Roy Morgan, Morning Consult and JSCEM (open thread)

A couple of polling scraps and the composition of the parliamentary committee that will shortly dive into the conduct of the May election.

Not a whole lot to report from within what this site regards as its wheelhouse, but past time for a new post nonetheless. Here’s what I’ve got:

• Roy Morgan continues to eke out polling information in an unpredictable fashion on its weekly update videos, the latest of which features a full set of voting intention numbers from polling conducted August 1 to 7. This has Labor’s two-party lead narrowing, apparently from a week previously, from 54-46 to 52.5-47.5, from primary votes of Labor 37% (up one), Coalition 38.5% (up two-and-a-half), Greens 11.5% (down one) and One Nation 3.5% (steady). They also had a second SMS poll of Victorian voting intention which I’ll cover in a state-specific poll later this week.

• US pollster Morning Consult’s tracking poll of global leaders’ domestic approval records little change in Anthony Albanese’s numbers – his approval rating of 58% is unchanged on a month ago and his disapproval is up three to 29%.

• The membership of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters is now settled, with Labor’s Kate Thwaites as chair joined by party colleagues Karen Grogan, Shayne Neumann, Sam Rae and Marielle Smith; former chair James McGrath now deputy chair, joined by Coalition colleagues Darren Chester, Marise Payne and James Stevens; and Larissa Waters continuing to represent the Greens.

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William Bowe is a Perth-based election analyst and occasional teacher of political science. His blog, The Poll Bludger, has existed in one form or another since 2004, and is one of the most heavily trafficked websites on Australian politics.

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  1. Prosecutors in Fulton County, Ga., have told Rudy Giuliani’s lawyers that he is a target of their ongoing criminal probe into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, a Giuliani lawyer said Monday.

    Attorney Robert Costello said that lawyers for the former New York mayor were told by the office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) on Monday that Giuliani is a target of the ongoing probe. Giuliani has served as a lawyer for former president Donald Trump. The New York Times first reported the story.

    Costello said he and Giuliani “plan to be in Atlanta on Wednesday” to testify as scheduled before the special grand jury that has been hearing evidence in the case. Giuliani had sought to delay or avoid travel to Atlanta to testify, citing recent surgery to have a heart stent implanted. “We are not going to deal with this postponement issue anymore,” Costello said.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/15/trump-2020-election-georgia-investigation/

    Lindsay Graham has also been subpoenaed. Although he’s trying to delay appearing as well.

  2. Clearly enjoying this Daddy-knows-best system of government, Morrison got grabby. Next, his eye roved to Mathias Cormann – he wanted a piece of that, he decided and swore himself in as finance minister.

    Financial stimulus was a big deal, and no one minister should have that much power, right?

    Morrison should have that power. So he took it. He reportedly neglected to tell Cormann, who only found out when the rest of us did.

    Thence, it was onward to the resources portfolio, where Morrison decided he would also ride piggyback – an insult to Keith Pitt not seen since Barnaby Joyce likened the member for Hinkler to a “bad suit” (for reasons to do with the Nationals’ own internecine conflict, too lengthy to address here).

    In the final days of the election campaign, Morrison was filmed shoulder-barging a schoolboy on a Tasmanian rugby field. Little did we suspect he was doing the same to the Westminster model of government during his whole prime ministership.

    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/scott-morrison-a-well-primed-minister-for-everything-20220815-p5b9zh.html

    We shouldn’t forget David Hurley in all this either. In my view he ought to do the decent thing and resign.

  3. I believe Windhover’s learned comment from late last night is pertinent:

    Windhover.
    Monday, August 15th, 2022 – 11:04 pm
    Comment #2343
    Being a Minister is a legislatively powerful position. The office holder has important discretionary decisions to make.

    It is inconceivable that “the Minister” referred to in enabling legislation was a reference to 2 or more “job -sharers” who were both minister.

