Morning Consult: Albanese approval 56, disapproval 31 (open thread)

Six months along, only minor signs of erosion in Anthony Albanese’s honeymoon poll ratings.

I have nothing much to offer in the way of new material for an open thread post, for reasons I hope you’ll understand. My standby on such occasions is the regularly updated tracking poll of Anthony Albanese’s personal ratings from US pollster Morning Consult, which currently has him at 56% approval and 31% disapproval. This leaves his approval about where it was mid-year, with his disapproval having climbed a few points.

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. Watching the NACC debate in the Senate, observations:

    Senator Murray Watt – prosecuting the brief with aplomb
    Senator Michaela Cash – a shadow of her ministerial outrage
    Senator David Shoebridge – very impressive Greens Senator from the Great State of NSW

    Takeaway is that Bandt’s leadership has to be in its death throws with impressive members in both houses coming in…

  2. David Shoebridge
    @DavidShoebridge
    Success! The Greens amendment to empower the Inspector of the NACC to properly oversight and audit the commission is a really critical safeguard

  3. Late Riser says:
    Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 6:50 pm
    Something to chew on.

    Antony Green – elections
    @AntonyGreenElec
    An update on the rate of ATL/BTL voting for the Victorian Legislative Council election. % below the line vote is 9.3%, not much changed from 8.8% in 2018. Below are the rates by party. #springst #vicvotes
    中华人民共和国
    Angry Victorians. Bahaha. That still gets me giggling.

  4. ”The ABC can reveal the government will likely cap wholesale gas prices at about $12 a gigajoule, demand a guaranteed domestic gas supply from producers, and enforce a mandatory code of conduct as part of a market intervention first flagged five weeks ago.”

    Great. Bring the war profiteers into line. Big business has to be regulated into good behaviour.

  5. David Shoebridge
    @DavidShoebridge
    Our final amendment to prohibit politicians from being NACC Commissioners has been voted down. More jobs for mates? Let’s hope despite the lack of a prohibition that we don’t see a Commissioner Dutton any time

    David Shoebridge
    @DavidShoebridge
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    2m
    Replying to
    @DavidShoebridge
    IT’S DONE! We finally have a National Anti Corruption Commission, made stronger and more democratic by Greens amendments

  6. Simon Henny Penny Katich @ #572 Tuesday, November 29th, 2022 – 6:00 pm

    Glass jaw broken with a feather.

    What an embarrassing reply by Price. I had time for her arguments in the past but recent days have exposed serious failings. real leaders on a mission have shown her up as nothing more than a petty shouty thin skinned political opportunist. It is quite sad – It very briefly made me think of Pauline Hanson. I honestly hope she reflects and learns and grows from this – there should be more of her like in Coalition ranks.

    Yes, I wondered whether she thought before she opened her mouth to insult Linda Burney the way she did. Doesn’t she realise that if it wasn’t for female Indigenous politicians like Linda Burney, she, Jacinta Price, probably wouldn’t be where she is today!?!

    Put it this way, Ms Price’s political advisers probably aren’t all Indigenous.

  7. Albo is kicking goals like Mbappe

    Next up is the IR Bill which has already been negotiated with Pocock and the Greens.

    Have we ever seen a more effective first 6 months in office?

  8. sprocket_ says:
    Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 7:09 pm
    NACC has passed the Senate!
    中华人民共和国
    Top news Cobber. Top news. A good Inaugural Chair may be Justice Holmes. Her Robodebt inquiry has been impressive.

  9. Interestingly, the NACC passed 3rd reading on the voices.

    Opposition supported.

    Greens Supported.

    Fringe fruitcakes were absent from the debate

  10. Steve777 @ #603 Tuesday, November 29th, 2022 – 7:09 pm

    ”The ABC can reveal the government will likely cap wholesale gas prices at about $12 a gigajoule, demand a guaranteed domestic gas supply from producers, and enforce a mandatory code of conduct as part of a market intervention first flagged five weeks ago.”

    Great. Bring the war profiteers into line. Big business has to be regulated into good behaviour.

    I think I heard today it costs the producer about $3.50 a gigajoule to extract, then it’s sold on the European market for about $350 a gigajoule, which they then try and turn around and charge domestic consumers the same amount!

