The fortnightly Essential Research poll has Labor steady on 31%, the Coalition down a point to 34%, the Greens up two to 13% and One Nation down two to 7%, with undecided up three to 7%. The pollster’s 2PP+ measure has the Coalition maintaining a narrow lead of 47% (down two) to 46% (down one), although these respondent-allocated numbers appear to flatter them — excluding the undecided from the primary votes and applying preference flows from 2022, I get 52.5-47.5 to Labor. The poll was conducted Wednesday to Sunday from a sample of 1150.
Further questions relate to expectations for next week’s federal budget, which are not high; concern about crime and safety, including a finding that 59% favour a “focus on enforcement measures” against 41% for the alternative of a “focus on preventative measures”. Strong support was recorded for every one of a range of measures to address family violence and improve safety online, and 70% favoured the eSafety Commissioner’s view that social media platforms needed to remove “dangerous content” over 30% for a view attributed to Elon Musk that doing so was “an attempt to censor the internet and restrict free speech”.
The weekly Roy Morgan poll has Labor’s lead steady at 52-48, though here it seems to be Labor getting the better end of respondent-allocated preferences: on the primary vote, Labor was down one-and-a-half points to 30%, the Coalition was up half to 37%, the Greens were down one to 13% and One Nation was up half to 6%. Based on 2022 preferences, this comes out to around 51-49 in Labor’s favour. The poll was conducted Monday to Sunday from a sample of 1666.
Nine Newspapers reports quarterly state-level and demographic aggregates from the Resolve Strategic polls from February through to April, the interest of which is limited by the fact that the pollster published breakdowns for the three largest states with the monthly polls. However, we do learn that the poll has Labor at 32% of the primary vote in Western Australia, which compares with 34% for the December quarter and 36.9% at the 2022 election. I hope to be able to provide the remainder of this result later today (UPDATE: The Coalition is on 35%, compared with 34.8% at the election, the Greens 13%, compared with 12.5%, and One Nation 6%, compared with 4.0%). The sample here was a modest 352, with a duly wide margin of error.
Finally, the results of Saturday’s Legislative Council elections in Tasmania were resolved yesterday, with the Greens gaining their first ever seat in the chamber following the retirement of an independent incumbent in the seat of Hobart; Labor losing its northern neighbour Elwick to an independent; and the Liberals retaining the seat of Prosser beyond Hobart’s outskirts. Read all about it at the dedicated post.
Essential has “undecided up three to 7%”. That’s a significant shift and a sizeable number.
I wonder if that has any relationship to the apparent 3-point discrepancy between Essential’s respondent-allocated 2PP (47 – 46 to the Coalition indicating something like 50.5 – 49.5) and William’s last-election-preferences estimate (52.5 – 47.5 in the other direction)?
#weatheronPB
Cool expectations,
matched by shiny promises,
might hide the wet night.
“Bibi is despicable. Bibi is a scoundrel. Bibi is corrupt. Bibi is a liar. Bibi is repulsive. Bibi is manipulative. All of that is true. But one thing he isn’t – he isn’t the cause. He’s the effect. The inevitable effect of the last 57 years.
Not that I’m making light of the damage Benjamin Netanyahu has caused. He’s a plague of historic proportions. Somewhere around the level of Nero, or Caligula.
But Netanyahu isn’t in power due to his talents, his virtues, or his character. He owes his rise to power to an act of murder – the murder of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Had it not been for that murder, Rabin would fairly easily have won the election that brought Bibi down on Israel.
Yigal Amir murdered Rabin because he and a few rabbis with no inhibitions feared that Rabin truly would “dry out” a few nests of settlers and bring us nearer to an agreement that would, heaven forbid, return a few occupied dunams to their owners, thereby postponing the date on which the Messiah will land at Ben-Gurion Airport. Consequently, it’s fair to say that Rabin was murdered to preserve the wellbeing of the occupation.”
