Morgan polls, SEC Newgate poll, JSCEM submissions (open thread)

A burst of enthusiasm for the monarchy, steady support for federal Labor, and some other stuff.

Two contributions from Roy Morgan: its weekly report video tells us this week’s federal polling has Labor’s lead unchanged at 53.5-46.5, without offering any information on primary votes, and it has an SMS poll of 1012 respondents conducted on Sunday that found a 60-40 split in favour of retaining the monarchy over becoming a republic, albeit it might be faulted for having been conducted at an uncommonly opportune moment for monarchist sentiment.

The Australian also reported yesterday that SEC Newgate polling found 57% of Victorians were optimistic about the direction of the state; cost of living, health care and employment as the top priorities; “nearly half” trusting Daniel Andrews to lead the state through pandemic challenges compared with 16% for Matthew Guy; and 57% holding the view that the state was headed in the right direction, the highest of any state. Conversely, 53% of New South Wales respondents felt the state was heading in the wrong direction and only 35% believed the Perrottet government was doing a good job, the worst results for any state, although sample sizes in some cases would have been very small. The polling was conducted from August 31 to September 5 from a sample of 1502, 600 of whom were in Victoria.

Finally, the first batch of submissions – 212 of them – have been published from the Joint Standing Committe on Electoral Matters’ inquiry into the federal election. I haven’t had time to read any of them myself, but there are a good many notable names featured, though nothing yet from the parties.

Author: William Bowe

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. Voters have given Prime Minister Anthony Albanese a powerful vote of confidence almost four months after the federal election by backing him against Opposition Leader Peter Dutton by 53 to 28 per cent when asked to name their preferred prime minister.

    Australians have also confirmed a clear lead for Labor in core support, with a primary vote of 39 per cent compared to 32 per cent for the Coalition, despite a dip in the government’s performance from a “honeymoon” surge last month.

    The exclusive survey, conducted by Resolve Strategic for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, reveals a slight fall in support for the Greens, from 12 to 10 per cent over the past month, during a period when the party clashed with Labor over climate change and tax cuts.

    Voters have kept their support for independent candidates at 8 per cent nationwide, up from 5 per cent at the election, in a significant shift after “teal” candidates won more power in parliament on issues including a national integrity commission and the treatment of women.

    While Labor saw its primary vote slip from 42 to 39 per cent over the past month, it continues to hold a significant lead over the Coalition, which lifted its primary vote from 28 to 32 per cent.

    “This isn’t the end of Labor’s honeymoon period, but it’s now past the high-tide mark,” said Resolve director Jim Reed.

    https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/federal/labor-s-primary-vote-has-slipped-but-it-continues-to-hold-a-significant-lead-over-the-coalition-new-polling-reveals-20220919-p5bjai.html

  2. From Mumbrella:
    “The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II aired at 8pm on Seven last night and pulled in a metro audience of 975,000, while 879,000 metro viewers tune in on Nine, and 708,000 metro viewers for the ABC.”
    Add about 50% for the regional audience and that gives at most 5 million Australia wide in Prime Time.

  3. When voters were asked which of the two sides had the party and leader they considered best, 41 per cent said Labor and Albanese were competent while only 19 per cent backed the Coalition and Dutton. Asked which side was honest and trustworthy, 34 per cent named Labor and Albanese while 16 per cent named the Coalition and Dutton.

    Asked who was best for the country, 41 per cent said Labor and Albanese while 23 per cent said the Coalition and Dutton while 27 per cent were undecided and 11 per cent preferred others.

    The two sides were closely matched on these questions before the election, with Labor ahead on some and the Coalition ahead on others and the gap between the two parties almost always in the single digits.

    Similar questions on policy performance also favoured the government, with 35 per cent naming Labor and Albanese as best to manage climate and environment policy while 14 per cent named the Coalition and Dutton and 24 per cent naming others.

    https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/federal/labor-s-primary-vote-has-slipped-but-it-continues-to-hold-a-significant-lead-over-the-coalition-new-polling-reveals-20220919-p5bjai.html

  4. My only point has been that the Czechs and Curtin understood that they were being sold out.
    There has been deflection, some personal abuse, some sarcasm and some mansplauning and the like but none of tha changes the history of how the Czechs and Curtin felt.
    Further, anyone who believes that Chamberlain was acting in the best of the Czechs and that Churchill was acting in the best interests of Australia absolutely has no idea.