    Once Hurley had commissioned a person as minister for health, until that commissioned ended, by death, election out of office, retirement, etc it was not legally possible for another person to be commissioned as the same minister.

    That Hurley acquiesced in this scandal, and allowed it to be secret, is a complete failure of his function as gg. He should have taken advice independent of the AG, and required the advice of the solicitor-general also. He must go. How can we Australians have the confidence in him that is a requirement for his role when he has allowed such calumny?

  8. I can only think that the Coalition’s vote went up because they made mischief over the Petrol Excise coming off and their demand it be extended to Christmas. Or their definitive position to oppose the Voice to parliament. Otherwise it just seems weird to me for their position to increase by 2.5%.

  9. https://www.pollbludger.net/2022/08/16/roy-morgan-morning-consult-and-jscem-open-thread/#comment-3966089

    Wasn’t it Dubya that said something about they never stop thinking about things to hurt us with, and neither do we, or something like it?

    Spinocchio is even more determined to leave the Enlightenment behind, complete Cook’s circumnav of Australia, go back through the Renaissance, a plague here and there beyond the Dark Ages, when it was all about not serfs, but (before courtiers) acolytes and (before merchant kings) warlords.

    Religious nuts, Project for the New American Century and all that, with the new being more like the old, old.

    Never seen a human development he didn’t like.

  12. ‘fess,
    As a fellow Evangelical Christian I think there would be no doubt that David Hurley would have deferred to the guy who thought he was God’s gift to the country.

  13. Who knows what newsltd hacks have instore for Dutton or any other Liberal party leader if the lib/nats fail to win federal government in 2025

  14. Good morning bludgers. I’m at the airport and off for a few days at Stradbroke with my sister then catching up with friends I haven’t seen since covid. Such is my enthusiasm for my practice 3/4 of my checked travel bag is full of ‘light reading’ for work. Good grief.

  17. Those in the media who knew about what Morrison did and were keeping it quiet , are as bad .

    Not only investigation into Morrison but also the media

  18. So, have any Coalition MPs come out to defend our multitasking ex-PM yet? Far as I can tell, the responses have all been either (mild) condemnation or “I know nothing.” Usually, there’s at least a few loyal soldiers willing to go on camera to defend the indefensible.

