Following on from the Sunday night polling avalanche, the two pollsters that usually report at this time: the weekly Roy Morgan and the fortnightly Essential Research. Courtesy of The Guardian, Essential Research has Labor up a point to 30%, the Coalition down one to 34% and the Greens steady on 12%, with undecided at 5%. The pollster’s 2PP+ measure has Labor poking its nose in front, up one to 48% with the Coalition steady at 47% and the remainder undecided, without fundamentally upsetting a fine balance that has prevailed in this series for nearly a year.
A semi-regular question on leadership attributes records improvements for Anthony Albanese since February, sustantially so for “out of touch with ordinary people” (down six to 57%), and marginally for decisiveness (up one to 44%) and trustworthiness (up two to 44%). Peter Dutton is up two on out-of-touch to 57%, down three on decisive to 53%, and down one on trustworthy to 41%. In defiance of broadly improving signs for the government, the regular question on national mood finds only 32% rating the country as headed in the right direction, down three on a fortnight ago, with the contrary view up four to 52%. The sample for the poll was 1100 – field work dates and other results will have to wait for the publication of the full report later today.
Roy Morgan’s weekly federal poll series maintains its recent run of strong results for Labor, who lead 53-47 on the headline respondent-allocated two-party measure and 53.5-46.5 based on 2022 election preference flows. The primary votes are Labor 32% (down half), Coalition 35% (down half), Greens 13% (up half) and One Nation 5.5% (up one-and-a-half). The poll was conducted Monday to Sunday from a sample of 1377.
Nine Newspapers also has further results from yesterday’s Resolve Strategic poll showing 60% now believe Donald Trump’s election win has been bad for Australia, up from 40% immediately after his election in November, with only 15% rating it good, down from 29%. Numerous further questions point to a weakening of confidence in the alliance: 34% agreed that Australia should pause or withdraw from the nuclear submarines deal, with 25% disagreeing; 42% agreed Australia should rethink plans to host US nuclear submarines at Australian basis, with 24% disagreeing; 50% said Australia should avoid taking sides in a conflict between the US and China, with 18% disagreeing; 46% felt Australia should retaliate against US tariffs, with 18% disagreeing. Only 35% were clear that China (on 31%) and Russia (on 4%) posed the greater threat to Australia: 17% rated the United States the bigger threat, and 38% opted for “all equally”.
C@tmomma says:
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 3:41 pm
In Sydney, you can arrive at Airport terminal 1, get on the one train for $5, and be on one of the world’s best beaches in under an hour (Bondi, Bronte, Tamarama, Coogee-take your pick).
There, fixed it for you.
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Sorry to be picky. But don’t you have to pay the airport gate charge of about $17.50 on top of the $5 train ticket?
And don’t you have to change from that train at Central, get on the Eastern Suburbs train to Bondi Junction and then take a bus down Bondi Road to the beach? It would be great to have the airport train stop at the beaches on the way into town.
It was a shame that in the 1970’s when they added that line to B.J. that they didn’t push it down to the beaches. It could have eventually made a circuit past those beaches and end up at the airport.
There is a weekend bus, however, that goes from the Rose Bay ferry wharf (12 minutes from Circular Quay) and hits all of the beaches going south. Maybe only the summer.
Rex Douglas says:
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 3:36 pm
The only way to get out of AUKUS is by force from community independents and Greens having balance of power in both houses. It’s undeniable.
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How long have the Greens been trying to get the balance of power, 20 or 30 years !.
Good luck with that !.
Significant change in the world order.
Not what MAGA expected!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaOjCConZZo
Scott:
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 3:57 pm
Dutton will lead them into near political oblivion if he stays on the Trump bandwagon. I recently read that some 60% in Oz think Trump’s an…
C@tmommasays:
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 3:41 pm
In Sydney, you can arrive at Airport terminal 1, get on the one train for $5, and be on one of the world’s best beaches in under an hour (Bondi, Bronte, Tamarama, Coogee-take your pick).
There, fixed it for you.
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– Sydney Airport has the $17 train access charge (perth does not have this)
– Its at least two trains to Bondi junction (perth airport line runs continuous through to Cottesloe).
– it is a 3km walk from Bondi junction to the beach (only 800m from the station to Cottesloe).
– The worst Perth beach is better than the beat Sydney beach.
– yes this is the hill I die on…
Not sure why Sydneysiders and Perth people are fighting each other, when we should be ganging up against the common enemy
How will Sky News et al shape the RBA board’s rationale on keeping the official cash rate on hold instead of another lowering
“On the macroeconomic policy front, recent announcements from the United States on tariffs are having an impact on confidence globally and this would likely be amplified if the scope of tariffs widens, or other countries take retaliatory measures”
RBA gives Dutton and Suellen Doublebarrelson major boosts to their electoral hopes while punishing Albanese for being too close to Trump.
