The Australian has published aggregated Newspoll breakdowns from polling conducted from August 28 to October 12, encompassing the four polls conducted since Pyxis Polling took over. The overall sample is 6378, having been boosted by 2368 in the pre-referendum poll (which recorded 57% for no and 37% for yes, converting to a bang-on-accurate 60.6-39.4 after exclusion of the uncommitted).
Keeping in mind that the previous set of results, from February 1 to April 3, were conducted by a different agency, the results show Labor’s two-party lead up slightly in New South Wales (from 55-45 to 56-44) and South Australia (from 56-44 to 57-43), but down solidly in Victoria (from 58-42 to 54-46) and Western Australia (57-43 to 53-47). The Coalition is credited with a 52-48 lead in Queensland after a 50-50 result last time, and we are given the rare treat of numbers for Tasmania, where Labor leads 57-43. This suggests swings to Labor of about 4.5% in New South Wales, 2% in Queensland, 3% in South Australia and 2.5% in Tasmania, and to the Coalition of 1% in Victoria and 2% in Western Australia.
The age breakdowns do not repeat a Labor blowout last time among the 18-to-34 cohort, which has progressed over the term’s three Newspoll breakdowns from 65-35 to 69-31 to 64-35. A five-point Coalition gain on the primary vote to 26% means they do not again finish behind the Greens, who are up a point to 25%, with Labor down six to 37%. The results among the older cohorts are essentially unchanged.
Further results suggest the opening of a substantial new gender gap, or of distinctive house effects between the two polling outfits. Where last time Labor was credited with a slightly bigger lead among men (55-45) than women (54-46), its advantage is now out to 56-44 among women and in to 51-49 among men. Income breakdowns now conform with the traditional pattern, with a 57-43 Labor lead among households on annual incomes of up to $50,000 progressively receding to 50-50 among those on $150,000 or more. The previous breakdowns had Labor strongest in the two middle-income cohorts.
From what I understand about the Soprano’s ending, there’s some foreshadowing about the sudden stop. That’s pretty much how life ends, especially for someone like Tony.
Another parallel was that Meadow unknowingly saved him in a few other occasions, such as when she threw out the bugged lamp that the FBI had planted in their basement, and in that diner, she would have been sitting between Tony and the likely assassin that had went into the toilet, but instead she’s struggling outside with parking her car, so this is the time where Tony’s “guardian angel” daughter wasn’t there.
The diner door opens, Tony turns to look, and that’s when the likely assassin shoots him while he’s distracted, instant death, cut to black and silence, that’s where it ends.
“ They weren’t really his minions. He was paying them for murders. They could have got rid of him at any opportunity.”
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Yeah. nah. He was Heisenberg. They didnt know how to cook meth (without the usual precursors, according to his method, and there is quite a bit of interesting chemistry – both real and fantasy -involved in that): remember that the nephew of the head Nazi was a pretty hopeless cook (couldn’t get purity above about 40%) and ultimately after Walt disappeared the Nazis resorted to kidnapping Jesse and holding him captive and forcing him to cook.
Rex:
It pretty much was all tied off before that final scene even began.
The only thing left ambiguous is what – if anything – happened to Tony in the diner. Was he shot? Did he have a heart attack? Is he just super paranoid and seeing threats everywhere he looks? We’ll never know.
Anyway, Patsy clearly organised the hit. 😉
Cronus @ 3:42
Thanks for engaging.
Somehow cycling has been caught up in the culture wars – grrr.
The thing is if you build cycling infrastructure it will get used.
At some point we will have to wise up to the induced demand congestion effect of building more car infrastructure.
The only way to reduce congestion is to remove the cars!
The shop owners complaining about loosing parking aren’t aware that a cyclist trundling by is much more likely to stop and shop then a driver who is desperately looking for a parking spot and adding to congestion while they do that.
And, as a petrol head, one of the best places to drive is in Holland – reduced congestion due to cycling means the roads are clear.
Alpha Zero @ 4.00
Couldn’t agree more.
Active and public transport has been looked down at while we suburban sprawl our way to unsustainability!
Rainman
I am also a fan of Buffy – but a bit concerned with whatever Joss Whedon may have been up to behind the scenes! However, not going to cancel the whole show with all its cast and crew because one man may have been a dick!