  20. Good morning Dawn Patrollers

    Anthony Albanese has ordered a search for documents authorising his predecessor Scott Morrison to take joint control over at least three key ministerial portfolios at the height of the pandemic in a secret arrangement that allowed the former leader to overrule the decisions of cabinet colleagues. It looks like Albo has got his teeth into this.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/hunt-for-documents-authorising-morrison-s-secret-ministerial-powers-20220815-p5ba1f.html
    David Crowe reckons Morrison’s mystery ministries reduced the Westminster system to a sitcom. He says that what Morrison did was a power trip, pure and simple. And a ticket to a political farce.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/morrison-s-mystery-ministries-reduced-the-westminster-system-to-a-sitcom-20220815-p5ba10.html
    Scott Morrison having himself secretly appointed as health, finance and resources minister is more than weird and bizarre – it is a frightening revelation of how fragile our democratic arrangements are. Paul Bongiorno says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese got it right when he reacted with alarm.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2022/08/16/paul-bongiorno-scott-morrison-secret-ministry/
    In this excoriation, Jacqui Maley begins with, “All prime ministers have their idiosyncrasies. Tony Abbott ate the onion and Kevin Rudd wrote a children’s book about his cat. Former British PM Gordon Brown reportedly consumed nine bananas a day during his time in office. But none have had quite the constitutional implications of what has been revealed as Scott Morrison’s peccadillo – secretly appointing himself to ministerial portfolios with an alacrity that would make a dictator blush.”
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/scott-morrison-a-well-primed-minister-for-everything-20220815-p5b9zh.html
    Geoff Chambers writes that senior Coalition figures are bracing for a rough few months as Labor probes decisions made by Morrison, following revelations he secretly appointed himself as health, finance and resources minister alongside Greg Hunt, Mathias Cormann and Keith Pitt.
    https://amp.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/anthony-albanese-to-turn-blowtorch-on-scott-morrisons-secrecy/news-story/08aaa6f68f52c89ae540b8529fef10cb
    Constitutional law expert Anne Twomey tells us what we need to know about what Morrison did.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/15/scott-morrison-was-sworn-in-to-several-portfolios-other-than-prime-minister-how-can-this-be-done
    It’s the secrecy that makes Morrison look dodgy, writes Phil Coorey who thinks Albanese could use Scott Morrison’s ghost portfolios to kick-start his long-promised royal commission into the handling of the pandemic.
    https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/ghost-portfolios-it-s-the-secrecy-that-makes-morrison-look-dodgy-20220811-p5b8y7
    Malcolm Farr also homes in on the secrecy aspect of Morrison’s behaviour.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/15/the-secrecy-factor-is-telling-in-scott-morrisons-alleged-ministerial-portfolio-grabs
    Michelle Grattan opines that Morrison’s passion for control has trashed conventions and accountability.
    https://theconversation.com/view-from-the-hill-morrisons-passion-for-control-trashed-conventions-and-accountability-188747
    Why is Scott Morrison hanging around? The weekend revelations that Morrison swore himself in to multiple portfolios without notifying the nation has sparked cries of outrage, in the political class at least, writes Mark Sawyer about the “pimpernel PM, the gift that keeps giving”.
    https://michaelwest.com.au/scott-morrison-pimpernel-pm-is-the-gift-that-keeps-giving/
    And in the wake of the revelations, Anne Hyland reports that an obscure mining company has accused former prime minister Scott Morrison of bias in a court case attempting to overrule a decision he made while secretly sworn in as a resources minister last year.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/ex-pm-scott-morrison-accused-of-bias-in-decision-on-nsw-gas-field-20220815-p5ba0n.html
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/16/scott-morrison-accused-of-bias-in-blocking-pep11-gas-project-using-extraordinary-ministerial-powers
    Peter van Onselen has been talking to Liberal MPs and he writes, “Had they known before the election what they know now, “we would have rolled him”, is how one Liberal bluntly put it.” PvO says that, if the GG survives his full term after such revelations, that will be another Morrison miracle. The role requires someone capable of doing more than simply following prime ministerial orders.
    https://amp.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/had-we-known-we-would-have-rolled-him-liberal-colleagues-disbelief-over-scott-morrisons-multiple-ministries/news-story/d4a9fda2eca8916115d8b75e615f83c8
