The Australian reports the three-weekly Newspoll shows no change on two-party preferred, with Labor maintaining a lead of 52-48, and little change on the primary vote, with Labor down one to 33%, the Coalition steady on 36%, the Greens steady on 12%, One Nation down one to 6% and others up two to 13%. Anthony Albanese is up a point on approval to 43% and steady on disapproval at 51%, while Peter Dutton respectively steady at 37% and up one to 51%. Albanese’s lead on preferred prime minister is 47-35, out slightly from 46-35. The report provides no information on field work dates or sample size, but the last one was Wednesday to Saturday from a sample of 1245.
UPDATE: It turns out to have been Monday to Friday, with the sample again 1245. Respondents were also told of “a proposal to build several small modular nuclear reactors around Australia to produce zero-emissions energy on the sites of existing coal-fired power stations once they are retired”, of which 55% approved and 31% disapproved.
We also have from Nine Newspapers the first Resolve Strategic poll since late November/early December, which is at at odds with its competitors in recording movement to the Coalition: up three points to 37%, with Labor and the Greens each down a point, to 34% and 11% respectively, and One Nation up one to 6%. My own estimate of two-party preferred based on preference flows in 2022 is a narrowing from around 54.5-45.5 to 52-48. This pollster had hitherto been comfortably the strongest series for Labor, but these numbers bring it back to the field.
There are also peculiarities on personal ratings: Anthony Albanese records a five-point increase in approval (or to be more precise, the sum of his good plus very good results) to 41% with disapproval (poor plus very poor) down one to 47%, but his lead as preferred prime minister has narrowed from 42-28 to 39-32. Peter Dutton is up one on approval to 35% and down three to disapproval to 45%. Further findings from the poll include 52% support and 14% opposition to the revised stage three tax cuts. It was conducted Wednesday to Saturday from a sample of 1603.
I’m not at all shocked that there wasn’t a S3 bounce. I am a little shocked (pleasantly so) that the government hasn’t copped any backlash from the changes.
With the economic conditions and the housing situation being as they are right now, a 52-48 lead on the TPP seems pretty damn good to me. I think it’s a bit unrealistic to expect a whole lot more than that in the current climate.
Pied Piper: “Me thinks …”
No you doesn’t …
Dutton is still burning down the house. Same as it ever was. Night all.
Wishing Liverpool luck in the Carabao Cup final.
Dutton is on a road to nowhere.
Goodnight, Soc.
Socrates says:
Sunday, February 25, 2024 at 11:37 pm
Thank you for your considered response.
Steve777says:
Sunday, February 25, 2024 at 11:30 pm
Re the election date, I think March is most likely. Even early April, which would be Australia’s first April election.
Easter is late next year, Sunday April 20, which means that the Easter and Anzac holiday periods run into each other. NSW school holidays run from April 13-28. Other States would be similar. This is problematical for a May election.
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Saturday 24-May-2025, is the last realistic date. Plenty of time to get Easter and the W.A. election out of the way.
If the ALP primary improves later this year – which some on this site have said it will > Jul-1, – standby for a late 2024 Election. If you were PM, you’d go for it. Never get between a PM & a bucket of good polling figures! There has been previous talk about PM’s wanting to move the election towards the latter half of the year, and I think Albo would be up for it (if the polling is good). The election cycle got out of kilter with the 2016 DD. I think PM’s prefer a “later in the year” election, then they can enjoy their summer holidays.
The Polls:
There is trouble for the ALP in both QLD and VIC.
In QLD, the LNP primary is diabolical for Labor. I’m not just referring to the recent Resolve Poll – I refer to the Bludgertrack breakdown for QLD. However a 44% primary for the LNP in QLD on 24-Feb, with a significant One Nation supporting act primary, is very high. This is not good for Labor in QLD.
QLD is near the high water mark for the LNP. (ie: there are not too many more seats they could pick up). In essence, QLD is not where the next election will be decided.
