The week after the federal budget was as always a big one for federal opinion polling, which means it will be followed by a trough next week. Happily, an important milestone on the road to the federal election is looming into view:
• The Guardian relates that the proposed redistribution for Western Australia will be published on Friday, with those for New South Wales and Victoria “expected in the first two weeks of June, or perhaps slightly earlier”.
• Mark Wales, the preselected Liberal candidate for the crucial Perth seat of Tangney, has stood aside due to a health issue within his family. The West Australian reports the party’s state council passed a motion that the second-placed candidate in last month’s preselection vote will get the nod if no new candidates nominate by the May 29 deadline, that being Howard Ong, an IT consultant and former Australian Christian Lobby activist.
• The Australian’s Feeding the Chooks column reports that state Ipswich MP Jennifer Howard has withdrawn her preselection challenge against Shayne Neumann in the federal seat of Blair. Anthony Albanese threw his weight behind Neumann amid concern over the security of Labor’s hold on a seat Neumann has held since 2007, and which he retained by a 5.2% margin in 2022.
• Feeding the Chooks further reports that Katie Havelberg, policy adviser at Queensland Health and president of Professionals Australia, will join Renée Coffey, chief executive of a foundation that helps children whose parents have a mental illness, in contesting Labor preselection in Griffith, the inner Brisbane seat that Max Chandler-Mather won for the Greens in 2022. Potential nominees in the seat of Brisbane, which Stephen Bates gained for the Greens from the LNP in 2022, include Tracey Price, the party’s unsuccessful candidate for the lord mayoralty in election in March, and candidate from 2022, Deloitte Australia director Madonna Jarrett.
Plonk nuclear in a seat they hold by 20% and they’ll hold it by 5%.
Expressing opposition to the positions, policies and actions of the State of Israel is not antisemitism.
Much of the immigration policy by the LNP is aimed at the immigrants already here, to keep new immigrants out. That was the model deployed in the UK by the Tories. They rely on everyone being racist, not just white people.
I suspect the American tipping habit lies in its long history of slavery.
Even after the XIIIth amendment, many didn’t like the concept of paying for menial work. Personally I feel like a jerk when I am forced to do it in the US, it demeans the worker and makes the tipper an elitist.
The ADF is an absolute rabble, with a minister not up to reforming it.
It’s going to take a hung parliament and some competent and courageous crossbenchers to investigate and reform it.
Dutton is such a policy free zone he has to import other people’s racist policies.
And right on the doorstep of one of the country’s largest operational ports, and domestic and international airports.
If located there it would beam bright as a terrorist target.
We have major issues with Defence, Energy and Poverty …and then we have Dutton running on something as unserious as nuclear.
I mean you’d have to be intellectually embarrassed to be a booster of his.
P1
You seem to be critical of anyone trying to manage the energy transition.
I was curious, you seem to be in an ideal situation to get off the net. I was wondering have you gone solar with batteries yet?
Got an Indian bloke around for a quote on a side paling fence once. Found him via a tradies page on Facebook.
Arrived in a clapped out Ford station wagon with no muffler, which also leaked oil on my brand new concrete driveway.
Anyway did a measure up and he gave me a quote on the back of a business card. It was reasonable, but he kept making a big deal about wanting half the cash up front. Said I would be getting a couple more quotes for comparison.
He then spent the next week bombarding me with messages about when he could start the job.
Really bad vibes so did some research on him and the reviews were not flattering.
Scammer.
Be careful Dog’s Brunch. You get what you pay for. Do the subbies have a Trade Certificate ? Do they have insurance.
Nothing wrong with Dutton’s logical skills.
Power bills through the roof, concern over blackouts, why wouldn’t voterland say give nukes a chance?
In the meantime, might as well keep the CFPS running, since they’re right next door anyway so commissioning will be seamless, right?
Cost overruns?
Well, it’ll be built by CFMEU and ETU labour, so, who knows, it mightn’t be completed until midway into the 22nd century, but, whaddya, whaddya … ?
