The three-weekly federal poll from YouGov records little change on voting intention, with Labor steady at 32%, the Coalition up a point to 37%, the Greens up a point to 15% and One Nation down two to 6%, and Labor’s two-party lead steady at 52-48. However, Anthony Albanese personal ratings are improved, up four on approval to 44% and down three on disapproval to 50%, and his lead as preferred prime minister out from 45-38 to 48-34. Peter Dutton is at 39% approval and 49% disapproval, down two points on last time in net terms. The poll also records an 86-14 split in favour of the principle behind the recently passed “right to disconnect” laws. It was conducted February 24 to March 5 from a sample of 1539.
The rather more volatile weekly poll from Roy Morgan recorded a spike this week in favour of Labor, who lead 53.5-46.5 on two-party preferred after a dead heat last week, from primary votes of Labor 34% (up two-and-a-half), Coalition 36.5% (down one-and-a-half), Greens 13.5% (up one-and-a-half) and One Nation 3.5% (down one-and-a-half). The poll was conducted last Monday to Sunday from a sample of 1679.
The other big item of federal electoral news for the week was Monday’s Liberal preselection for Scott Morrison’s seat of Cook, where a by-election will be held on a date to be determined. The winner was Simon Kennedy, former McKinsey consultant and unsuccessful candidate for Bennelong in 2022, who won in the first round with 158 votes to Carmelo Pesce’s 90, Gwen Cherne’s 35 and Benjamin Britton’s 13.
Steve777:
“In his 1945 essay “The Sporting Spirit”, George Orwell described international sporting competitions as “war minus the shooting””
And then in 1969 came the ‘Soccer War’, a military conflict between Honduras and El Salvador:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_War
LeftieBrawler says Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 6:05 pm
I could understand Union being called a gentleman’s game played by thugs, or a thug’s game played by thugs.
Also I’m reminded of a line from one of Jordan Shanks’ shows.
Can’t remember the exact quote, but it went along the lines of “Can you imagine how much better off we’d be if these incredibly talented people who devote their lives to analyzing (or ‘analysing’ for the sake of leftiebrawler) sports instead turned that analytical detail to things like how we can make the world a better place?”
I noted this am that Toyota has ‘blinked’ in the EV debate and are now arguing for some leniency in the implementation process.
The gas industry has ads on TV saying that gas will fir in with the renewable push to achieve energy security…so, acknowledging renewables are hear to stay, just being lying turds about how they will be partners in the process.
Quel embarrasment!
In Sydney when I was young, Rugby Union was the Winter game of choice in the more elite private schools. In the Catholic school system it was Rugby League and this was mostly the case in public schools. Soccer was played by New Australians in their free time. Australian Rules was played in distant Melbourne.
Kirsdarkesays:
Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 6:45 pm
Also I’m reminded of a line from one of Jordan Shanks’ shows.
Can’t remember the exact quote, but it went along the lines of “Can you imagine how much better off we’d be if these incredibly talented people who devote their lives to analyzing (or ‘analysing’ for the sake of leftiebrawler) sports instead turned that analytical detail to things like how we can make the world a better place?”
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Apply that to people who continually analyse religious texts too. How many million times does the bible really need to be studied?.
Oliver Suttonsays:
Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 4:30 pm
e.g.w.: “… Harbhajan Singh called Andrew Symonds a monkey.”
Harbhajan called Symonds a “cheeky monkey”. A stock jocular expression with no racist connotations.
Symonds either misheard or misunderstood.
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A bit of rewriting of history going on here.
I believe Singh did call Symonds a monkey.
Later on Singh claimed he had used a different Hindu word which Symonds had misheard as monkey. Subsequently, he changed the story again to it was “cheeky monkey”.
Not a lot of credibility with this guy.
I think the original match referee decision was the correct one.
Dogs Brunch, Toyota has bigger here and now issues (according to yours truly)
3 weeks ago I decided that life was too short and after the unexpected death of a close family member decided to go all in and order a pearl white Land cruiser sahara 300 series.
The wait is estimated at 9-12 months, apparently down from 3 or more years according to the salesman at Nowra toyota. Whatever the truth, I’d hope Toyota get their current affairs in order before starting to contemplate the issues of their future!
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Scepticsays:
Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 3:36 pm
Mean construction time 9 years.. after planning & design.. then 15 years of repairs for faults found after construction
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A big event in India’s nuclear journey passed off quietly. Just as well
Why is the switching on of one more nuclear reactor so significant?
https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/a-big-event-in-india-s-nuclear-journey-passed-off-quietly-just-as-well-2929886
A most significant event took place in the country last week, but with almost no attention paid to it – probably because the Prime Minister did not make a big deal of it. He came, he saw, he left, apparently all in 45 minutes.