  11. C@tmomma says:
    Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 7:15 pm

    I think I heard today it costs the producer about $3.50 a gigajoule to extract, then it’s sold on the European market for about $350 a gigajoule, which they then try and turn around and charge domestic consumers the same amount!

    中华人民共和国
    That’s about right. Gas is cheap to extract. But the Capital Costs to pipe and freeze (liquify) then ship are massive. Extraction is the cheap part. The Germans are building massive facilities to allow the import of. Billions over budget but done in record time.

  12. “Our final amendment to prohibit politicians from being NACC Commissioners has been voted down”

    Former politician, John Hatzistergos is the ICAC commissioner in NSW

  13. C@tmomma says:
    Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 7:16 pm
    Upnorth @ #609 Tuesday, November 29th, 2022 – 7:13 pm

    sprocket_ says:
    Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 7:09 pm
    NACC has passed the Senate!
    中华人民共和国
    Top news Cobber. Top news. A good Inaugural Chair may be Justice Holmes. Her Robodebt inquiry has been impressive.
    Or Retired Justice Virginia Bell.
    中华人民共和国
    +1 C@t

  14. @DavidShoebridge
    IT’S DONE! We finally have a National Anti Corruption Commission, made stronger and more democratic by Greens amendments

    Why do the Greens always desperately try to show they are relevant … maybe because they aren’t

  15. I posted this on mastodon, but it may be of interest to some on PB.
    —-
    #religion #cathedral #promotion #evangelicals

    You have to switch to twitter to watch. https://twitter.com/Eric_Erins/status/1596917329010446336

    When you’ve watched and think, “Huh?”, then think about the role cathedrals played 500 years ago, and the awe they produced. They are still awe inspiring today.

    Then think about the awe in the video. Was there any?

  16. Need a hard hitter who will turn the work around otherwise you get the damp squib which most corruption inquiries are.

    Justice Christine Adamson fills that bill – Adam Bell SC through his unrelenting work on Casinos which showed the other states how it is done would be good.

  17. Seems the LNP wanted to give MPs the power to block appointments to the NAAC.
    Just like the parliament has the power to block appointments to the High Court, Federal Court, AAT, Fair Work …
    Not.
    And didn’t the Liberals take advantage of that while in government.
    Hatzistergos was a Liberal appointment.
    So there must be some politicians who are regarded well enough for judicial appointments

  18. Dutton may’ve advanced his electoral appeal if he had the guts to draw a line under Morrison’s repugnant behaviour re. multiple ministries. He’s chosen not to, and it will verily cost him. He’s an automaton, incapable of assessing issues outside the paradigm
    of Howard, Abbott & Morrison; but that model no longer works.

    I think that he’ll be agin “The Voice”; another example of his failure to read the electorate. Those who voted for Palaszczuk, McGowan, Malinauskas & Albanese will thank him deeply. It’s truly a case of the train having left the station.

  19. It’s unfortunate but Amanda Rishworth Minister for Social Services seems to have gone to the same school of overemphasis that Michaela Cash attended

  20. @DavidShoebridge
    IT’S DONE! We finally have a National Anti Corruption Commission

    The Sous-chef de cuisine at Brasserie Canberra looking forward to preparing his favourite dish , Couilles de Morrison
    &ct=g

  21. I’m not the biggest fan of Amanda Rishworth but I thought she was fine on 7.30.
    She’s hardly a bilious shrieker like the execrable Cash.
    As for Linda Burney, that woman is magnificent.

  22. 730 just started in Brisbane and my immediate reactions was: What a waste of media resources to try to find out if the Voice will actually make a difference on the ground! As if the consultations leading up to the statement from the heart haven’t already done that work and a half hour program on the ABC will revel all.

    Hopefully the program is actually better than that

  23. Late Riser says:
    Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 1:57 pm

    By the way, “As bad as fleas, and twice as many.” I smiled at that. Thank you.

    Cheers, LR. The Player has put me into a whimsical mood. Bush trolling is a tough gig. Dirt roads, uncertain bridges and fallen trees. Leaf and bark in heaps in the gutters and drains. Fences over and gates leaning, arthritic. No other company to speak of except their partner, of whom little is said. How they roll is not known by the bludgers. And the trolling is, by any measure, a meagre living. Few takers for the troll fare, even on a good day. Turns out that malice is not as good as a bowl of salad.

