We’re about due for polls from Resolve Strategic in the Age/Herald and Freshwater Strategy in the Financial Review, which could perhaps be along this evening. The fortnightly Essential Research should also be along on Tuesday, and as always Roy Morgan will come through on Monday. Other than that, the dominating piece of electoral news at the moment is the publication of the proposed federal redistribution of New South Wales on Friday, for which you can see my estimated margins and party vote shares in the dedicated post, and read my analysis piece in Crikey if you’re a subscriber.
Semi-relatedly, it’s also been a big week for preselection news:
• Gavin Pearce, who has held the traditionally marginal seat of Braddon in north-western Tasmania for the Liberals since 2019, will not recontest the seat at the next election, saying his parliamentary career had “taken a toll” on his family life. A factional conservative ally of state party powerbroker Eric Abetz, Pearce earlier told colleagues he was holding back on nominating to force the party to block his arch-moderate colleague Bridget Archer in the neighbouring seat of Bass, who in the event was preselected unopposed. The party will have to reopen nominations in Braddon, for which the failure of Pearce or anyone else to nominate last week was the first indication of his impending retirement. Matthew Denholm of The Australian reports Latrobe deputy mayor Vonette Mead is “understood to be the most likely candidate to replace Mr Pearce”, while Burnie deputy mayor Giovanna Simpson “has also been touted but is said to be eyeing the state upper house seat of Montgomery”. Both were candidates in Braddon at the March state election, respectively polling 2.1% and 2.6% on a Liberal ticket dominated by Premier Jeremy Rockliff.
• Another retirement announcement last week was that of Maria Vamvakinou, who has held the safe Labor seat of Calwell in northern Melbourne since 2001. Paul Sakkal of The Age reports Basem Abdo, a communications specialist born in Kuwait of Palestinian parents, has what seems decisive backing to succeed her from the Socialist Left faction.
• James Campbell of the Daily Telegraph reports former New South Wales Treasurer Matt Kean is weighing up a preselection challenge against Bradfield MP Paul Fletcher, after the redistribution proposal made it likely the seat will be contested by teal independent member Kylea Tink, whose seat of North Sydney is to be abolished. The report quotes a Liberal source saying there would be “an argument among the moderates about who is best to hold that seat and a lot of them are going to say it is Matt Kean”. This would require reopening nominations for the seat, but Kean would likely have enough support to accomplish this.
• The Australian’s Feeding the Chooks column reports two candidates have nominated for Labor preselection in the northern Brisbane seat of Longman, which the party lost in 2019 and failed to win back in 2022: Rebecca Fanning, who has worked for Steven Miles, Wayne Swan and most recently state Mines Minister Scott Stewart, and Rhiannyn Douglas, a 27-year-old Left-aligned party organiser and former staffer to state Environment Minister Meaghan Scanlon.
• Claire Clutterham, Norwood Payneham and St Peters councillor and special counsel at LK Law, appears set to be the Labor candidate for the Adelaide seat of Sturt, held for the Liberals by James Stevens on a margin of 0.5%, after a public endorsement from Anthony Albanese. InDaily reported last week that no other nominees were expected.
• Katina Curtis of The West Australian reports that Ian Goodenough, who has lost Liberal preselection for his northern Perth seat of Moore, says he is considering accepting an invitation from the Nationals to join the party, and has also raised the possibility of running as an independent. The Nationals have been pursuing designs on seats in Perth at the looming federal and state elections, and are “excited about the new seat of Bullwinkel”, a mixed urban-rural seat that encompasses traditionally Nationals-voting territory in the Avon Valley east of Perth.
• In her The Sauce column in the Sunday Telegraph, Linda Silmalis reports former state Nationals leader Paul Toole is a potential candidate for Calare, whose member Andrew Gee has been sitting as an independent since he quit the party in December 2022 over his support for the Indigenous Voice. Silmalis says there are also moves in the Liberal Party to persuade former state minister David Elliott to consider seeking preselection in Greenway, where the proposed boundaries reduce the Labor margin from 11.5% to 8.2% on my calculations. Elliott has often been mentioned in relation to the seat of Parramatta, where the party preselected local lawyer Katie Mullens after he declined to put his name forward.
The Reynolds/Higgins court case will turn things round when people are reminded what a bunch of scumbags the Liberals really are, all reinforced by the Mystery Man’s trial in Toowoomba.