    “Morrison is the gift that keeps on giving … to Labor”, writes Jennifer Hewett who concludes with, “To the public, it just looks odd – another unpopular, unnecessary legacy of an overly self-confident prime minister always convinced he knew best.”
    https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/morrison-is-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving-to-labor-20220815-p5b9xz
    Tony Wright has written a parody about Morrison’s ministerial arrangements.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-morrison-cabinet-meets-itself-coming-the-other-way-20220815-p5b9vc.html
    The three political figures at the heart of John Barilaro’s New York job scandal were responsible for the dodgy NSW gun club grant, explains Anthony Klan.
    https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/barilaro-set-up-fund-for-perrottets-illegal-gun-club-grant,16663
    The Stage Three tax cuts will add to inflationary pressures and permanently flatten the rate structure, while leaving the problem of bracket creep unsolved, writes Miranda Stewart who argues that the stage three tax cuts should be replaced.
    https://www.afr.com/policy/tax-and-super/how-to-think-big-and-small-on-reforming-the-tax-system-20220814-p5b9r9
    Alan Kohler expands upon the hubris of central bankers and the limits of money.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2022/08/15/alan-kohler-hubris-money/
    Even when the rich and powerful fall out, the house – their wealth – always wins. Michael Sainsbury examines the latest goings on surrounding Sydney’s Crown Casino. The grubby nexus between Australian business, politics and the mainstream media has been laid bare in a leaked series of explosive emails from James Packer to senior Nine Entertainment executives, journalists and chairman Peter Costello.
    https://michaelwest.com.au/james-packers-email-spray-is-more-than-a-falling-out-among-casino-mates/
    Helen Pitt and Paul Sakkal report that the Liberal Party is about to ask Tony Abbott to give them a pep talk.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/tony-abbott-to-give-pep-talk-to-liberal-party-faithful-20220815-p5ba20.html
    Ahead of the summit in a couple of weeks’ time, Jess Irvine writes, “We’ve got 99 problems, and jobs ain’t one of them”.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/we-ve-got-99-problems-and-jobs-ain-t-one-of-them-20220815-p5ba0x.html
    The alarming regularity of gangland shootings in Sydney this year casts doubt on how effectively policing resources are being deployed, says the editorial in the SMH.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/plague-of-violence-sydney-s-gangland-attacks-must-be-stopped-20220815-p5ba2f.html
    Chris Bowen has a big decision to make as his department prepares to release a discussion paper this week into the design of Labor’s safeguard mechanism on more than 200 of the country’s biggest emitters. Will the changes enshrine an absolute baseline for falling carbon emissions or will there be some form of wriggle room to allow for a series of mega gas projects, wonders Jacob Greber.
    https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/chris-bowen-s-big-safeguard-headache-20220815-p5ba18
    The Age’s editorial says that Australia’s energy transition is moving in right direction.
    https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/australia-s-energy-transition-moving-in-right-direction-20220814-p5b9r7
    The coroner is weighing an investigation into a cluster of deaths linked to the emergency call delays as leaked documents reveal more than 1000 Victorians could have been harmed.
    https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/more-than-1000-victorians-could-have-been-harmed-by-triple-zero-delays-20220808-p5b80p.html
    Doctors may be able to spend more time with patients, treat ­patients after-hours, and employ nurses, dietitians and pharmacists under a plan being considered by a federal Medicare taskforce. Federal Health Minister Mark Butler has flagged that voluntary patient enrolment – where a ­patient chooses a ‘medical home’ and the GP practice is funded to provide extra care for chronic conditions and co-ordinate that patient’s care – is a key area of focus for the taskforce, reports Natasha Robinson.
    https://amp.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/onestop-shop-in-medicare-shakeup/news-story/707a213ea697ee513aab74365f78d89e
    Marie Healy explains why she has stopped bulk-billing after 20 years as a GP.
    https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/why-i-ve-stopped-bulk-billing-after-20-years-as-a-gp-20220814-p5b9qn.html
    And Chris Summers tells us why he changed careers to teach high school – then quit.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/why-i-changed-careers-to-teach-high-school-then-quit-20220815-p5b9v6.html
