Roy Morgan returned to the field this week with an eye-catching headline result of 53-47 in favour of the Coalition on two-party preferred, but this turned out to be entirely down to an unorthodox set of respondent-allocated preference flows, with the accompanying release relating that Labor’s share from the Greens was down from 85% to 55% from the previous poll. A previous election preferences measure was not provided on this occasion, but such a result assuredly have come in at 50-50. Labor were in fact up three-and-a-half points on the pre-Christmas poll to 31%, with the Coalition down half to 40.5%, the Greens down half to 12% and One Nation down one-and-a-half to 3.5%. The poll was conducted December 30 to January 5 from a sample of 1446.
Also out this week from RedBridge Group was a follow-up report from its recent MRP survey relating to ideological positioning on the customary left-to-right scale. On a ten-point left-to-right scale, 51% rated Labor at very points on the left, 18% had them in the centre and 20% on the right, whereas the Liberals were put on the right by 62%, in the centre by 14% and on the left by 13%. Thirty-one per cent placed themselves in the centre, 23% on the left and 33% on the right. Forty-two per cent either way felt the Liberal Party to be to their right and Labor to be to their left, with 43% rating the Liberal Party’s position similar to their own compared with 39% for Labor.
You are better than that Rex. Lift your game
An earlier comment along the same lines suggested Rex believed the media was hushing something up. The truth most likely is that he doesn’t actually know what he thinks, but has formed some half-baked idea that seemed clever to him, wasn’t expecting to be asked to explain himself, and lacks the intellectual capacity to do so now that he has been. As Wat correctly notes though, the anti-Semitic overtones of the whole thing are unmistakeable.
Our large gas companies have contracts with international buyers that must be honoured and pay substantial amounts in royalties for those resources to the Australian government.
The royalties paid by gas companies go a long way to balancing budgets. If gas companies were allowed to tap further into the domestic market, governments could more afford to fund all those services that Greenies would like to appear by magic.
Diogenes says:
Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 6:59 pm
OC
Yes we get emotionally blackmailed all the time.
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It reminds me of the Goulburn School Strike.
That one worked very well indeed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goulburn_School_Strike
Thanks Mavis @ 5.45 pm
I think race clubs will now need to be on a full 24/7 alert lol
pied pipersays:
Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 6:53 pm
Men do not need quotas
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They probably do if they have a disability and women dominated industries. Nursing faces greater competition for women talent so have to recruit more men.
Just because a couple of politicians called it a terrorist attack doesn’t make it so.
It was terrible for the local community to see their place of worship destroyed, but we don’t know how or why. Let’s see what the investigation produces.
Is Rex referring to this alleged anti semitic attack? If so then it’s worth noting that it isn’t the first attack on Jewish people in places they live, visit or worship in recent weeks and months, and appears to be part of an escalating incidence of anti semitism in Sydney at known Jewish hotspots. If you wanted to attack Israel then make a political statement. But posting this sort of shit on Jewish religious facilities, vehicles in suburbs with a high proportion of Jewish people and so on is a straight up, honest to god antisemitism.
This is not good, and nobody should be making light of these incidents. This stuff is happening in places I go to and hang out FFS. Imagine if it was racist anti-Aboriginal shit that was getting graffitti’d? Rex would be all in to condemn that, I’m sure!
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/monstrous-act-sydney-synagogue-vandalised-with-swastikas-20250110-p5l3en.html
Well it wasn’t a grease fire Rex. Ffs
Which is the exact opposite of what you’ve been doing.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-10/meta-hateful-conduct-policy-changes-alarm-lgbtqia-advocates/104800042
As posted last year, the more we can do to remove these foreign platforms from Australia, the better.
Labor and the LNP had a brief period of sensible cooperation in banning these platforms for young people. Next the parliament must come together and ban these platforms entirely.
These are objectively not safe spaces for queer and LGBT people, there is no value standing up for the foreign tech lords.
If you say so…
pied piper @ #344 Saturday, January 11th, 2025 – 6:23 pm
I wonder why…
dave
Certainly wasn’t.