Stinker @ #250 Sunday, June 16th, 2024 – 7:42 pm
It’s just not working for Albanese. Hence the PPM. But yes, he needs an attack dog. Jim Chalmers sure ain’t it. Who should it be?
Wow. Another poll, more hyperbole from conservatives reading way too much into ONE poll here on PB and more bed wetting free advise for the PM to get his bitch on and mimick Duttons school bully antics from the leftie depth
Really ? FFS, chill. The election is a long long way down the road and potatoe head et al start on 56 seats. That’s 20 seats for a majority. 20
Whatever he gains by selling a lemon to outer suburban Labor seats will be offset in some measure by losing inner city and metro seats to the Teals, failing to regain Brisbane and Ryan from the Greens and other ‘didn’t see that coming’ losses both sides are vulnerable to. CHILL Laborites Please.
Badthinkersays:
Sunday, June 16, 2024 at 7:14 pm
Reynolds/Higgins Defamation Trial starts 23 july.
Possibility of any bad news for Labor out of that?
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A former Liberal Minister is suing a former Liberal staffer, who was raped in her office. In the criminal court proceedings the former Liberal Minister was seen to be very supportive of the rapists side. I think there certainly could be some more bad news for the Liberal Party in this still to come. Any bad news for Labor supporters will be confined to things like potential popcorn shortages i think.
If the rapist is found to be a serial one, following the Toowoomba court case. It will reflect even worse on the Liberal Party.
C@tmommasays:
Sunday, June 16, 2024 at 7:13 pm
nadia88 @ #201 Sunday, June 16th, 2024 – 6:27 pm
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I don’t expect the PM to roll up his sleeves and do the dirty work. He needs a “nasty” to do all this for him. Hawke had Keating, Howard had Reith and then Abbott. Abbott had Morrison. Albo doesn’t seem to have anyone who can be a complete bumhole to opponents. Chalmers wants to be seen as nice, Tanya seems to have been ostracised, Bill sits there like a smirking assassin. I agree, someone needs to be a bit of a “C” (sorry I’m not going to use that 4 letter word) and no-one expects Mr Albanese to have to do that job.
With regard to your earlier pot/kettle comment – I enjoy the posts of Been There, Mavis & you. Can we not re-litigate that night pls. No one wants to go back there. I would prefer you pen your thoughts, down the track. on your recent experience in the U.S. and where you think things are heading on Nov-5.
And it is the Nationals now, via ex-leader Barnaby Joyce, Gina Reinhardt and Clive Palmer, calling for the complete withdrawal from net-zero by 2050.
There, fixed it for Mark Kenny.
The irony is, C@t, that in the previous Labor government, it was Albo himself with the role, and I think it was much more authentically him than the current PM gig. Nobody really stands out for that kind of role in this Government – possibly Burke, but it’s kinda been his role for quite a long time and I’m not sure he’s ever cut through much. Maybe Bowen is a shout too, though I’ve personally never found him a particularly effective communicator.
Sandman,
I don’t want to criticise your thoughtful comment, but I am looking at the trend and worrying about that.
One might even suggest that Kristina Keneally would’ve been the perfect assassin for Albo’s Pm’ship. Alas…
Edit. I meant ‘nasty’ as Nadia88 had suggested. Assassin gives altogether the wrong impression.
Looking more closely at the Resolve PPM figures –
NSW – Albo 33 Dutton 31
VIC – Albo 38 Dutton 34
Rest of Australia – Albo 36 Dutton 34
So how do you get a national figure of Albo 35 Dutton 36?
Apparently the weight of QLD with Albo 29 Dutton 48 blasts the rest of the country’s views on PPM out of the water. Huge if true!
C@tmomma says:
Sunday, June 16, 2024 at 7:41 pm
Even with the weightings etc.
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All the weighting will do is give it the correct population profile, e.g. age structure – the underlying data could be skewed to LNP friendlies.
If you have ever done one from that online surveyz website it is very interesting. You get selected for surveys to do but also have to answer a few screening questions to get included, and to get your $3 o so reward!.
The screening questions are the odd ones where you could get bias as you can game the system to get included. It is all conjecture as I have no idea how their system works.
Your phone example demonstrated the dilemma faced by pollsters, how to collect a balanced representative sample.
I reiterate that it wouldn’t matter if anyone from Labor became an amazing attack dog… because the thing with the recent attack dogs is that they (when their cabinets were in power) could point at at least one loud policy item and say they achieved it.
