Moving on from Queensland, up to a point, three items of polling to relate:
• The weekly Roy Morgan poll has Labor’s two-party lead in from 52-48 to 50.5-49.5, from primary votes of Labor 30% (down two), Coalition 37.5% (up one), Greens 14% (up half) and One Nation 5.5% (steady). Based on 2022 election flows, Labor leads 51.5-48.5, in from 53-47. The poll was conducted Monday to Sunday from a sample of 1687.
• Roy Morgan also has a result on republicanism that points to the brittleness of the support for the concept that polls generally record when the issue is out of the limelight. In the wake of the royal visit, a forced-response SMS poll of 1312 respondents conducted last Tuesday and Wednesday broke 57-43 in favour of retaining the monarchy.
• RedBridge Group has a timely result of federal voting intention from Queensland (hat tip to comments regular Nadia88) that has Labor on 28%, compared with 27.4% at the 2022; the Coalition at 41%, compared with 39.6%; the Greens at 13%, compared with 12.9%; and One Nation at 10%, compared with 7.5%. The poll was conducted several weeks ago, from October 4 to 16, from a substantial sample of 2315, and the full release contains detailed demographic breakdowns. It also finds Anthony Albanese on 34% approval and 53% disapproval; Peter Dutton on 39% and 42%; Steven Miles on 35% and 35%; and David Crisafulli on 40% and 31%.
• If you’re a Crikey subscriber, you can read my review of the Queensland election wash-up.
Rex/P1
” It’s as clear as day.
Australia needs to abandon AUKUS.
No need. AUKUS will abandon Australia.”
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I agree with Rex on this one. Australia has made the terms of AUKUS so generous to both USA (free bases built at our expense) and UK (free bailout of UK sub industry plus juicy un-tendered contract) that neither will abandon AUKUS, even if AUKUS fails to deliver to Australia. We will have to walk away from it because they won’t.
It will be very hard to prove AUKUS has “failed” because there is so much wiggle room in it to hide failure of delivery. Whilst this may be attractive to Defence so as to never be proven to have failed, equally, UK and USA will never appear to have not met their end of the bargain.
The inclusion of “AUKUS Pillar Two”, is really an open ended agreement to preferentially give more Defence contracts to UK and USA, again outside normal tender rules. Hence it will always be possible to point to some obscure project as proof AUKUS is “working”.
UK will never want to give up on AUKUS. We are paying half the UK’s sub development costs.
USA will never walk away from AUKUS till they decide to abandon their interest in the western Pacific.
Correct Lars.
2 weeks ago the Morgan primaries were 32 & 36.5 respectively.
Today 30.5 to 38. So yes a 3 point turnaround.
I don’t think WB includes Roy Morgan in bludgertrack, but KB certainly includes the two most recent Roy Morgan’s in his 2PP ticker. He only does a maximum of 2 polls from the one company.
Currently KB sits at 50.3 ALP.
Once he factors in this poll, I would expect it to drop down further, probably 50.1 or 50 evens.
WB last updated on Oct 22. He is a bit more harsh, with the LNP sitting at 50.2.
There was a slightly harsher poll tracker launched via the Guardian on Saturday, which had some very brutal figures.
Edit: There is also a further group called “Oceania Elects”, who are apparently going to launch their own poll averaging tracker.
Link here: https://oceaniaelects.com/australia/
If you scroll down the page, they have a section called National Polling Average, which is apparently being launched soon.
And the bubbles in the business lounge come from Tasmania!
Socrates @ #1850 Monday, November 4th, 2024 – 6:08 pm
I didn’t mean they will stop taking our money. They will take our money but not supply any nuclear submarines. The US have already begun discussing this possibility.
Suckers’R’us
I understand OC, the croutons are also very questionable in the Qantas club lounge when compared to the chairman’s lounge.
The smoked salmon also leaves much to be desired. Allegra will undergo real hardship for the sake of propriety
Just waiting on an update to the Resolve Political Monitor.
It’s due, but they may have pushed back, like Newspoll, in lieu of the U.S. election.
Link here: https://www.smh.com.au/national/resolve-political-monitor-20210322-p57cvx.html
… if anyone wishes to monitor.