Sounds to me by your use of air quotes around terrorist that you think it was a false flag operation, which some people were speculating on here the day it happened or that you dont think the burning of a place of worship qualifies as a terrorist act. Absolutely no justification for the first possible interpretation and clearly wrong if it’s the second.
Addie Pray @ #336 Saturday, January 11th, 2025 – 6:45 pm
William Shatner for mine. 93 and going strong.
Wat Tylersays:
Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 6:46 pm
Rex Douglas @ #330 Saturday, January 11th, 2025 – 6:06 pm
Still no developments in the Melbourne synagogue ‘terrorist’ attack….
Imagine if someone had this kind of attitude towards an attack on a mosque.
Seriously, imagine if there was a directed, bigoted attack on a mosque and the commentary from certain political groups was to downplay it, question its authenticity or act like it was justified because it was a commentary on geopolitical events.
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Like what Fraser Anning said after the Christchurch Mosque attack?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-18/hanson-anning-censure-vote-hinch-faruqi-christchurch-attack/10910708
dave
It was labelled as a ‘terrorist’ event by politicians. That’s why the air quotes.
Centre says:
Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 7:03 pm
There are no Royalties on undersea gas outside the 12 mile limit. Gas from those fields are subject to the PRRT.
Centre
“ The royalties paid by gas companies go a long way to balancing budgets.”
This is fiction. Six of Australia’s largest gas export projects (4 in WA, 2 in NT) pay no royalties to State or Federal governments. Overall the Australian gas industry is one of the lowest taxed in the world. Guess which party signed the sweetheart deals for foreign gas companies operating here?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-30/gas-royalties-missing/103907264
It’s terrorism, Rex Douglas.
In Australia, terrorism is defined as an act or threat that:
* Is intended to advance a political, religious, or ideological cause
* Is intended to intimidate the public or coerce a government
* Causes serious harm to people or property
* Creates a serious risk to the health and safety of the public
* Seriously interferes with critical infrastructure
Trust Rex Douglas to try and play down the gravity and seriousness of the burning down of a synagogue.
Socrates
You are wrong. For your side not enough royalties are never enough.
PRRT = a form of royalties.
leftieBrawlersays:
Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 7:40 pm
Trust Rex Douglas to try and play down the gravity and seriousness of the burning down of a synagogue.
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He will excuse anything that makes the Andrews /Allan Govt look bad.
No excuse for allowing duck shooting and greyhound racing.
Centre
I appreciate you have no understanding of economics. Let me explain.
FYI a royalty is different to a tax. A royalty is paid on each unit of the resources extracted and sold. A tax is paid on the final profit of the business. All businesses pay tax on profits. Royalties are separate and additional to reflect the value of the State owned resource the gas company has been given permission to extract.
In this case the PRRT was erroneously set too generously by the Gillard government so that it only set in when profits exceeded a benchmark. However the gas companies manipulated their reporting so that little profit was reported in Australia and hence no PRRT paid. Only recently, as prices spiked after the war in Ukraine were profits so high paying PRRT was unavoidable.
To illustrate, Australia exports 2/3 the gas and oil of UAE but only gets 1/6 the revenue.
For your education.
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/australias-gas-policy-mess-fact-sheet/
Anyway, read into my comments any way you want. Not much I can do about that.
I just want to see some progress re the investigation.
I’ll leave it at that for now.
Rex are you one of those far left sleeper cell actors that have recently been reactivated by a few rotting elements within NSW Labor Left ?
Is it jealousy or insanity?- The decision to begin a coordinated campaign against the sitting NSW Premier and his government just months out from a federal election?. Minns is out there doing his part to sandbag and minimise NSW seat loses as a broadly popular Premier.
His crime?…… having the audacity to defend the Jewish communities of Sydney post OCT 7th
Centresays:
Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 7:43 pm
Socrates
You are wrong. For your side not enough royalties are never enough.
PRRT = a form of royalties
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I see Gina is behind on circulating her talking points because you are not fighting the culture war correctly.
You would be better off arguing that iron ore and coal (#1 & 2 exports) are subject to a globally high corporate tax rate, and those businesses tend to pay their full Australian tax liabilities.