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-04-16/ty-article-opinion/.premium/bibi-is-the-effect-not-the-cause/0000018e-e849-d7e3-a9bf-fc7d1bd20000
comparing on 2022 federal election result
Lib/nats combined primary vote 35.70% = 2pp 47.87%
Essential polling lib/nats combined primary 34% = 2pp 46.17%
Andrew Gold
You are right about Rabin’s assassination. Though Netanyahu was stoking the mood of far right anger for months before that as well.
I have no idea if a just settlement of Israel / Palestine is still possible. What I find extraordinary is the inability of large swathes of US politics who are not Jewish to let go of supporting Israel.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers.
According to Shane Wright, Michele Bullock and the Reserve Bank board have delivered the biggest hospital pass imaginable to Treasurer Jim Chalmers just a week out from his make-or-break budget.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/reserve-bank-delivers-a-hospital-pass-of-problems-to-chalmers-20240507-p5fpmm.html
The SMH editorial reckons Australia’s debt-laden households need Chalmers to keep spending in check and the best way for him to fight the cost-of-living crisis is with hard-headed fiscal discipline.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/chalmers-challenge-hard-headed-budget-discipline-20240507-p5fpm5.html
If the RBA’s right, interest rates may not fall for another year. Peter Martin explains why and what it means for next week’s budget.
https://theconversation.com/if-the-rbas-right-interest-rates-may-not-fall-for-another-year-heres-why-and-what-it-means-for-next-weeks-budget-229376
The Age says that Victoria’s hospitals face being amalgamated into large networks under sweeping mergers of local services in an efficiency-driven overhaul of the public health system, revealed as the government dropped a bad-news budget featuring soaring debt, stalled major projects and abandoned promises.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/sweeping-hospital-mergers-on-table-after-victoria-s-bad-news-budget-20240507-p5fqdj.html
A critical shortage of child protection and domestic violence workers in NSW has sparked the start of rolling strike action, with the Public Service Association warning at least 500 extra positions are needed to stop at-risk children falling through the cracks. There are so many areas where there are also significant shortages of labour.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/broken-system-close-to-collapse-critical-worker-shortages-in-child-protection-domestic-violence-20240507-p5fplu.html
Private training colleges are being sent federal orders to stop recruiting fake overseas students and cease their exploitation of the visa system, in a new move to tighten the rules and cut the nation’s migration intake. David Crowe reports that the official warnings identify the most concerning conduct by colleges that bring thousands of students into the country each year, telling the owners they will lose their licences within six months if they do not improve their operations. The minister has vowed to ‘weed out the bottom feeders’ in the tertiary education system.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/minister-vows-to-weed-out-the-bottom-feeders-in-university-system-20240507-p5fpjl.html
Australia once thought of itself as a country of opportunity and innovation – economically and socially. Like most countries self-beliefs, the thought was not always matched by reality. Indeed, it would arguably be better to see Australia as a land of lost opportunities with many of those losses being biggest and most damaging in recent decades, writes Noel Turnbull about “Australia: the land of lost revenue”.
https://johnmenadue.com/australia-the-land-of-lost-revenue/
A serial domestic violence abuser who attacked his last partner with a baseball bat because she was working too much will stay in Australia after a tribunal cancelled plans to kick him out. New Zealand citizen Leroy Wilton, 35, has spent his formative years in Australia where since reaching adulthood he has consistently broken the law, taken ice and stalked or attacked women. Now, what will Sussan Ley have t say about this?