We should have the Essential Vision Report tomorrow, and I guess we (perhaps me) are just awaiting Newspoll, Yougov, Redbridge & Resolve. Once again, the U.S. election is more important I suppose.
I saw that poll from this morning too – GXO strategies.
Gosh, fancy doing a poll and not releasing the primaries.
This is not the way to launch a new polling outfit.
I’m guessing oc theyll ask the remuneration tribunal for a hardship allowance to compensate for the higher level of intercourse with common folk which will result.
Haha.
Am I the only Bludger who has spent time in the Chairman’s Lounge?
It’s been a while.
The Watermelons have been strangely quiet for a while.
Unlike them!
Spender out-stunted them?
Wicked!
Someone needs to look at how many ABC “journalists” have jetted off to USA this week. Rowland, Speers, Fergusson, Lyons for starters.
I’m not sure what all those Aussie journalists tripping to the USA can tell us we can’t find on social media.
davidwhsays:
Monday, November 4, 2024 at 8:20 pm
[I’m not sure what all those Aussie journalists tripping to the USA can tell us we can’t find on social media.]
They just want to be significant al la “get a better job” Joe Hockey popping up recently to remind us of “significance”.
We are decluttering.
Decisions, decisions, decisions.
I have to hand a letter signed by one Peter Costello, then the Australian Treasurer, in response to a letter from a relation on the distaff side, said relation being responsible at some other time for signing letters to those chaps whose lottery ball had dropped the wrong way in the Great Roulette of Fate, said letters leading some 200 to their deaths and some 1200 to a spell in hospital with war wounds.
But I digress.
The correspondence concerned the title of ‘Father of Federation’ and whether Henry Parkes had the best claim to such a title. Yes, Parkes was a diligent fatherer but of the Federation? Really? Surely one Charles Gavan Duffy had a superior claim?
It turns out that Costello had no particular thought on the matter. He kindly shared that thought with the relation on the distaff side.
The best lounge I experienced was when stuck at Seattle airport for a number of hours. For $50 you could sign into the JAL lounge. Free food and drink, dark rooms for sleeping and the most comfortable lounge chairs. Also the kept tabs on you and let you know when your flight was about to board.
In Australia I was limited to QANTAS Club which wasn’t too tough. Because of the amount of flying I did and the company did I received plenty of upgrades to Business Class.
Never got near Chairman’s Lounge if it existed back then.
goll that makes sense I guess. 🙂
dwh
IMO there was a sort of proles contamination creep.
QANTAS Club used to do something of a job keeping the cattle class separate from the graziers.
But the hordes kept wanting to snuffle the goodies and share their perspiration odours until there was barely any real difference between inside and outside the lounges. Some airports were worse than others. I recall in particular grim times in Hobart when there was standing room only. I mean to say.
That was when the secret mens business of the Chairman’s Lounge started to get a grip. It was only ever going to work if the bouncers kept the hoi polloi out and the Eloi in. Which they were quite good at.
Being a constitutional monarchy, I think pelting mud at
Felipe & Letizia was over the top. Blame the government of
Sánchez for its seemingly slack handling of the flooding &
the Spanish State Meteorological Agency for apparently not giving warning of the deluge. If the King & Queen did make a mistake it was the delay in visiting the affected area.
Never was an Eloi BW
Well BW
Parkes, who was a first class racist and sectarian bigot, was the Premier of NSW who, in 1888, said his colony would henceforth be called “Australia” and the other colonies could do whatever they liked. The fact that he subsequently said that NSW might consider leading the federation certainly entitles him to be the federation’s father.
Anyway you couldn’t have a country founded on someone of the type of Charles Gavan Duffy – he’d have Queen Victoria deposed before the ink was dry.
The Spanish peasants are a tough gig, I suspect. The King and Queen of Spain deserved some credit. King Felipe was clearly doing a good job with the empathy thing talking to the crowd in the video I saw. Queen Letizia was being very stoic wiping mud off her face.
At least they weren’t on hols in Hawaii, or whatever the European equivalent is: skiing in Gstaad?
