Federal voting intention numbers from the latest fortnightly Essential Research poll have both parties down a point on the primary vote from a fortnight ago, with Labor at 33% and the Coalition at 30%, with the Greens enjoying a curiously timed three point surge to 17%, One Nation down two to 6% and undecided unchanged at 5%. Presumably reflecting the elevated result for the Greens, Labor is up two on the 2PP+ measure at 55% and the Coalition are down two to 40%, with undecided steady at 5%.
The poll also featured the pollster’s monthly “favourability ratings” for the two leaders, whom respondents rate on a scale of one to ten rather than provide straight approval and disapproval responses. Anthony Albanese’s results were little changed from late November, with 47% rating him seven or higher (up one), 27% from four to six (up one) and 22% from zero to three (down one), while Peter Dutton is respectively at 26% (down two), 31% (down one) and 35% (up two).
Support for an Indigenous voice increased two points to 65% with opposition down two to 35%, while 30% said they felt well informed about the proposal compared with 37% for poorly informed. Forty-three per cent rated that the country was headed in the right direction (down one), compared with 37% for the wrong direction (up one). The 300 respondents from New South Wales were again asked about approval of the state leaders, with Dominic Perrottet up four on approval to 51% and down three on disapproval to 33%, while Chris Minns at is steady at 38% and down two to 25%.
The poll was conducted Wednesday to Monday from a sample of 1000.
Wow $160K awarded to ‘alleged’ mates, puts shade on the over $2,000,000,000
SfM dished out to his… 🙄
I will be accused, rightly, of whataboutism- but the abridged Liberal appointees to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal is eye watering…
Gary Humphries ACT Former Liberal senator
John Sosso QLD Director-General, Justice Department (Newman government)
Robert Cameron VIC Liberal Chairman Kew State Electoral Council
Paul Clauson AM QLD Former attorney-general and minister under Liberal government
Michael Cooke* NSW Former adviser to Tony Abbott
Denis Dragovic* VIC Liberal preselection for the House of Representatives; Victorian Senate preselection
Ann Duffield* QLD Former chief of staff to Scott Morrison
Richard Ellis WA Former chief of staff to former premier Colin Barnett
Matthew Groom VIC Former Liberal Party member for Denison
James Lambie QLD Former policy adviser; senior adviser and chief of staff to George Brandis
Donald Morris* VIC Former senior adviser to Eric Abetz
Andew Nikolic AM CSC* VIC Former Liberal member of House of Representatives
Justin Owen NSW Lifetime member of the Sydney University Liberal Club; former treasurer of the Australian Liberal Students Federation
Belinda Pola QLD Former chief of staff to Mathias Cormann; former staffer to Joe Hockey
Christopher Puplick AM* NSW Former Liberal senator
Theo Tavoularis QLD Liberal Party donor; represented former AG George Brandis’ son in a criminal case.
Rachel Westaway VIC Former Liberal candidate for the NSW Upper House
Antoinette Younes NSW Former adviser to Michaelia Cash
Dominic Katter QLD Queensland Liberal National Party “law and order adviser”
Hedley Chapman* SA Former Liberal Party member for Kingston; former senator
Rodrigo Pintos-Lopez VIC In-house counsel for former Victorian premier Ted Baillieu.