“Fittingly appropriate, I must say, considering what it was all about. It was the “commencement of core loading of the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR)”. In simple terms, the operators of this nuclear reactor, PFBR, began to load fuel into the reactor and switched it on – and they will slowly crank it up over some months to ‘criticality’, when they can be sure that a sustainable fission chain set off and the reactor can run and produce power
But India already has 20+ nuclear reactors and more are coming up, and all of them together don’t still account for more than 4-5% of India’s power generation. So why is the switching on of one more nuclear reactor so significant?
Hobart endures hottest night for 112 years. Let’s hope that this does not affect any of the 3.1 million tourists who visit Hobart every year. Not that there is any connection, of course:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/10/hobart-endures-hottest-night-in-112-years-as-severe-heatwave-hits-south-eastern-australia
Speaking of code switching, the gifted but much maligned Israel Folau famously played (in order)
Rugby League
AFL
Rugby Union
Rugby League again
Rugby Union again
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Folau
Leftie B , I own an EV now because our local Toyota dealer (only source of new cars in town) was too slow/couldn’t be bothered to quote me for two trade in cars on a new RAV 4. Saw an ev I liked in Canberra and they had it in stock, sale lost for Toyota.
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Yabba says
‘ The incident is reminiscent of when former Wests Tigers bad boy John Hopoate stuck a finger up the bums of THREE North Queensland Cowboys players in 2001. Hopoate was criticised but insisted he was “proud” of his antics in 2019.’
The old “Crouching Tiger , Hidden Finger” episode (lol)
When the AFL Tigers played the Swans in Sinny one time I heard the Tiger’s Cheer Squad sing various ditties including ‘Doing the Hopoate’.
Re Kirsdarke @6:08 ”If there’s a perpetual Coalition government from 2025-2050 like
want, they’re obviously going to sabotage and cripple renewables like they did with the NBN so that there’s no choice but to either go back to building new coal and gas plants or else the lights go out, or they actually eventually go ahead with nuclear.”
A couple of terms would be enough to reverse any progress made, as we found out from 2013-19, sadly continuing into 2022. It is crucial that the Coalition be kept out of office for as long as possible.
Boerwarsays:
Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 7:14 pm
When the AFL Tigers played the Swans in Sinny one time I heard the Tiger’s Cheer Squad sing various ditties including ‘Doing the Hopoate’.
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You put your right hand in, you put your right hand out
You put your right hand in and you shake it all about
And then you do the hokey pokey
And you turn yourself around
And that what it’s all about
You put your left hand in, you put your left hand out
You put your left hand in and you shake it all about
And then you do the hokey pokey
And you turn yourself around
And that what it’s all about
Entropy
Some of the children present did not seem to understand exactly what the Tiger fans were laughing at.
The Coalition still living in the past wanting coal and big nuclear power stations. Its so backward its laughable.
So do we have a date when we know the Federal redistributions for NSW, Vic and WA?
Rossmcgsays:
Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 4:28 pm
A nuclear power station (or maybe more) and a chocolate fountain.
That’s the modern Liberal Party: delivering life changing infrastructure for Australians.
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You are forgetting:
The extensions to the Yacht club to have female friendly changing facilities despite there being no female members. But the bar on top is first rate.
The security cameras that point to everything that goes on outside a church.
The multi-storey car park for a train station that is always empty because it is miles from the station and there wasn’t the demand for it to be built, but was in a blue coded electorate.
The toll-road that will make congestion worse…
@MelbourneMammoth
The WA redistribution will be finalized in September 2024, Victoria and NSW in October 2024, according to the indicative timetable.
Boerwarsays:
Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 7:19 pm
Entropy
Some of the children present did not seem to understand exactly what the Tiger fans were laughing at.
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Obviously i just posted the children’s version. Certainly with a few tweaks i can see how it could be a very funny AO rated ditty.
Melbourne mammoth-
In the spirit of the boerwar series of essays about those who remind one of another-
You and your faux left leaning wannabe tripe reminds me of a slightly less amusing and much more cognitively deficient greensboroughbrowler
Alan Moir. Cop that!
Entropy says,
Apply that to people who continually analyse religious texts too. How many million times does the bible really need to be studied?
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You could say the same for Shakespeare or any of the great poets, and to mathematics. Beyond their utility, there’s a deeper reason to study things, namely, to keep their knowledge alive. And sometimes something new emerges.
LB, I’m straining to see anything that remotely justified that comment.
Entropy @ #804 Sunday, March 10th, 2024 – 6:52 pm
Especially since no-one has the faintest idea of the identity any of the authors of that pile of self-contradictory nonsense. What is absolutely certain is that none of the “gospels according to” were written by their named authors. That’s the central lie at the core of the wholly babble.