    Australian beef exporters are on high alert following reports that China may temporarily suspend all meat imports from Australia and New Zealand due to concerns about foot and mouth disease. Other exporters were also alarmed on Monday by a Chinese media report which said China was suspending imports of Australian grain, dairy and other agricultural products into the country, a move that would potentially damage tens of billions of dollars of business. Here we go again!
    https://www.afr.com/world/asia/alarm-for-australian-beef-exporters-over-reports-of-new-china-ban-20220815-p5ba0c
    Schools are just waking up to the idea that having non-stop phone access is a terrible idea. And it’s not just bad for students – it’s also terrible for those who teach, argues Jemma Price.
    https://www.smh.com.au/education/the-one-rule-that-should-apply-to-kids-and-to-adults-20220815-p5b9xy.html
    Paul Sakkal writes that with just over 100 days until the Victorian election, Daniel Andrews and Matthew Guy’s media appearances last Sunday gave Victorians their clearest indication of how the poll will be fought.
    https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/rolling-out-the-welcome-matt-quasi-election-campaign-begins-20220814-p5b9q5.html
    Donning the black cap, Stephen Bartholomeusz writes, “Markets are surging but it could be a false dawn”. He thinks we might be seeing a dead cat bounce.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/sharemarkets-are-surging-but-it-could-be-a-false-dawn-20220815-p5b9ub.html
    Simon Johnson reports that an electric vehicle start-up is converting semi-trailer trucks into electric heavy-haulers that will be powered by a quick-change battery network on Australia’s east coast.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/entrepreneur-big-trucks-big-savings-big-electric-plans-20220811-p5b91o.html
    Meanwhile, Nick Toscano reports that the world’s biggest fund manager, BlackRock, has selected Australia for the rollout of its largest investment in grid-scale batteries that will be crucial to driving the shift from coal to clean energy.
    https://www.theage.com.au/business/the-economy/blackrock-to-spend-1b-on-batteries-in-australia-as-coal-closures-loom-20220815-p5b9xo.html
    Australian rental homes are colder and more damp than is considered safe by the World Health Organization, with homes in New South Wales so humid as to promote mould growth, a new report has found. Tenant advocacy organisation Better Renting recruited 75 renters around Australia to install tracking devices in their homes that recorded temperature and humidity levels at one-minute intervals from 13 June to 31 July this year.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/16/australian-rental-homes-colder-and-more-damp-than-who-safety-standards
    Fran Kelly is fine and familiar, but she’s not the future of the ABC, opines Thomas Mitchell.
    https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/fran-kelly-is-fine-and-familiar-but-she-s-not-the-future-of-the-abc-20220812-p5b9c9.html
    Paul Frijters and Cameron Murray explain how mates and grey corruption are rigging the political game.
    https://johnmenadue.com/paul-frijters-how-mates-and-grey-corruption-rig-the-political-game/
    Rob Harris tells us that Britain has become the first country to authorise an updated coronavirus vaccine that directly targets the Omicron strain of the virus as it begins planning for a nationwide autumn booster campaign.
    https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/britain-first-to-approve-coronavirus-vaccine-targeting-omicron-variant-20220816-p5ba3j.html
    A Sydney businesswoman bought a luxury car for a senior National Australia Bank employee and paid for a $620,000 overseas holiday as part of a series of kickbacks to ensure her inflated invoices kept getting paid, a jury has heard. A whistleblower had anonymously alerted NAB to the arrangement between the pair, triggering an internal investigation and police involvement.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/businesswoman-gave-car-boat-and-holidays-to-nab-employee-in-kickbacks-court-told-20220815-p5b9zm.html
    The FBI raid on Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago in Florida is, in an American season of prodigies, remarkable, strange and potentially disastrous – bad news for America and the world, writes Greg Sheridan who fears the raid has moved the US closer to civil war.
    https://amp.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/trump-raid-moves-us-closer-to-civil-conflict/news-story/5c2b3cba04da703fd41333f7c82eb224
    Donald Trump has demanded the return of the seized documents – by order of social media.
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/15/trump-demands-return-documents-fbi-truth-social
    With preventable deaths escalating to all-time records, American exceptionalism is no longer what many Americans think it is, as Alan Austin reports.
    https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/america-descends-steadily-into-a-deadly-dystopia,16661