”Nothing wrong with Dutton’s logical skills.
Power bills through the roof, concern over blackouts, why wouldn’t voterland say give nukes a chance?”
Geez this is hard.
Let’s see
– because of all the available alternatives, nuclear power is the most expensive.
– that taxpayers would need to cough up multiple hundreds of billions to build and run it
– That it won’t be able to make any contribution before 2040 and not a significant one before 2050, so we need to do something else in the meantime and that comes at additional cost.
Yabba
I have Jewish friends who are sympathetic towards the Palestinians. But they are a bit torn ATM because most of them have relatives living in Israel.
The October 7 attacks were pretty devastating. I have a lot of sympathy for liberally-minded Jewish people who are struggling to maintain their liberalism in their wake.
frednk @ #59 Saturday, May 25th, 2024 – 10:28 am
Subsidizing coal is “managing the energy transition”? You need to read the AEMO analysis of NSW’s energy transition. The problem in NSW is that we have simply not invested enough money in renewables. Why not? Because it’s expensive. It’s much cheaper to just extend the transition for as long as necessary by continuing to burn coal. And also better politically in the coal-dependent seats.
But investing in renewables pays off in the long run. Investing in more coal? Not so much.
We are entirely off grid. Have been for decades. I have recently added more panels so that we can now recharge an EV – our own, or our guests.
It’s time Govt imposed regulations on all commercial short term holiday resorts/properties to transition them into legit eco resorts.
Taylor made, @ 10.28 – the mention of the man’s apparent country of origin was completely irrelevant to your post.
Just saying.
middle aged balding white man @ #67 Saturday, May 25th, 2024 – 11:03 am
A typical Dutton acolyte. Sad but true.
Rex Douglas @ #66 Saturday, May 25th, 2024 – 10:59 am
Careful, Rex. You’ll wake up our resident serial obsessive!
But in fact, I can’t really agree with this. Not all short term rentals are for tourism, even in tourist destinations. And most could not become “eco resorts” anyway. Better to invest in renewables so that everyone benefits, rather than inefficient subsidies that benefit only the already wealthy.
yabba
Typical racist garbage from a repeat offender.
Migrant tradesmen exploited by subbies, taxes and insurances not paid, existing businesses forced out of the industry.
Already happened with [floor] Tilers years ago.
Your new house didn’t get any cheaper though, so who wins in the end?
Gee the election campaign has started well for Sunak! The campaign isn’t even a week old and already he’s forced to take a day off.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/24/sunak-to-take-a-day-at-home-after-hapless-election-campaign-start
Taylormade says:
Saturday, May 25, 2024 at 10:28 am
Got an Indian bloke around for a quote on a side paling fence once. Found him via a tradies page on Facebook.
Arrived in a clapped out Ford station wagon with no muffler, which also leaked oil on my brand new concrete driveway.
Anyway did a measure up and he gave me a quote on the back of a business card. It was reasonable, but he kept making a big deal about wanting half the cash up front. Said I would be getting a couple more quotes for comparison.
He then spent the next week bombarding me with messages about when he could start the job.
Really bad vibes so did some research on him and the reviews were not flattering.
Scammer.
Be careful Dog’s Brunch. You get what you pay for. Do the subbies have a Trade Certificate ? Do they have insurance.
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Some years ago I had to have my house painted. A straight down the line Aussie white guy quoted me $15,000. An Afghan quoted me $6,000. The Afghan had been recommended by someone so I went with him and he did a first class job. He’s still in business. I don’t know about the white Aussie, who was clearly a crook feeding back to me because I complained about the previous paint job which began to peel far too soon.
Short story is forget the colour of the guy or their ethnicity. Do your research and get recommendations if possible. And if the guy seems dodgy avoid like the plague. The absolute one thing you don’t do is make a decision based on the colour or the accent of the person.
