Two new polls out this evening, one being the first Newspoll result from The Australian in four weeks, showing the Coalition with an unchanged two-party lead of 51-49. Both major parties are up two on the primary vote, Labor to 33% and the Coalition to 40%, with the Greens down one to 11% and One Nation down two to 5%. Anthony Albanese is steady on 40% approval and up one on disapproval to 55%, while Peter Dutton is up two on approval to 40% and down one on disapproval to 51%. Albanese’s lead as preferred prime minister narrows from 45-37 to 45-41. The poll was conducted Monday to Friday from a sample of 1261.
Nine Newspapers has the monthly Resolve Strategic poll has Labor unchanged on 30%, the Coalition up one to 39%, the Greens down one to 11%, One Nation steady on 5%, independent down one to 11% and others up one to 4%. I reckon this to put two-party preferred somewhere between 50-50 and 51-49 to the Coalition, based on preference flows at the 2022 election. Anthony Albanese is up two on approval to 37% and down one on disapproval to 51%, while Peter Dutton is up four to 45% and down one to 40%. The two leaders are tied 37-37 on preferred prime minister, after Albanese led 38-35 last time.
The poll also finds 26% rating Donald Trump positively and 55% negatively, compared with 41% and 25% for Kamala Harris, with 40% considering Trump’s election will be bad for Australia compared with 29% for good. A series of findings on foreign policy questions, one being that 27% agreement that Australia should pause or withdraw from the AUKUS nuclear submarines arrangement with 35% disagreeing. The poll was conducted Tuesday to Saturday from a sample of 1621.
Do you think it’s all over for Albo, Kirsdarke?
Me thinks minority ALP.
The LNP 40% primary is most likely locked up in QLD, the NT and outback NSW.
The Resolve poll earlier this evening showed the LNP federally sitting at 43% in QLD. Not really going to help the LNP as they hold a lot of seats in QLD anyway. ie. Will only increase margins on existing seats.
It’s like a swing to the ALP in the A.C.T. – it means nothing.
Sydney has always had a “housing crisis”
Going back near 60 years ago I worked in Sydney for 2 years
When working interstate my employer subsidised the rents and the subsidy to work in Sydney was far greater than elsewhere to attract staff to relocate to Sydney for a period of time – otherwise it was unaffordable and no staff would have transferred
Mind you, you also needed to press on the type and location of the subsidised housing on offer (so not a Unit in Parramatta!!)
The employees had the employer over a barrel – including because rental was being received on your home in your home City – the rent the employer paying in Sydney far in excess of the rent being received which is where the subsidy became attractive because of the net for the employee courtesy of the subsidy
Sydney, hey?
Sydney housing has always been very expensive
And to add to the narrative, Council elections in Victoria are informative, Labor holding and increasing then the Teals decimating the Liberals and reducing the Greens
N88 so it looks like my theory that the LNP is probably going to boost their already held seats might be correct because if it’s 43 in Queensland that probably means that they’re probably only going to make they’re already safe seats Queensland more safer banana Republic that’s what happened in I think the 98 election Labor had swings to it but they were already in safe Labor seats which meant Howard won
nadia88 @ #50 Sunday, November 10th, 2024 – 11:22 pm
If Albo doesn’t change anything significantly before March, then yes, I will think it will be all over then.
In fact I’ve felt that it’s been over for him since mid-2023 when he failed to respond to the Coalition’s tactics to the referendum accurately, even after a miraculous win in the Aston by-election.
Ever since then he’s been in a slump and hasn’t been able to recover from it.
@nadia88
Furthermore, as Albo is, the losses he’s likely to have in NSW and Victoria will likely be the determining factors here, even if Queensland and WA remain the same.
Kirk Peter’s problem is that he has to get the independence seats back to even have a chance forming government that’s Here’s what I think’s gonna happen labours gonna get a minority the liberals will probably get a better person than Peter penis popularity is rising you say well he hasn’t campaign yet and like n88 said he can’t be like Trump so I still think it’s Labor minority government because honestly I thought the Liberal Party would be leading earlier than November I thought it’d be like around August
It is really a sign of your privilege to question or deny how hard it is out there for many people.
@Quentin
Yeah, Kamala’s campaign thought they had at least enough states in the bag to hold on, according to the dubious polls. But in the end, they lost them all.