  5. Solid Resolve numbers for Labor. The Greens slipping from 12% to 10% though rather insignificant in the scheme of things shows that nothing is to be gained for the Greens from Bandt and Thorpe’s positioning in relation to the Voice to Parliament referendum.

  6. When I get to that age, I intend to spend my remaining days getting high as a kite and catching up on all the books, TV, and video games I missed out on while being a responsible adult.

    I used to think that, until my train pulled into the station. I got out eventually and blinked at the platform for a while. I think I’m still there, in a corner somewhere, watching. The trains keep coming. 🙂

  7. Late Riser @ #889 Tuesday, September 20th, 2022 – 10:34 am

    rhwombat @ #888 Tuesday, September 20th, 2022 – 10:26 am

    Oakeshott country @ #880 Tuesday, September 20th, 2022 – 10:08 am

    RHWombat
    Just throwing this out there
    1. Do you think ureamia got her in the end?
    (gradual decline over a few months and then suddenish death and my interpretation of Boris was that she was speaking nonsense towards the end – he said she was speaking about statesmen from the 50s which I think means she confused him with Churchill)
    2. Would Charles George have dialysed her?

    1. Possibly renal failure, but I doubt that it was uraemia as that usually takes a couple of weeks – and the symptom management is pretty obvious, so it would leak.
    2. Yes – though even he probably would have waited until she couldn’t say no.

    You raise a disquieting thought. An insane monarch is still a monarch. I’m NOT saying QEII was insane, but you’re speculating loss of mind, and I’m extrapolating. And who is Charles George, with his ultimate veto?

    LR.
    Sorry – inside (medical) baseball (“If we didn’t wear stethoscopes pointy hats how could people tell that we’re wizards (or Wizzards in Rincewind’s case)?”) .

    Uraemia is toxic metabolite (mainly protein) overload that occurs when the kidneys shut down completely. This usually results in a slow (1-3 week) lapse into unconsciousness (often with a lot of unpleasant nausea & vomiting) called metabolic encephalopathy, rather than agitated delirium or thought disorder – much less the madness of King George (which probably wasn’t porphyria BTW). Dialysis can be used to get rid of the toxic metabolites (and excess sodium & fluid) that accumulate in severe renal failure, but has to be continuous (or 3x/week) until the kidneys recover -if they ever do. The terminal event in most undialysed uraemic patients is usually sudden cardiac arrhythmia due to potassium accumulation – which the body can usually resist for a week or two (hence the time line for uraemic death). I don’t think ER2 followed that course, despite the rumors.

    Charles George was head of Nephrology at RGH Concord from the 70s to the 90s. He was famous for offering dialysis to anything that moved, and some that didn’t – including hepatitis & HIV patients. I was his Registrar for a while, and took part in the Grand Rounds presentation on The Patient That Even Charles George Wouldn’t Dialyse – who was an elderly woman with severe diabetes who’s slightly crazy daughter kept alive at home for several months before dropping her off at RGHC ED one evening…

  8. poroti @ #932 Tuesday, September 20th, 2022 – 11:14 am

    TPOF at 11:33 am

    I think Biden was attempting to draw a clear line without further provocation.

    The problem is it is a ‘further provocation’ , not one on the scale of Pelosi’s but still one. His statement denies the ‘let’s all pretend’ re there being ‘one China’ that everyone has been playing for decades to keep the peace. He does so by saying that the US will involve itself with an ‘internal’ affair of China.

    Not quite. I do not believe the US One China policy recognises that the PRC has sovereignty over Taiwan.

    CSIS puts it like this……

    The United States doesn’t agree with Beijing’s claim to sovereignty over Taiwan, nor does it agree with Taipei that the ROC is an independent, sovereign state.

    https://www.csis.org/analysis/what-us-one-china-policy-and-why-does-it-matter

  9. BS Fairman

    “From Mumbrella:
    “The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II aired at 8pm on Seven last night and pulled in a metro audience of 975,000, while 879,000 metro viewers tune in on Nine, and 708,000 metro viewers for the ABC.”
    Add about 50% for the regional audience and that gives at most 5 million Australia wide in Prime Time.”