Also, there is nothing wrong per se with asking for half the money up front if the tradie has to buy in materials. Do your research though before you part with the hard-earned. It seems like TM’s fellow was not a scammer as much as a poor tradesman, given that TM could find reviews.
Your new house didn’t get any cheaper though, so who wins in the end?
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Sometimes it’s nobody. A lot of builders have gone out of business because of the huge rise in materials and the existence of fixed price contracts. Yes, there are plenty of crooks in the business at all levels of construction (look at the mess with Sydney apartments for example) but a lot of decent honest businesses have been caught out by the inflation time bomb left behind by the Liberals when they were booted out of office.
I see lots of new cars and expressions of copious wealth and prosperity as I travel around the USA and that goes for people who work in restaurants as well, so to try and characterise them as on the bones of their arse and dependent on the generosity of strangers’ tips, from your armchair commentary position in Australia, is disingenuous and ignorant of the state of the American economy currently. Tipping is simply a habit that Americans are reluctant to break. Staff or customers. I mean, who wouldn’t like to get an extra 5 or 10 dollars per customer on top of your American $15/hour? And most places are paying the full $15/hour because staff are in short supply.
Also, as far as I can see, the cheapness of the meals you can buy is due to the over-abundance of food in the US. There’s so much of everything you could ever want available! So many varieties, so much competition for the retail customer dollar. Economies of scale due to providing for a massive market. Even in the Organic sector. Which is understandable when you fly over the country and see farms as far as the eye can see. There’s a LOT of arable land out there.
Dutton has the next election all sewn up.
160k net migration target is a brilliant policy – simple, popular, easy to understand, and will speak to going some way to improving many of the fundamental issues Australians are dealing with at the moment;
– near zero rental vacancies,
– congested roads,
– an economy in a per capita recession for over a year,
– unemployment rising to 5%,
– homelessness and tent cities popping up everywhere,
– sticky population induced inflation,
– hospitals overwhelmed,
– all social services blowing out in demand
etc etc
Most normal people can understand this has nothing to do with race or racism and everything to do with the sheer volume of people entering the country at a time when we’re not building infrastructure or homes nearly fast enough to keep up with demand.
Ideally the target would be sub 100k net a year as this seems to be a sustainable figure that Australia can cope with and would allow us to catch up with building houses and infrastructure.
But 160k is definitely enough of a difference with Labor’s pathetic 260k ‘reduction’.
Dutton will be Prime Minister with a minority government, with a large contingent of Greens and independents.
I have been right up until this point that immigration was THE issue and that Liberals would come out with a differentiating policy that will wedge Labor on it, and I’m right about Dutton as our next Prime Minister.
He is the correct Prime Minister for our times.
Australians always make the right decision and this one will be correct.
A massive rebuking of Labor’s Big Australia, pro-business stance.
Unless Labor match or better the policy they are dead in the water.
I won a considerable amount of money on the Greens taking Brisbane at the last election with 11:1 odds. I am correct about Dutton as the next Prime Minister of Australia.
Better get used to the idea of a Liberal government Bludgers.
Peter Dutton is the wrong Prime Minister for any time. His time in Home Affairs showed him to be utterly incompetent. Fear, loathing, lies and a fraudulent nuclear distraction is all he’s got.
I’ll just leave this here.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/may/24/last-summers-temperature-rise-could-be-worse-than-we-thought
Australians made the right decision in 1998 that’s for sure. Trouble was, it wasn’t translated into seats.
Steve777 says:
Saturday, May 25, 2024 at 10:42 am
”Nothing wrong with Dutton’s logical skills.
Power bills through the roof, concern over blackouts, why wouldn’t voterland say give nukes a chance?”
Geez this is hard.
Let’s see
– because of all the available alternatives, nuclear power is the most expensive.
– that taxpayers would need to cough up multiple hundreds of billions to build and run it
– That it won’t be able to make any contribution before 2040 and not a significant one before 2050, so we need to do something else in the meantime and that comes at additional cost.