I see that the nation is following the deliberations of COP 16 with rapt attention.
After all human existence depends on biodiversity in multiple ways.
With terrestrial sinks starting to fail and oceanic sinks starting to look a bit iffy we have probably all picked up that the assumption that the planet is going to get to Zero Net anything is looking iffy as well. The feedback loops are starting to turn nasty. I am sure someone with an AI machine will be along presently.
LS
Did they venture into the Catalan Heartlands?
‘davidwh says:
Monday, November 4, 2024 at 8:41 pm
Never was an Eloi BW’
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True, I believe. It does rather seem to me that you actually worked for a living.
OC
I shall keep that in mind.
Environmental Audit
Win for Vic and WA Stopped logging, the Vic Govt had no choice as there is no more wood to take between whats been taken already and climate induced bushfires. Not sure on WA logging closure but would like to know more
Still logging TAS NSW and assume that QLD going to go back to its very bad clearing reputation days globally again?
Fossil fuels. We are sinking our islander neighbours. Dooming the unique southern continent with the already intense climate to a much more intense climatic future.
Fracking. Uranium. Coal. MAKE BETTER CHOICES
Too many wilfully do not listen to the Traditional Custodians.
Guaranteed though NATURE BATS LAST
The entire Betoota Advocate staffroom has today taken Monday afternoon off, after receiving its annual lifeline. With the first Tuesday in November now upon us, The Advocate has this week welcomed its eagerly awaited, yearly million dollar cheque from the Gambling Lobby.
Landing in the first week of November every single year, the cheque is payable for The Advocate’s favourable coverage of the Melbourne Cup.
Despite running stories like “Clag Truck Idles Out The Back Of Flemington Stables”, “Man Waits With Shotgun At The Finish Line,” “Betting Agencies Offering Bonus Bets If Your Horse Dies On The Track” and “Divorcee Makes An Absolute C*nt Of Himself At Work Function” – the Advocate also publishes one or two articles about one of the biggest days on the corporate, sporting and social calendar in a slightly favourable light. That coverage of those issues, as well as one or two about the #NupToCup brigade, is enough to see The Advocate earn a very lucrative million dollars.
I don’t understand why polls are being seemingly put on hold for the results of the US election. Yes it’s very consequential to our interests but it’s no good reason to hold off on them imo.
I don’t understand why some bludgers are obsessed with having polls every week. Is there a mental illness that requires them to have a new poll to discuss every week?
Despite my criticism of the AUKUS sub program, there are some sensible decisions being made in the ADF. One is partnering with Japan and Korea to build the next round of warships instead of traditional slower to arrive and more expensive European options. A decision on shortlisting is due soon.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-03/asian-shipyards-battle-for-australian-naval-contract/104553796
BW is it work when you love and enjoy doing it?
Holdenhillbillysays:
Monday, November 4, 2024 at 9:52 pm
I don’t understand why some bludgers are obsessed with having polls every week. Is there a mental illness that requires them to have a new poll to discuss every week?
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Pull your head in.
You are not allowed to accuse people of having a mental illness on here.
Holdenhillbilly says:
Monday, November 4, 2024 at 9:52 pm
I don’t understand why some bludgers are obsessed with having polls every week. Is there a mental illness that requires them to have a new poll to discuss every week?
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Just don’t get why national polling has to be put on hold for the US election, sure it’s very consequential for the world but it’s not going to effect national polling in the short term. I’m not sure why you have to raise mental illness as a possible cause for it, it’s kind of insane in itself to assume people are that needy for polling.
” No bigger rent-seeking parasite’ than nuclear industry, Matt Kean [Climate Change Authority Chair and former NSW Energy Minister] tells former Coalition colleagues in heated debate”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/04/no-bigger-rent-seeking-parasite-than-nuclear-industry-matt-kean-tells-former-coalition-colleagues-in-heated-debate
Steve777 says:
Monday, November 4, 2024 at 11:02 pm
” No bigger rent-seeking parasite’ than nuclear industry, Matt Kean [Climate Change Authority Chair and former NSW Energy Minister] tells former Coalition colleagues in heated debate”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/04/no-bigger-rent-seeking-parasite-than-nuclear-industry-matt-kean-tells-former-coalition-colleagues-in-heated-debate
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Dunno. I reckon the Federal Greens would give them a run for their money.