    I share your skepticism of the claimed 4 billion audience for the Queen’s funeral. I wonder if that viewing audience matched the footy finals?

  10. “Asked about Dutton, 28 per cent said he was doing a good job and 40 per cent said he was doing a poor job, producing a net rating of minus 12 points, a significant worsening in his personal rating since the poll last month.”
    —————
    Absolutely brutal.

  11. Boerwar

    Further, anyone who believes that Chamberlain was acting in the best of the Czechs and that Churchill was acting in the best interests of Australia absolutely has no idea.

    Who is arguing what they did was for the best of the Czechs or Australia ? Meanwhile you seem aghast that they did not do so and instead put their own country first.

  12. Ven @ 12.07
    That was a very gracious response to Stooge. I think Stooge wasn’t meaning to disparage your obvious typo but couldn’t resist the opportunity to pen some rather clever and beautiful prose.

  13. Simon Katichsays:
    Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 12:14 pm
    Asha @ #940 Tuesday, September 20th, 2022 – 11:27 am

    I bet Donald Trump’s funeral will have a bigger crowd.

    “Bigger coffin, fer sure.”

    But would require them to accept he was dead.

  14. @TPOF:

    “ And the story of Hitler, of Putin, of Napoleon or any other authoritarian hankerer after historical greatness, is relevant. They rarely stop once they have achieved their first stated or announced objectives. The only authoritarian leader in the last 150 years I can think of who has done that was Ataturk.

    Xi will always have more demands, like Putin has more demands and Hitler had more demands. It is necessary to stand up early, rather than to back off on the pretext of righting historical wrongs – because that always creates new historical wrongs demanding to be righted by someone or the other.”

    ____

    In a subsequent post you said you disagreed with me (on my take of 1938). I think what you are missing in your analysis however is any c onsideration as to whether ‘standing up to Mr Hitler’ in 1938 was actually … way too late to avoid the gem Earl war that followed. In my view, it is almost certainly the case that by 1938 the ‘die was cast’ and therefore the real issues related to when, where ands how the coming war was to be waged.

    To my mind there were two ‘turning points’, or if you like ‘sliding door moments’ where a ‘standing up’ early may have had some tangible effect. Firstly, the troops into the Rheinland gambit: responsibility for failing to ‘stand up’ to Hitler falls squarely on France for that one: although again, there was zero appetite in France for such a move, and frankly the French army would not have had a clue as to how best execute such a ‘policing exercise’ (they whole doctrine of the French military at the time being focused on a policy of strategic defence in depth behind static fortifications).

    Secondly, the failure of the League of Nations and ultimately Britain to not close the Suez Canal to the Italians when Mussolini was engaged in his Abyssinian apocalypse. Although not directly involving Hitler and Germany such an action would have sent a clear message that the western allies were not for being pushed around by the emerging fascist order.

    In passing I wonder whether more aid to Republican Spain in the early to mid phases of that war, alla the west’s current aid to Ukrainian would have also sent this message.

    But by late 1938, ‘messages’ and ‘signals’ were long past their due date.

    If one wants to draw history lessons and apply them to the Taiwanese situation, the ‘1938 Europe’s’ is the wrong place to look, IMO.

  15. Biden has attempted to inject clarity into the situation. His clarity is consistent with US policy that the issue should be dealt with peacefully – China asserting control over Taiwan would be seen as an invasion and thus not at all an internal Chinese issue.

    Biden has also left wriggle room. He is saying the US will defend Taiwan, but to what extent? Painful enough to China to force them to recalibrate their plans. But painful enough to stop a successful invasion? Boots and all? Not likely.

  16. Luckily for Australia, unlike Menzies, Curtin was not suckered. He could see what was coming though was powerless to prevent it. The Czechs could see what was coming too, and likewise had no real power to resist. Isn’t this the essence of tragedy: to be able to foresee catastrophe and yet be incapable of averting it?

    Perhaps we can only measure tragedy after the fall has visited. In this case, Defence is about the avoidance of tragedy.

  17. At the rate things are going, I think it’s almost a given that Dutton will face a leadership spill at some point this term. Anyone care to venture a guess at when the challenge will occur, and who the challenger(s) will be?