In VIC, Resolve has recorded that the LNP vote is now higher than the ALP. This needs to be taken seriously, because this is the first time in 2 years this has occurred. The next Resolve poll (for Vic Primaries) is worth watching, to determine a trend in Vic.
VIC is at the highwater mark for the ALP (ie: there are not too many more seats Labor could pick up).
But given that the ALP vote in Vic seems to be slipping (but in QLD, the LNP vote is actually increasing), I suspect the next election will be decided in Victoria. I think this is the reason that Mr Albanese has spent a lot of time in Dunkley. He can “feel” there is a problem, as I can.
Piped Piper:
“ The insane numbers of students etc that labor has bought in has caused Australians pain.”
The influx of students reflects old enrolments. During covid, just about all international students had to study online from their home country. In the last 18 months, it hasn’t just been new first year students who have arrived on a student visa. Years 2-4 students have also arrived to complete their studies face to face on campus, having done the bulk of their studies online.
Has this influx had the dramatic impact on the housing market generally that you say? Doubtful, as most of these students have gone back into the accomodation facilities that operated for that market before covid (ie. lots of shared accomodation, including shared rooms in many cases). In other works, as bad as that all is – and it is YOUR side of politics that is to blame sport – the problem is largely self contained. The surge is also a ‘one off’, and the overall numbers of international students is likely to recede under Labor.
‘It’s all bullshit – Mali’s plea for national productivity growth
Premier Peter Malinauskas has used a public forum in Whyalla – an industrial city infamously branded in 2012 as heading for a wipe-out – to issue a plea for Australia to improve productivity or fail to pass on improved living standards to the next generation.
In an impassioned speech about his plan to reindustrialise the Upper Spencer Gulf with green energy, Mr Malinauskas said growing productivity was critical to easing the cost-of-living crisis and boosting prosperity.
“We talk about a cost of living crisis on a frequent basis and, more often than not, you get a politician saying: ‘We’re going to try and reduce the price of petrol. We’re gonna try and reduce the price of groceries’, and nine times out of ten, it’s all bullshit,” he told 420 people at the Sunday night public forum.
“Because I don’t control the price of petrol. The prime minister doesn’t control the price of petrol, any more than he controls the price of Weet-Bix. There are things that we can do at the margins. But it’s largely up to markets because we’re not communist. We have a market-based economy.”
Mr Malinauskas said he was not talking about bleeding small business dry but improving productivity by boosting people’s quality of work, the type of work and the outcome from every unit of labour deployed.
“That’s how we grow people’s wealth. That’s how we improve our economy. That’s how we generate prosperity for people. Now, the reason why you don’t hear politicians talk about this very much is because it’s hard and it takes time. It doesn’t get fixed in one election cycle,” he said.
“But we’ve got to start doing this as a country. Otherwise, we’re gonna find ourselves in a situation where we have failed the basic test, which is to pass on to our kids a better standard of living than the one that we have.”’
Source: adelaidenow.com.au
Jewish leaders are calling for activist Clementine Ford to be banned from the Adelaide Festival’s Writers’ Week after she disseminated a link to the details of 600 Jewish artists and creatives, resulting in some receiving death threats.
Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Peter Wertheim agreed Ford should be excluded from the festival’s line-up.
“It’s perverse for the South Australian government to be wasting money to subsidise speakers like this.”
Premier Peter Malinauskus said while he did not share Ford’s views “on a number of issues”, he would not be a “premier that engages in censorship at arts festivals”.
Source: adelaidenow.com
nadia88:
“In QLD, the LNP primary is diabolical for Labor. I’m not just referring to the recent Resolve Poll – I refer to the Bludgertrack breakdown for QLD. However a 44% primary for the LNP in QLD on 24-Feb, with a significant One Nation supporting act primary, is very high. This is not good for Labor in QLD.”
