Morning Consult: PM approval ratings (open thread)

The only bit of new polling data I can identify from the past few weeks suggests Anthony Albanese has more than maintained his strong personal ratings over the New Year period.

Having waited rather too long for a new blog post topic to fall into my lap, here’s one that falls back on the regularly updated tracking poll of Anthony Albanese’s approval ratings maintained by US pollster Morning Consult, which maintains the exercise for twenty leaders internationally. While these numbers have been basically steady since June, they suggest that Albanese ended the year on something of a high, with his approval registering at either 59% or 60% after easing to 55% in November, and his disapproval down since that time from 32% to 28%.

As for when the polling treadmill will crank back into action, I note that the Age/Herald had a Resolve Strategic poll in the third week of last year, although that may have reflected the imminence of a federal election. Newspoll and Essential Research took a fortnight longer to resume regular transmission.

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. “C@tmomma says:
    Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 9:04 am
    I think the Gordian Knot that The Greens leadership have tied around themselves wrt their position on the Voice is that they are afraid to be classified as being derogatory towards their Indigenous spokeswoman if they countermand her position. That it would be a bad look for the WASP leadership to be criticising their Blak Woman spokesperson. So what do they do?”

    Yes, I agree, I can see Bandt’s conundrum. But will the Greens destroy themselves and also destroy the Voice only because the “WhitGreens” feel that they can’t disagree with the “BlakGreens”? I remind the Greens supporters here that the EnvironmentalGreens didn’t have any problem to go hard against the RedGreens (“watermelons”), leading to Lee Rhiannon leaving the party.

  2. Griff
    I agree that Bandt is in charge of a rolling policy shambles.
    Is his statement ‘Treaty now!’ meant to convey Greens’ official Greens policy?
    Does he seriously think we can have a Treaty ‘now’?
    This is not serious policy development.
    It is juvie stuff.
    Worse than that, it sucks serious oxygen from the referendum.

  3. Alpo,
    It’s complicated but relatively quickly the EU is coming around to a stronger position of support for Ukraine. It started with the German Chancellor sacking his Defence Minister over the holidays. She had been reluctant to see the importance to the EU of the fight between Ukraine and Russia and was an impediment to the EU giving their German Leopard Tanks to Ukraine because the German Defence Ministry had to approve each consignment first.

  4. ‘Griff says:
    Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 9:30 am

    Boerwar @ Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 9:17 am

    The Blak Greens were initiated by Lidia Thorpe. We know that a couple of members have resigned based on the modifications made to the sequence in the Uluru statement. Not much else.

    See: https://www.smh.com.au/national/greens-position-on-uluru-statement-loses-aboriginal-voices-20220420-p5aer8.html
    …’
    ————————
    Thank you. I note the reference to resignations from the BlakGreens, accompanied by allegations of ‘bullying’.

  5. “C@tmomma says:
    Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 9:36 am
    Alpo,
    It’s complicated but relatively quickly the EU is coming around to a stronger position of support for Ukraine.”…

    Yes, the EU have no other option… and the Lithuanians are already worried that if Ukraine falls, they will be next to be “liberated” by Putin.

  6. There is a certain irony that one of the prominent agenda items in Bludger discussions in the first months of Putin’s War was that tanks were obsolete. Australia’s tanks were a wasteful investment.
    All Australia needs, according to the Greens is to halve the size of the ADF and to turn it into ‘a light mobile force’.
    One of the prominent items for discussion now is how many and how soon Ukraine’s supporters can get main battle tanks to Ukraine.

  7. So the Greens, Nationals and Liberals have a coalition when it comes to the voice.

    If played badly could destroy the Greens.

  8. Christopher Knaus writes about the school principal who gave up everything to blow the whistle on a paedophile priest. George Pell hung up on him.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/15/a-school-principal-gave-up-everything-to-blow-the-whistle-on-a-paedophile-priest-george-pell-hung-up-on-him
    What a profoundly evil man this was. Promoted and promoted, over and over again, by “holy mother church” (RPPS).

    What proportion of Cardinals are profoundly evil like him? Manipulative sociopaths, driven by personal glory, and ever prettier dresses, and ever more grossly luxurious apartments. Decent empathetic human beings would never stand a chance.


  9. Boerwar says:
    Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 9:41 am

    One of the prominent items for discussion now is how many and how soon Ukraine’s supporters can get main battle tanks to Ukraine.

    But they are not getting or want the tanks we have brought.

  10. Alpo @ #57 Sunday, January 15th, 2023 – 9:41 am

    “C@tmomma says:
    Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 9:36 am
    Alpo,
    It’s complicated but relatively quickly the EU is coming around to a stronger position of support for Ukraine.”…

    Yes, the EU have no other option… and the Lithuanians are already worried that if Ukraine falls, they will be next to be “liberated” by Putin.

    If you watch Jake Broe’s videos he has been referring recently to a map of Europe and Russia Pre WW1, ie of the Russian Empire and he says that that is Putin’s ultimate aim, to restore the boundaries of the Russian Empire. It’s a lot!