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/violent-abuser-allowed-to-stay-in-australia-after-attacking-partner-with-bat-20240507-p5fpjk.html
The Coalition is demanding the government rein in the toughest conditions of its deportation bill by beefing up safeguards for families visiting from certain nations and foreigners resisting deportation, writes Angus Thompson.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/coalition-wants-humanitarian-overhaul-of-deportation-bill-20240507-p5fpgk.html
Beijing has made it absolutely clear that it holds the Albanese government in contempt. All the happy talk from the Prime Minister and his senior ministerial colleagues about a newly stabilised relationship with China is shown to be worth absolutely nothing, says Greg Sheridan.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/hmas-hobart-nearmiss-shows-china-holds-australia-and-labor-in-contempt-despite-dialogue/news-story/580de339e42fa4062763df7fe2c17b13?amp=
Michaela Whitbourn and Kate McClymont tell us that fresh from his defamation defeat, Bruce Lehrmann is facing legal action over the northern beaches pad he lived in rent-free under a deal with the Seven Network.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/lehrmann-faces-legal-action-from-ex-landlord-over-sydney-northern-beaches-pad-20240507-p5fpkd.html
Senior officials regularly give advice to Ministers and are paid very well to do so. But how frank and fearless is that advice when kept secret from the people it ultimately affects? Rex Patrick puts in his two bob’s worth.
https://michaelwest.com.au/secret-treasury-advice-neither-frank-nor-fearless-but-dishonest-and-fearfull/
The former president of the Queensland Liberal National Party launched such a “hopeless” legal defence to allegations he had misused $500,000 in Morrison government grant money that it was an “abuse of process”, a judge has ruled. The Australian tells us that David Hutchinson has been ordered to pay legal costs – on an indemnity basis – to former business partner and political ally Brad Carswell after a months-long dispute over their renewable energy company Green Day Energy.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/hopeless-judge-slams-exlnp-presidents-over-55m-government-grant/news-story/a4006925060435790959336ea6558c63?amp=
Jenna Price links men’s attitude to women can be spawned at school. She looks at the recent Yarra Valley Grammar School effort.
https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/not-all-men-abuse-women-but-is-this-how-it-starts-20240506-p5fpe3.html
Richard Denniss explains why we’re turning off solar farms when the sun is shining.
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2024/05/07/richard-denniss-climate-change-electricity
Woolworths boss Brad Banducci won’t be pursued by the Greens-led Senate supermarket inquiry for contempt, and jail time of up to six months, after his fiery appearance last month but the inquiry has hit out at the powerful supermarket chains with recommendations to curtail their power, heighten regulatory oversight and possibly break them up. The Australian’s Eli Greenblat takes is through the 195-page repot released yesterday by a Senate committee.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/retail/the-senate-inquiry-into-supermarkets-has-issued-14-recommendations-in-its-report/news-story/a086c0c2ae0dcabdbc5802a93de934ea?amp=
Delivering its final report yesterday, the Greens-led Senate probe into supermarkets found shoppers are being let down by laws that allow big chains to chase profits at the expense of families struggling with costs. Matthew Elmas reports that it found essentials have become unaffordable for many while poor competition has robbed shoppers of alternatives to the big two.
Elizabeth Knight reminds us that the imperative to reduce emissions and consign fossil fuels to history is well understood, but the next phase of this challenge will require an honest assessment of the enormous costs involved and just who will pay for it.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/not-everyone-will-celebrate-agl-s-improved-profit-outlook-20240507-p5fpkg.html
Ross Gittins says we should raise our BS antennae whenever politicians use the word “security”.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/when-politicians-fire-up-on-security-my-bulldust-detector-goes-to-defcon-1-20240507-p5fpiw.html
Until now, these wildly popular facilities like Afterpay and Zip have slipped through the cracks of the National Credit Code. But that is soon to change, writes Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon who points out that several groups believe that the proposed legislation does not provide adequate protection for users.