The Zionists creed: The Israeli National Security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir often quotes this little gem :
Deuteronomy 20:16-17
English Standard Version
16 But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, 17 but you shall devote them to complete destruction,
the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded
Barnum’s aphorism, “There’s no such thing as bad publicity”
seems to have currency when it comes to Trump, who despite facing 91 felony charges, is leading in these state-by-state polls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx2tcX9xzaQ
But given Trump’s enjoyed the lion’s share of publicity, I wouldn’t write Biden off. I think he needs to display his mettle by getting down in the same gutter Trump’s ensconced in – well maybe not the same gutter as no one should aspire to reach his (Trump’s) depths of depravity.
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In ’52 Truman initiated a convention that once a political rival receives his party’s presidential nomination, he’s entitled to be briefed on intelligence issues, ‘designed to ensure a smooth transition of power and to prepare a prospective commander-in-chief for office.’ There appears to be no change to this policy, even though Trump’s Russian connections appear to be alarming.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/connections-trump-putin-russia-ties-chart-flynn-page-manafort-sessions-214868/
“ Voters in the Republic of Ireland have overwhelmingly voted against amending the Irish Constitution.
Proposals to alter wording in the constitution to include families which are not based on marriage were defeated with 67.7% voting ‘no’.
A second proposed change on the wording around the role of women in the home was defeated by a higher margin with 73.9% of voters rejecting it.
It was the highest ever no vote percentage in an Irish referendum.”
BBC
Another example of the left just assuming that their opinion will be accepted by the electorate and getting absolutely pantsed.
The King James Bible is glorious. Definitely the best written work produced by a committee in history.
From what I gather of history, the Dark Ages was a period in which European humanity in particular tended to transfer their overall life’s work from advancing humanity as a whole and focused on their own mortality.
And there was actual very strong political power in that. Nobody knew what awaited the human soul beyond death, whether they be noble or commoner, so for about a thousand years most of it was wasted on whether or not someone was going to go to heaven or hell for the decisions, actions and allegiances that they made and that really meant a lot to the people at the time.
So they devoted their life’s work to that instead of developing useful things like antibiotics.
Here we go againsays:
Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 5:28 pm
So refresh my memory again
Who was the batting side and who followed who around the field of play?
I have in mind it was not just an offhand comment made on the field
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The Indians were batting.
They were unhappy that a couple of umpiring decisions had gone against them.
At the end of a Brett Lee over, the batsman, Singh, strode across the wicket some distance to Andrew Symonds and in the course of what he had to say called him a monkey.
Symonds reaction was immediate and angry.
The fact that the ICC caved in to the Indian threats to abandon the tour and denied the truth of the racist slur had a major impact on Symonds.
‘nath says:
Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 8:08 pm
The King James Bible is glorious. Definitely the best written work produced by a committee in history.’
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Typical committee thing. They ended sticking everything in it. Just in case.
The death of Chaithanya Madhagani has floored me. Just shocking and terrible. What the hell is going on out there ?
@Rex Douglas
I agree with that, what a disgusting, despicable thing to have happened there.
What makes it more bitter is that it sounds like the murderer has successfully flown overseas. I really hope if that’s the case then there’s a clear enough extradition treaty to drag them back here to face justice.
Sorry WB all good mate.
MM and LB go back aways with many a tangles. fair call though.
MM as you were.
Also double sorry to BW and WB-
The ‘x pb’er reminds me of y pb’er’ series of lectures was delivered not by BW, but in fact Rex Douglas…
Wash your mouth out RD, ya filthy animal!
BKsays:
Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 7:47 pm
Alan Moir. Cop that!
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Oh, Magoo, you’ve done it again!
Rex Douglas says:
Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 8:32 pm
The death of Chaithanya Madhagani has floored me. Just shocking and terrible. What the hell is going on out there ?
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Is it 65 Australian women in 2023 were killed by a partner? Or someone known to them?
These numbers, deaths are growing yearly.
From news.com.au.Photos taken at the site show the bin with a green lid half-hidden in the bushland beside a crumpled bundle of white material, which is laying on the ground nearby.
When police arrived on the isolated road, they found the body of the young mother-of-one had been placed inside the bin.
Sources with knowledge of the investigation told the Herald Sun Ms Madhagani’s husband, Ashok Raj Varikuppala, flew back to India in recent days with the couple’s son.
He rang family members in Victoria and gave them information about her death before agreeing to co-operate with the police investigation, according to the outlet.
Mr Varikuppala has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
Two crime scenes have now been established, one at Mount Pollock Rd and a second at a residential address in Mirka Way in Point Cook in southwestern Melbourne. The sites are about 82km apart.