Gas is a fraught argument for cultural warriors. At best, you could argue that the gigantic accumulated tax credits were justified because of the astronomic scale of gas investment, but you’ll need to justify why those credits are still being used to pay no corporate tax this far I to production.
Socrates says:
Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 7:52 pm
If Australian gas was subjected to the tax rates of the UAE the projects would never have been developed.
Tricot says:
Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 3:49 pm
Centre
Your support is towards a liar and a potential appeaser.
I don’t “hate” Trump but I happy to have my description of him as being on the degenerate side of humanity and unfit for purpose on record.
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I think “hate” is too mild. Although we are terribly disappointed that this clown will be in the White House for another four years, we can take comfort in the fact that in recent history he is the first President to be despised by a large slice of his country men and women.
In earlier times we “disliked” people like Nixon and Reagan and to a lesser extent the Bushes. We did not despise them or even hate them.
Trump’s skin is so thick that this won’t mean that much to him. But we have history on our side and we can be sure that he will go down as the most despised President in recent and perhaps all U.S. history.
Bizzcan says:
Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 7:59 pm
Hundreds of billions were invested therefore hundreds of billions is available for offset. It’s not that difficult to understand.
beguiledagain says:
Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 8:01 pm
“ We did not despise them or even hate them.”
That’s different from what I’ve read and seen, even on this site.
The PRRT is much like the GST. They are recognised as being good tax systems and had the support of the ALP until they didn’t.
Trump is an all round disgusting person, does he have any redeeming qualities? He is reflective of a sick society.
Socrates
I am not going to engage in your pedantic debates.
Why don’t you focus on companies net profit after tax…or do I have to explain it to you, stop wasting my time…
* tennis starts tomorrow, getting something to eat, knock yourselves out 😉
Centre @ #371 Saturday, January 11th, 2025 – 7:14 pm
Why would you believe anything Trump says, ever? Quote a single example of his telling the truth about anything at all.
There is absolutely nothing thick about Trump’s skin!
(Unless we’re talking literally, in which case I have no idea.)
He puts on the oompa-loompa makeup because he’d look like this otherwise.
The Victorian Liberals will be running Real Estate Agent and former police officer/soldier Steve Murphy for the Werribee by-election in February.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/liberals-unveil-werribee-candidate-ahead-of-crucial-byelection-20250111-p5l3iz.html
I would love it if a politician just said once: look I’m mainly running to feather my own nest. Power is a bit of an aphrodisiac so that could interesting. I’ll also try to do a few good things if they are doable.
FUBAR @ #335 Saturday, January 11th, 2025 – 6:46 pm
Are you claiming the gas is different?
LA fires… ‘tens of billions’.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jan/11/california-fires-la-fires-live-updates-latest-news
yabba says:
Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 8:19 pm
Quote a single example of his telling the truth about anything at all.
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“Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.”
Donald Trump
Centre @ #353 Saturday, January 11th, 2025 – 7:03 pm
Pull the other one. We are talking about gas that has not even been found yet. Let alone extracted.
But it’s worth squillions.
dave @ #391 Saturday, January 11th, 2025 – 8:03 pm
That was kind of how it worked in the old cronyist systems of local government back in some parts of pre-WWII USA (before everything became a lot more interconnected), especially in more rural areas. You’d have corrupt figures backed by local machines who were filling their own pockets but making sure to throw some of that back at the community.
“Yeah, old X is as dirty as they come but, since he’s been in charge, the water runs clean, the schoolkids have books, the roads are paved and the potholes are filled.”
Of course, that is a bit more romanticised than it was and it’s a grossly inefficient way of managing public services but your comment made me think of it.
Of course, in some regions, the flipside of that was also “I know X is dirty, but he keeps the N—–s out!”
As to whether trump is thin skinned or not I recommend watching the roast of Donald trump.
could probably be found on YouTube in parts. Make your own mind up.
$50 billion plus.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/10/california-los-angeles-fires-home-insurance
Diogenes @ #349 Saturday, January 11th, 2025 – 6:59 pm
Oh! that would be interesting
Slightly off this topic but to do with specialisation.
An ED physician once said to me that the quickest way to kill a sick patient was to admit them under a urologist – probably the truest thing I have ever heard.