  11. ‘frednk says:
    Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 9:44 am

    Boerwar says:
    Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 9:41 am

    One of the prominent items for discussion now is how many and how soon Ukraine’s supporters can get main battle tanks to Ukraine.

    But they are not getting or want the tanks we have brought.’
    ———————————————
    The British, German and US main battle tanks are, IMO, much of a muchness. That said, as with all designs each embodies compromises.
    My view, FWIW, is that the real problems with what is being proposed are: (1) different rather than standardized platforms (logistics and training nightmare) and (2) not enough. Ukraine could use a couple of thousand tanks. The numbers being discussed are penny packets.
    If we offered Ukraine 100 Abrams they would take them in a nanosecond.

  12. UK Cartoons:
    Mac on #CostOfLivingCrisis #EnergyCrisis

    Graeme Bandeira on #GrantShapps #BorisJohnson #ToriesUnfitToGovern

    Matt on #netzero #netzerohome #costoflivingcrisis

    Peter Brookes on #RishiSunak #PrinceHarry #BorisJohnson #Partygate #NicolaSturgeon

    Ben Jennings on #SparebyPrinceHarry #SparePrinceHarry #PrinceHarry

    Andy Davey: Phew! November avoided negative GDP; +0.1%. Due to people watching footie in pubs. That’s the way to build a solid economy – go to the pub! #RishiSunak #JeremyHunt

    Graeme Bandeira on #RishiSunak #ToryLeadership

    Martin Rowson on #RishiSunak & his deal to set up two free ports in Scotland #BorisJohnson #Partygate

    Finally Dave Brown’s #RoguesGallery cartoon, after #GeorgeOgilvyReid #RishiSunak #NicolaSturgeon #IndyRef2 #Freeports #GenderRecognitionReformBill #CostOfLivingCrisis #NHSStrikes

    The original George Ogilvy Reid – The Gordons Warning:

  13. What good will tanks provide to a defense of Australia?

    They will only be useful if someone manages to land and support troops.
    I.e they have gotten through the water and the air.

  14. I see another round of nasty attacks from Labor partisans on Thorpe for essentially having the temerity to push Labor to act on long standing reforms and the treaty process.

  15. Alpo: “Yes, Putin’s ambition is to become a new Peter the Great… ”

    He’ll need to buy a good pair of platform shoes. Peter the Great was 6’8″.

  16. Boerwar @ #49 Sunday, January 15th, 2023 – 9:27 am

    Whoops. I missed this one:

    Two hours before Thorpe’s tweet, the party leader, Adam Bandt, wrote on Facebook that the Greens wanted “progress on all elements of the Uluru Statement”.

    “Now is the time for the Labor Government to have some ambition. Treaty now.”
    ——————————————————
    Position 8. Wrecker Bandt announces that he wants a Treaty ‘now’.

    So supporting Labor policy is the Greens new tactic to destroy Labor?

    Now that’s clever!

  17. ‘Catprog says:
    Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 10:13 am

    What good will tanks provide to a defense of Australia?

    They will only be useful if someone manages to land and support troops.
    I.e they have gotten through the water and the air.’
    ==============================================
    Grossly simplistic.

  18. Q. What is the difference between Dutton and Bandt on giving constitutional recognition and a Voice to Indigenous Australians in the body of the Constitution?
    A. Who knows?

  19. in stead of dealing with the preest pell in stead waged a publick campaign to discredit his predecesure as arch bishop of melberne whoh hedisliked dueto his more progresive leadership of the church

  20. the arch bishop before pell sertainly did cover up stuff but pell seemed more interested in reputation and geting rid of anymoore progrseive bishops and turning the church closer to rome then he was in listening to victems

  21. Ven, earlier

    “Religion usually addresses the issues concerning morality.
    How and why a person should behave in a moral and ethical way comes from scriptures, whether that is relevant now or not is another topic altogether.”
    ——
    You might find interesting a series of lectures entitled “Man and Myth” by Joseph Campbell, in which he said, “Myth is someone else’s religion. Religion is even simpler, it is misundertood myth.” He continues to explain this in six fascinating hour long lectures. Great listening during those empty moments driving or gardening. People have a lot in common.

    As for morals and ethics, my perspective is that morality stems from the heart, ethics from the head.

  22. Boerwar @ #79 Sunday, January 15th, 2023 – 9:59 am

    ‘Catprog says:
    Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 10:13 am

    What good will tanks provide to a defense of Australia?

    They will only be useful if someone manages to land and support troops.
    I.e they have gotten through the water and the air.’
    ==============================================
    Grossly simplistic.

    We shall fight on the seas and oceans…..

  23. It’s interesting to note that Sarah Hanson-Young has previously come out strongly in favour of the Yes vote for the Voice. She is from South Australia however and has more liberty to speak her mind than Bandt does. The Greens structure is strongly state based and Bandt hails from the same state branch as Thorpe, meaning that he has to watch his back and consider the factional ramifications if he crosses her. For example if Thorpe has sway over the Victorian membership and Bandt takes a different position to her then his preselection and power within the branch could be in jeopardy. There is more to the constantly shifting and unclear position of the Greens than the media will tell you.