Abbott and the removal of the “carbon tax”
Morrison and “stopped the boats”
You need someone from Labor that a) seems authentically like a fighter, and b) can point to a loud piece of policy … such a person doesn’t exist. Funnily enough I would argue shorten (in a different lifetime) but the narrative behind the ndis (big loud policy) has been so controlled by the coalition as to make it toxic (amongst every other issue with shorten)
sprocket_ says:
Sunday, June 16, 2024 at 7:56 pm
Looking more closely at the Resolve PPM figures –
NSW – Albo 33 Dutton 31
VIC – Albo 38 Dutton 34
Rest of Australia – Albo 36 Dutton 34
So how do you get a national figure of Albo 35 Dutton 36?
Apparently the weight of QLD with Albo 29 Dutton 48 blasts the rest of the country’s views on PPM out of the water. Huge if true!
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Does it give the cell sizes for the state results i.e. the n=? then we can work it out.
Hmmm the PV is interesting too
NSW – ALP 29 LNP 37
VIC – ALP 29 LNP 32
Rest of Australia – ALP 30 LNP 35
QLD – ALP 23 LNP 40
J J Hallsays:
Sunday, June 16, 2024 at 7:55 pm
One might even suggest that Kristina Keneally would’ve been the perfect assassin for Albo’s Pm’ship. Alas…
Edit. I meant ‘nasty’ as Nadia88 had suggested. Assassin gives altogether the wrong impression.
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Isn’t the term “head kicker”?
So if QLD returns massive majorities in the LNP seats for their favourite son – Peter Dutton – will it have any effect on how the rest of the country votes?
With a net PPM lead for Dutton of 19 points over Albo in QLD – the 30 seats there are home and hosed for the LNP. Even the Greens in Brisbane will get wiped out.
Stinker @ #258 Sunday, June 16th, 2024 – 7:51 pm
I thought about Tony Bourke, but he doesn’t have an acerbic wit. Chris Bowen has a lot on his plate right now, which I can’t say anything about, so you can count him out for the foreseeable.
My favourites are Jason Clare and Ed Husic. I believe they should be allowed to be a bit more freewheeling. I thought Penny Wong was good on Insiders this morning, and David Speers knew it too when he attempted to stop her speaking outside her portfolio about Dutton’s total abandonment, for the foreseeable future, of any real action to deal with Climate Change.
But, the Treasurer is usually the one who can speak across all portfolios with authority and be the lead attack dog, but that isn’t Jim Chalmers. So, you have the top two members of the government not able to cut the Coalition down to size effectively.
The breakdowns of which party is performing better in different policy areas is very interesting. The Liberals have a fairly modest but clear lead in both ‘housing affordability and rent’ and ‘keeping the cost of living low’. That’s what Labor needs to swing back.
Lordbainsays:
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Nadia, short answer is that this is the death of the 2 party system, and because enough voters in Australia understand preference flows (in theory) they feel comfortable voting for a smaller party that either more closely aligns to their policy views/wish to shift the overton window to the left, rather then just keeping voting for Labor in the “broad church” approach (especially since Labor left wingers keep getting screwed over). It’s more complicated (demograhic changes etc) but Labor has really sropped the ball on messaging and policy (for the left).
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Voting for a smaller party – the ways the Greens are heading they will no longer be a smaller party. They are regularly pulling 14-15% of the primary now. How long before they breach the 18-20% mark.
Is Gaza the issue or the approval of the Beetaloo Mine on Jun-7 causing more of a ruction?
Thanks for your response lordbain, and to confirm I’m not into backbiting other posters. Am interested in people’s opinions. Thanks for taking time out to respond.
Fin review Phil Coorey is talking about a freshwater poll tonight.Labor vote holds.
Albanese vote going backwards,Dutton increasing.
Fair enough cat. I love your worrying mind_ shows you give a damn about our future as a country and not just taking cheap shots at people on PB for laughs like some I won’t name. Still recommend a chill pill though.
Fumbles
No cell sizes or crosstabs from what I can see. Unless someone else has these from Resolve?
Best data is here
https://www.smh.com.au/national/resolve-political-monitor-20210322-p57cvx.html
(especially since Labor left wingers keep getting screwed over).
Prime Minister = Labor Left
Foreign Minister = Labor Left
Thanks, Entropy. Headkicker would’ve been the correct term.