Yes, Dutton has to win at least 21 seats to get majority government, but they’re on the trajectory to get that, if not more.
nadia88 at 11.22 pm
Short answer is No. Look at William’s polling summary for J. Howard’s first term at:
Howard had a very close shave on 3 Oct 1998. He thought he had lost in the first two hours of counting.
Some media tarts are raving about the dangers of incumbency across the Western world, etc. Yet the 1998 election showed that even a government with more baggage than barnacles (Howard had lots of both, e.g. selling a big new tax), which was way behind in the polls a few months out, scraped home.
In 1998 Labor’s vote after preferences was almost 51%, but it still lost. Albo remembers it very well, because Labor gained only two seats in NSW, whereas it gained 4 in Perth. 1998 election results at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_1998_Australian_federal_election_(House_of_Representatives)
Albanese reminds me of Kevin Longbottom.
He was slow and could kick goals from the other side of the halfway line.
And then Eric Simms arrived on the scene. An all round better player with a similar talent for kicking goals. One minute Longbottom was there and the next, Kevin who?
Most people have probably forgotten or never heard of Longbottom, not even Souths supporters but I’ll bet they remember or have heard of Simms.
I wonder if albo remembers.
Kirk the difference between Trump and Peter is that Peters are known quality and he has to get the independent seets back that’s the problem Peter has he can’t get one or two back he has to get all of them back back and at the moment it’s not looking like he’s getting all of them back he may get one or two of them back and also don’t compare US to America Trump is a phenomenon and it’s also slowly appearing that people want to give a s*** about Trump and not the other republicans seriously apparently it’s going to be a very tight house and they might get 52 seats in the Senate so no Kirk it is not a simple as you think Anna could also swing back to the incumbent government that what’s happening in Queensland so I still think Peter needs to win the Independence seats back in the problem with that is that from what I heard is that they’re doing a good job and s*** can change also Anthony Albanese could do something stupid and have a February election
Yeah doctor Doolittle it could be that it ends up being a 51 to 49 result for labour but because the swings the lmp only gains more in this already safe seats means that they lose the election it’s not as simple as it seems
I must admit a labor minority with teals and greens support would be an interesting experiment.
All privileged fake left socialists, who suffer from elitism and have never worked a real job in their lives.
Just look at those three groups that banned the live sheep export. Now those middle eastern countries are getting their sheep from other countries with no animal welfare rules. Well done labor greens teals, you have wrecked Australian sheep farmers and created a huge animal welfare problem. That is the intelligence of our would be federal government, having never worked in the real world, do not live in the real world, they are ignorant to the end game of their decisions they force upon others. So coal mines closed, coal fired power shut down, endless welfare for overseas multinational companies to build “renewables” and storage, then what manufacturing we do have, all shutting down and moving off shore as it is too expensive in Australia to do anything.
The major problem in Australia is regulation. The country is so regulated to death by federal, state and local government that there is no point trying to do anything anymore. Want to build a house, first pay governments a couple of hundred thousand $ for the privilege. Then pay for all their rules and regulations on who can build what, when and where.
They got McMahon they got Whitlam, they got Hawke via Keating, they got Keating,
They got Howard in the end, they got Rudd via Gillard,
They got Gilliard big time!
Abbott was a pushover, they got Turnbull via Dutton via Morrison, then Morrison, as much as they tried to keep him, Morrison got himself.
And that’s before they made it impossible for Shorten and we got Morrison extended.
Morrison was so bad we got Albanese and as it’s come to pass they have all but done Albanese on both sides.
And despite Dutton’s obvious inadequacies, they get him for a while before he’s got.
And we’ve earned our place in the rabbit hole, as the “Americans” have put themselves.
The only question remaining is, the length of time before the obvious mistake of Dutton (and Trump for that matter) is tolerated before he’s got by they.
And they will discuss the significance of what they have done before they go again.
If only the “Truman Show” had been called the “Murdoch Show” and they could all be significant……
Don’t ya know Dutton invented Nuclear power and it will provide everyone with a house on easy Street till such time they will complain about me driving my electric car on easy Street as when they had to be content with the stump jump plough (that not even Google in recognized).
But not to worry again as they from the ABC can all get on a plane to display the significance of what they thought was significant.
And they have us voting to exclude the voice which wasn’t significant but they wish us talk about nuclear which is!
They have us believe that mobile phones will be banned as they will harm our society, in some of parts of which you can imprison a ten year old for anything “they see fit”.