    For mine, I think their act is wearing thin. Thin like the older voices at church on Sunday mornings are thin. Pale and cooled down. Husked and dry as dust.

  24. David Pocock

    @DavidPocock
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    2h
    Labor, Libs and Nats just voted against the entire crossbench to defeat my amendment for the NACC to explicitly include pork-barrelling, be able to investigate 3rd parties who try to corrupt & also add more transparency around NACC funding.

  25. What a great week!
    IR bill passed for proper collective industry bargaining.
    Victorian Liberals exposed as a fundy right echo chamber and thrashed.
    And now a Federal ICAC 😀

    I wonder if any LNP politicians might now start resigning and getting their super?

    The Greens amendments were worthwhile. Labor, Greens and Pocock all deserve credit. I say again, Pocock in the Senate is invaluable, in eliminating the need for Labor to buy Lambie’s vote.

  26. Rakali @ #634 Tuesday, November 29th, 2022 – 7:48 pm

    David Pocock

    @DavidPocock
    ·
    2h
    Labor, Libs and Nats just voted against the entire crossbench to defeat my amendment for the NACC to explicitly include pork-barrelling, be able to investigate 3rd parties who try to corrupt & also add more transparency around NACC funding.

    The evidence is that such bodies once established seem to be able to widen their remit without much difficulty be following where the evidence leaders – the Costigan Royal Commission of the 1970s which was established to invetigate criminality in a union (the Painters and Dockers) expanded to blow the top off widespread money laundering, bottom of the harbour tax avoidance schemes and other activities far from its original direction.

    I don’t think we need to worry about giving lots of specific permissions to the NACC

  27. ajm,
    I concur. The pork barreling may be the start but it won’t be the end of corruption. It’s easier to start at the edges and work your way inwards.

    And David Pocock doesn’t consider that this brings us closer to the idea or reality of having to legislate for all discretionary spending. Which would mean we end up with a system a lot like the american’s. So lots of supply fights.

    Whilst I don’t like coalition waste whilst in government, I can cop it. Frankly it only got really bad and out of hand under scomo, but building a footy oval here and there isn’t the worst thing in the world for a politician to do.

  28. ajm @ #638 Tuesday, November 29th, 2022 – 8:14 pm

    I don’t think we need to worry about giving lots of specific permissions to the NACC

    On the other hand, NACC or no NACC I think explicitly labelling pork-barreling as “corruption” can only be a good thing. Both sides do it. Both sides should stop. Or at least have a real fear that doing it may have consequences more serious than just whatever happens at the next election.

  29. But Boeing’s proposed system, dubbed Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB), is one of about a half-dozen plans for getting new munitions into production for Ukraine and America’s eastern European allies.

    The Pentagon believes GLSDB could be delivered as early as spring 2023, according to a leaked document.Experts say the new system combines the GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) with the M26 rocket motor, both of which are common in US inventories.
    According to the document, the Boeing proposal would see the weapon produced with small, folding wings that allow it to glide more than 100km if dropped from an aircraft and hit targets as small as 3ft in diameter.

    Although the US has rebuffed requests for 300km range Atacms missile, the GLSDB’s 150km range would allow Ukraine to hit valuable military targets that have so far been out of reach.

    It would also help it continue pressing its counterattacks by disrupting Russian rear areas.

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1702576/ukraine-zelensky-russia-ukraine-truce-precision-bombs-putin

  30. Arky @ #583 Tuesday, November 29th, 2022 – 6:54 pm

    “If the LNP were seen as holding up a reasonable candidate, they’d suffer at the ballot box.”

    Yeah, sure, that is definitely a top of mind vote changer.

    Stifiling the operation of a corruption commission the voting public heavily favoured probably wouldnt do them any favours. People generally dont like politicians being corrupt or percieved as having something to hide.

  31. Player One:

    Shame I didn’t stick around last night. I could have made the fairly obvious point that the reason some PBer’s are so fascinated by imaginary numbers is that they need them to count their friends.

    Too late for it now, I guess

    Well, I introduced the topic with the text “for our imaginary friends”, so the point was made, albeit without the nastiness you allude to

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