Kirsdarke
Another big Stargate fan here! Watched all the spin offs. Disappointed that Universes died after two seasons.
So my 2 cents worth – the best tv show ever is the one coming up that I am super excited for, whatever that happens to be.
Lol
So they can handle 5x more concurrent users than Twitter since Elon took it over. Nice.
The neo nazis weren’t making any money from Walt’s meth operation. They only made money from the murders.
Todd was the only one making money with Walt.
Also I agree that the plot with Walter and the nazis was pretty well handled. With Gus’s empire gone and compromised, and after he killed Mike, he needed new hard people to do his dirty work and he thought he could rely on Jack’s gang.
He phoned them when he was in a panic about being caught by the DEA, but assuming they were loyal to him, he attempted to call them off when he saw it was only Hank and Gomez, but they arrived anyway and proved that they acted in their own interests.
Still, they appreciated Walter’s work enough to leave him alive with a barrel of $10 million in hard cash, although they guessed he was doomed for arrest anyway, took their chances with the rest of the $50 million and Jesse to be their cooking slave, tied up loose ends by ransacking the Schraeder house and threatening Skyler to not say anything about Lydia and thought that was that for their future.
Kirsdarke:
There’s also the foreshadowing earlier on in the season where it’s mentioned that due to bullets being faster than the speed of sound, a person who is shot in the head will be dead before they hear the gun go off. That is then demonstrated later when Sil’s friend from New York is shot at the restaurant during Phil Leotardo’s power grab.
Asha, the guy shot was the “hair do”. Phil’s protege. Killed on the orders of Doc Santoro .
》Another big Stargate fan here! Watched all the spin offs.
Including Infinity?
Flush out of councillors in City of Albany. Bit like how they flushed out the women’s toilets behind the town hall. Cautionary tale for any other councils wanting to do the same.
nath:
Ah, right you are. Got mixed up and thought he was one of Santoro’s guys.
Remember how uncomfortable Phil got when the male body builders came on the tv?
And then when they killed Vito, Phil actually came out of a closet.
“ The neo nazis weren’t making any money from Walt’s meth operation. They only made money from the murders.
Todd was the only one making money with Walt.”
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Huh?
Todd’s uncle ran the gang. Whilst initially happy to contract out his prison gangs for murder, it was obvious from the moment he realised just how big an operation Walter had – and also how chaotically out of control he was – that there was an opportunity to squeeze in. … and he did … big time.
You are dismissing a whole plot arc in order to make it ‘fit’ your theory that the neo Nazi angle was poor writing. #procrustianreasoning.
I have been watching warehouse 13.
I think the osha officer would have words with how they store things.
steve davis says:
Monday, October 23, 2023 at 1:11 pm
More bullshit from the Oz:
Labor’s business blueprint will make Peter Dutton PM
The Albanese government’s plan represents an unprecedented attack on the sort of people who dominate the less affluent electorates that voted No in the voice referendum.
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The clear differences between the article and the polls is instructive. The Oz is just tribal tripe.
Rifle rounds, yes. Handgun/SMG rounds, not always. (in general)
Though in either case, your conscious perception of sound is slow enough that you won’t “hear” a subsonic round that hits you in the head, either, even though the sound reaches you first.
There is only and will only ever be, one Twin Peaks.
Homeland had a pretty decent ending.
I’m hoping Carrie can take out Putin.
Talking about sopranos, China has yet to lift the lobster punishment.
Albanese should not go to Beijing until it is lifted.
Andrew_Earlwood says:
You are dismissing a whole plot arc in order to make it ‘fit’ your theory that the neo Nazi angle was poor writing. #procrustianreasoning.
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Not to mention the gun that popped out of the boot at the end. What if another car had been parked in that spot?
And the nazis only moved into the meth game long after Walt had left.
Jack actually said to Todd after getting the 50 million. ‘You want to cook fuckin meth’ with 50 million in our pocket.
Todd says something along the lines of ‘what’s wrong with more’. Which convinces Jack. Then they take out that other gang with the help of Lydia. That’s when they get in the meth game.
In regards to Game of Thrones, yeah, things got bad and then worse from season 5 onwards. I was a huge fan of it through seasons 1-4 though.