They have told us that many things besides Labor can ruin our lives but they can’t live without the many things.
They told us that PB and polling would ruin our eyesight but it’s not carrots but rather trends which they believe will repair the possibilities.
They are telling “they” that the “not so liberal” liberals are the way to go.
And they wonder why they play poker machines!
What they measuring again when they are measuring!
I’d agree at 51%, the Coalition may well not take government. I get to 12 to 15 seats i can see the Coalition winning with their current strategy, but then you start moving more inner city and it’s definitely going to get much harder with old safe inner city seats having gone to the Teals. But i find it hard to think it’s going to stay 51%, the momentum all seems one way and i think the outer ‘burbs are going blue. I think these were the two best performing polls in 2022 and they straddled the final result.
The ALP seems to be picking up votes from the Greens.
All of this election outcome speculation with scant regard to the spread of the vote across seats and states.
There is rarely a uniform swing across seats and states. Most of the comments I’ve read in this thread just ignore this and go on their merry way pontificating this and that and proclaiming certain outcomes.
Aqualung
I believe that Blake Taafe is Kevin Longbottom’s grandson !
Otherwise your analogy is nonsense.
Thanks Dr.D
A few of the Longbottom extended clan have played for the Bunnies. Bruce and George come to mind.
“ So what does this tell us?”
Deepers, it tells me that you write a lot and I tried to make sense of it but you defeated me.
Still, good on you.
goll, really?
I’m sorry but I can’t make sense of you either.
Jolly Jumbucksays:
Monday, November 11, 2024 at 12:02 am
Did that scramble make you feel better ?
What “real” job do you do ?
What side of the road will you be driving on tomorrow ?
I did not realise Tony Abbott government lost popularity that quickly within what 3 months it was 50/50 that’s probably going to be Peter problem is that he probably going to lose support quickly god I fort Tony Abbott lost support in August of 2014 not at the beginning
Jolly Jumbucksays:
Monday, November 11, 2024 at 12:02 am
I must admit a labor minority with teals and greens support would be an interesting experiment.
All privileged fake left socialists, who suffer from elitism and have never worked a real job in their lives.
Just for the sake of clarity, can we have a list of real jobs versus non-real jobs please?
Eddysays:
Monday, November 11, 2024 at 12:37 am
Now you understand what others think of your thoughts perhaps ?
Jolly Jumbuck, I kind of understand what you were talking about.
Australian sheep farmers can go fuck themselves.
“ Now you understand what others think of your thoughts perhaps ?”
goll, actually I would have thought that my Albanese is a do nothing believe in nothing weak ineffectual hypocritical disappointing one term loser thanks for Dutton message was quite clear and consistent.
Eddy
Peter Dutton and a Peter Dutton Prime Ministry will have a similar impact as the vertical grill had for cooking and the P76 had for motoring.
There is nothing there.
Peter Dutton is, despite his inflatability,
a non contributor, no policy, no possibility and no idea.
“They” will have Peter Dutton done and dusted before Dutton’s tied his Prime ministerial shoelaces.
Peter Dutton will be the main course for a day, and “bubble and squeak” the next day.
Why don’t you attempt to make a list of Peter Dutton’s possibilities.
Let me know what you come up with!
Eddy
On the other hand, as Boerwar goes to considerable trouble to explain in his lists, the Albanese government has had considerable success were it is not shackled by Liberal and other minor party hindrances.
“they” just don’t want Labor to be seen as the relative success they are.
“they” who manage the Murdoch version of the Truman Show define the rules.
The polling that we are presented with measures the success “they” have with their “Truman Show”.
Eddy, you can make sense of it if you’d allowed yourself to.
You just don’t want to be wrong and that’s your right.
goll, I truly wish you all the best.
“ I think Labor spent too much energy preaching about housing crisis, cost of living crisis, interest rate crisis etc without being seen to do much to address all that.”
davidwh, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard Albanese and Chalmers state “our focus is the cost of living” .
And the citizens have got nothing, nothing, nothing for all of this bullshit ineffectual ‘focus’. All they’ve seen is a smug and arrogant PM taking selfies with losers like Biden and partying with rich arseholes like Joyce and Sandilands. I’m just amazed at those here defending the worst Labor PM ever, still trying to convince us all that he’s actually a great PM, while every man and his dog has turned their backs on this useless man and walked away. Future second term hopes and dreams, if the citizens give him another go. His second term campaign will be begging and promising to do better than the nothing he did in his first term. This was the guy that after ten years of Abbot and Morrison the citizens had great hope for.