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  21. RE:COOK
    C@tmomma I hope that you are correct in your confidence that Simon Earle can complete the May 21st task and deliver Cook to the Government benches.
    Familiar with the demographics of Cook it will be a tough task to achieve.
    Any Teal-type candidate would have little chance, unless with a phenomenal community profile.
    If the result is close, hopefully, strategic voting and preferential flows will complete the task

  22. Asha says:
    Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 7:06 am
    So, have any Coalition MPs come out to defend our multitasking ex-PM yet? Far as I can tell, the responses have all been either (mild) condemnation or “I know nothing.” Usually, there’s at least a few loyal soldiers willing to go on camera to defend the indefensible.
    ———-
    There’d be no political upside to doing that – and unlike Trump, it’s not as if SfM inspires such populist loyalty that there’s any delusional faction who would go to the barricades to defend him. Besides Trump’s followers believe he has a political future, while SfM finally and truly is TOAST (I tells ya).

  24. now explains morrisons panick about a ficac and the cangeroo cought lyne now we know whiy he was so concerned about an integrity comition he even hinted that his ministers were cerupt when he said if it could get up members of his government would be in trouble hurley must go morrisonappointed him just before 2019 election

  26. re. Payette in 2020

    “Jackson [Institute for the Study of the Crown in Canada at Massey College], citing professor Anne Twomey of the University of Sydney, said there are only three clear cases of governors-general refusing to resign and then being removed from office by the Queen on the advice of the prime minister.

    It happened in two small realms in the Caribbean: St. Lucia in 1982, and St. Kitts & Nevis in 1981 and 2015. Otherwise, governors general have been persuaded or forced to resign, he said.

    https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5680484

  27. I can’t see Labor gaining Cook, even if Morrison does ends up resigning in disgrace. The Liberals could probably preselect a week-old dog turd and still win the by-election a decent margin.

    The right independent could potentially take it, but I reckon such a candidate would more One Nation than Teal in their political leanings.

  28. Re:Cook
    The Lieberal margin in Cook, thanks to that great marketing guru, has now fallen to 12.44%.
    It is considerable but not insurmountable.
    Unfortunately, i share your sentiment regarding the type of indi who could succeed Scummo.

  30. Asha @ #27 Tuesday, August 16th, 2022 – 7:39 am

    I can’t see Labor gaining Cook, even if Morrison does ends up resigning in disgrace. The Liberals could probably preselect a week-old dog turd and still win the by-election a decent margin.

    The right independent could potentially take it, but I reckon such a candidate would more One Nation than Teal in their political leanings.

    It may be well to remember that one of NSW Labor’s greatest victories was in the State Seat of Miranda, a 27% turnaround from the previous election to win. I believe Miranda, or parts of the seat of Miranda, are in Cook, if not then very close by and so I wouldn’t write it off so casually.

  32. Macca RB @ Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 7:44 am

    While there may be a personal vote for Morrison, there may also be a personal protest vote against Morrison. I suspect that Cook would be a safe hold at at a by-election.

  34. C@tmomma what a great day for the burghers of Cook.
    Two by-elections on the same day.
    One for a new Federal Member for Cook and one for the new State Member of Miranda.

  35. Rnm1953 at 7:49 am

    Isn’t the latest on smoko just a continuation of his secrecy with ” on water matters” ?

    His secrecy has been noted in all his previous jobs. No surprise though as his being an uber mendacious narcissistic disloyal treacherous two faced back stabbing 24/7 bullshitter makes secrecy a vital ‘feature’ .

  37. AE

    “Such is my enthusiasm for my practice 3/4 of my checked travel bag is full of ‘light reading’ for work.”

    I am normally 4/4 for ignoring the work related light reading I take with me on holidays.

  38. Leaving aside ex-PM and Minister for Everything Scoff Mockery, the Governor-General also has a few questions to answer over this. Installing Ministers in secret? Maybe he should just shuffle off actually.

  42. Good morning all, and thank you BK.
    Some standouts there:
    1. The Chicommie thugs are threatening to extend their trade punishments well beyond current levels. So far the only Australian individuals who have actually felt pain are those in the affected industries. The latest tranche, if implemented (the thugs are only doing threats at this stage) might cause more general pain to Australians.

    2. So far the Morrison thing seems to be a Canberra Bubble thing. Will that change?

    3. First Hartcher and now Sheridan are talking about the possibility that the FBI raid will trigger a Civil War.

    4. Everybody wants to ditch the Stage 3 tax cuts but nobody had, or has, a clue how to win government with that as a promise.

