but history shows the Liberals and Nationals are well prepared to play politics with indigenous issues in an attempt to divide the country.
The Greens are lining up to support those opposing.
ltep says:
Friday, June 3, 2022 at 6:48 am
I don’t think Jacinta Price supports the voice to Parliament? Could be wrong but thought I’d read something. Not all indigenous people do of course.
Don’t worry ltep, the Greens will provide the assholes cover.
Just did a quick google search and it does indeed seem Jacinta Price has quite a few comments on the record opposing the voice to Parliament.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/we-have-ten-voices-in-parliament-jacinta-price/video/b0cc13c4d44059b22cbc1017988e09a5
https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2019/10/31/just-nuts-jacinta-price-and-liberal-senator-attack-indigenous-voice
fess
I’m more worried about Senator Thorpe derailing the process.
She walked out (or was ejected, depending on whose version one believes) from the consultation process because she didn’t get what she wanted. The Greens policy on the Uluru statement changed when she became a Senator, which suggests she was insistent on this. Bandt (significantly) made a point during the election campaign of stressing the Greens commitment to the timetable outlined in Statement, seemingly in conflict with Thorpe and his own party policy.
The Greens’ position is thus unclear, and their ability to speak with one voice on the issue is too.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Thorpe openly splits with other Green Senators on the issue, which would put the outcome of the referendum in doubt.
Gas supply & price
Some fundamentals
The gas resource is a national asset
Exploration & resource development is a commercial venture with risk & profit
Current international circumstances has resulted in high demand & super profits.
The government should mandate guaranteed National supply & capped pricing, gas producers should regard super profit as a bonus not a right
The Greens still need voters and if they start acting like dinosaurs we might migrate to the new shiny kids… I hear legalise cannabis are on the rise.
zoomster:
Yes, the Greens position is unclear although I’m taking Bandt at his word that the Greens wouldn’t oppose Labor’s plans for the Uluru Statement, even if that meant the truth telling part of it came later rather than first.
From Crikey
But Greens Leader Adam Bandt says now is the time to get off gas — he says the government should subsidise households and businesses to transition away from the fossil fuel, and slammed King for urging more supply from gas suppliers, The Australian ($) says. Climate Minister Chris Bowen says the AEMO told him gas supply to the southern states should improve slightly over the next few days however — it was at 98% capacity yesterday.
As usual the Greens have no frigin idea. Shut industry down & freeze tits off today while we wait a few years to increase renewables.
When a referendum is counted, is it like an election where totals are made available booth by booth, or do they conduct the full count per state and release at once? Apologies, was too young to have taken in the last one.
brett @ #21 Friday, June 3rd, 2022 – 7:10 am
Yes, they’re standing a candidate in the Queensland state by-election for Callide even!
Could someone explain to Jacinta Price that there are more than 10 Indigenous Australians in this country and they want their voice heard too? Not to mention the fact that, as a Senator, she represents Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Northern Territorians and not simply the Indigenous ones. So her voice in parliament represents all of them and not only the Indigenous voices of her territory.
Eden-Monaro is the first seat to be declared by the AEC; 150 seats to go.
Mavis
Mavis (AnonBlock)
Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 – 10:27 pm
Comment #3106
The Death of Anton Chekhov:
https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/the-death-of-anton-chekhov-told-in-proteins
Thanks for posting this last night. I find molecular medical history fascinating, and Chekhov is a personal hero of mine.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers
There are no natural majorities any more, writes Waleed Aly who reckons Albanese’s might be the last one. Not a bad read.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/there-are-no-natural-majorities-anymore-albanese-s-might-be-the-last-one-20220602-p5aqgb.html
Alezandra Smith and Tom Rabe report that the premiers of NSW and Victoria will seize on the change in federal government to also end a long-running state and federal divide.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/perrottet-says-nsw-and-victoria-will-unite-to-reshape-healthcare-delivery-20220602-p5aqlg.html
We do need to pay attention to the cold reality that Australia came the closest it has been since federation to closing the door on a democratic future worthy of the name. With the defeat of Morrison Australia has dodged the abyss of Trumpism, says Peter Henning.