44% for the LNP is indeed high, compared to 39.6% at the 2022 election. Up more that 4 points.
But then so is 32% for Labor, compared to 27.4% at the election. Also up by more than 4 points.
Moderated, as you noted, by Resolve reporting PHON up 3 points on 2022 to 9% — and by the Greens down 4 points from their 2022 three-seat sweep to 9%.
Just one poll, with the margins of error of a state sub-sample, that may not bear over-interpretation. Don’t you worry about that!
https://www.pollbludger.net/fed2025/bludgertrack/polldata.htm?
Rainman, Rewi & Dogs Brunch.
I posted a comment regarding, Joni Mitchell, David Crosby, & Graeme Nash on the Sunday Miscellany post.
It is the last post (p12) if you are interested.
Cheers, Macca RB
Confidential Treasury analysis shows decade high wages growth that has pushed the average fulltime salary above $100,000 is now the biggest driver of consumer price inflation, undercutting claims widespread corporate profit gouging is to blame.
Pay rises overtook import prices and supply shocks to form the lion’s share of headline CPI in the June quarter last year, according to Treasury analysis obtained by The Australian Financial Review under freedom of information, a trend economists expect continued to the end of 2023 and into 2024.
The analysis undercuts claims from the Greens, unions and former ACCC chairman Allan Fels that widespread price gouging has been causing price rises. Those claims have sparked a wave of inquiries, including a Greens-led Senate probe into supermarket pricing, a year-long inquiry led by the ACCC, and a review of the voluntary grocery code by Craig Emerson.
The inflation analysis showed labour costs made up almost two-thirds of headline CPI in the year to June 30, 2023. The remainder was made up of import prices, global price shocks and other elements. When annual CPI peaked at 7.8 per cent in December 2022, wages made up about 30 per cent.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/wage-growth-drives-inflation-average-pay-tops-100k-20240225-p5f7ku
Two thirds of younger Australians would back a proposal to replace retired coal-fired power plants with small modular nuclear reactors, signalling significant and growing community support for nuclear power as a future net-zero solution.
An exclusive Newspoll conducted for The Australian shows 55 per cent of all Australian voters supported the idea of small modular nuclear reactors as a replacement technology for coal-fired power.
But support was highest among 18 to 34-year-olds – the demographic most concerned about climate change – with 65 per cent saying they would approve of such a proposal.
The Coalition is yet to confirm its energy policy but it is widely expected to include a network of several small modular reactors (SMRs) as a firming source of power for renewables once the country transitions away from gas and coal.
This would require overturning the 1998 ban on nuclear power and banking on SMR technology that is not expected to be deliverable until the mid-2030s. Labor has firmly ruled out nuclear as an option, focusing instead on a renewable and battery dominated energy system.
The special Newspoll survey of 1245 voters across the country, conducted from February 19-23, shows strong community support for nuclear power, with a majority across all age groups backing SMRs. More than half of Labor voters, 51 per cent, and 53 per cent of Greens voters also backed the proposal when asked if they would support building SMRs.
The poll showed that while 55 per cent of all voters supported the proposal, 31 per cent were opposed. Support was strongest among Coalition voters at 71 per cent, with 20 per cent opposed. A total of 14 per cent of voters said they didn’t know.
There was also a significant gender gap in support, with 70 per cent of male voters in support but only 41 per cent of female voters. Yet the number of women voters in support was still higher than those opposed at 38 per cent.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/most-australians-would-back-a-move-to-small-scale-nuclear-power/news-story/88589682d1d46b8257c0386f61d51aa6?amp
Macca RB
Thanks for that.
I don’t know if you ever saw the David Crosby documentary ‘Remember my name.’ He talks a lot about how it was all his fault he lost his friends, especially Nash and Young. He was very sad about it and it left me feeling sad too.
I was always a big Joni Mitchell fan. My favourite album was Hissing of Summer Lawns, which Prince claimed was his favourite album ever. Its best track was Edith and the Kingpin.