Since the source material has already been written for House of the Dragon, I hope they do better with that. I liked season 1 so far.
C@tmomma @ #220 Monday, October 23rd, 2023 – 4:41 pm
Thankfully.
Ok. Perhaps Jack was initially only interested in robbing Walt, but even then it was a pretty strong motivation for him – and his gang – to muscle in on Walt’s business to turn the tables on him. … so my point remains. At the time Jack shot Hank in the desert THAT part of the plot arc was complete – & Walt had brought catastrophe onto his own family. Which is what makes Hank’s last words so poignant. Which brings us all the way back to my first post on the topic.
Positive initial news on the BYD Seal. I think part of the reason it might be successful is that it looks more like a ICE car inside than the Teslas which are more like a computer on wheels (which I happen to like).
For older drivers in particular, I think they may like EVs that are more similar internally to what they’re used to with ICE cars. They will be less threatening and require less adaptation thereby helping in the uptake of EVs.
I’ve also seen an ID Buzz and Zeekr 001 over here. I understand neither of these vehicles will come to Australia though.
Vive La EVs.
The Saul ending was even worse. Who’s going to voluntarily do 50 years for no reason.
Honestly, I thought the ending was going to be Saul and Kim getting away with it and lying on a beach somewhere.
Then they made Saul despicable with the home robberies and all that. I knew from that point it was going to be a let down.
Agreed with AE.
Jack as a character is as full of the sin of Pride as Walter is, if not more so. It shows in the final episode where Walter accuses him of partnering up with Jesse, Jack can’t stand such a thing when he could have just shut Walter up with a bullet there and then, so he decides to prove it to the man he thinks won’t be leaving this place alive that it’s not the case, and that brings about his downfall with Walter’s remote machine gun.
Game of Thrones went bad the moment the show runners decided to kill off the whole ‘Prince of Dorne’ arc that they’d spent two seasons developing (even though that particular plot line runs strong all the way through to the end of the published books).
I think the show runners had decided to finish up after 8 series no matter what and started to phone it in; which also coincided with George RRRRRRRRRRRR Martin not participating with the writing group from about season five onwards. Ultimately I think the deal (subsequently cancelled) with Disney to write and produce Star Wars spinoff series after the end of GOT really took their focus away; especially when they ran outr of published material from Mr RRRRRRRRRRRRR to draw upon.
“ The Saul ending was even worse. Who’s going to voluntarily do 50 years for no reason.
Honestly, I thought the ending was going to be Saul and Kim getting away with it and lying on a beach somewhere.
Then they made Saul despicable with the home robberies and all that. I knew from that point it was going to be a let down.”
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On this, we are as one.
If we’re talking about what was the best tv series of all time, it’s an easy one for me: the 1980s British six part series Edge of Darkness, written by Troy Kennedy Martin. Best plot twists, best mysterious surrealism (it leaves Twin Peaks for dead), marvellous soundtrack (a brilliantly understated effort by Eric Clapton, along with some judicious use of Willie Nelson’s Red Headed Stranger), and two wonderfully sexy actresses (Joanne Whalley and Zoe Wanamaker).
And, a great lead actor in the late Bob Peck. And, most important of all, the equal best TV character of all time (along with Omar from The Wire): Darius J Jedburgh.
Oh, and I forgot, best ever “when on earth is someone going to answer the phone” moment, followed by the immortal line “Get me Pendleton.”
Highly recommended to anyone who hasn’t seen it. But do try to steer clear of the Mel Gibson remake.
Yeah, the GoT showrunners Dan and Dave really got full of hubris. I recall the main scene that they wanted to show the whole time was the Red Wedding in season 3 and once that was done their egos took over for the rest.
Season 4 was still great though. Charles Dance as Tywin, Diana Rigg as Olenna, Jack Gleeson as Joffrey and Pedro Pascal as Oberyn really shined brightly and helped carry it on, although there were signs of things to come, like the ridiculous Ironborn raid on the Dreadfort, and the scene that just went on and on with Jaime and Tyrion recalling their cousin Orson smashing beetles, which apparently was the result of a personal vendetta that Dan and Dave had with the critic Orson Scott Card. They turned out to be quite nasty as people.