https://johnmenadue.com/peter-henning-australians-reject-trumpism/
According to Mike Foley and Nick Toscano, major manufacturers are warning that thousands of local jobs are at risk unless gas is held back from being exported as the Albanese government calls emergency meetings with Queensland’s gas producers and state ministers to address spiking energy prices.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/manufacturers-warn-thousands-of-jobs-at-risk-unless-gas-held-back-from-export-20220602-p5aqlf.html
Innes Willox, chief executive of the national employer association Ai Group, says Australia should be on a war footing when it comes to the gas crisis.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-war-footing-required-to-save-us-from-the-energy-crisis-20220602-p5aqly.html
A scheme to reserve gas for use by east coast consumers or direct intervention to force more supply are options “on the table’’ as the Albanese government battles energy shortages that have driven a spike in electricity prices and ignited a three-day crisis, writes The Australian’s Greg Brown.
https://amp.theaustralian.com.au/nation/labor-eyes-gas-reserve-fix-for-energy-crisis/news-story/6bdfaef1f7a92f6b1d2db050bd9e5c5a
Queensland’s three LNG exporters have been forced to divert gas south for power generation as Australia’s energy crunch forces some gas-powered electricity producers to begin using diesel. Colin Packham reports that, under an emergency measure invoked by the Australian Energy Market Operator for the first time on Wednesday, the three ventures involving domestic producers Origin Energy and Santos, as well as global majors such as Shell, redirected gas that was earmarked for overseas into the domestic market.
https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/qld-gas-supplies-headed-south-as-aemo-declares-shortfall-20220602-p5aqln
Jim Chalmers will hand down a “cost-of-living” package in his October budget, but it is unlikely to contain measures in addition to those promised during the election campaign amid concerns about the state of the nation’s finances, explains Shane Wright.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/budget-to-deliver-cost-of-living-relief-but-you-will-have-to-wait-20220602-p5aqk8.html
A former Labor appointee to Fair Work’s expert wage panel and economic adviser to the union movement says the government’s push to see low-paid Australians’ pay packets keep up with inflation should be a one-off, writes Angus Thompson.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/government-s-minimum-wage-stance-should-be-a-one-off-economist-20220602-p5aqhq.html
Ronald Mizen writes that a growing group of economists believe the Reserve Bank of Australia should increase interest rates faster and further than predicted over coming months.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/doves-turned-hawks-think-rba-should-be-aggressive-on-rates-20220602-p5aqi2
The rate at which a growing elderly population continues to participate in the labour market will be critical to offsetting the negative impact of population ageing, explains Abul Rizvi.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/government-needs-to-focus-on-ageing-population-in-the-labour-market,16429
The change of leaders and their deputies of the federal Liberal and National parties this week following their recent election loss, highlights both the cult of the leader that now pervades our political parties as well as their very vulnerability, writes Scott Prasser.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7764275/the-cult-of-the-leader-is-not-the-answer-for-party-revival/?cs=14258
The Albanese ministry and Administrative Arrangements Order represent a considerable improvement on the structures the Morrison Government used, but they could have been much better, writes Andrew Podger who says they rightly reflect the new Government’s priorities, particularly climate change, employment and workplace relations and greater attention to skills and training.
https://johnmenadue.com/aao-a-curates-egg/
Peter Dutton was right to dismiss corporate Australia as being more in step with Labor and the Greens. The automatic and close relationship between the centre-right of politics and big business is over, whines John Roskam from the cloisters of the IPA.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/business-has-gone-woke-so-libs-should-focus-on-dandenong-not-davos-20220601-p5aqdx
Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s first meeting was designed to send a clear message that the government is serious about its climate policy, writes Nick O’Malley.
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/after-a-decade-in-the-freezer-climate-voices-welcomed-back-to-canberra-20220602-p5aqo6.html
Michelle Grattan says that the Albanese government has been mugged by the gas crisis as it faces the challenge of managing expectations.
https://theconversation.com/grattan-on-friday-albanese-government-mugged-by-gas-crisis-as-it-faces-challenge-of-managing-expectations-184326
Energy Expert, Professor Samantha Hepburn explains how gas prices went from $10 a gigajoule to $800 a gigajoule in Australia.