  24. Socrates says:
    Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 8:49 am
    Ven

    “ Religion usually addresses the issues concerning morality.
    How and why a person should behave in a moral and ethical way comes from scriptures, whether that is relevant now or not is another topic altogether.”

    Nah. The sense of what is ‘fair’ or ‘unfair‘, of ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, is innate. This sense exists independently of religious formulations. Religion is costume-play. It’s make-believe for and by grown-ups. If anything, the persistence of religious identification is an example of our tendency to ‘copy’ others. Copying is norm-following. It’s also an innate characteristic.

    Religious precepts and ethical ones have been conflated. But they are not at all the same thing. Ethical precepts and their customs, lore and law have been appropriated by the religious in their campaigns to win legitimacy and popularity. In part, this is to make theocratic dressing up seem a whole less preposterous that it obviously is. They continue to be used in order to maintain social licence, and political and financial advantages.

  25. ‘Simon Henny Penny Katich says:
    Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 10:51 am

    Boerwar @ #79 Sunday, January 15th, 2023 – 9:59 am

    ‘Catprog says:
    Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 10:13 am

    What good will tanks provide to a defense of Australia?

    They will only be useful if someone manages to land and support troops.
    I.e they have gotten through the water and the air.’
    ==============================================
    Grossly simplistic.

    We shall fight on the seas and oceans….’
    ======================================
    A speech about utter failure at so many levels – the chief of which was to disarm while dictators like Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo built up their armed forces. Xi and Putin refer.

  26. Well in matters defence, besides wishing there was a dedicated blog to defence matters, Australia’s current climate inaction policies are the very best defence non-spending we have, who’d want to invade a hellhole simultaneously on fire and under water.

  27. The Apostate Goat @ #87 Sunday, January 15th, 2023 – 11:11 am

    Socrates says:
    Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 8:49 am
    Ven

    “ Religion usually addresses the issues concerning morality.
    How and why a person should behave in a moral and ethical way comes from scriptures, whether that is relevant now or not is another topic altogether.”

    Nah. The sense of what is ‘fair’ or ‘unfair‘, of ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, is innate. This sense exists independently of religious formulations. Religion is costume-play. It’s make-believe for and by grown-ups. If anything, the persistence of religious identification is an example of our tendency to ‘copy’ others. Copying is norm-following. It’s also an innate characteristic.

    Religious precepts and ethical ones have been conflated. But they are not at all the same thing. Ethical precepts and their customs, lore and law have been appropriated by the religious in their campaigns to win legitimacy and popularity. In part, this is to make theocratic dressing up seem a whole less preposterous that it obviously is. They continue to be used in order to maintain social licence, and political and financial advantages.

    Agreed. + 1

  28. ‘WeWantPaul says:
    Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 11:29 am

    Well in matters defence, besides wishing there was a dedicated blog to defence matters, Australia’s current climate inaction policies are the very best defence non-spending we have, who’d want to invade a hellhole simultaneously on fire and under water.’
    ——————————————
    A curious concatenation of non sequiturs.

  29. Tanks will be useless for Australia….all 50 of them…..on the vast Russian/Ukrainian steppe maybe, but over 4000 of them are rusting ruins even there right now….If the enemy lands in Aus our Navy and airforce are defeated….so we will probably be blockaded as well. Hope these tanks run on badger or whombat poo

  30. ‘None of Your Beeswax says:
    Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 11:37 am

    Tanks will be useless for Australia….all 50 of them…..on the vast Russian/Ukrainian steppe maybe, but over 4000 of them are rusting ruins even there right now….If the enemy lands in Aus our Navy and airforce are defeated….so we will probably be blockaded as well. Hope these tanks run on badger poo’
    ————————————————
    Grossly simplistic.

  31. “S. Simpson says:
    Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 10:53 am
    It’s interesting to note that Sarah Hanson-Young has previously come out strongly in favour of the Yes vote for the Voice. She is from South Australia however and has more liberty to speak her mind than Bandt does. The Greens structure is strongly state based and Bandt hails from the same state branch as Thorpe, meaning that he has to watch his back and consider the factional ramifications if he crosses her. For example if Thorpe has sway over the Victorian membership and Bandt takes a different position to her then his preselection and power within the branch could be in jeopardy. There is more to the constantly shifting and unclear position of the Greens than the media will tell you.”

    If Bandt is so weak that he fears a “Thorpe Effect” in Victoria that could play against his re-election in the seat of Melbourne, he doesn’t deserve to be the leader of the Greens!

    It’s time for ALL the Greens (senators and representatives) to start expressing their voice about the Voice!! Enough of this Thorpe nonsense.

  32. None of Your Beeswax says:
    Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 11:37 am

    Tanks will be useless for Australia….all 50 of them…..on the vast Russian/Ukrainian steppe maybe, but over 4000 of them are rusting ruins even there right now….If the enemy lands in Aus our Navy and airforce are defeated….so we will probably be blockaded as well. Hope these tanks run on badger or whombat poo
    ________
    Quite right. We would be better off spending the money on Mandarin language classes.

  33. Quite right. We would be better off spending the money on Mandarin language classes.

    We struggle with English.

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