Twin Peaks
Simpsons
Sherlock
The Larry Sanders Show
I think that having the neo-Nazi gang kill Hank, with Walter begging them ineffectually to spare Hank, is important to the story for two reasons. First, it underscores the gulf between Walter’s belief that he serves his family’s interests and the reality that his actions have placed his family in peril. Second, it punctures Walter’s delusions of grandeur and mastery. He had grown complacent and cocky. After Hank’s death he has to rely once again on his ingenuity and resourcefulness to evade the police, destroy the gang, avenge Hank, rescue Jesse, provide financially for his son, and confess his selfishness to his wife.
However, there were still some magical moments spread out over the last three seasons of GOT: the Battle of the Bastards, Arya’s sojourn to Bravos and return, Tormound’s unrequited love of Brianne, the ‘Magnificent Seven’ adventure north of the wall, Littlefinger’s demise and so on.
My favourite crime series from the last couple of decades is Justified. Brilliant from beginning to end. (They recently did a miniseries revival, but you can give that a miss).
Mr Nobody is pretty great too, especially considering it’s Australian and we usually produce nothing but crap.
I was stuck in Melbourne throughout the first few lockdowns so I had a lot of time to catch up on series I missed. Finally watched the 2000s Babylon 5, which was brilliant, but kind of lost its footing towards the end and watched pretty much every episode of Star Trek.
Is there that little going on in politics at the moment that poll bludger has become a tv forum? To be honest, I don’t hate it.
“ I think that having the neo-Nazi gang kill Hank, with Walter begging them ineffectually to spare Hank, is important to the story for two reasons. First, it underscores the gulf between Walter’s belief that he serves his family’s interests and the reality that his actions have placed his family in peril. Second, it punctures Walter’s delusions of grandeur and mastery. He had grown complacent and cocky. After Hank’s death he has to rely once again on his ingenuity and resourcefulness to evade the police, destroy the gang, avenge Hank, rescue Jesse, provide financially for his son, and confess his selfishness to his wife.”
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Wot I said. Only better
🙂
Game of a thrones was I think, good until the end of series 6. That’s when the whole thing started to fall completely apart.
@Blanket Criticism
Probably. Now that the referendum’s over, there’s no more elections due until next year with NT in August, then Queensland and the ACT in October.
Although there’s some big international ones due then as well in the UK and USA.
BC: I assume you mean Mr Inbetween?
I got a huge kick out of Fleabag. Best use of breaking the fourth wall. Plus Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s comic timing was impeccable.
Mulgrave by-election set for November 18:
https://vec.vic.gov.au/voting/current-elections/mulgrave-district-by-election
Australian film-making has always frustrated me.
You can’t get a film or tv show made in Australia without Film Australia funding and their judgement is questionable at best. They seem to just want to remake Two Hands over and over again. We have enough miserable turgid dramas about suburban drug addicts / criminals with over exaggerated Australian accents where it all goes to shit at the end thanks.
How about a Raimi inspired horror comedy where Chris Hemsworth fights a Bunyip or something? You’re telling me you wouldn’t pay money to see that? We used to make fun movies in Australia in the 70s and 80s. Now it’s all this dry miserable suburban crime noir dreck all the time, just endless instalments in a genre no-one really likes or cares about.
That being said, I recently saw Talk To Me and that was pretty great, a bunch of crazy young Australian YouTubers made it. They bypassed much of the Australian industry and sold it straight to A24, so maybe there’s a path to some interesting Australian films being made again. One can only hope.
I see Labor has transferred 11 more asylum seekers to the offshore internment camp on Nauru for political prisoners. Shame.
@William
Yeah, that’s the one I meant. Great series. Wish there was another season. I remember reading that it never really took off in the US due to being poorly marketed
Also being from Sydney it was nice to finally watch a series like that and understand all of the geographical reference’s.
From watching Fast Forward and Full Frontal, I gathered there was a running joke that every Australian film ever had to have Bryan Brown and Sigrid Thornton as the leads.
Every Australian film used to have to have Bill Hunter in it, even if in a minor role, just as every French film had to have Gerard Depardieu (before he moved to Russia).
Shaun Micallef did an excellent impression of Australian politicians responding to questions during Question Time. I think it’s loosely based on Peter Costello.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDn_1Xa2a_o