https://theconversation.com/why-did-gas-prices-go-from-10-a-gigajoule-to-800-a-gigajoule-an-expert-on-the-energy-crisis-engulfing-australia-184304
Meanwhile, Australia’s east coast gas shortage has forced South Australia to turn to diesel generators in order to meet demand, prompting calls for a faster transition away from “volatile” fossil fuels towards renewable energy and storage.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/02/south-australia-turns-to-diesel-generators-as-gas-shortage-and-price-spike-hits
The Albanese government’s new infrastructure minister says Melbourne’s contentious East West Link project is “dead” and won’t receive any federal funding under Labor, reports Patrick Hatch.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/it-s-dead-no-funds-for-east-west-link-new-minister-says-20220602-p5aqp5.html
Eryk Bagshaw tells us that Beijing has put one of its key Pacific partners offside by attempting to push through a security deal and threatened New Zealand for supporting opposition to the regional agreement.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/beijing-puts-more-pacific-countries-offside-as-penny-wong-tours-region-20220602-p5aqog.html
Labor has vowed to crack down on providers overcharging for services claimed on the National Disability Insurance Scheme as well as clear the backlog of thousands of legal appeals for funding, while delivering COVID-19 booster shots to people with disability. Bill Shorten sounds like a man with a mission.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/just-blitz-that-waiting-list-shorten-eyes-ndis-legal-blowouts-20220601-p5aqf1.html
Natalie James and Sean Gallagher argue that Australia is on the brink of a wellbeing recession.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/australia-is-on-the-brink-of-a-wellbeing-recession-20220531-p5apxf.html
Having lived through the last Labor government where the Greens were involved, Tim Jones is cautious about how the Greens, with their increased influence, will behave under the Albanese government.
https://theaimn.com/ive-seen-this-movie-before-a-warning-for-the-albanese-government/
Luke Henriques-Gomes tells us that the auditor general has been highly critical of the former government’s handling of the cashless debit card, finding the Morrison government had not demonstrated whether the scheme was working despite operating trials across the country for more than five years.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/02/morrison-government-failed-to-show-cashless-debit-card-works-auditor-general-says
Telstra will slug customers with a 4 to 5 per cent increase on their monthly mobile bills from July as part of a new inflation-based yearly pricing review, kicking off a new growth trend that Optus is tipped to soon match.
https://www.afr.com/companies/telecommunications/telstra-raises-mobile-phone-charges-optus-tipped-to-follow-20220602-p5aqm0
Christopher Knaus reports that key crossbenchers are urging the attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, to immediately intervene to end the previous government’s pursuit of Bernard Collaery by withdrawing commonwealth consent to the prosecution.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/03/crossbenchers-urge-new-attorney-general-to-end-prosecution-of-bernard-collaery
Rex Patrick is a fighter against injustice. Defeated for re-election on May 21, he will be a loss to the Australian parliament when he leaves the Senate on June 30. He is using those few remaining days to fight for the fair treatment of the Timorese people and the man who blew the whistle on Australian spying, writes Callum Foote.
https://michaelwest.com.au/pacific-australia-relations-east-timor/
There is an opportunity for an Albanese intervention to free Julian Assange, writes Stuart Rees who declares, “It’s time.”
https://johnmenadue.com/julian-assange-opportunity-for-albanese/
It’s time for the Labor Party to right the wrongs done to asylum seekers by both sides of government, writes Dr Binoy Kampmark.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/albanese-government-has-a-chance-to-stop-politicising-asylum,16425
Kaye Lee Writes about the new CLP senator from the NT, Jacinta Price, and says she should less time listening to Sky After Dark.
https://theaimn.com/meet-sky-after-darks-voice-to-parliament/
It is among the most protracted, complex and costly defamation trials ever conducted in Australia. Ben Roberts-Smith’s trial is now entering its final stages, writes Michaela Whitbourn who has been closely following the case. After a long evaluation of the hearings, she concludes that it will be on the sombre detail, and no doubt shades of grey, that Justice Besanko will train his forensic eye. His decision may take some time.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/dozens-of-witnesses-25-million-and-98-days-later-roberts-smith-defamation-trial-nears-its-end-20220525-p5aofc.html
Madonna King explains how our teens have felt the deepest impacts from three years of COVID-19.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2022/06/03/teens-covid-impact-madonna-king/
Monarchists are screeching about the appointment of a minister with the responsibility for preparing the way for Australia to become a republic.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/undemocratic-monarchist-fury-over-republican-ministry-appointment-20220602-p5aqmj.html
Ben Wellings lays out what King Charles would mean for the monarchy, Australia and the republican movement.