William Stefaniak AM RFD ACT Former Leader of the Opposition (for the Liberal Party) ACT
Ian Berry QLD Former LNP member for Ipswich
Simone Burford WA Adviser and chief of staff to former attorney-general Daryl Robert Williams; chief of staff to former communications minister Richard Alston; senior adviser to John Howard
Helena Claringbold NSW Former staffer to Tony Abbott
David Crawshay OAM VIC Former Liberal Party staffer
Brendan Darcy VIC Former adviser to Kevin Andrews
Phoebe Dunn VIC Former senior adviser to former attorney-general Daryl Williams
Peter Emmerton* SA Former adviser to Liberal Minister of Education and Training
Shane Evans* NSW Former adviser to the Howard Government; media adviser and chief of staff to Minister for Fair Trading NSW
Joseph Francis* WA Former Liberal Member for Jandakot
William Frost ACT Former senior adviser to Christian Porter
Steven Griffiths* SA Former Liberal Member for Goyder
George Hallwood* SA President of a Liberal Party branch
Keith Kendall VIC University Liberal Club member
Nora Lamont* VIC Liberal Party member; Councillor for Mullum Ward, Maroondah City Council
Russell Matheson NSW Former Liberal Party member for Macarthur
David McCulloch NSW Former policy adviser to Communications Minister Paul Fletcher; staffer to former senator Amanda Vanstone
Nicholas McGowan VIC Liberal candidate for Jagajaga
Karen McNamara* NSW Former Liberal Party member for Dobell
Justin Meyer VIC Former senior adviser to former premier Dennis Napthine
Helen Moreland* VIC Former senior adviser to Tony Abbott
Perrohean Sperling PSM VIC Former senior adviser to John Howard
Michael Sutherland OAM WA Former Liberal member for Mount Lawley; former speaker of the WA Legislative Assembly
Peter Vlahos VIC Liberal candidate for Chisholm
Robert Baldwin* NSW Former Liberal member for Paterson
Anthony Barry VIC Former press adviser to Malcolm Turnbull
Stephen Barton* WA Former chief of staff to former WA Legislative Assembly member Joseph Francis
Jane Bell VIC Liberal preselection for the House of Representatives
Suzanne Boyce FAICD* QLD Former Liberal senator
Nathan Goetz NSW Former Liberal Party member. Ran for the Wyndham City Council in the 2008 election.
Dawn Fitzgerald WA Former chief of staff to a WA Liberal minister
Ian Fletcher AM WA Former chief of staff to former WA premier Richard Court
Margaret Forrest QLD Senior adviser to the Department of Justice and AG (Newman government); electorate officer for AG George Brandis
John Griffin* VIC Former chief of staff to for Victorian premier Jeff Kennett
Meredith Jackson QLD Former chief of staff to Christopher Pyne
De-Anne Kelly* QLD National Member for Dawson
Helen Kroger* VIC Former president of the Victorian Liberal Party; former Liberal senator
Michael Manetta SA Liberal candidate for seat of Torrens
Stephen Parry* TAS Former Tasmanian Senate president
Donna Petrovich* VIC Former Liberal member in the Victorian Legislative Council
Susan Reece Jones VIC Liberal Party member
Brian Warren Stooke AM* VIC Liberal Party member
Andrew Tragardh VIC Liberal preselection for the Victorian Legislative Assembly
https://www.crikey.com.au/2019/09/24/a-whos-who-in-the-aat-zoo/
Short term contract for ex labor ministers and staffers for a few tens of thousands.
Jobs for years at 100s of thousands a year on Fair Work Comission and AAT
Same same.
Not..
lol, the point is not to change the system but to capture it.
The really special one which is coming is the $16bn industry fund – no one is getting any cash out of that one, unless they have signed up with a union. The board of the fund will also have no independent directors.
Its what the Americans call “pay to play”
David Rowe with a beauty. Look at Marcia Langton!
BK @ #2845 Monday, February 13th, 2023 – 6:43 pm
What a cutie
BK
What a handsome boy! I’m sure he will have a good home and you will make each other happy BK.
Holdenhillbilly says:
Monday, February 13, 2023 at 6:14 pm
“Antony Green – elections @AntonyGreenElec
Just a reminder. The Senate cannot block a referendum. It can delay by blocking the bill, but after 3 months, the government can put the bill to the House again and does not need Senate approval to hold the referendum. #auspol #TheVoice’”
Doesn’t this highlight the pointless obstruction in Lidia Thorpe’s position? On her own in the Senate she can’t stop it. By cutting herself off from the other Greens she can’t influence any lower house votes either. Both selfish and a fool.
Lars Von Trier
As I know an industry fund independent director I know what you just posted is not true. Bullshit in the end seriously damages our society and the Liberal party.
Alpo @ Monday, February 13, 2023 at 5:47 pm:
“Russian front moves 2km west in four days – reports
Russia claims its troops have advanced 2km (1.24 miles) to the west in four days along the frontline in Ukraine.”
The Russians seem to be advertising that as a great achievement (if true).
2km in 4 days? Is that worth the cost in lives involved?… It looks that the Russians are truly desperate to produce something, anything that sounds like “good news”…..”
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Alpo, I think they’re claiming this particular figure (500m per day), because at that rate, they would reach the western Donetsk border (about 100km away, just west of the city of Oleksandrivka) in about 50 days, which would be April 4. This tallies reasonably well with Putin’s reported order to capture Donetsk Oblast by “the end of March”.