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Steve777 remember what Mandela said.
Neither Dutton or Albanese are fit to be PM.
I’ll stop short of promoting the Informal Party though.
I won a considerable amount of money on the Greens taking Brisbane at the last election with 11:1 odds. I am correct about Dutton as the next Prime Minister of Australia.
Great work!
Labor don’t want to talk Immigration, so they’ll rabbit on about how much Nuclear might cost.
By that time, voters will have switched off.
We went to the Japanese Gardens in Portland today. A mind-blowing place which is built in co-operation with the city of Sapporo in Japan, their sister city. As Portland is a city built alongside some very beautiful and high hills and mountains, this has enabled the Japanese Gardens to be almost built into the side of one of the big hills and it is surrounded by the tall Fir trees and Oregon Pines as the amphitheatre backdrop to the gardens, which are more delicate and manicured.
I was also talking to my son’s American friend about the gardens and she asked me if there were many Japanese people in Australia? As there are quite a few in America. I said, yes there are, and there are plenty of people from all the countries of Asia in Australia. I added that, we even have a Malaysian Australian as our equivalent to your Secretary of State, our Foreign Minister. She said, wow, I don’t know that we have any Malaysians in America and definitely not in politics!
The racists are the labor party .Exposed through the racist voice tried to seperate Australians by race.
Interesting how, now that the Liberals have lost the economic management mantle, that they are trying to jawbone Immigration as their, ‘I’m better at it than you are, Labor!’, cause du jour. No they’re not! They’re just better at hiding it from the racist-adjacent rubes.
And along comes pied pipsqueak to prove me right. If ever there was a rube who will laud the party who actually swamped Australia with immigrants, it’s that guy. :/
Nelson Mandela didn’t say anything about nuclear energy that I am aware of.
He did say something along the lines that something is only impossible until it’s done. Inspirational.
Now, building a nuclear reactor at, say, Kurnell is entirely possible, possibly by 2045 at a cost of multiple tens of billions. Alternatively, we could build a 200 metre high statue of the former Federal member for the area, Scott Morrison, on the site instead of a nuclear reactor. That is entirely feasible and probably cheaper.
However, the obvious question in either case is “why would we bother?”
There’s a sucker
borndeceased every minute.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics
I see a certain someone trying to justify their support of US tipping culture and cheap food/service as anything other then the result of disparate wages and exploitation of the working class…. and “swamped the cou try with migrants” way to buy into the lib narrative
P39 Australian, today:
Chris Kenny – WHAT’s THE POINT OF THIS PRIME MINISTER?
When you’ve lost Chris [The Voice] Kenny, can the end be far away?
Elsewhere in the Australian:
If those are examples of Murdoch’s AntiLabor bias, let’s hope he
never drinks the Woke Kool-Aid?
Piss off, Lordbain. You’re just a clueless commenter looking for something to hang your daily outrage on.
Well, all the established studies via Labor centre studies Berkeley’s etc state a high percentage of food industries employees in the US are also receiving food stamp relief.
I was looking at the SNAP program and it’s an eye opener.
A more pertinent question – what’s the point of The Australian? It’s a right-wing propaganda organ pretending to be a quality journal of record.
On tipping:
It used to happen in Australia, that generation has been gone a long time.
In the days [in Qld] when pubs were packed and a Pot didn’t cost $5, blokes drinking at the bar would leave the change in front of them, when they went home, whatever was left was the barmaid’s to keep.
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Overnight, judges at the top United Nations court ordered Israel to halt its military assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, in a landmark emergency ruling on South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide. While the International Court of Justice, or World Court, has no means to enforce its orders, the case was a stark sign of Israel’s global isolation over its campaign in Gaza, particularly since it began its offensive against Rafah this month against the pleas of its closest ally the United States.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/world-court-orders-israel-to-halt-assault-on-gaza-s-rafah-20240524-p5jgjk.html
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Based on the opinions expressed by some posters, ICJ is anti-semetic, screw International rules based world order because that is what ICJ is defending.