” No bigger rent-seeking parasite’ than nuclear industry, Matt Kean [Climate Change Authority Chair and former NSW Energy Minister] tells former Coalition colleagues in heated debate”
https://www.theguardian.com/australi
Unfortunately in this country they have plenty of competition
Good morning Dawn Patrollers
Here’s Paul Karp’s take on the rather inconsequential latest Essential poll.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/05/guardian-essential-poll-most-australians-think-politicians-should-not-accept-free-concert-tickets-and-flight-upgrades-ntwnfb
Simon Benson says we should be preparing for the longest election campaign in Australia’s history.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/prepare-for-the-longest-election-campaign-in-australias-history/news-story/c719b72511d3603520dea0916620ada4?amp
David Crowe reports that independent MPs Allegra Spender and Helen Haines are the latest MPs to ditch their VIP airline treatment as senior public servants are quizzed on their own access to Qantas’ Chairman’s Lounge.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/losing-trust-mps-say-they-ll-quit-chairman-s-lounge-and-virgin-vip-perks-too-20241104-p5knpf.html
What is the Reserve Bank waiting for? The data says cut, declares Craig Emerson.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/what-is-the-reserve-bank-waiting-for-the-data-says-cut-20241028-p5km2d
Although overshadowed by a horse race and a presidential election, Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock today should seize her share of the headlines with a single word: Success! Michael Pascoe explains.
https://michaelwest.com.au/falling-inflation-a-compelling-case-for-rba-to-cut-rates/
Peter Dutton has mocked Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s pledge to wipe 20 per cent off the student debt of 3 million Australians as an attempt to “make people like him again” as the $16 billion policy dominated the Coalition’s attack on Labor’s economic record. Olivia Ireland writes that opposition frontbencher Paul Fletcher and Nationals leader David Littleproud also slammed the proposal as a desperate giveaway, arguing it was “a profoundly unfair policy” that would cost all 27 million Australians but benefit only 3 million.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/profoundly-unfair-coalition-attacks-labor-s-hecs-debt-cut-plan-20241104-p5knlj.html
Chris Richardson writes that Albanese’s HECS gift is a reverse-Robin Hood.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/why-albanese-s-hecs-gift-is-a-reverse-robin-hood-20241104-p5knob.html
Colin Kruger reports that the embattled consulting firm PwC has confirmed that the federal police have raided its head office in Sydney in relation to a criminal probe into the sharing of sensitive government tax plans by a former PwC partner.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/afp-raids-pwc-offices-over-tax-scandal-20241104-p5knsw.html
Just like the Richard White scandal, the troubles of WA mining royalty Chris Ellison at Mineral Resources show the dire state of corporate governance in Australia, says Elizabeth Knight.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/the-bombshell-scandal-that-s-knocked-another-billionaire-off-his-perch-20241104-p5knoe.html
The AFR’s Mark Di Stefano and Neil Chenoweth take us inside the two-week unravelling of Chris Ellison’s hold on his empire.
https://www.afr.com/companies/mining/inside-the-two-week-unravelling-of-chris-ellison-s-hold-on-his-empire-20241104-p5knss
Matt Kean, the chair of the Climate Change Authority and a former New South Wales Liberal energy minister, has told a parliamentary estimates hearing there is “no bigger rent-seeking parasite than the nuclear industry” during a heated exchange with pro-nuclear senators. Appearing at estimates for the first time since his appointment in June, Kean argued with the independent senator Gerard Rennick about the cost of nuclear, telling the hearing: “If you want to see who are needing rent-seeking [and] trying to pull one over the eyes of the Australian public, it’s the nuclear industry.” Kean said the nuclear industry was “there propping up the coal industry, who want to extend their business models, squeeze out the last bits of profit at the expense of Australian consumers”.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/04/no-bigger-rent-seeking-parasite-than-nuclear-industry-matt-kean-tells-former-coalition-colleagues-in-heated-debate
Meanwhile, Queensland’s new Liberal National party government has cancelled a Labor hydro project despite public service advice that a downsized version of the scheme would have delivered “exceptional value on both a capacity and storage basis”.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/04/new-queensland-government-bins-labors-hydro-project-set-to-be-key-part-of-renewable-transition
Liam Mannix explains how Melbourne team using AI helped solve the mystery of a killer skin disease.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/melbourne-team-helped-solve-the-mystery-of-a-killer-skin-disease-20241103-p5kng6.html
From the outset, a question mark hovered over whether Australia’s federal National Anti-Corruption Commission would serve the purpose of shedding light on corruption in the public sector. The enacting legislation that brought it into existence, for instance, limit public hearings to “exceptional circumstances”, a reminder that transparency was going to be heavily conditioned, writes Binoy Kampmark.