Of course, extrapolating a rate of advance over the past 4 days to occur uniformly over the next 50 days is a ridiculous exercise in spurious inductive reasoning. I think this is being claimed solely to correspond with the ordered objective.
I’d be a little happier if Combet had been put into the PMO, but DPMC is one of the places that would need to weed out the LNP plants very quickly and Combet is as qualified as anyone to do that.
The Lars team has been reading (contributing to?) the SmearStralian.
Black ops out of the Holt St sheltered workshop would come up with such horseshit
BK @ #2845 Monday, February 13th, 2023 – 6:43 pm
Adorable! What a little cutie.
frednksays:
Monday, February 13, 2023 at 6:52 pm
Lars Von Trier
As I know an industry fund independent director I know what you just posted is not true. Bullshit in the end seriously damages our society and the Liberal party.
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Wrong you pompous arse. Follow the link below
https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/actu-wants-unions-first-in-15b-fund-20230210-p5cjhq
sprocket:
No party does jobs for mates better than the Liberal party. That list isn’t exhaustive either as it’s only to one body!
Lars calls another commenter ‘a pompous arse’ – projection much
Socrates @ #2867 Monday, February 13th, 2023 – 6:50 pm
I reckon it’s pretty awesome that she’s decided to commit the next 5 yrs to setting up a self-determined ‘Blak sovereign’ representation in the crowns parliament.
Long may it survive, because I’ll be voting for it.
Wonder whether the Albanese government might stack up some DD triggers
frednk @ #2868 Monday, February 13th, 2023 – 6:52 pm
😆
How many ‘independent industry fund directors’ are ex-union officials …? 😆
Today’s Rowe perfectly captures Dutton apologising for not apologising when he shamelessly played politics with the national apology 15 years ago.
Problem is he is shaping up to make the same mistake again with the Voice referendum.
Serah Ferguson on 7.30 tonight interviews RN spokesperson about the imminent Sub decision.. Serah kept banging on about sovereignty of nuclear powered subs.. with US personal on board & having some control.. every time Serah risked the question (seems like 10 at least)the RN vice admiral said UK/US personal ..
So Serah knows it’s US subs.. the RN plays it neutral.
The industry fund is really bad news. A $15bn fund which will be directed by union officials and “friendly” companies ostensibly to bring back manufacturing.
What could possibly go wrong?
Greg Combet also received contract work from the Liberal Government. Hes clearly happy to take the work from both sides. Ergo hes not a partisan.
Rex Douglassays:
Monday, February 13, 2023 at 7:03 pm
frednk @ #2868 Monday, February 13th, 2023 – 6:52 pm
Lars Von Trier
As I know an industry fund independent director I know what you just posted is not true. Bullshit in the end seriously damages our society and the Liberal party.
How many ‘independent industry fund directors’ are ex-union officials …?
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The ACTU is reported in the AFR as saying that independent directors is the wrong model for the fund.
Some more recent additional appointees to the AAT, who didn’t make the list posted above
Former New South Wales minister Pru Goward and a former chief of staff to Scott Morrison are among six people with Liberal links appointed to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal among 19 appointments.
On Monday the attorney general, Michaelia Cash, announced that Goward and Ann Duffield had been appointed senior members, jobs that receive pay of at least $330,000 a year, if employed on a full time basis, for up to seven years.
Among the 19 new appointments are two former Liberal members of the Western Australian parliament who lost their seats at the March state election: Michael Mischin, who was appointed deputy president and will receive pay of $496,650; and Peter Katsambanis, appointed a member.
Cash appointed Kate Chapple, a senior adviser to foreign minister Marise Payne and former senior adviser to then-defence minister Linda Reynolds, as a member.
Cheryl Cartwright, who worked for Alexander Downer in opposition and was then chief of staff to Warren Truss as agriculture minister in the Howard government, was also appointed a member. Cartwright is currently a director of Barton Deakin government relations.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/04/pru-goward-among-six-liberal-linked-appointments-by-coalition-to-administrative-appeals-tribunal
Sorry, my maths in my post on Russia’s rate of advance was completely wrong! I should have said it would take them 200 days at their reported rate of 500m per day, not 50!!
So, they are going way to slow.