https://www.smh.com.au/money/saving/critics-warn-changes-to-buy-now-pay-later-don-t-go-far-enough-20240507-p5fph7.html
“Could Labor use Australia’s fears over crime and online safety to power internet regulation?”, asks Peter Lewis.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/article/2024/may/07/could-labor-use-australias-fears-over-and-online-safety-to-power-internet-regulation
Various political leaders took the opportunity over Easter to appeal to their religious voters with messages of faith both phony and hypocritical, opines Paul Begley.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/easter-brought-out-the-godliness-in-political-leaders,18576
A Sydney council has voted to place a blanket ban on same-sex parenting books from local libraries in a move the New South Wales government warns could be a breach of the state’s Anti-Discrimination Act. At a meeting last week, Cumberland city council in western Sydney voted on a new strategy for its eight council-run libraries. Can you hear the sound of banjos”?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/07/sydney-council-bans-same-sex-parenting-books-from-libraries-for-safety-of-our-children
Farrah Tomazin reports that US porn star Stormy Daniels has told a jury in explicit detail about her alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump and the intimidation she faced by people trying to stop the tryst from becoming public. In another astonishing moment ahead of this year’s election, Daniels has testified for the first time in Trump’s hush money trial about the night she says she had sex with him, recounting how she accepted a request to meet him at his hotel room, spanked him “on the butt” with a rolled up magazine, and even asked about his wife Melania.
https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/the-president-the-porn-star-and-the-payment-stormy-daniels-testifies-in-trump-s-hush-money-trial-20240508-p5g5rr.html
Donald Trump’s verbal assaults on judges, prosecutors, witnesses, jurors and the broader US justice system, are undermining the rule of law and American democracy while fueling threats and potential violence against individuals involved with the legal cases against him and egging on his extremist allies, former federal prosecutors and judges say. In his campaign to win the presidency again, and in the midst of various criminal and civil trials, Trump has launched multiple attacks on the American legal system on his Truth Social platform to counter the 88 federal and state criminal charges he faces.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/07/trump-trial-justice-system-violence
he leader of one the world’s most prolific cyber crime gangs has been unmasked and sanctioned by Australia, Britain and the United States, following a years-long international disruption campaign. Russian national Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, 31, was named as the mastermind behind the notorious LockBit ransomware operation, which has been on a hacking rampage for years, digitally extorting an estimated $1 billion from its victims.
https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/unmasked-notorious-russia-cyber-criminal-who-plundered-hospitals-with-ransomware-20240508-p5g6u8.html
There’s one thing standing in the way of a ceasefire. It’s Netanyahu’s refusal to compromise, argues Simon Tisdall.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/07/ceasefire-negotiations-gaza-netanyahu-hamas
Two men who committed hundreds of acts of child sexual abuse – including against family members and children at a childcare centre – have been sentenced to decades in prison for their crimes. The men, aged 25 and 30, used their many victims as “playthings” before their arrests in June 2020, a judge declared on Tuesday during their sentencing in Sydney. The duo were in a relationship with each other before raids by an Australian federal police-led taskforce revealed one of the worst child abuse cases in Australia’s history. Neither man can be identified for legal reasons. “Arseholes of the Week”, certainly!
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/07/australian-couple-sentenced-prison-child-sex-abuse-decades
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David Rowe
Joe Benke
Matt Golding
John Shakespeare
Cathy Wilcox
Andrew Dyson
Fiona Katauskas
A Mark Knight catch-up
Spooner
From the US
I missed this AUKUS story yesterday. This “gaffe” is far from the first US statement that makes it clear the RAN will only get US SSNs with strings attached.
IMO that is strongly against Australia’s national interest. It ties future Australian governments to fighting in a highly dangerous potential war with China. Keating is correct: AUKUS does weaken Australian sovereignty.
Those who claimed that getting the French subs would have weakened Australian sovereignty lied shamelessly.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/australia-us-aukus-submarine-deal-control-daniel-kritenbrink
This French article is 2 years old but goes through quite analytically the relative merits of different SSN options for Australia. It also mentions at the end some of the real practical difficulties in Australia implementing AUKUS.
https://www.midshipnews.org/blog/peaks-progress-9fd8x
Thanks BK
You ask if we can hear banjos as a Sydney council bans same sex parenting books.
No, in that part of Sydney you are more likely to hear the Adhan.