https://johnmenadue.com/perceptions-of-bias-the-national-anti-corruption-commission-and-robodebt/
A small but influential number of medical practitioners who either actively obstruct abortion care or who are uninterested in providing it are leaving women unable to access abortion in many parts of rural New South Wales, a study has found. Melissa Davey tells us that it has led to informal and often underground networks of health workers providing information and access to abortion care to patients, the study found, with these providers burning out due to high demand and attitudes toward them.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/05/abortion-access-study-rural-new-south-wales-women
Bianca O’Neill tells us how the Melbourne Cup became the race that bores the nation.
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/racing/how-the-melbourne-cup-became-the-race-that-bores-the-nation-20241103-p5kngo.html
Stephen Bartholomeusz says that this election in the US has very real implications for the rest of the world and particularly for America’s traditional allies, facing a trade war and an American retreat from the global post-war order that it played such a central role in creating.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/knife-s-edge-how-the-us-election-will-shake-up-the-world-20241104-p5knm2.html
November 2024 could see the beginning of the end of two monsters and the end of the Frankenstein which created them: Donald Trump, Fox News, and News Limited, writes a hopeful Crispin Hull.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8810065/opinion-the-future-of-trump-fox-news-and-murdochs-empire/?cs=14329
“She’s not perfect but, unlike Donald Trump, there is nothing to fear about Kamala Harris”, headlines the SMH’s editorial.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/she-s-not-perfect-but-unlike-donald-trump-there-is-nothing-to-fear-about-kamala-harris-20241102-p5kndl.html
Greg Sheridan opines why a Trump victory will be the better outcome for Australia.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/a-trump-victory-will-be-the-better-outcome-for-australia/news-story/b083ca5b8758310303fe7f72878c3681?amp
Donald Trump remains a clear and present danger to the US republic, writes Troy Bramston who says that in the battle between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, the US has reached a turning point with democracy on the line.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/donald-trump-remains-a-clear-and-present-danger-to-the-us-republic/news-story/5cefbdaf59204fdc6651f4181fe18bfc?amp
Peter Hartcher has interviewed Steve Bannon, fresh out of prison, and was told that if Trump loses the election “it will be Stalingrad every day”. Nice.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/you-haven-t-seen-anything-trump-loyalist-bannon-prepared-for-new-levels-of-hostility-20241104-p5knlm.html
Sam Devine explains how with fraud, lawsuits, chaos Trump is preparing to contest the 2024 election.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/04/trump-2024-election-subversion-explainer
Even if Kamala Harris wins the U.S. Presidential Election, it wouldn’t be unlikely for Donald Trump to incite enough fear and hatred to steal the victory. George Grundy outlines a possible scenario.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/how-trump-might-steal-election-victory-from-kamala-harris,19138
David Swan examines the spectre of Elon Musk being given to audit the entire US government if Trump wins. America is f****d!