He needs to be rolled now. If they leave it too late to get rid of this do nothing stand for nothing useless ineffectual smug failure…actually, it’s already too late.
Welcome to another ten years of the Liberals, brought to you by Anthony Albanese.
Meanwhile, never mind the state of the opinion polls, the jobs for the boys and girls continue to flow.
We have a new “anti-slavery commissioner” in the shape of former WA Labor Senator Chris Evans.
Clearly our hearts must go out to all the retired pollies who are struggling to subsist on their parliamentary pensions.
And I’m impressed by the emergence of “commissioner” as the fashionable new role in the Federal Government. If only we could get Jim Gordon on board…
BTW I don’t see this poll as the harbinger of a sort of parliamentary “rapture” in which a large number of Labor MPs will suddenly disappear, followed shortly after by the end of the world. So everybody should calm TF down.
A minority Labor government still appears far more likely than any other outcome. The scary part is that we are getting closer and closer to a scenario in which they might need to seek Greens support.
Looks like the same result as 2022 to me, with maybe a couple of Greens seats falling to Labor and a couple of Teals seats going to the Coalition. Still not close enough to a winning hand for the Coalition and we are yet to see potentially what effect an interest rate cut in February will have on the electorate’s mood. Which interest rate cut I believe will happen because we are seeing the real estate market cooling as well as the rest of the economy.
Eddy, you are a truly bitter individual who refuses to see that your words are simply splenetic vituperation signifying an entrenched mindset.
I note that your own life is comfortable enough that you can sit on your computer all day and spew venom at the federal government and the Prime Minister. Why is that? Because you have retired and are living on your Superannuation(a Labor initiative), in a house that has appreciated in value due to the fact that successive Labor governments have tamed inflation by doing the hard, unappreciated yards to make sure people like you don’t get overwhelmed by personal financial crises and lose it all? It’s slow and steady work that cares for the least of us who have to put dinner on the table for our families, keep the lights on and a roof over our heads. And this they have done successfully time and again, and me and my family are a testament to this, because the way things were going under the Coalition there was no way we could have survived the rising rents running rampant that their policies engendered, or the price gouging of the supermarkets. Which they only care about now because they can see a political dividend in it. And only in a way that will see more multinationals come into our national market, which is what divestiture is all about. And they won’t all be as cheap as Aldi. And Labor actually want to solve the Housing Crisis with the construction of more Social and Affordable Housing, if only the cynical Greens and Coalition would get out of the way in the Senate.
Oh, and yeah, guess what? Joe Biden is the President of the United States and our Prime Minister has to meet with him, in the same way that he has to meet with any national leader.
But you keep spewing your bile, Eddy, after you take your nasty pill for the day. I guess it makes you feel good. It’s not constructive though, because after you’ve torn it all down what are you left with? Nothing that is good. Just opened the door to another Coalition government. Or is that what you really want? 😐
Eddy says:
Monday, November 11, 2024 at 3:23 am
“ I think Labor spent too much energy preaching about housing crisis, cost of living crisis, interest rate crisis etc without being seen to do much to address all that.”
davidwh, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard Albanese and Chalmers state “our focus is the cost of living” .
And the citizens have got nothing, nothing, nothing for all of this bullshit ineffectual ‘focus’. All they’ve seen is a smug and arrogant PM taking selfies with losers like Biden and partying with rich arseholes like Joyce and Sandilands. I’m just amazed at those here defending the worst Labor PM ever, still trying to convince us all that he’s actually a great PM, while every man and his dog has turned their backs on this useless man and walked away. Future second term hopes and dreams, if the citizens give him another go. His second term campaign will be begging and promising to do better than the nothing he did in his first term. This was the guy that after ten years of Abbot and Morrison the citizens had great hope for.
He needs to be rolled now. If they leave it too late to get rid of this do nothing stand for nothing useless ineffectual smug failure…actually, it’s already too late.
Welcome to another ten years of the Liberals, brought to you by Anthony Albanese.
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Speaking for every man and his dog this morning. Novel polling to include canine preferences. But why just the male demographic? 🙂
Sorry folks – I won’t be able to pull the Dawn Patrol together this morning having got up quite late after several days of physical (for me, anyway) work and I need to get out soon to set up sprinklers on the local oval.