I saw that slip of the tongue as well Socrates regarding not giving full control of the subs to Australia. Hard to tell if that’s (un)official policy or a blow hard trying to hold onto their toys.
But if we dropped the Virginia subs who would trust Australia with a new contract. Two torn up multi decade contracts in under 5 years, not sure anyone would.
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
Margaret Thatcher 1976
The sign at the front door gave me a chuckle…
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Great Teachers
Great Education
Great Opportunities
Great StudentsMost likely a school like Croydon or Ringwood Secondary college will have to take on the kids who have been expelled…
‘Andrew Gold says:
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 6:37 am
“Bibi is despicable. Bibi is a scoundrel. Bibi is corrupt. Bibi is a liar. Bibi is repulsive. Bibi is manipulative. All of that is true. But one thing he isn’t – he isn’t the cause. He’s the effect. The inevitable effect of the last 57 years.
Not that I’m making light of the damage Benjamin Netanyahu has caused. He’s a plague of historic proportions. Somewhere around the level of Nero, or Caligula.
But Netanyahu isn’t in power due to his talents, his virtues, or his character. He owes his rise to power to an act of murder – the murder of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Had it not been for that murder, Rabin would fairly easily have won the election that brought Bibi down on Israel.
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100% right.
But, as is usual in commentary on the latest bout in the Never Ending War between Israel and Iran, this commentary only addresses one half of the Iran v Israel genocide stakes.
Netanyahu’s opponents in the River to the Sea Genocide Handicap are Khameini, Nasrullah, Assad, Haniyeh and al-Houthi. All of them have demonstrated repeatedly the willingness to shed as much blood as it takes.
The latter are supported by Russia and China.
‘Taylormade says:
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 7:52 am
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
Margaret Thatcher 1976’
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The problem with Thatcherism is that you eventually wreck the joint. Pass me the Iron Lady’s handbag.
Oakeshott Country says:
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 7:36 am
Thanks BK
You ask if we can hear banjos as a Sydney council bans same sex parenting books.
No, in that part of Sydney you are more likely to hear the Adhan.
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And rosary beads.
We’re losing a generation of kids’ as youth offender rates increase for first time in more than a decade
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-08/youth-offender-rates-increase-first-time-decade/103279708?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
Youth offender rates rise for first time in more than a decade, with recidivism rates also up, data shows.
This is during the Albanese government. Poverty payments, freely available alcohol, drug use could contribute. And not enough child protection workers.
‘* The latest national data shows youth offender rates have increased for the first time in more than a decade over the last financial year.
* However, the data’s long-term analysis shows a trend towards fewer children and teenagers being involved in crime, but their recidivism rates are increasing.
* What’s next? The federal government is funding justice reinvestment programs around Australia to try to reduce youth recidivism and incarceration
At the same time, there’s a growing concern about a punitive punishment approach being taken in regards to children who have been “set up to fail” via familial neglect, community indifference and flawed welfare systems long before their first arrest.
Many have undiagnosed neurological impairments, and have been exposed to the type of violence, poverty and substance abuse that would make most Australians shudder.’
We know low income Australians are of no interest to the Albanese government. High immigration causing shortage of low rental housing for Australians is just not addressed.
People are homeless for the first time ever.
One of the reasons less than 2/3rds of voters choose Labor.
Who prefer Liberal policies.
Irene says:
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 8:43 am
We’re losing a generation of kids’ as youth offender rates increase for first time in more than a decade
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-08/youth-offender-rates-increase-first-time-decade/103279708?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
Youth offender rates rise for first time in more than a decade, with recidivism rates also up, data shows.
This is during the Albanese government. Poverty payments, freely available alcohol could contribute. And not enough child protection workers.
‘* The latest national data shows youth offender rates have increased for the first time in more than a decade over the last financial year.
* However, the data’s long-term analysis shows a trend towards fewer children and teenagers being involved in crime, but their recidivism rates are increasing.