    My feeling is that – unless the government manages to seriously fuck things up in the next few months – the knives will be out by early next year at the latest, with Angus Taylor, Karen Andrews, and Andrew Hastie being the most likely challengers. Sussan Ley clearly sees herself as a contender too, but I suspect she would struggle to muster much party room support given her tendency to humiliate herself anytime she does, well, anything, really.

  18. What I dont get is why China went hardline in HK before they had sorted Taiwan. It was just nuts to so clearly illustrate they were not serious about ‘one state two systems’ and that any sovereignty takeover of Taiwan would be nasty. It was the end of the ‘peaceful Taiwan solution’ – even the lip service to it.

    Is this just a case of patriot tails wagging a dog in incoherent ways. Or is Xi just really bad at expansionism?

    Anf finally on the matter – Taiwan isnt just an island with people on it. It is the biggest microchip manufacturer in the world. If Biden thought China was about to launch an invasion – he just bought some time for the US to onshore that work.

  19. I get the 2PP vote from the Resolve poll as Labor
    = 39 + .0.8*10 + 0.5 *19 + 0*32
    = 56.5%. Margin of error on a sample size of 1607 is 2.5%.

    Still quite comfortable.

  20. Boerwar says:
    Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 12:39 pm

    p
    Sure. Let us cut to the chase. We are debating whether or not to sell out Taiwan.
    ______
    You want Australia to declare war with China if they invade Taiwan?

  21. Asha says:
    Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 12:37 pm

    At the rate things are going, I think it’s almost a given that Dutton will face a leadership spill at some point this term. Anyone care to venture a guess at when the challenge will occur, and who the challenger(s) will be?

    My feeling is that – unless the government manages to seriously fuck things up in the next few months – the knives will be out by early next year at the latest, with Angus Taylor, Karen Andrews, and Andrew Hastie being the most likely challengers. Sussan Ley clearly sees herself as a contender too, but I suspect she would struggle to muster much party room support given her tendency to humiliate herself anytime she does, well, anything, really.
    中华人民共和国
    Hastie may be an outside choice. Help arrest their decline in WA. But with Dutton gone QLD opens up to Labor.

    Stuart Robert 🙂

  22. Poliphili says:
    Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 12:27 pm

    Thank you Poliphili. I meant no rebuke for Ven. Words are amusing, perhaps made the more so by autocorrect.

  23. Asha is somewhat fixated on the prospect of Dutton being removed. I don’t see it. The Queenslanders are by far the biggest grouping in the Liberal Party and I think they will be loyal enough to Dutton to give him a shot at an election.

  24. Question. Had Edward VII been crowned King. Who would have succeeded him. At the time of Edward’s death (1972) his last surviving brother (Henry Duke of Gloucester) was still alive and he died in 1974.
    Would have the throne passed to his family or did Elizabeth still rank higher than any of the Gloucesters?

  25. enjaybee says:
    Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 12:50 pm

    Question. Had Edward VII been crowned King. Who would have succeeded him. At the time of Edward’s death (1972) his last surviving brother (Henry Duke of Gloucester) was still alive and he died in 1974.
    Would have the throne passed to his family or did Elizabeth still rank higher than any of the Gloucesters?
    _____________
    Elizabeth of course.

  26. The idea of a military “selling out” must mean that the sell-er has the military wherewithal to defend sell-ee. Truth is, Australia does not have the military capacity to defend Taiwan. Nor are we likely to obtain it.

    Our support for Taiwan can include – must include – other actions. So far, I cannot see that Australia has “sold-out” our friends in Taiwan. On the contrary. We are a party to arrangements with Japan and the US that are aimed at inhibiting China. And we are economic, cultural, social, inter-personal and diplomatic friends of Taiwan.

    We have to act in ways that are consistent with our capacities, values and interests.

  27. Yes Simon, the yanks are full of it .
    The US sends 50,000 troups to Taiwan.
    China sends 5oo,000 .
    as the US failed in Vietnam ,Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria , good luck in Taiwan.

  28. I wonder what measures BW has considered in dealing with the 1 million Chinese Australians in the event of hostilities between Australia and China. Surely such an august strategist must have contemplated the next steps.

  29. For what it’s worth – having lived and worked in both and with relatives on the Mainland and Taiwan, I can’t see China invading Taiwan in the forseeable future.

    The “average” Taiwanese actutally talks less about the Mainland taking over than some Poll Bludgers.