Question is what will it do for inequality (be it opportunity, raise JobSeeker, cost of living, education, infrastructure (Comms, energy, housing, transport, water).
At least it is in favor of Medicare, but hasn’t moved on bulk billing enough, let alone Medicare Dental.
The big unknown is, with a La Niña supposedly imminent, is what sort of summer 2024/ 2025 it’ll be and how any disasters, hotter/ wetter/ more extreme weather, are dealt with. Despite perception at time of last election, it is vulnerable over the environment. The former PM+ to 2022 went over a number of things, including going to HI USA during an emergency/ crisis, stance on energy transition. (I don’t see how nu_c_ular thought bubbles help the opp.)
So far the Aus fed gov since 2022 hasn’t shifted on AUKU$ and AUDoD announcements i/c powershift keep on coming. At some stage there will be a review what the latest spree is resulting in. Especially capital assets in a world of special forces, space, platforms, missiles, drones, civil defence, AI.
It is exposed on governance. Especially the Ersatz fICAC/ CIC that is the NACC, though that is so obvious something will happen on the Robodebt Six, may be APSC. May be campaign finance reform. Unlike FoI/ whistleblowers/ journos/ activists. After 2023 it’ll be shy of more direct democracy.
I’d say the gov can get a second term, probably in minority with crossbenchers, and would improve its chances if ‘… Albo’
stepped down in favor of the ‘measure what matters’ to progress/ advance, Australia, fair, Treasurer. That he’s from QLD probably doesn’t hurt.
The gov’s talent bench seems to by far out do the opp’s talent bench.
It’s way past time for some ambition for a term two. May be even a dose of social democracy to grab more voters from the Greens, say organisational minimum tax, royalties …
Besides with some territories/ states already having gone to the opp, TAS, NT, QLD, I guess we shall see what happens with the rest.
Somehow I doubt more identity pollyTICs
or further culture wars
might be vote winners in a salient issues way.
Though Fox (Sky)News downunder is no doubt ready to return to them axe the tax/ stop the boats/ no cuts to … days.
Yes I agree Meher atm it’s a minority Labor Govt scenario. It’s just with a 40% primary Dutton can now say he is the stability option, ie vote for a Greens/Labor/Teals minority experiment or vote for stability with a majority Liberal Govt.
The assumption is better times next year – but that they may not emerge in the less than 6 months left to the next poll especially with the return of Trump.
People have also clearly turned off Albo – with a -15 net sat.
The stability argument is potentially worth another 1 or 2% to Dutton which could get him there in terms of winning.
Who will be going into Christmas in a happier frame of mind, Albo or Dutton? Its clearly the later.
There is nothing that says economic ‘stability’ like a potential Coalition government that wants to add Tens of Billions of dollars to the government debt so that they can build Nuclear Reactors that aren’t required in order to get the country to Net Zero. Just so they can please Big Gina and Big Clive.
pied piper says:
Sunday, November 10, 2024 at 10:34 pm
Inflation in Perth said ABS last week is 6%.In vic/nsw 3%.
To keep their seats labor has billions of inflation causing dollars going into WA no way the Reserve bank is going to cut rates as it also knows WA is an export economy and all those interest rate cuts around the world will soon kick in for demand for WA goods.Rental crisis also driving up inflation.
Bottom line me thinks labor brought too many students in etc and cannot get rid of them denied Aussies interest rate cut/s and now a two speed inflation debacle kicking in.
PP, I’ve called you out before on this, the current Sept Qtr, the inflation rate for WA is 3.8%.
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/economy/price-indexes-and-inflation/consumer-price-index-australia/latest-release#capital-cities-comparison
LVT: “Who will be going into Christmas in a happier frame of mind, Albo or Dutton? Its clearly the later.”
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I’m not sure about that because, frankly, it seems to me that Albo lives on the banks of de nile a considerable amount of the time. He probably thinks everything is going swell and is merrily planning for his honeymoon.
Dutton will definitely be feeling that he has an outside shot of becoming PM (which looked impossible two years ago) or, more likely, being a significant force in an unstable post-election Parliament. We’ll be back to the refusal to grant pairs and the other nonsense from the 2010-2013 period.