A police spokesman confirmed the line of investigation at the second scene was linked to the deceased woman.
What are you on about LB? You seem slightly more deranged than usual.
Thanks Nath, means a lot 🙂
I was just correcting, on the record, a failure of mine as raised by WB. Nothing more, Nothing less
“Social media made y’all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.”
Mike Tyson
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yabbasays:
Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 8:03 pm
Entropy @ #804 Sunday, March 10th, 2024 – 6:52 pm
Apply that to people who continually analyse religious texts too. How many million times does the bible really need to be studied?.
Especially since no-one has the faintest idea of the identity any of the authors of that pile of self-contradictory nonsense. What is absolutely certain is that none of the “gospels according to” were written by their named authors. That’s the central lie at the core of the wholly babble.
The Zionists creed: The Israeli National Security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir often quotes this little gem :
Deuteronomy 20:16-17
English Standard Version
16 But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, 17 but you shall devote them to complete destruction,
the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded
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A lot Israelis don’t consider themselves as Zionist. But POTUS Biden called himself a Zionist and gave Carte Blanche to Netanyahu government and repeatedly vetoed any action in UN.
I’m so affected by spirituous liquors that I’m firmly of the option I should declare my innings until Monday morning. Special Thanks to WB , who appears to look after my best interests as a filter when my own couldn’t care less 🙂
Thank you egw
What you describe is my recollection
For a batsman to follow a fieldsman is unprecedented
You may respond to a fieldsman’s comments – knowing that as a batsman you are always going to be dismissed hence the fielding side has the last laugh, always – but never by departing the pitch
And what you did on the pitch were facing up, running and, at the end of an Over, a mid pitch word or two with your fellow batsman
Never to approach a fieldsman in the field
The BICC has had too much power for just too long and it is damaging the game
And they are here yet again next summer!!!
The sooner we beat them here so they don’t come back so frequently the better – and we will get to see emerging and established talent from other Nations
The Poms only come here every 4 years for the Ashes series – and we go there every 4 years
Mind you, starting from the retirement of Warner, the age of our side starting with Khawaja but then to all bar Green, there are problems for Australian cricket
So where is the young talent knocking the door down?
Where are the Neil Harvey’s, the Ian Craig’s and the Doug Walters and others debuting as teenagers?
Instead, at Shield level, we have all these journeymen seeking Contracts where they can find them
So who is next cab off the ranks?
Who puts pressure on our underperforming side, frankly, underperforming since the Test Championship match versus guess who?
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Rainmansays:
Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 3:58 pm
BSA Bob says:
Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 12:14 pm
Mention of Waterloo back there.
Not mentioned are the German troops who fought alongside the British (not Blucher’s mob).
Who were they & what part did they actually play?
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Napoleon’s 72,000 French troops against the duke of Wellington’s army of 68,000 (British, Dutch, Belgian, and German soldiers) aided by 45,000 Prussians under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.
Source: britannica.com
Of well over 100,000 soldiers under Wellington’s command only 24,000 were British. That number included also 6,000 from the King’s German Legion (KGL). Yet, the British wrote their history, and taught generations of their children, that they defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
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Like the Americans did in WW2. Sure Americans made a crucial difference to that war.
And the problems in the Middle East go back to the commencement of Biden’s life
Noting his age
So across Biden’s life time many have tried (including Clinton) but ALL have failed
And here we are today (noting the entry of the Pope re Ukraine)
Rainman & Ven
Thanks for the replies re Waterloo. I had no idea there were so few British troops involved. Agreed the narrative is that the British won, pretty much on their own with Blucher rolling up late in the day to help a bit.
FUBAR
Noted somewhere that the turn out was below 40% in the Irish vote.
The majority no vote would have been reactionary,right-wing, conservative and, of course, Catholic as guided by that church.
I think your attempted gloat falls a bit flat viewed in that context…but then, who is surprised?
Earlier votes to change the constitution in the Irish Republic – probably on much more significant issues than these recent ones, still had your conservative right-wing cronies voting the same was as lately, but swamped by more thoughtful and progressive thinking Irish than your lot.
The lot that voted “no” in Ireland are likely remnants of the old Ireland….much the same kind of people who vote for the increasingly right-wing, so called “Liberal Party”.
The ‘liberals’ in the LNP are a dying breed….or have left to become Teals…Oh, and of course, the 3% of votes (and 10 seats) the hayseeds give the right side of politics particularly in red neck areas in Queensland….
Leftie brawler: But at the end of the day League is a gentleman’s game played by thugs and Union is a thug’s game played by gentleman.
Well said Leftie. 🙂