CSN&Y’s ‘Four Way Street’ was one of the great double live albums of the time. It really shows both their acoustic beauty and their hard rocking electric guitar band side. Stills and Young really tear it up.
#weatheronPB
Silky smooth flat wisps
fade slowly into colour,
as the light steals back.
At $US15,000, BYD’s new Qin EV is already being touted as a “Corolla killer”, as the world’s second largest EV maker continues to disrupt the global auto market. Launched earlier this week in China, the all-electric Qin Plus has five variants priced between 109,800 RMB to ($A23,300) to 139,800 RMB ($A29,700).
The Qin Plus comes with a 100 kW motor and the option of either a 48 kWh battery providing 420 km CLTC range or a 57.6 kW hour battery with 510 km range. Mobility consultant James Carter wrote on LinkedIn the new offering is the $15,000 car that incumbent OEMs (car makers) hoped would never come. “The new BYD Qin Plus EV Honor Edition is the car that makes EVs way cheaper than ICE vehicles and blows open the mainstream market,” he wrote.
Indeed, most legacy car makers, at least those that are bothering to make EVs at scale at all, are still focused on the top end of the market, selling premium and heavy and high cost EVs, largely to protect their ICE business. In the US, the major car makers are retreating rapidly on their EV plans.
BYD, which is challenging Tesla as the biggest EV maker in the world, says it’s “officially opening a new era where electricity is lower than oil.”
https://thedriven.io/2024/02/22/corolla-killer-byd-launches-us15000-ev-in-direct-attack-on-legacy-makers/?
The Nightly .
Stokes online baby launches tonight paywall free screams the main story on the West Aus.
Link to website first story that pops up is “How PM Cursed the voice”.
Hmmm wonder if Industrial relations laws will be in future news on the Nightly just sayin..
Will most likely last a year the Nightly until the fed election is done and dusted.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers.
Labor is drifting towards the unhealthy primary vote of the last election – just enough to win, but not enough to feel safe, says David Crowe of the latest Resolve poll.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/voters-don-t-care-about-albanese-s-broken-promise-but-now-they-expect-much-more-from-him-20240225-p5f7ln.html
Simon Benson refers to the latest Newspoll to tell us that two thirds of younger Australians would back a proposal to replace retired coal-fired power plants with small modular nuclear reactors, signalling significant and growing community support for nuclear power as a future net-zero solution. (The question made no reference to the fact that the viability of small reactors is not yet established).
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/most-australians-would-back-a-move-to-small-scale-nuclear-power/news-story/88589682d1d46b8257c0386f61d51aa6?amp=
An alliance between the Greens and Liberal parties in the Senate could force Jim Chalmers to keep a government power that allows treasurers to overrule Reserve Bank decisions on interest rates, reports Amy Remeikis.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/25/greens-coalition-alliance-may-force-chalmers-to-keep-power-to-overrule-rba-on-rates
You’d expect a Labor government to care about public school students getting a decent education. We’ll soon find out if this one does, writes Ross Gittins who says the two-class school system a great way to entrench low productivity.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/two-class-school-system-a-great-way-to-entrench-low-productivity-20240225-p5f7l8.html
If we want more young people to go to uni, we should stop screwing them over, declares Chip Le Grand.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/if-we-want-more-young-people-to-go-to-uni-stop-screwing-them-over-20240225-p5f7ms.html
The Albanese government has talked a good game on significant education reform. Soon, it will be time for action, writes Sean Kelly.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/focus-on-fairness-is-an-education-but-albanese-s-ambition-has-yet-to-be-tested-20240225-p5f7li.html
The tax office is investigating a suspected $180 million tax fraud by a top formwork contractor in the construction industry that could end up as the biggest tax fraud in Australian corporate history, reports David Marin-Guzman. He tells us the administrators of collapsed NSW company Dalma Form Specialist have reported that the tax office alleges the firm was part of a group of 30 companies including labour hire that it suspects may have been secretly controlled by Dalma director Igor Cikes as they collapsed owing pay as you go tax over 15 years.