    Both Xi and Biden are doing some “sabre rattling”. Xi with his elevation next month to a third term (Deng Xiao Ping and Mao Zedong like) and Biden with mid terms. Xi did the same to Japan when he first came to power over the disputed “Senkaku Islands”

    Mainland Chinese have acquiesced many freedoms to the CCP for economic growth and stability. That is the unwritten compact since Deng Xiao Ping opened up.

    The current economic situation however (real estate falls and COVID lockdowns) will have the CCP leadership worried. Youth unemployment is at very high levels. An invasion of Taiwan would see massive hits to Chinese exports and growth as the Western world carries out similar sanctions visited upon Russia. This would IMHO see the CCP in deep trouble as living standards crumble.

    Couple this with Russias’ disastrous campaign in Ukraine, Mainland China will be very wary of a better equipped, supplied and trained defender.

    Hong Kong was a different story as the CCP had a compliant local leadership, Police and indeed Peoples’ Liberation Army base in Hong Kong. The unarmed locals never stood a chance.

    I might be wrong however if things get too bad on the Mainland and a massive “Patriotic” event is required as a distraction, eg The Generals and the Falkland Islands.

  30. So , if less than 5 million Aussies watched in a commonwealth country,
    and China had no coverage, Pakistan is under water, Sri lanka is in turmoil ,Indonesia and Malaysia probably don’t care and after going to Columbia a few weeks ago and found they know little of the UK or Australia.
    Again i call BULLSHIT to 4 Billion..

  31. AE @ 12.27

    In a subsequent post you said you disagreed with me (on my take of 1938). I think what you are missing in your analysis however is any c onsideration as to whether ‘standing up to Mr Hitler’ in 1938 was actually … way too late to avoid the gem Earl war that followed. In my view, it is almost certainly the case that by 1938 the ‘die was cast’ and therefore the real issues related to when, where ands how the coming war was to be waged.

    ____________________________________

    I’m not missing that. Nobody really knows what would happen. At that stage it was too late to avoid a general war that Hitler was absolutely intent on. The only question – and it’s a huge one – is whether going to war against Germany in October 1938 might have made a huge difference by taking on Hitler early. We will never know. The best indicator we have, sadly, is the failure of the British and French to do anything much from September 1939 until the Western blitzkrieg in May 1940.

  32. Poliphili says:
    Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 12:27 pm
    Ven @ 12.07
    That was a very gracious response to Stooge. I think Stooge wasn’t meaning to disparage your obvious typo but couldn’t resist the opportunity to pen some rather clever and beautiful prose.

    __________________________________

    Indeed, I had a terrific laugh without having any idea of what the original post was about, let alone who wrote it. And yes, I think most people knew that the intended term was ‘specious’.

  33. Nath:

    The Liberal party room currently consists of 68 MPs and Senators. 17 of them are Queenslanders. That includes moderates like Warren Entsch and Angie Bell. I think you overestimate both the pull of the Queensland branch and the extent of their support for Dutton.

    The Liberals want to win the next election. They aren’t into waiting multiple terms to get back into government.

    Look at it this way: when was the last time a Liberal opposition leader made it a full term without being at least competitive against the incumbent government?

    To be fair, there is one thing that may save Dutton, and that’s the lack of any obvious replacements. Even then, I think his colleagues would be more likely to take the chance on someone relatively unknown and unproven than follow Dutton into electoral oblivion.

    Of course, this is all operating under the assumption that Dutton doesn’t manage to gain any significant ground on the government, which may well be prove to be unfounded optimism on my part.

  34. nath says:
    Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 12:49 pm

    Briefly, your role as the sorrowful poet should be immortalized somehow. A play, movie, something.

    Oh, my story would not take so long. One or two lines, at most.

    I have a sculpture. I named it/him Pathos, being ‘that which befalls us’. He’s awkward and, while large in build, is weighed down. He finds his arms are not equal to the weight upon him, and he has to just carry the load upon his shoulders. He cannot throw it off. He’s painted with Caput Mortuum and now wears an old and crumpled hat too, a dry comment on the pointlessness of self-pity.

    Perhaps I might take a new nom: Old Hat. That would be right. That would suffice for a play that would not have to be written, nor, even less, attract an audience.

  35. poroti says:
    Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 12:06 pm
    Asha at 11:57 am
    It will be tremendous. The biggest.