The Liberals hate manufacturing- so it is in character for them and their proxies to critique the $15b Manufacturing Fund
Lars I really appreciate the diversity you add here, but if you are citing a publication as evidence perhaps you should omit the AFR, you might as well cite skynews, the bias is so strong and so deep, they were probably on Trudge’s good list.
The Liberals and their proxies are channeling Joe Hockey, who hounded GM out of the country…
Fargo61 says:
“How does the U.K. with a primitive first past the post voting system, on top of voluntary voting, get rated as a full democracy?”
Not to mention their unelected upper house.
WWP – the AFR had direct quotes. The governance model being advocated by the ACTU is basically corporates and union officials and requiring corporates to have union agreements. No independent oversight by independent directors.
“The ACTU is reported in the AFR as saying that independent directors is the wrong model for the fund.”
Yeah putting the people who pulled the plug on most manufacturing in Australia, the spivs, conmen and mediocrity of Australian finance and boardrooms seems a really bad idea.
Seems a place you’d want academics (not economists) and union leaders.
sprocket_ says:
Monday, February 13, 2023 at 7:13 pm
The Liberals hate manufacturing- so it is in character for them and their proxies to critique the $15b Manufacturing Fund
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I don’t think Labor cares about Manufacturing either. What they do care about is taxpayer subsidised union jobs.
“WWP – the AFR had direct quotes. The governance model being advocated by the ACTU is basically corporates and union officials and requiring corporates to have union agreements. No independent oversight by independent directors.”
Seems fundamentally sensible.
The requirement any entity receiving funds must be unionised should be locked int governing charter.
Even Liberals should be embarrassed by the appointment of Sophie Mirabella to the Fair Work Commission at around $400k a year with a term expiring in 2033.
If I was Tony Burke I’d do a Dreyfus and abolish the FWC just to get rid of her.
No wonder the AG thought it better to get rid of that cuckoo’s nest of Liberal luvvies and just start again.
How can you be required to be unionised WWP if union membership is 8% of the private sector workforce?
Rossmcg says:
Monday, February 13, 2023 at 7:26 pm
Even Liberals should be embarrassed by the appointment of Sophie Mirabella to the Fair Work Commission at around $400k a year with a term expiring in 2033.
If I was Tony Burke I’d do a Dreyfus and abolish the FWC just to get rid of her.
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I agree. They should do it.
nathsays:
Monday, February 13, 2023 at 7:27 pm
Rossmcg says:
Monday, February 13, 2023 at 7:26 pm
Even Liberals should be embarrassed by the appointment of Sophie Mirabella to the Fair Work Commission at around $400k a year with a term expiring in 2033.
If I was Tony Burke I’d do a Dreyfus and abolish the FWC just to get rid of her.
___________
I agree. They should do it.
_______________
Wait for the new Labor appointments to be announced.
Really they should just adopt the US model. All of these government appointments are in the Governments gift – change of government you automatically resign and the other mob appoint their apparatchiks.
Seems like it would be more honest?
“nath says:
Monday, February 13, 2023 at 7:24 pm
I don’t think Labor cares about Manufacturing either. What they do care about is taxpayer subsidised union jobs.”
nath, you do realise that calling manufacturing “taxpayer subsidised union jobs” is exactly the crap you Neoliberals used to destroy manufacturing in this country, do you?
“How can you be required to be unionised WWP if union membership is 8% of the private sector workforce?”
I suspect the 8% would increase.
Which is good for everyone.
Lars, the de-unionisation of the Australian workforce has led to wages stagnation and exploitation of workers.
You may not realise this, but the ALP has a policy of reversing this trend – and increasing union membership.
“Really they should just adopt the US model. All of these government appointments are in the Governments gift – change of government you automatically resign and the other mob appoint their apparatchiks.
Seems like it would be more honest?”
I agree.
I’m not sure the public service was ever the independent and fearless wonder, so much as a layer entrenching power and privilege, but it definitely isn’t now.
We do however lack the institutions that hold / employ / pay the losers for the period they are out of power.
sprocket_ says:
You may not realise this, but the ALP has a policy of reversing this trend – and increasing union membership.
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Good luck with that. The biggest current union the SDA looks after check out chicks and kids at Maccas and just come off a history of exploiting its members alongside the corporates.
People choose to join unions or not. Clearly 92% of people have chosen not to do so.
Compelling people to join unions through use of government funds is overreach.