Scott says:
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 3:57 pm
Mavis says:
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 3:15 pm
Dutton plans to withhold money from the federal Education Department if schools don’t teach the essentials –
Told you. Liberals have been following the republicans for so long they can’t come up with their own policy. Republicans went one better, they just closed down the federal education department. Can’t do that here because it is the private schools that get federal funding. If I heard it right, Albo promising to extend funding to state schools so they could be brought up to the same standard.
Bizzcansays:
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 4:15 pm
C@tmommasays:
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 3:41 pm
In Sydney, you can arrive at Airport terminal 1, get on the one train for $5, and be on one of the world’s best beaches in under an hour (Bondi, Bronte, Tamarama, Coogee-take your pick).
There, fixed it for you.
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– Sydney Airport has the $17 train access charge (perth does not have this)
– Its at least two trains to Bondi junction (perth airport line runs continuous through to Cottesloe).
– it is a 3km walk from Bondi junction to the beach (only 800m from the station to Cottesloe).
– The worst Perth beach is better than the beat Sydney beach.
– yes this is the hill I die on…
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“– yes this is the hill I die on…”
More likely a sand dune, most likely cause of death, a Dugite bite.
The liberals have to face up to reality that Trump’s brand of politics is not attractive to liberals and conservatives they actually need to take government because they just had to campaign on COL and housing then Albo was toast but they just couldn’t held themselves.
Rex Douglas says:
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 3:05 pm
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It is a great shame that the CFMEU was left to rort Vic’s Big Build across the state. That’s the big failing of an otherwise great Premiership of Daniel Andrews.
Perhaps you can tell me why the little no opposed the de-registration of the CFMEU?
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Albanese visits Corangamite and Lalor in first campaign stops in Victoria
Flying into Victoria for the first time in the election campaign, Anthony Albanese stopped in the seat of Corangamite outside Geelong to pledge $5.45m in upgrades for the Drysdale football netball club.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/apr/01/australia-election-2025-live-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-cost-of-living-housing-interest-rates-rba-ntwnfb
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JFC the amount of Govt pork the Geelong area has scoffed over the years would be enormous.
A question if I may.
If someone is 64 birthday in september, has a stroke and has run out of holidays etc. Is there still a disable pension? How does it work now?
ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence up 1.1pts to 85.3 after the Federal ‘Election’ Budget is handed down: https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/9700-anz-roy-morgan-consumer-confidence-april-1
Greens and CFMEU deregistration legislation:
https://greens.org.au/news/media-release/labor-and-liberals-cut-deal-rushed-deeply-flawed-legislation
“Over the weekend the NSW Council for Civil Liberties said the powers set out in Labor’s bill were “far-reaching” and established a dangerous precedent for the trade union movement and the rights of individuals to “natural justice and procedural fairness”
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“The Greens will always oppose sexism, corruption, thuggery and bullying, but Labor and the Liberals have just cut a deal to ram through flawed and draconian laws that threaten fundamental rights.
“Civil liberties groups have rightly said this bill is a threat to freedom of association and the rights of all unions and membership based organisations.
“This bill means that if there is a change of government, Michaelia Cash could appoint Tony Abbott to be administrator of one of Australia’s most significant unions.
“The Greens told the government we were prepared to negotiate on the legislation and seek to address some of the serious concerns in the bill, but instead Labor has worked with the anti-union, anti-worker Liberals.” “
Rex Douglas says:
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 4:29 pm
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JFC the amount of Govt pork the Geelong area has scoffed over the years would be enormous.
It has actually been good for the town, it is recovering very nicely..
Entropy have you ever flown on a plane ? If not you should make it a long term goal. Its very exciting and you get to go up in the air, have special meals with tiny coke cans. It is certainly an aspirational milestone
Fred
Albo ran to Dutton of all people to pass laws to enable a Govt minister to sack a union executive. Opens up a massive can of worms if the Libs get Govt.
Another instance of Albo’s pathological hatred of the Greens and his inability to work with them to clean up the CFMEU, even though they are pro union workers.
Pegasus snap !
Sydney Criminal Lawyers:
https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/federal-labor-passes-union-busting-laws-instead-of-dealing-with-individual-criminals/
“Unions rallied nationwide on Tuesday in response to union-busting legislation that federal Labor, with bipartisan approval, has just passed in regard to the CFMEU, which threaten the working conditions and rights of all union members in the long run if it takes a federal government’s fancy.