Freshwater poll, still 50-50
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/labor-slumps-on-climate-cost-of-living-as-albanese-s-ratings-fall-20240616-p5jm40
If the above is paywalled and you don’t know how to get around it, should be able to open the below images which are embedded in the article. The first one is the main one.
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Sandman @ #271 Sunday, June 16th, 2024 – 8:05 pm
Maybe I’ll chillax when Morgan comes through tomorrow. 😉
You know, I’m starting to think the direct approach of Morgan is gaining in validity as the phone/online method of polling is becoming bent out of shape by human behaviour.
There is boiler plate Resolve methodology, from which you could make assumptions – but not the cells for this particular 16/6/24 sample..
If n=1,600 AND NSWand VIC = 500*2= n=1,000 then you have n=600 divided between QLD and Rest of Australia.
So assume QLD n=300
The Resolve Political Monitor (RPM) is usually conducted on a monthly basis by Resolve Strategic on behalf of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, but becomes more frequent during election campaigns..
The first track in April 2021 and final track in May 2022 use a sample of n=2,000 Australians who will be of voting age at the next election, comprising n=400 random telephone (mobile and landline CATI) interviews and n=1,600 on-line interviews (from reputable panels employing off-line recruitment techniques and incentives), with a notional error margin of +/-2.2% (at the 95% confidence interval).
Other tracks typically employ an n=1,600 on-line sample (+/-2.5%), though their exact make-up may vary according to circumstances, e.g. frequency and sample size may change around election periods. In all cases, minimum quotas are set for age, sex, area and other demographic or lifestyle attributes, and data weighting is employed where required to ensure accurate representation of the population.
These samples include a minimum of n=500 interviews in each of NSW and Victoria (weighted to actual population proportions) to allow for bi-monthly samples of n=1,000+ on state-based political questions, such as vote and preferred Premier. All other breakdowns by geo-demographics and voting blocks are based on statistically significant sample sizes unless otherwise stated.
Cat, name me policy positions from the Labor left that are currently being championed in parliament.
Nadia, no problem; I doubt it’s gaza, and more the generally “small target apathy” on topics like climate change (labors gas policy) and housing (relying on soft touch market investment as opposed to a Menzies level policy plan) that is the cause of the left leak
WB or anyone – from memory, when do the AFR/Freshwater figures get released. ie: Is it tonight around 10-1030 pm, or is it early tomorrow morning when the early morning posters pick it up.
Leroy @ #275 Sunday, June 16th, 2024 – 8:08 pm
Labor primary
Resolve – 28
Freshwater – 32
This Labor government is “meek” because the current economic circumstances don’t reward a “steady as she goes” governance approach, and the economic leadership team (ministers and public service) do not hold a candle on the 2008/GFC crew.
I think the real problem is Jim “Dr in Paul Keating studies” Chalmers – he doesn’t seem to have an “economic policy” in mind other than basic budget balancing.
Those green dots bumping along the bottom of the chart are Resolve…
There’s a very clear and definite trend in PPM over numerous polls now. It’s pretty troubling.
Cat, name me policy positions from the Labor left that are currently being championed in parliament.
Nothing that would satisfy you, I imagine. And why only ‘in parliament’ and why only ‘now’? Outside of parliament is where things are being done. Parliament is only for histrionics. And passing legislation, which the government have done plenty of, and a lot of it very Left of Centre.
Bizzcan @ #282 Sunday, June 16th, 2024 – 8:15 pm
People keep saying that he should be bolder, economically.
A reminder that PPM polling is ‘still rubbish’, according to Dr Bonham
https://kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2020/04/why-better-prime-ministerpremier-scores.html
C@t at 8.20pm
People keep saying that he should be bolder, economically.
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I’m sure some do, but people saying he should be “bold” without context or content is banal. Economic boldness is also usually shorthand for “tough policy calls that create losers in addition to winners”. I’m not sure there’s any appetite for proper reform in that sense, because how can you sell creating losers in the current climate? It’s a tough cycle.
sprocket at 8.21pm
I’m not going to disagree with Kevin’s assessment, but this comment in bold at the top:
“ Better Leader scores are skewed indicators that favour incumbents by around 14-17 points at both state and federal level.”
goes to show how dire Albanese’s current PPM scores are.
Cat just answered another part of the question; the traditional left wing of the Labor part (economic or social left) doesn’t have much to talk about atm. The parties climate change policies are a mixture of existing coalition plans (accus, safeguard facilities etc) with a continued approval of.fossil fuel exploitation. The environmental laws were implemented… with holes large enough to make then worthless. Housing policy… is a “the market will solve it/slow and steady approach”. The Nacc was designed in conjunction with the coalition party. And that’s just a few of labors current “achievements”… again, what is there for the left wing Labor voters to be happy with?