https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/ato-probes-top-construction-subbie-over-180m-tax-fraud-20240225-p5f7lb
The age group most at risk of suicide may not be the one you expect. Kate Lyons tells us that the highest rate of suicide in Australia, for both men and women, is among people over 85, at 32.7 deaths per 100,000 for men and 10.6 deaths for women, respectively.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/25/australia-suicide-rates-seniors-data
Sydney’s gay community is rightly hurt and angry and the police should not march in this year’s Mardi Gras, argues the SMH editorial.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-s-gay-community-is-rightly-hurt-and-angry-police-should-not-march-in-this-year-s-mardi-gras-20240225-p5f7lp.html
Defence Minister Richard Marles has sharpened criticisms of his own department, arguing there are cultural problems among leaders who need to be more robustly challenged to change, writes John Kehoe.
https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/marles-rips-in-to-defence-culture-20240225-p5f7nf
This AIMN contribution begins with, “It’s widely acknowledged that Tony Abbott came to be Prime Minister because he continually listed some ‘critical’ failures of the then Rudd and Gillard Governments using three-word slogans. Current Opposition Leader Dutton seems to be attempting to follow the same strategy however he seems to be having difficulty in finding a line of attack that cannot be easily debunked.”
https://theaimn.com/duttons-scattergun/
The not-so-distinguished service of former Secretary of Home Affairs Mike Pezzullo ended in a blaze of ignominy, and there may be more coming his way, explain Philip Dorling and Rex Patrick.
https://michaelwest.com.au/mike-pezzullo-axed-but-rex-patrick-foi-buried/
Major CBD office towers are selling at 20 per cent discounts to their peak value, the best evidence yet that the correction in Australia’s office market is nearing the bottom, explains Nick Lenaghan.
https://www.afr.com/property/commercial/office-values-plunge-as-cbd-market-bottoms-20240216-p5f5kr
“Amid Australia’s housing crisis, why are taxpayers propping up the price of empty holiday homes?”, asks Maiy Azize.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/25/australia-housing-crisis-short-term-rentals
Major events in the history of Australian federation and the significance of parliamentary democracy will be taught under a revised curriculum for NSW schools. Please!
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/students-aren-t-taught-these-basic-facts-about-australia-it-s-about-to-become-mandatory-20240223-p5f7fp.html
Cartoon Corner
Alan Moir
David Rowe
Badiucao
Jim Pavlidis
Peter Broelman
Mark Knight
Spooner
From the US
I agree.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-s-gay-community-is-rightly-hurt-and-angry-police-should-not-march-in-this-year-s-mardi-gras-20240225-p5f7lp.html
the policeare not responsible for the actions of one officor not sure whiy they cant march so no matter how much 2 g b tries to premote dutton and liberals as future government looks like labor will get back in
Newscorpse really is a cancer on Australian democracy, isnt it?
How long can we tolerate a political extremist FOREIGNER manipulating the political zeitgeist. The foreigner Lachlan should use his North American rags and Fox cult to toot his bugle horn if he must, but he has no place in this fair land. Enough.
Newpoll’s polling over SMR is pure astroturfing. It may as well ask whether those polled would favour Hermoine Granger creating a charm to replace fossil fuel energy by magic as ask about SMRs, becuase just like magic, SMRs do not exist.
The play here is as blatant as it is obvious: get enough useful idiots to buy into ‘the magic’, elect Dutton, who won’t – of course – because to perform acts of magic and hence “as an emergency measure”, our “strong decisive leader” will simply order dozen of new coal powered stations. All paid for by the tax payer, then flogged off at bargain prices (“asset recycling”) to liberal maaaaaates. .. all with the foreigner grinning that shit eating grin of his …
Thanks BK!!