Badthinker
What you’re noticing is not Murdoch’s perceived anti-Labor bias as espoused by most Labor supporters on PP, but rather Murdoch’s evergreen pro-business stance re mass immigration, regardless of the party pushing it.
The only proponents of mass immigration are big business, the property industry, universities and the media, because they all have a vested interest in continuing the infinite growth model. The only other supporters of mass immigration are clueless Labor and Greens apologists who actually have no idea what they’re supporting, they just don’t want to appear ‘racist’.
What you’re seeing at the moment is the migration debate finally bubbling up to the surface of the mainstream media because Dutton correctly tapped into the resounding sentiment in the Australian community and legitimised the debate.
The media is aghast because their cash cow in large part is property advertisers and big business advertisers who benefit hugely from mass immigration at the expense of Australians.
The only debate in town from now until the election will be around immigration, so despite the media being anti reducing migration, it won’t matter – it’s in the public debate and Dutton has already won it with the solution anyone can understand.
I keep saying it because it’s true; unless Labor match or better the reduction in immigration, they’re dead in the water – possibly existentially.
THAT’s how big this issue is.
C@t:
I’ve been watching NSW Labor’s 2024 women’s congress. Lots of young women and women from diverse backgrounds attending!
This is my first opportunity to respond to Irene from 12:09 on the 24th of May where she (he??) responded to the post about falling numbers of volunteers everywhere, and in volunteer fire brigades in particular with, amongst other dribble, “fighting bushfires is like fighting a war. Men on the ground, as the current strategy is, using many volunteers, is reminiscent of the way wars were conducted up to and including WW1” and then goes on to claim that more fire fighting aircraft instead of defense equipment is the answer.
As you would expect, bullshit. I can’t speak for other states but there is no serious deficiency in aircraft numbers in WA. If they weren’t so expensive a few more might be nice but aircraft cannot replace boots on the ground. Aircraft can’t fight structure fires, can’t mop up, can’t deal with stags and other very localised fires, can’t deal with burning peat or tree roots, and take time to deploy.
I expect volunteer brigades everywhere are desperate for members. Irene should join one. She (he??) might learn something.
Confessionssays:
Saturday, May 25, 2024 at 12:28 pm
C@t:
I’ve been watching NSW Labor’s 2024 women’s congress. Lots of young women and women from diverse backgrounds attending!
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Would there be any with a disability?
Indeed CAT, I am so clueless as to think US prices as linked to exploitative service economies, and not the justification you tried to provide based on anecdotal evidence. But hey, as you have claimed many times, your a supporter of the average worker, so what would I know 😉
Always amusing when the West has to deal with the fallout of their own hypocritical actions… and by fallout I mean getting angry that an institution implemented to maintain the rules based international order that the West itself tried to enforce questions Western action in a non binding way. As noted by quite a few international commentators, if anything had demonstrated the apparent weakness of the US to enforce this normality/weakening of US power to enforce Western opinions, Israel certainly is it.
And thanks RP – but dont worry, the adults are back in charge, and will help reduce Australia’s emissions by… expanding fossil fuel production and exportation. Great…
BadThinker
You must have missed my post earlier
The company, which has traditionally run in state-based fiefdoms, looks set to restructure into three silos. The metropolitan papers and websites would be in one silo, the free offerings including news.com.au in a second silo and prestige content including The Australian and luxury magazines including Vogue would be in a third silo.
To label The SmearStralian as ‘prestige content’ is the height of Orwellian double-speak.
It is a sheltered workshop for otherwise unemployable shills to pander to Rupert’s hatred of unions, women and progressive issues.
Kevin Bonham@kevinbonham:
Hollie Hughes loses NSW Senate preselection to Jess Collins. Hughes was endorsed by Dutton, Price, Cash and Paul Murray.