Meanwhile over in Europe there’s a new UK Opinium poll that I’m not sure has been posted yet, taken from 12-14 June (compared to the last one on 5-7 June)
Labour: 40% (-2)
Conservative: 23% (-1)
Lib Dem: 12% (+2)
Reform: 14% (+2)
Green: 7% (0)
SNP: 2% (-1)
Other: 2% (0)
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And for the Legislative election in France, there’s a Cluster17 poll taken from 11-13 June with some interesting findings.
First Round Voting Intention:
RN (Marine Le Pen’s party): 29.5%
NFP (Socialist Left-Green Alliance): 28.5%
ENS (Macron’s party): 18%
UDC (Centre-Right): 7%
REC (Far-Right): 3.5%
Other: 13.5%
Seat projections:
RN: 195-245
NFP: 190-235
ENS: 70-100
UDC: 23-35
Others: 20-36
To be fair, it’s their first released poll since 2022 (as far as I know of from Wikipedia), but it shows that Marine Le Pen’s National Rally doesn’t necessarily have a clear path to a majority.
Morrison was hated.
Albanese was not loved in perhaps the Rudd sense but came in respected but I think there was an overall indifference about him for the majority (he was just not Morrison and people were prepared to give him a chance).
I do not think the indifference has necessarily shifted in Govt because for of all the messaging of ‘we have sensible people in charge now’ people expect some change or reform when things are not tracking well economically.
Be sensible all you like but when there is a perception (rightly or wrongly) of doing nothing to address fundamental issues being felt combined with a starting position of indifference it can swing hard and fast against you. Im sure Albanese has it all in order.
In any event, I doubt Dutton can get over the line but I do tend to think we are starting to see more fracturing of the two party system. Both parties are going to need to confront the idea of minority governments moving forward increasingly.
hi wranslide nice to see you back.
Good logical post btw.
Thanks for that poll Kirksdale; I’ll be very interested to see how long the left wing alliance lasts (historically its a matter of when and not if such alliances collapse). But it does highlight that Europe’s “march to the right” isn’t completely accurate… I would argue march from the centre is more accurate, but less catchy
When you have a WA politician on 160 k a year holed up in a hotel because he cannot get a place to live its bye bye labor.
Today driving about Perth people still at traffic lights holding accom wanted signs,tents still in Parks and people living in cars along the swan river car parks.
To be clear, my definition of “bold economic policy” is not the old “reform” rhetoric of the Business council type, or radical redistribution of some further to the left.
My argument is that free trade and “competitive advantage” is dead, so hard economic nationalism is the best way to drive (and sell) the climate transition. Even if it costs more, this government needs to make it loud and constantly announce that Aussie jobs will be created in achieving net zero.
I’m actually supprised that the Greens aligned media are not onboard with this given their constant banging on about “neoliberalism”. I see much more “lol, just buy it from China” type articles when it comes to batteries and solar, the economic policy equivalent of Bob Brown’s mad convoy to Queensland.
No gimmicks, just good policy that helps people rather than party donors.
Don’t capitulate to corporate/industry bullies. They don’t vote. People vote.
sprocket_says:
Sunday, June 16, 2024 at 7:56 pm
Looking more closely at the Resolve PPM figures –
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So how do you get a national figure of Albo 35 Dutton 36?
Apparently the weight of QLD with Albo 29 Dutton 48 blasts the rest of the country’s views on PPM out of the water. Huge if true!
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Sprox – the thing with QLD though is it doesn’t really count at the next election (sorry to fellow QLD’ers). The LNP is at the high water mark in QLD with regard to Federal divisions. The polls in QLD will only increase the margins of LNP Federal members from the 5-10% mark, to the 15-20% mark. It’s similar to a swing to the ALP in the A.C.T (ie: it doesn’t mean anything with regard to picking up seats, all it does is cement the vote).
The real political battle plays out in Sydney’s western suburbs (the area west of west connex, and a little bit north of west connex), and very much likely in W.A. If W.A. voters start returning to “mama Liberal cow”, then that’s the end of an Albo majority gov’t next election.
WA & Western & North Western Sydney will determine who is the gov’t next election, not Qld.
Thanks C@tmomma for that voter issues table from Freshwater.