Fess
The other day my daughter was telling me that the police should not march this year.
I wasn’t sure I agreed with her. But on reflection, it might be best if they didn’t.
Don’t ya just love how 9-Faix is spinning the ‘drop’ in Labor’s primary vote as spelling trouble, when what is likley to have happened is that Resolve has change its polling methodology and now it is herded with most of the other polls … which doesn’t actually fill one with confidence, given 2109, does it?
One detail my daughter told me about the police officer in question.
Jesse didn’t report the alleged stalking because he didn’t believe he would be taken seriously, as the stalker was one of their own.
Jesse did tell friends and family about his safety concerns.
They were able to tell police this information, which then facilitated getting the perpetrator.
Jesse was a bona fide shining star. Hard to believe he is gone.
Sigh….
Rainman @ 6.37am
4 Way Street – a great concert album, which includes one of Crosby’s best songs, ‘The Lee Shore’.
As far as best Joni Mitchell albums go, her varied cannon of work makes it difficult to decide – so I’ll cheat and nominate two: Blue and For the Roses.
Prince referenced Joni’s ‘Help Me (I’m Falling in Live)’ on the Sign of the Times album, with the track ‘Ballad of Dorothy Parker’.
He often performed ‘ A Case of You’ in concert.
He performed it during his last concert series in Australia, the solo piano / microphone shows.
Prince was also a huge Kate Bush fan, too.
He recorded with Kate on her, The Red Shoes, album. The track is ‘Why Should I Love You’.
Victoria:
The Police Commissioner’s apology to the 78ers came 2 months after the release of the report investigating how LGBTQ deaths had been handled by police, and she virtually tried to bury the apology by giving it on a Sunday and only to one media outlet.
The apology you give when you don’t want to apologise.
Dunkley by election betting:
Labor $1.11
Coalition $9.40
Via @Betfair_Aus
Fess
Exactly what my daughter felt
Vic:
There have been some reports of concerning behaviour, but nothing concrete or specific that I’ve seen.
If that’s the case it would make sense why those concerns weren’t reported to authorities at the time.
Thanks BK
“Amid Australia’s housing crisis, why are taxpayers propping up the price of empty holiday homes?”, asks Maiy Azize.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/25/australia-housing-crisis-short-term-rentals
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Housing is an essential need, and what’s going on in this country is shameful. People who are desperate to put a roof over their head should not, must not, be at the mercy of amoral property investors, who see them only as a means to increase their personal wealth.
The most unscrupulous property investors are those profiting from using their properties for short term rentals, while so many people are suffering from rent stress and being pushed into homelessness.
And our taxes subsidise these arseholes.
Points from the article:
Short-stay rentals push up the cost of housing.
Billions of tax payers dollars are spent subsidising property investors.
Short-stay rentals offer no public benefit but still take advantage of negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions.
‘Many of us already think it’s unfair that property investors can claim tens of thousands of dollars in tax benefits. Short-stay hosts have even less of an excuse. They are not providing homes to renters. They are potentially using taxpayer handouts to squeeze more income out of a second home.
…without national tax reform, state governments that try to take on short-stays will find they are fighting with one arm tied behind their back.
The federal government needs to shake off its fear of taking on these tax handouts. If ministers are as concerned about housing supply as they say they are, then there is no excuse to keep propping up holiday homes – and making the rest of us pay the price.’
Personally, I’m sick of the bullshit ‘we tried to take on negative gearing but we got burnt’ cowardice of this government.
Governments are supposed to fix their country’s problems, and housing is this country’s biggest and most urgent problem.
This government’s biggest failure to date is that it is too scared to keep trying.
You have to admire the spin in that Newspoll question
“Respondents were also told of “a proposal to build several small modular nuclear reactors around Australia to produce zero-emissions energy on the sites of existing coal-fired power stations once they are retired”
Several? The Coalition propose about seventy I understand.