https://theconversation.com/what-would-king-charles-mean-for-the-monarchy-australia-and-the-republican-movement-182662
Long live the Queen, says the SMH editorial, but it urges the bringing on of the republic.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/long-live-the-queen-but-bring-on-the-republic-20220602-p5aqnn.html
Melissa Cunningham writes that the newly elected president of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians has warned that pandemic-fuelled burnout in healthcare workers is a crisis demanding urgent action as the country heads into winter.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/burnout-has-to-be-number-one-new-physicians-college-head-demands-action-20220531-p5aptu.html
Elizabeth Knight is none too impressed with Elon Musk’s latest musings. She describes him as the “Dickensian boss”.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/musk-meltdown-environmental-warrior-turns-dickensian-boss-20220602-p5aqmv.html
Americans have a unique way of submitting complaints! The gunman who fatally shot five people including himself at an Oklahoma medical building yesterday had gone there to kill a doctor who he blamed for back pain he felt after surgery.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/oklahoma-gunman-who-killed-four-targeted-surgeon-who-treated-him-20220603-p5aqre.html
Cartoon Corner
David Pope
Matt Golding
David Rowe
Cathy Wilcox
Alan Moir
Andrew Dyson
John Shakespeare
Mark Knight
Leak
From the US
The Albanese government could reserve gas for the east coast in a bid to stabilise energy prices, The Australian reports, as a winter looms where many will struggle to heat their homes because of the cost. Wholesale electricity prices surged more than six-fold from normal levels yesterday alone, while the AEMO says prices have jumped 141% since this time last year, ABC reports. Things are so bad that smaller energy retailers like ReAmped Energy are telling customers to switch energy providers or be hit with much higher bills, The New Daily reports. Why? The Russia-Ukraine conflict mostly, with sanctions on Russian exports meaning there’s not enough to go around.
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ltepsays:
Friday, June 3, 2022 at 6:48 am
I don’t think Jacinta Price supports the voice to Parliament? Could be wrong but thought I’d read something. Not all indigenous people do of course.
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For example, Greens Senator Lydia Thorpe.
By-elections already? And that’s without the inevitable Federal ones.
Funny that Morning Consult should provide the first federal leadership rating poll, but it’s very promising and a very believable start for Albo
It’s also ironic that if you look at the detailed numbers in that Guardian poll about attitudes to Labor policies, self-identified Greens voters supported the Labor policies listed, more strongly than self-identified ALP voters did.
I would like to see a complete overhaul of employment services.
workforce-australia, the new 2022 version looks punitive
https://www.dese.gov.au/workforce-australia/employment-services-information-job-seekers#toc-workforce-australia-online-for-individuals
It’s cheaper to just pay unemployed people $750 per week, rather than bully & punish people to hunt to for non-existent jobs or lose sustenance payments of $350 per fortnight for years and years
Oakeshott Country (AnonBlock)
Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 – 11:25 pm
Comment #3122
The queen is on the balcony at the trooping of the guards – she appears to be showing the “O sign”
https://www.lexico.com/definition/o_sign
At least it wasn’t the Q sign – when the tongue sticks out.
There is a third (more ominous) sign – (theta), which is when the false teeth fall into the middle of the mouth uncorrected. This should be added to the signs of impending death, along with cyclic breathing, peripheral shutdown, glottal tug and death rattle.
The Greens are a powerful force in Australian politics. Everyone handing out How To Votes noted almost everyone under 30 only collected Greens HTV
In the 1950s & 1960s the young things joined Young Liberals
These days everyone has a friend who has volunteered on the Greens campaign. Volunteering with the Greens is good fun, if sometimes dangerous, and care is taken to create a party atmosphere
I wish the Greens leadership were straight shooters, rather than determined to oust Labor from government
Jacinta Price has been a destructive force in Blackfella politics,
and is extremely right wing in her attitudes. Sky News are going to love her. She can be very nasty towards others
Obviously Labor Bludgers haven’t heard what their Indigenous Affairs Minister has been saying.
https://www.abc.net.au/7.30/linda-burney:-“we-need-consensus-on-a-referendum/13895144
bakunin
Don’t see any contradictions there.
Do see a recognition that not all Greens are on board.
Salvage The Future @ #36 Friday, June 3rd, 2022 – 7:24 am
Sky? She got a very good run on local ABC radio last year. And the IPA certainly love her. But, dare I say it, we shouldnt assume all ‘blackfella politics’ is left wing and we shouldnt dismiss strong indigenous female voices just because it isnt whitefella leftwing.