* What’s next? The federal government is funding justice reinvestment programs around Australia to try to reduce youth recidivism and incarceration
At the same time, there’s a growing concern about a punitive punishment approach being taken in regards to children who have been “set up to fail” via familial neglect, community indifference and flawed welfare systems long before their first arrest.
Many have undiagnosed neurological impairments, and have been exposed to the type of violence, poverty and substance abuse that would make most Australians shudder.’
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Yeah, nah. Erin Parke’s story reads as an audition for a job with Murdoch. All you need to do is look at the graph.
Irene’s disinformation project is superficially convincing, until you scratch the surface.
Here in my part of the world, foreign syndicates have been criming and getting young people to do their dirty work for peanuts.
The same young people are the repeat offenders.
The young offenders get paid as little as 500.00 to torch a tobacco shop.
(I note the TAS Leg Co has added a Green, dropped a pretend red/ centrist for an Independent [and the Tasmanian red Liebor/ centrist, blue Libs lite new opp leader has shifted to supporting an AFL stadium, because jobs … supposedly, may be just games and bread], kept a Libferal.
Bonham: “Elwick: Thomas (IND) has won c. 53.3 – 46.7 after preferences
Hobart: CALLED 9:01 pm Cassy O’Connor (GRN) wins
Prosser: Kerry Vincent (LIB) has won c. 52.9 – 47.1 after preferences”)
https://www.pollbludger.net/2024/05/08/polls-essential-research-and-roy-morgan-open-thread-4/#comment-4273559
TLDR: It’s time, to end the major parties duopoly, bring on more minor parties and independents!
Socialists will run out of other people’s money. Conservatives will run out of other people’s assets to flog.
Hmmm, social, direct, liberal (extreme disaster capitalism with touches of autocracy) democrats.
Communist, theocrazy, fascist autocrats.
The fed budget isn’t far off, let’s see ‘measure what matters’ translate into how resulting allocation of public resources/ focus sees a divergence/ convergence of promises/ policies/ risks and threats/ salient issues.
The PM from 2022 seems to have a road to Tel Aviv conversion on values and thus talking promises. The PM+ to 2022 seemed to game and talk photo-ops without follow up.
I note non-major parties/ undecideds in PV about a third, :).
Bring on a progressive alliance, the system is broken, be it governance, powershift, climate, inequality, health …: Greens, red Liebor and independents.
Progress/ advance Australia, fair, be more like Scandinavia/ Switzerland/ Singapore, may be Bhutan/ Costa Rica …, less like the Poms/ Yanks.
The greens are green. The reds pretend to be green and blue. The blues with some yellow are more TDJT/ orange. I guess that leaves …
It’s time, to end the major parties duopoly, bring on more minor parties and independents!
Irene says:
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 8:43 am
We’re losing a generation of kids’ as youth offender rates increase for first time in more than a decade
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Moral panic mongering abounds.
The number of unique individual youth offenders is falling over time.
The offence rate per 100,000 is being pushed up by a small number of hardcore youth re-offenders.
The stats represent a gross number of around a thousand additional offences nationally from a pool of 1.5 million potential offenders.
By far and away the large majority of Australian youth do not offend.
So.There is no statistical trend in the offence rate per hundred thousand.
The vast majority of youth are not being lost. They are getting on with their normal lives.
The Albanese Government is not losing a ‘generation of kids’.
What we DO have is a social problem with a core of youth who are making a career out of offending. My guess is that a disproportionate number of these are Indigenous youths. Huge amounts of additional Federal funds are being added to Indigenous communities in a bid to address the systemic problems that give rise to the disproportionate number of youth offenders.
The additional funding over and above what the Morrison Government delivered, is now running into billions of dollars.
As you were, Irene. Stop screaming. Stop bullshitting. Stop fudging the statistics. Stop trying to sow monger moral panic. Stop with the FUD.
But those youth crime gangs are good for scaremongering off and Concern Trolling about.