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/delete-delete-delete-musk-s-political-plans-put-millions-of-americans-at-risk-20241101-p5kn4b.html
After following Trump for the past two weeks, Michael Koziol has seen first hand why his detractors say the 78-year-old and his campaign are unravelling.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/bored-and-loose-trump-drops-last-shreds-of-discipline-and-lashes-out-20241104-p5knnp.html
Farrah Tomazin tells us that Americans are bracing for potential violence and unrest if Donald Trump doesn’t win the election, as the former president amplifies claims of voter fraud and lays the groundwork to challenge the outcome if Vice President Kamala Harris defeats him.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/officials-voters-bracing-for-possible-violence-after-us-election-20241104-p5knqp.html
Cartoon Corner
David Rowe
Matt Golding
Cathy Wilcox
Peter Broelman
Dionne Gain
Fiona Katauskas
Glen Le Lievre
Mark Knight
Spooner
From the US
Thanks BK
It’s a firm nup to the cup from me today. Got a day off too so won’t have to avoid the silliness at work
There’s a consistent anti-Trump vibe in the US cartoons today.
Thanks, BK
BK @ #1888 Tuesday, November 5th, 2024 – 7:15 am
With both leaders now firmly enmeshed in gate-gate, instead of abandoning their beloved “freebies” they appear to have decided to run the longest campaign in history.
Last time Albo won mainly because he was not Morrison, and it seems his strategy this time is that he is not Dutton. But Dutton’s counter strategy is clear – he just need to point out that he’s not Albo.
Either way it looks like being a tosser … errr … a toss-up.
@socrates, last night:
“ Despite my criticism of the AUKUS sub program, there are some sensible decisions being made in the ADF. One is partnering with Japan and Korea to build the next round of warships instead of traditional slower to arrive and more expensive European options. A decision on shortlisting is due soon.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-03/asian-shipyards-battle-for-australian-naval-contract/104553796”
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Actually, Navantia’s offering is more likely to be cheaper and quicker to deliver than the three proposals from Japan and Korea. Also more easily configured to RAN requirements. Two ships could be completed and delivered within 3 years after final specifications and design requirements agreed upon. Assuming they win and those details are netted out over the next 12 months, then we could realistically see two spanish built ‘Tasman Class’ frigates enter RAN service by the end of 2028. With the third and final foreign built example in 2029 and the remaining 8 built in Perth throughout the 2030s. … just saying.
Possibly the wrong thread, but it pertains to the Australian government so putting it here.
I pretty much agree with the thrust of this Paul Daley article, which means I’m pretty disappointed with our government, a Labor government no less, so busily prostrating itself before a potential Trump presidency
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/05/a-second-trump-presidency-would-put-australia-on-a-collision-course-with-the-us
To me, this shows the absolute lack of principles in the modern ALP if they’re willing to work with a potential Trump administration. The tacit support for the Israeli government is bad enough, but Trump has actually declared his fascist intentions via project 2025 and his various speeches and whatnot, and the fact that the ALP would even consider working with him is beyond the pale.
How did we get that insecure as a nation? Where did the Alps desire for a truly independent foreign policy go, did it die with crean? (It did)
So we have a choice now of a pro Trump coalition and an ALP that will ‘work with’ a possible trump administration.
Fuck. Me.
Australia actually doesn’t need jack shit from the US. We should close pine gap and the north west cape and fuck the bombers off and the marines toot suite, they don’t guarantee our security in the slightest and are actually giant nuclear targets on our back.
It’s a disgrace that the modern ALP is so bereft of principles that they would consider working with a trump administration and all that it stands for
I look forward to the likes of BW, AE and others to mansplain to me just how our fealty to a trump administration will declare our security and totally protect us, because the ALP is of course a viable mass market organisation with deep ties to the community that genuinely represents the general populace, as their primary continues to tank
The Australian Government will need to work with whoever the voters of the USA choose, like all the other Governments. That’s not “ fealty” to a Trump administration, although that ‘s what a Trump administration will get from the Australian Government should the Coalition win in May.
Actually the elections in 2016 2020 and 2040 were all close. The outcomes in margins were different depending on who won the close seats.
In 2016 Trump just did enough to win.
In 2020 Biden won most of the close seats
In 2024 it appears Trump won most if not all of the close seats.
The way of choosing the president should be who ever wins the popular vote.
Washington dc should have 2 senators as should some of the other territories
The senate should be double the term of the Lower house and elected as a whole each 4 years.
Ranked choice voting should be used for all elections in all states.