Wow, a quick eyeball comparison between Freshwater and Resolve ‘voter issues’ list, which which is almost identical, shows that the ranking of the issues is pretty much the same but the ALP preferred vote is uniformly about 2-4 percent lower across almost all issues with the LNP a similar increase with the exception of National security.
Both are online surveys and I bet are using a very similar survey instrument. The rankings are pretty much the same just the ALP vote is systematically lower across them. C@tmomma
wranslide says:
Sunday, June 16, 2024 at 8:31 pm
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I do not think the indifference has necessarily shifted in Govt because for of all the messaging of ‘we have sensible people in charge now’ people expect some change or reform when things are not tracking well economically.
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21. Albanese Government funds $500 million to Powering Australian Technology Fund to boost renewables.
22. Rewiring the Nation Plan will fast track renewables in Victoria. Funding includes $1.5 billion in concessional financing. Government investment is expected to attract $1.5 billion in private investment.
23. Albanese Government funds $10 million to assist in the measurement of soil carbon.
24. Albanese Government joins with global partners to launch the World’s first Net Zero Government Initiative at Cop 27.
25. Albanese Government joins alliance offshore wind industry.
26. Joint Tasmanian and Albanese Government funding support to fund over $1 billion boost for a suite of projects to shift to renewables and to reduce carbon. Includes the Marinus link. Funding is expected to trigger net market value of $4.5 billion.
27. Albanese Government endorses Glasgow Breaklthrough Agenda on Agriculture.
28. Albanese Government joins International Mangrove Alliance for Climate Action.
29. Albanese Government joins COP 27 pledge to clean up the international shipping industry.
30. Albanese Government announces introduction of tighter emissions standards for vehicles.
31. Albanese Government funds $14 million to measure real-world fuel use by vehicles.
32. Albanese Government becomes a founding member of the Forests and Climate Leadership Partnership.
33. Commences public consultation on improved fuel quality standards.
34. Albanese Government welcomes AEMO’s decision to suspend the wholesale spot market.
35. Albanese Government commits to stronger action on climate change. This change in stance is welcomed world wide. It is also the signal for increased private sector in renewable.
36. Albanese Government funds $45 million to the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics.
37. Emissions standards implemented.
1. Nine of 14 Australian representatives at the coronation are women.
2. Labor appoints a woman, Kerry Schott, to conduct a review of the Inland Rail Project.
3. Labor appoints a woman, Deborah Brennan, to conduct an inquiry into the childcare system.
4. Labor appoints a woman, Lynelle Briggs, to conduct a jobs-for-the-boys inquiry into the Public Service Board appointments.
5. Labor’s $300 million boost to the arts will include measures to mandate fair pay and workplace safety in the arts industry.
6. Labor funds $1.1 billion to bring forward 180,000 free TAFE positions. The conditions include encouraging women male dominated industries including into construction jobs.
7. Labor fund aged care wages increase: $3.4 billion a year. The large majority of people in aged care are women. The large majority of aged care workers are women.
8. Labor appoints Christine Nixon to undertake an inquiry into sex trafficking.
9. Labor initiates a national policy discussion on policies to make dating apps more safe.
10. Eight out of ten senior diplomatic posts filled with female appointees.
11. First ever ambassador for gender equity appointed.
12. A woman (Susan Kenny) is appointed as acting president to clean out the AAT.
13. After eons of granting a large majority of grants to male researchers, the NHMRC is to award grants worth $923 million on a roughly fifty/fifty basis.
14. 14 women and 9 men in the Victorian Labor Government Cabinet.
15. Respect in the Workplace legislation.
16. Gender equity is a core objective of the new IR legislation.
17. Katy Gallagher: $5m over five years to boost the number of women in public office. The women in public office grant is designed to encourage – and prepare – more women to run for elections at all levels.
18. Making good on rescuing Australian women and children from hell hole camps in Syria.
19. Vic Labor supports the Diamonds, filling the ethical and financial hole left vacant by a certain commercial interest.
20. The Government today announced the appointment of Adjunct Professor Debora Picone AO as Chair of the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Review Reference Committee.