    _______________________________

    It probably will be. I’m reminded of this anecdote:

    “It was absolutely no secret that many people loathed Harry Cohn, but Cohn actually enjoyed his reputation of being the most hated man in Hollywood. In February 1958 when he died, the classic comment (usually attributed to Red Skelton) upon seeing the large number of people showing up for Cohn’s funeral: “Give the people what they want, and they’ll turn out for it!” When a member of the Temple asked the Rabbi to say “one good thing” about the deceased, he paused and said “He’s dead”.”

  36. Kelta at 1:08 pm
    The ratings would have been huge in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The people of Syria,Turkey,Iran , Egypt and Iraq would have been falling over themselves to watch. So easily an audience of 4 Eleventy. 😉

  37. Kelta at 1:15 pm

    Sorry Upnorth , but i seem to remember the poms giving Hongkong back to China.
    I don’t remember an invasion…

    The Chinese though sure as hell remember the Opium Wars and the circumstances under which the poms got their paws on Hong Kong though.

  38. as the us failed in Vietnam ,Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria , good luck in Taiwan.

    Failure is measured in many ways. The issue in Taiwan doesnt have a lot to do with Taiwan. Biden and the US wont sacrifice much for the people of Taiwan.
    But Taiwan produces lots of good microchips. And… it is very close to Japan. 100km ish to the nearest island? And just a little further to the Philippines. You think the tension is thick in the Taiwan straight atm? If the PRC take Taiwan, will the tension just move east?

    International political buffer zones are useful. The Whakan Corridor being one of the more absurd ones. The One China policy on Taiwan has been a good one. WTF was Xi thinking putting a deadline on resolving it?

  39. Kelta says:
    Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 1:15 pm
    Sorry Upnorth , but i seem to remember the poms giving Hongkong back to China.
    I don’t remember an invasion…

    ______________________________

    There is a difference. With Hong Kong, Xi broke an international agreement (which he would regard as imposed, like the original treaties that gave HK to the UK) by taking before China had agreed.

    With Taiwan, there are no international treaties awarding Taiwan to Hong Kong. The idea that it is part of China but separate is a statement of the status quo that most of the world is actually desperate to maintain for the sake of international peace.

    To depart from the seemingly illogical but very practical arrangement would be internationally catastrophic. To recognise Taiwan as its own country would unleash an invasion by China. But even Xi must know that the world would not stand by he went beyond words to actually attempt to take control of Taiwan physically.

    We are all best off if things stay exactly as they are. And, logically, it’s pretty much in the best interests of all the players (especially China and Taiwan) if they do stay as they are. The unfortunate thing is that megalomaniacs do not necessarily think in the best terms for their own nation. The takeover of Hong Kong, despite being a much less volatile act than invading Taiwan, was not in China’s interests as far as I can see – but it went ahead anyway. Putin has demonstrated how megalomaniacal power grabs can be totally contrary to rational national self-interest.

  40. The Chinese though sure as hell remember the Opium Wars and the circumstances under which the poms got their paws on Hong Kong though.

    China had it coming. Trying to stop British opium coming into their country? Upstarts.

  41. If Edward the Eighth had remained on the throne and out lived the Duke of York, then Elizabeth who has at the time of the abdication was third in line, would have become Queen. That is how primogeniture works.

    If William was to slip and die in the shower for example, than Prince George moves up to be first in line to the throne.

    The male preference thing throws people a bit but for those born after 2011 it doesn’t matter. There is actually a finite number of people who can become monarch (only those descended from Sophia of Hanover) which is 6,500 people. The last person in line when it was last calculated was a German woman named Karin Vogel who works as a normal life as therapist and always ends up getting interviewed at times like these.

  42. This usually results in a slow (1-3 week) lapse into unconsciousness (often with a lot of unpleasant nausea & vomiting) called metabolic encephalopathy

    Sounds awful. Euthanasia, please.

  43. In criticising Labor’s “big tax budget”, Angus Taylor, the shadow Treasurer, is in Sydney speaking in response to the treasurer Jim Chalmer’s preview of the October budget (see earlier blog posts), criticising Labor’s plans to spend the $50bn windfall revealed in the budget.
    ______
    Why on earth would ANYONE listen to what Angus Taylor has to say?

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