[‘Many aspects of the ongoing detainment of Julian Assange in London’s notorious Belmarsh Prison at the behest of the White House, as it continues to seek the WikiLeaks founder’s extradition to the US, have been criticised as measures that undermine the rule of law.
Such criticisms tend to focus on Washington’s extraterritorial claims in attempting to prosecute a foreign journalist over publishing in an overseas jurisdiction, that the US spied on meetings Assange held with his legal team and false evidence that’s said to be contained within the US indictment.
So, when Australian foreign affairs minister Penny Wong recently raised the US and the UK operating under the rule of law as an excuse for why Assange’s matter has “dragged on too long”, it certainly added credence to the idea that the current government’s efforts in this regard are mere lip service.
Wong made the comments during a 1 February press conference at the Australian High Commission in London, after a journalist asked if the plight of Assange, an Australian citizen imprisoned in the UK for almost three years now, was something the minister might raise with her British counterparts.
Indeed, the senator’s speech is only the latest in a series of developments suggesting that while the Albanese government periodically announces its quietly negotiating the release of the Australian journalist, it’s rather following the lead of its more powerful allies with how the matter proceeds.
“Enough is enough”
Whilst she was on her official visit to London last week, Wong was questioned as to whether she’d be raising the UK government’s continued remanding of the journalist since 2019 on behalf of the US, especially in light of the repeated refrain our PM has been making in relation to the matter.
Albanese has stated that “enough is enough” regarding the UK extradition proceedings and whether these will result in his being sent to the US to stand trial. The prime minister said this in early 2021 prior to taking the top office, as well as in response to questions in parliament late last year.
Wong confirmed that Albanese’s assertion about Assange is the position of the entire government, and that her office is continuing to raise the case with the US and the UK. But she added that this wasn’t necessarily being done via diplomatic channels and nor was it being detailed to journalists.
And in response to a suggestion that this means Australia’s “entreaties are being ignored”, Wong implied that the delays were more to do with the “very many legal processes in which Mr Assange is involved” in, which take a while as they’re all proceeding under the rule of law.’]
https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/government-talks-loud-but-does-little-to-bring-julian-home/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=week-7
Assange has more than done his penance. Accordingly much more should be done to have him returned to Oz, before he’s remanded in one of those notorious US prisons awaiting trial or sentence. And there’s been no evidence suggesting that the Attorney intends to nolle the indictments against against McBridge & Boyle. Lawyers generally should be hopping mad.
“I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.”
— Francis Bacon
“sprocket_says:
Monday, February 13, 2023 at 7:31 pm
Lars, the de-unionisation of the Australian workforce has led to wages stagnation and exploitation of workers.
You may not realise this, but the ALP has a policy of reversing this trend – and increasing union membership.”
It will take a couple of terms, but in the end Lars will eventually wake up in a country that he won’t be able to recognise anymore… That day, he will be told by his boss at the Neoliberal “Institute” to start a campaign to “Liberate Australia from the Bolshevik Dictatorship of the ALP”…. I can’t wait for the free fun and laughter…. Ha, ha, ha.
Sceptic
“ Serah Ferguson on 7.30 tonight interviews RN spokesperson about the imminent Sub decision.. Serah kept banging on about sovereignty of nuclear powered subs.. with US personal on board & having some control.. every time Serah risked the question (seems like 10 at least)the RN vice admiral said UK/US personal ..
So Serah knows it’s US subs.. the RN plays it neutral.”
Thanks I will watch that with interest. Ferguson’s questions and that answer don’t make much sense, because nowhere has it been suggested we will have joint USN/RAN crewed SSNs. Australian crews are training on UK SSNs, as part of a joint crew, but under UK commanding officers.
Yet if Ferguson had gotten the questions correct there are real issues to raise:
– when will there be Australian officers qualified to command SSNs? The RN process to qualify takes ten years. The USN process takes even longer.
– in the end a warship (including sub) only has one commanding officer. Warship command is not a democracy. Australia has no sovereign control of any SSN until we have qualified RAN officers.
– other aspects of sovereignty include the ability to maintain, operate and repair a capability. When will we be able to do that for an SSN?
– when will we be able to maintain a HEU reactor. Refueling is not needed for 25 years, but maintenance is required regularly.
7.30 Report
Vice Admiral (US / UK) “reactor .. sealed .. welded .. shut”.. So it’s literally a ‘black box’, Serah’s obvious question.. “what if something goes wrong”.. response, deafening silence.