  43. Lest we Forget:

    1. Labor has more female MPs than male MPs. (The Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison governments were not within a bull’s roar of this achievement.)
    2. Labor is fully committed to implementing all the Jenkins Report recommendations. (The Morrison Government implemented a view recommendations but basically sat on the vast majority of the Report’s recommendations.)
    3. High levels of women in the ministry. (Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison governments had far, far fewer women in the ministry).
    4. Labor gave a direction to the Fair Work Commission to specifically take into account the gender pay gap along with power to make gender specific determinations to close the gap. (The Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison governments had one universal ambitions: to damp down any real wage growth and showed zero interest in closing the gender pay gap.)
    5. Labor intervened directly in the minimum wage decision which disproportionately benefits the lowest paid workers: women. (Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison did not do this.)
    6. In recent departmental secretary appointments: Labor appointed three out of the four women. (Morrison’s last five secretarial appointments in 2019 involved a net loss of three women.)
    7. Labor is setting the tone by promising to make boards, such as the Reserve Bank Board more representative.
    8. Three Labor women ministers to lead aspects of the skills and jobs summit that relate to women’s participation, women upskilling and closing the wages gap.
    9. Labor has avoided school holidays for sitting days.
    10. Morrison Government sat on the Report on the National Stakeholder Consultation for a Ten Year Domestic Violence Plan. Labor has released the Report with expedition.
    11. Labor introduces paid domestic violence leave legislation
    12. Ten days domestic violence leave for casual workers.
    13. Submission to the Fair Work Commission on pay in the Aged Care industry. Four out of five workers in that industry are women.
    14. Moves to legislate on coercive control.

  47. ‘poroti says:
    Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 8:17 am

    Boerwar at 8:13 am

    1. Labor has more female MPs than male MPs.

    A gender imbalance ! Tsk tsk.’
    ————————–
    Haha. Us blokes are going to have to keep an eye on that!

  48. ”
    C@tmommasays:
    Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 6:30 am
    I believe Windhover’s learned comment from late last night is pertinent:

    Windhover.
    Monday, August 15th, 2022 – 11:04 pm
    Comment #2343
    Being a Minister is a legislatively powerful position. The office holder has important discretionary decisions to make.

    It is inconceivable that “the Minister” referred to in enabling legislation was a reference to 2 or more “job -sharers” who were both minister.

    Once Hurley had commissioned a person as minister for health, until that commissioned ended, by death, election out of office, retirement, etc it was not legally possible for another person to be commissioned as the same minister.

    That Hurley acquiesced in this scandal, and allowed it to be secret, is a complete failure of his function as gg. He should have taken advice independent of the AG, and required the advice of the solicitor-general also. He must go. How can we Australians have the confidence in him that is a requirement for his role when he has allowed such calumny?
    ”

    Tell it to nath who said that GG pretty much said what nath argued on PB that Morrison did not do anything wrong. 🙂

  50. BK @ #20 Tuesday, August 16th, 2022 – 7:19 am

    The Age’s editorial says that Australia’s energy transition is moving in right direction.
    https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/australia-s-energy-transition-moving-in-right-direction-20220814-p5b9r7

    When the AFR tells you you are heading in the right direction, it’s probably time to check if your SatNav is programmed correctly.

    And, sure enough …

    Our climate and energy conflicts are now about the journey not the low-carbon destination. But it’s unwise to be dogmatic about this or that technological pathway.

    …

    The Australian Financial Review hopes Mr Cannon-Brookes is right, and clean, affordable, and reliable energy sources rapidly emerge. But given the great uncertainty, the huge scale of the global transition and rising demand for energy, it’s unwise to be dogmatic about this or that technological pathway.

    They are promoting the “technology neutral” bullshit, just like the good old – and by that I mean “old-technology” – NBN.

    Just another set of lies from the Fossil Fuel Cartel.

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