“Small modular nuclear reactors” – produced in a factory and transported to the site – these do not exist anywhere in the world yet. Hard to build something that doesn’t exist.
Maybe they could have added a second question about the cost to taxpayers, because even if say you lived in Melbourne and didn’t mind the concept of nuclear power stations being imposed on the people of the Latrobe Valley you might still baulk at the cost!
I assume they march as individuals in uniform with approval of the Force. There are some good individuals. But the Force per se has for decades neglected, obfuscated, shown reckless indifference to tens of gay hate murders, up to shilly shallying paltry delayed cooperation with the gay Hate Murder investigation, which found the Force at serious fault, and for which the Commissioner woman refused to apologise. Until one of their uniformed officers was apparently involved in a love triangle double murder, with headlines and violent details and photos and the horror of it all splashed across the media for days. Then comes a sorry, welcome as it is, delayed as it is, while yet to accept any of the recommendations. She notably refused to apologise when the report was initially handed down.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/police-yet-to-accept-gay-hate-crime-inquiry-recommendations-despite-apology-20240225-p5f7n1.html
Personally, I never saw that guys and girls in uniform marching represented ‘The Force’. They were saying, to me at least, some of you are us, and we are you, and we are here.
btw, this comes at a time when the old Darlo lock up has been given over to a LGBTQI museum or something. I hope it puts the police record on record.
Confessions @ #77 Monday, February 26th, 2024 – 7:35 am
Yes, thanks. My post crossed yours.
Andrew_Earlwood @ #74 Monday, February 26th, 2024 – 7:31 am
The Bolte Boys fellating a potato.
Labor partisans will be extremely grateful to Gallagher and Chalmers for their intervention on S3, which has clearly halted the slide in the polls.
Albanese clearly needs strong guidance from his senior deputies and advisors.
OH is a 78’er.
Something needs to be done about such obvious manipulation as the Newspoll question on nuclear power. A fair question including that SMR energy will not be available for 10 plus years and would likely involve major subsidies as well as have significant issues with waste and decommissioning would produce an entirely different result.
I see Murdoch’s pet parrot Simon Benson is peddling nuclear.
What’s almost always missing is detail re cost and placement.
Itza:
Qtopia is free on Sundays. I tried to go yesterday but it was just so busy and I couldn’t find parking. Will try again next weekend.
Pleased to see Marles speaking up on the culture within the department of Defence.
He’d be well advised to look at replacing Moriarty with Rex Patrick.
Confessions @ #90 Monday, February 26th, 2024 – 8:05 am
Thanks. Must try and get to it. Next weekend / this weekend is Mardi Gras.
Spence @ #88 Monday, February 26th, 2024 – 8:02 am
Calling Nein-Faux on their bullshit helps with the informed – but it’s not aimed at us. It’s just desperately trying to keep Spud’s nose above the water before the Dunkley tide comes in. Standing on an imaginary SMR doesn’t help much – except with the Scum-believers.
I am not appreciating the framing of the suicide by the elderly as being some sort of social ‘problem’ needing being solved. Bullshit. It should be an active and honorable life choice. Not a ‘problem’.
Oh yes, I totally forgot about Mardi Gras! 😆
Boerwar @ #94 Monday, February 26th, 2024 – 8:14 am
Indeed about choice. The problem is the means available.
A lengthy article about issues surrounding UNWRA. Relevance to Australian politics? The vicious attacks on Wong being in favour of starving children to death.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/25/uns-palestinian-aid-agency-at-breaking-point-after-450m-budget-shortfall
ItzaDream @ #96 Monday, February 26th, 2024 – 8:24 am
Specifically: barbs (barbituates, not the spiky kind).
rhwombat @ #98 Monday, February 26th, 2024 – 8:28 am
Too right.
Nationals Leader David Littleproud has told Nine’s Today program that Barnaby Joyce won’t attend parliament this week.