The media true to form last week, after months of carrying on about burglaries throughout the city, netting thieves millions of dollars.
Report that Irish nationals who were about to embark a plane, were arrested in connection with all these burglaries.
How was it reported?
“Thieves run out of luck…..”
A word play due to the fact they were Irish. Almost playfully reported,
Funny that. If they were young people of a particular background, it would have not been so playfully reported.
Our media is beyond pathetic.
WA going for sixth state surplus in a row in tomorrow’s budget.
Albo hated Aussie PM has pissed off state labor by visiting now stealing premier Cooks first budget attention.
Desperate attempt by struggling labor fed government to halt the massive collapse in their WA vote.
Fed labor let crims in and does not deport them.Attorney general is still asleep on the parliamentary seat he snoozes on.
Taylormadesays:
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 7:52 am
[“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
Margaret Thatcher 1976]
The problem with being a grocer’s daughter is that they end up saying things which are essentially meaningless.
The problem with quoting Thatcher after all these years results in the glorious vision of Brexit and the now long march of the defeated altruistic army and the inevitable slaughter of the grandiose bullshit artists.
Victoria
Strangely the Irish newspapers were running this story last week – Irish gang responsible for millions stolen in Australia
This week’s story on Australia is that apparently we are fascinated by the “mushroom murders”
Michael Mosssays:
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 9:10 am
WA going for sixth state surplus in a row in tomorrow’s budget.
Albo hated Aussie PM has pissed off state labor by visiting now stealing premier Cooks first budget attention.
Desperate attempt by struggling labor fed government to halt the massive collapse in their WA vote.
Fed labor let crims in and does not deport them.Attorney general is still asleep on the parliamentary seat he snoozes on.
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Why lib trolls never type comma?
Why sentence structure poor like they have just woken from snooze?
Cannon’s just done what most objective legal commentators have predicted: she has let her man off the hook:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/07/politics/judge-postpones-trump-classified-documents-trial/index.html?utm_source=cnn_In+Case+You+Missed+It+-+ICYMI&bt_ee=UeMgB%2BkMDC7nYMVFBO1hUA2wIHTQBoozf9ebt%2BCLUqY5RuzbeA89Fv9krz12b6Wd&utm_medium=email&bt_ts=1715123565159&utm_term=17151235651566d369349411a&bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiAiYjU3ZmE2ZDctNzcyNS00ZTFlLWI1YmItNjA2YWUzMjNlMDUwIn0%3D
That said, save for a rogue juror or two, nothing will save him from
being convicted in the New York election interference case – the evidence against him is overwhelming.
Alpha Zero @ #26 Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 – 9:21 am
They are the role models of a dumbed down society, as such they display their wares. Double Plus Good.
Crime and policing is basically a State issue, so deficiencies in these areas need to be addressed firstly by the States, not the Federal Government.
We know that Irene hates Labor. She regularly posts here blaming everything bad that’s happened in the country since Labor came to power in 2022 on the Albanese Government. Also stuff that happened before.
Irene claims to be Green. I am not convinced of this.
A good assessment, IMO.
The moment of truth.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/07/biden-israel-palestine-policy
The parallel moment of truth here is for Hamas. Israel has the military strength to chase and kill them the length and the breadth of Gaza.
We’re getting to the pointy bit of the negotiations.
I just have to share this, from the ABC’s website.
“As surging prices for essentials continue to drive stubborn inflation, it’s still anyone’s guess as to how far households and businesses will need to be screwed down by the RBA’s interest rate hammer to get the rising cost of living under control.”
Being screwed down by a hammer. I love a mixed metaphor in the morning!
Getting Hammered by a Screwdriver
You heard it first on Bludger.
Boerwar @ #32 Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 – 9:52 am
Nah, I used to get hammered by screwdrivers back in the 90s, vodka was my poison of choice.
Jacinta Allen sounds like a botched salesperson, talking way too much about education and not the ridiculously large elephant in the room.