21. National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022–2032
22. Extension of paid parental leave in the 2022 Budget at a cost of $532 million.
23. Ms Robyn Kruk AO to lead an independent review of the regulatory settings relating to health practitioner registration and qualification recognition for overseas trained health professionals and international students who have studied in Australia
24. Moves afoot to rescue 20 Australian women and around 40 children from a Turkish internment camp.
25. Jayne Jagot appointed to Australia’s High Court, creating first majority-female bench.
26. Ms Falkingham will be the first permanent female Chief Executive of the NDIA.
27. Federal Labor has appointed three eminently well qualified women to the Climate Council. This offsets the undue representation of businessmen on the Council.
28. Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Burney supports the development of a separate National Strategy to Address Violence against Indigenous Women. The latter will be heavily involved in the design of the Strategy.
29. The Victorian government on Sunday announced it would spend $270 million to recruit and train thousands of new nurses and midwives under the scheme.
30. Labor has more female MPs than male MPs. (The Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison governments were not within a bull’s roar of this achievement.)
31. Labor is fully committed to implementing all of the Jenkins Report recommendations. (The Morrison Government implemented a few recommendations but basically sat on the vast majority of the Report’s recommendations.)
32. High levels of women in the ministry. (Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison governments had far, far fewer women in the ministry).
33. Labor gave a direction to the Fair Work Commission to specifically take into account the gender pay gap along with power to make gender specific determinations to close the gap. (The Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison governments had one universal ambitions: to damp down any real wage growth and showed zero interest in closing the gender pay gap.)
34. Labor intervened directly in the minimum wage decision which disproportionately benefits the lowest paid workers: women. (Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison did not do this.)
35. In recent departmental secretary appointments: Labor appointed three out of the four women. (Morrison’s last five secretarial appointments in 2019 involved a net loss of three women.)
36. Labor is setting the tone by promising to make boards, such as the Reserve Bank Board more representative.
37. Three Labor women ministers to lead aspects of the skills and jobs summit that relate to women’s participation, women upskilling and closing the wages gap.
38. Labor has avoided school holidays for sitting days.
39. Labor has instituted humane sitting hours on sitting days.
40. Morrison Government sat on the Report on the National Stakeholder Consultation for a Ten Year Domestic Violence Plan. Labor has released the Report with expedition.
41. Labor introduces paid domestic violence leave legislation
42. Ten days domestic violence leave for casual workers.
43. Submission to the Fair Work Commission on pay in the Aged Care industry. Four out of five workers in that industry are women.
44. Moves to legislate on coercive control. Not one of those eleven were in place in the past nine years.
45. Removes the ban on military and public service staff from engaging in certain “woke” charity, cultural and diversity events, imposed by former minister Peter Dutton last year.
46. Catherine Holmes is appointed Royal Commissioner for the Robodebt Royal Commission.
47. Jacinta Allan, Premier of Victoria
48. Appointment of Michelle Bullock as Governor of the Reserve Bank.
49. Micaela Cronin was appointed as the inaugural Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner on 1 November 2022.
50. Jim Chalmers said that Greg Combet will begin his tenure as future fund chair “around the middle of the year”. In the interim, the government has appointed Mary Reemst as acting chair, beginning 4 February.
51. The government has also appointed Nicola Wakefield-Evans and Rosemary Vilgan as part-time members of the board for five-year terms.
52. Employer gender pay gaps made public.
53. Paid parental leave increased by six weeks for both parents.
54. Parental leave to attract superannuation payment – benefiting in particular women who otherwise suffer a disadvantage in retirement incomes.
55. Tax cuts differentially benefit women who are concentrated in feminized industries.
56. Improved reporting on intimate partner homicide.
57. Improved access to 1800RESPECT by introducing an SMS service channel.
58. Support for the re-election of Natasha Stott-Despoya to the UN Committee On Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.
59. $950 million to help victims of DV escape DV.
60. Nikki Savva appointed to the Board of Old Parliament House.
61. $3.7 billion on DV.
Stinker @ #288 Sunday, June 16th, 2024 – 8:26 pm
We are still functioning with economic policy today that Hawke and Keating championed, and that includes the GST, which Keating championed but Howard introduced ultimately, that has not been unpicked by the Coalition. That’s the sort of boldness I’m looking for.
One example, which has had a kite flown for it but has not been implemented, is to tack a .5% levy onto the Medicare Levy to help pay for the NDIS. I mean, everyone knows that the costs to the Budget for the NDIS are ballooning, but the fixes appear to be cosmetic only. I mean, do you really think anyone could object to that? I know that some might say that it would only encourage more financial largesse in the NDIS, but if you combine that with cost control and fraud prosecution then you solve a problem that is out there.
That’s just one example.