Jan
The harsh reality of these things is that if indigenous people are openly divided, it will be hard to progress.
Most Australians will want to do the right thing, but if there are multiple ‘right things’ presented, the vote will splinter.
It’s good to get a diversity of indigenous voices into Parliament. Helps to understand the complexities of views surrounding issues.
The third candidate on the Liberal ticket in SA, Kerryne Liddle is also an Indigenous woman, so it’s good to see again more diversity coming into the Parliament.
By my count Indigenous Australians will make up over 10% of the Senate after 1 July.
Good to see Bludgers getting together in Sydney, The Nine Dragons has good food but I prefer to sit outside on balmy evenings there to have my meal. I gather they have had a few outside diners bolt without paying as we were required to pay up front last time we were there to dine al fresco.
Would love to come but HI and I are off to The Shetlands shortly after and we are imposing a two week ‘isolation’ beforehand as we’ve postponed the trip 4 time so far due to Covid and other issues.
Is there any enthusiasm for a ‘Canberra PB Bubble’ get-together later in the year?
Not assuming at all Aboriginal views are left wing, they are diverse. Jacinta Price’s attacks on others are documented, including on Dylan Voller, after his treatment by the NT Correction system from the age of 11.
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WB : US pollster Morning Consult, which conducts monthly international polling on world leaders’ domestic personal ratings, has found Anthony Albanese with an approval rating of 51% and a disapproval rating of 25%. Its final result for Scott Morrison was 40% approval and 54% disapproval. The poll was conducted May 23 to 31 from a sample of 3770.
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Last time when Adrian Beaumont provided ‘Morning Consult’ of World leaders, it was dismissed by a couple of people on PB saying that Morning Consult (MC) could not reflect the opinion of people in other countries other than US because MC either did not have proper resources and knowledge to poll them.
What I think is that it is because the leader they don’t like had the highest approval rating than any other leader in the world and lead other democratic leaders by a big margin. The other reason could be what would that country people know about democracy.
Now they are silent on this poll because the leader they like has very good approval ratings.
Thank you, BK.
‘Eryk Bagshaw tells us that Beijing has put one of its key Pacific partners offside by attempting to push through a security deal and threatened New Zealand for supporting opposition to the regional agreement.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/beijing-puts-more-pacific-countries-offside-as-penny-wong-tours-region-20220602-p5aqog.html‘
Dragon bullies Kiwi? What a surprise.
From BK
‘Having lived through the last Labor government where the Greens were involved, Tim Jones is cautious about how the Greens, with their increased influence, will behave under the Albanese government.
https://theaimn.com/ive-seen-this-movie-before-a-warning-for-the-albanese-government/‘
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Albanese is way ahead of Jones here. After all he was Deputy Prime Minister when the Greens last fucked over a Labor Government. He has also experienced nine years of Greens lies.
This is exactly why Labor is telling the world that its climate policies will go to the Senate on a take it r leave it basis.
Many commentators here also fail to understand that Lidia Thorpe does have significant support from many grassroots Aboriginal mob, and that these viewpoints are not hers alone. It would be wise for non-Indigenous people to recognise the nuances in diverse opinion in regards to voice to Parliament. It is not just coming from “The Greens” that treaty and truth telling are seen as priority. To not acknowledge this is not respectful to a significant Indigenous point of view on these issues.
‘bakunin says:
Friday, June 3, 2022 at 8:01 am
Obviously Labor Bludgers haven’t heard what their Indigenous Affairs Minister has been saying.
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We had Rebecca here threatening to blame Labor for failure in the Referendum if we didn’t exactly follow the Thorpe/Greens line. Destructive stuff, IMO.
When is the shadow ministry being announced? Also, when will there be the first formal poll with voting intentions and approval ratings for both the PM and Dutton?
‘Salvage The Future says:
Friday, June 3, 2022 at 8:26 am
Many commentators here also fail to understand that Lidia Thorpe does have significant support from many grassroots Aboriginal mob, and that these viewpoints are not hers alone. It would be wise for non-Indigenous people to recognise the nuances in diverse opinion in regards to voice to Parliament. It is not just coming from “The Greens” that treaty and truth telling are seen as priority. To not acknowledge this is not respectful to a significant Indigenous point of view on these issues.’
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True. We have Price working very hard to sink the Statement from the Heart. And so on and so forth. Divide and Conquer. Old old story. Easy as.