Lordy, the morning shift of trolls is on the ball.
When I was a co-ed private school schoolboy 35 years ago, I had my very own ranking list of our year group’s female half, updated weekly which I shared openly with my (male) colleagues. The girls knew about its existence but were generally only told if they made the top three.
I didn’t use misogynistic language in its drafting, it was written usually in code and I never got caught by any staff member (and it’s doubtful they would have done anything).
While I do think that “unrapable” is a seriously misogynistic misdemeanour, I do think that the publicity and punishments of the Ringwood case has gone too far. Unless society has moved so far in 35 years. One wonders whether the same sort of reaction would happen if this occurred in Toowoomba or Townsville.
This is an industry that is facing its moment of climte truth.
They just can’t deliver.
As I have been saying all along there is no way to get to zero net fifty without eliminating the world’s domestic animal herd of around 2-3 billion quadrupeds.
The costs are going to be massive. The social equity implications for the hundreds of millions of subsistence farmers who herd livestock are immense.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/08/methane-emissions-australian-cattle-industry-suggests-shift-from-net-zero-target-to-climate-neutral-approach
Oakeshott country
I guess it’s the job of the media to tell us what we are fascinated about.
Boerwar @ #35 Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 – 9:56 am
Use ar’s AnonBlock. There is never a good reason to take any notice whatsoever of insincere, lying fools.
MelbourneMammoth @ #36 Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 – 9:59 am
Maybe, just maybe, society’s mores have changed in the 35 intervening years.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/australia-us-aukus-submarine-deal-control-daniel-kritenbrink
Sorry if already posted; but this highlights just how fucked this deal is… we need a EXKUS plan now
BW
Its the number of Bipeds in the world that are the issue.
If the number of Bipeds reduces there will be less need for the Quadrupeds
But no one wants to talk about overpopulation
‘phwoar’ is a binary rating system used by women.
If you rate a phwoar you are sexy.
If not, not.
Next vic election is November 2026.
This is projected for the budget before then
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in 2025-26 the budget is expected to go into surplus for the first time since 2018-19. A $1.5 billion surplus is on the cards for 2025-26, with larger surpluses anticipated in the years that follow
Back in the federal court, Lehrman’s legal team is claiming that there is no third party agreement over funding of his case. The boy must have deep pockets of his own.
Cost judgement will be on Friday at 2.15.
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Taylormadesays:
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 7:52 am
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
Margaret Thatcher 1976
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The problem with crony capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
The problem with far right demagogy is that you eventually run out democracy.
Ven 2024.
@Andrew Gold
This is a very important point. It is often said in Israel that left-wing politics died with Yitzhak Rabin.
I remember an interview with a supporter of West Bank settlements back in the 90s, who when asked for comment on the assassination, simply said “it means we’ve won”.
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Victoriasays:
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 8:59 am
Here in my part of the world, foreign syndicates have been criming and getting young people to do their dirty work for peanuts.
The same young people are the repeat offenders.
The young offenders get paid as little as 500.00 to torch a tobacco shop.
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Victoria
African Proverb, “The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.”
MelbourneMammoth says:
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 9:59 am
When I was a co-ed private school schoolboy 35 years ago, I had my very own ranking list of our year group’s female half, updated weekly which I shared openly with my (male) colleagues. The girls knew about its existence but were generally only told if they made the top three.
I didn’t use misogynistic language in its drafting, it was written usually in code and I never got caught by any staff member (and it’s doubtful they would have done anything).
While I do think that “unrapable” is a seriously misogynistic misdemeanour, I do think that the publicity and punishments of the Ringwood case has gone too far. Unless society has moved so far in 35 years. One wonders whether the same sort of reaction would happen if this occurred in Toowoomba or Townsville.
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All your post does is allow readers to form an opinion on your understanding of misogyny.
VCT: Socialists will run out of other people’s money. Conservatives will run out of other people’s assets to flog.
Good one VCT