I’m not sure that Albo will be especially effective in dealing with the crossbench. He’s always been a wheeler and dealer at heart, but usually from a position in which the numbers were on his side. This will be a tougher challenge for him. But he’s the man, at least for the time being. He’s likely to have a lot of negotiating to do, so he better get prepared for it.
There aren’t many viable alternatives. Not Chalmers: he can’t even maintain a good relationship with the woman he picked to run the RBA, let alone a political smartie with nothing to lose like Allegra Spender. Not Burke, brilliant performer though he might be, because anyone in politics will tell you he is a man with a lot of enemies.
When I think about who might do better, I keep coming back to Bowen. I know he’s not a favourite of the PB crowd, but I doubt that that’s a measure of anything much at all. To me, he’s intelligent, sensible and personable enough to make a pretty good PM, albeit a low key one.
The RBA is like a priesthood. You join out of uni and then 30 years later you ascend to be the leadership. There are very well established rules and procedures for how you progress , usually based on how smart and capable you are assessed to be by your peers.
Labor in its wisdom decided to disturb the natural order of things in the RBA by getting rid of the Governor, bringing in an outsider, creating multiple boards etc which in turn has disrupted that pecking order.
Now the ALP needs the RBA to deliver a rate cut in the next 6 months with inflation currently 3.5% outside of the ALP’s target band.
Good luck with that!
Those who think Labor will eek out a minority win really don’t live in the real world.
Albo is cooked.
Deep down we all know it.
Make the adjustment now.
The next few months will just sail by.
Jim will be pulling the plug on his political career sometime early next year to spend more time with his young family.
Tony Burke to become opposition leader.
Albo will see out his twilight years in the warm glow of having been PM for a term.
They can’t take that away from him.
#weatheronPB
Flat ripples remain,
quietly across the sky,
breathing in again.
On lnp, there is only one thing they need to import from the Trump campaign to have a good showing here, “are you better off now than three years ago?”. It’ll be hard for alp to see off that line, no matter how light on policy the lnp will be.
Cost of living is going to be the only game in town, and the alp wins aren’t sufficiently tangible for a sufficiently large number of voters;
– S3 cuts are a piddling affair for those on low to medium incomes, becoming very generous, and with the lions share of benefit going to high income earners.
– it should be obvious why the care workers wages increase (though good and correct) isn’t going to change a huge number of votes; there isn’t a sufficiently huge number of aged care workers.
– HAFF has no immediate impact on housing or col, h2b if they manage to get it up is insufficiently large to be felt by the majority (its 10k places/yr is barely 1% of settlements in ’23)
– hecs reforms are good (impacts a large number of people, tangible), but coming after the election renders it pointless for the campaign
– inflation has moderated, but housing (purchase and rent) has become completely decoupled from the rest of the economy, nothing is even close. The national median rent is $32k/annum. The national median income is $67k.
Housing is unaffordable, and nothing short of a major change will move this dial, but the challenge appears to be irreconcilable for alp, home owners will not accept losing value (though you have to think council rates would start biting at some point), and the rest will not accept being homeless.
All of which is to say, inflation moderating is intangible so long as housing continues to outstrip literally everything else.
– lag on interest rate impact on the economy means a cut probably even in December is too late for it to be tangible for the campaign.
Am I better off than 3 years ago? I sure am not. Do I think Duttons gonna fix it? I sure do not, but he was never going to convince me. Moreover he probably doesn’t need to convince anyone that he’ll fix it, just that it’s labors fault. Do I think albanese is gonna fix it? Hell no.
Mundo, I take your pronouncements with a grain of salt. You predicted Kamala Harris would win the US election.
Albo kicks the can down the road on R&D despite record low investment. Not sure Dutton would be better but he could hardly be worse on this issue.
“ A sweeping review of Australia’s faltering research and development system won’t be completed for at least a year, as government and overall R&D investment levels slump to record lows.
Officials on Thursday confirmed proposed terms of reference for the review announced in May are waiting on approval from the Albanese government and no experts have been tapped for a panel to steward the work.”
From the Herald:
“ Speaking after Trump’s victory, Wong said: “I was pleased to meet with Mike Pompeo and other senior Republicans when I was last in the United States, and we made it very clear the priority we give to AUKUS, and we’re pleased that it’s shared.”
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Is there any doubt now about Keating’s opinion that Wong (and Marles) are ‘seriously unwise’?
It’s TOAST I tells ya!
