The monthly Freshwater Strategy poll for the Financial Review finds Labor with an unchanged two-party lead of 51-49, from primary votes of Labor 31% (steady), Coalition 39% (up one) and Greens 14% (steady). Anthony Albanese’s lead over Peter Dutton as preferred prime minister is out from 42-38 to 47-38, though his personal ratings of 37% favourable and 45% unfavourable show no change in net terms on a month ago (when it doesn’t appear the actual numbers were reported). Peter Dutton is respectively down two to 30% and up two to 43%.
Also featured were questions on the leaders’ attributes, with results including leads for Albanese of 28-24 on trustworthiness (a notably high response rather for neither) and 39-28 for being in touch with ordinary people, and for Dutton of 44-38 on clarity of vision and 38-32 on being good in a crisis. Labor also narrows deficits since last month’s poll as best party to handle the cost of living and tax and government spending. The poll was conducted Friday to Sunday from a sample of 1051.
William Bowe
Hostility towards the Catholic church is so pervasive among the kind of people who comment on this forum that moaning about my failing to ban it on grounds of “bigotry” would be unrealistic even if the notion had any merit on its face. Macarthur’s comment about Ratzinger was pretty stupid, but so are a lot of things.
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I was not meaning to be “moaning about” your failing to ban anti-Catholic bigotry.
I understand that these days a humble blog manager must tiptoe through a world of Wokery, an Orwellian age of war is peace, love is hate, truth is lies.
nath says:
Thursday, March 14, 2024 at 12:55 am
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‘A. N. Wilson wrote: “Much is sometimes made of the Catholic upbringing of Hitler … it was something to which Hitler himself often made allusion, and he was nearly always violently hostile. ‘The biretta! The mere sight of these abortions in cassocks makes me wild!'”[109] Hitler boasted of expressing skepticism to clergyman-teachers when taught religious instruction in school’
Source: Wikipedia
Rainman
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Clearly the links between the Nazi Party and Catholicism are much weaker than in primarily Catholic countries of southern and central Europe.
There were other factors at play, Nordic mysticism and a race mania that didn’t operate in other Fascist nations.
nath says:
Thursday, March 14, 2024 at 12:55 am
Hitchens said——
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Yes, Tiso was a horible fascist.
Some bad Catholics were horrible fascists but also many Catholics (particularly Poiish ones) died trying to protect Jews from the Nazis or in support of Anti-Nazism.
I realise to you only Tiso was the real Catholic.
Some bad Catholics were horrible fascists but also many Catholics (particularly Poiish ones) died trying to protect Jews from the Nazis or in support of Anti-Nazism.
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I’d amend that:
Many bad Catholics were horrible fascists but also some Catholics (particularly Poiish ones) died trying to protect Jews from the Nazis or in support of Anti-Nazism.
nath
So you know categorically that most Catholics are fascists.
What would a rich bourgeois Melbournite know about any of this?
Dachau, the first Nazi Concentration Camp from 1933 had a clergy barracks. In its 12 years existence at all times over 90% of its prisoners were (German/Austrian) Catholic priests, most of whom died horrible deaths. Almost no Protestant clergy.
‘With the expansion of the war in the East, expropriation of monasteries, convents and church properties surged from 1941. Clergy were persecuted and sent to concentration camps, religious Orders had their properties seized, some youth were sterilized. The first priest to die was Aloysius Zuzek…
From 1940, the Nazis gathered priest-dissidents in dedicated clergy barracks at Dachau, where (95%) of its 2,720 inmates were Catholic (mostly Poles, and 411 Germans), 1,034 were murdered there.’
I’d amend that:
Many bad Catholics were horrible fascists but also some Catholics (particularly Poiish ones) died trying to protect Jews from the Nazis or in support of Anti-Nazism.
Source: nath
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‘during the Second World War the Catholic Church rescued many thousands of Jews by issuing false documents, lobbying Axis officials, hiding them in monasteries, convents, schools and elsewhere; including the Vatican and Castel Gandolfo.’
Source: Wikipedia
C@t, my knowledge that the Lipsetts of Donegal were originally Lipschitzes in Poland comes from my cousin, the family historian. I don’t know the how, when and why.
But I’ve just found this site for the Irish Jewish Genealogical Society, searchable by name:
https://www.irishjewishroots.com/index.php
“Macarthur’s comment about Ratzinger was pretty stupid, but so are a lot of things.”
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William, yes. In the cold light of the morning after, that’s a comment I’m taking back, with apologies.
Iron ore down 4.4 percent today to 104.50.
Fed gov surplus looking shaky.
@Pied Piper
I still think it’s better then the Liberal party’s strategy which was selling ‘Back in Black’ Coffee mugs at $35 a pop.
New thread.