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The issue is that instead of having dealt with the individual criminality in the way it might deal with corruption within a major airline, the Albanese government has determined the entire workers’ organisation administration could potentially be corrupt and, therefore, it warrants a takeover.
And these days, both major parties now rely on the appeasement of corporations and their profits over any concerns for the rights of workers.
So, the fact that new laws have just been passed to facilitate this going forward is a windfall for corporates and a threat to future workers’ rights.
But as the CFMEU has rightly pointed out, when it comes to other types of organisations, say, if someone in a senior managerial role at a bank were found to be in breach of the law, the police would deal with the criminal and the organisation with its own management restructure.
Federal Labor, it would seem, begs to differ when it comes to workers’ organisations, however, as they tend to be concerned with workers’ rights, rather than chiefly with employer profits, and it considers organisations need special outsourced professionals to straighten up employee matters.
And just in case, god forbid, another union is found to have civilians that don’t completely comply with the laws within its ranks, the government has used its forethought and placed these laws on union administrative takeover, within the overriding legislation that covers all workers’ associations.”
Holdenhillbillysays:
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 2:40 pm
At its meeting today, the Board decided to leave the cash rate target unchanged at 4.10 per cent and the interest rate paid on Exchange Settlement balances at 4 per cent.
https://www.rba.gov.au/media-releases/2025/mr-25-10.html
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Not a real surprise but does raise the question, does the RBA consider that the “normal” interest rates are not very far from where we are now.
If so, voters with high mortgage debt are in for more pain for longer. At least until the next recession!
They should tell us:-(.
Rex Does Setka still have an iron grip on all Manuka shops carpark lollypop man contracts ?
leftieBrawlersays:
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 4:32 pm
Entropy have you ever flown on a plane ? If not you should make it a long term goal. Its very exciting and you get to go up in the air, have special meals with tiny coke cans. It is certainly an aspirational milestone
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Don’t get out much now since i started living rent free in your mind. It is so spacious here, with so many unused areas to explore.
leftie
Ask Boerwar…
Promises, promises…
Vested interests hold sway.
“The director of the scientist-led Biodiversity Council, James Trezise, is approaching Labor’s renewed commitment to an environment protection agency with caution.
Anthony Albanese confirmed yesterday the agency he has promised to establish if re-elected would be a different model to the one the government proposed during this term and would be pursued in consultation with the states, industry and environmental groups. Trezise said:
There is no detail in what was announced by the PM yesterday beyond a loose commitment to further consultation, so we will need to see what Labor actually put on the table.
Generally, the point of an independent EPA is to deal with the influence of vested interests in decision making, but that seems somewhat of a moot point when they appear to have the ear of the PM, whether it’s around salmon farming in Tasmania or the design of a new environmental regulator.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/apr/01/australia-election-2025-live-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-cost-of-living-housing-interest-rates-rba-ntwnfb?page=with%3Ablock-67eb68688f08bb7e41c37001#block-67eb68688f08bb7e41c37001
AAP FactCheck – Labor has not added 36,000 Canberra-based bureaucrats since coming to power, despite claims from the coalition frontbench.
The latest official figures show a net increase of 26,153 Australian Public Service employees from June 2022 (one month after Labor came to power) to June 2024, of which only about 7500 are based in Canberra.
The claim is being pushed by the coalition, with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton pledging to cut “wasteful spending”.
Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor made the claim in a press conference on January 29, 2025.
“We know they’re
spending a lot more money, and the result of that is we’ve got the biggest government we’ve ever seen in our history,” Mr Taylor said.
“We’ve seen Labor adding 36,000 new Canberra based bureaucrats.”
WHAT WAS CLAIMED
Labor has added 36,000 Canberra-based public servants since taking office.
OUR VERDICT
False. The latest government data shows only 7464 Canberra-based public servants were added between June 2022 and June 2024
When Labor came to power, they replaced private consultants with public servants that worked out cheaper and more productive.
Rex Douglas says:
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 4:38 pm
Fred
Albo ran to Dutton of all people to pass laws to enable a Govt minister to sack a union executive. Opens up a massive can of worms if the Libs get Govt.
Another instance of Albo’s pathological hatred of the Greens and his inability to work with them to clean up the CFMEU, even though they are pro union workers.
With things like that it is best if you can get by-party support. Sorry to burst your bubble but the Greens are irrelevant.
MikeKsays:
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 4:54 pm
When Labor came to power, they replaced private consultants with public servants that worked out cheaper and more productive
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…and better oversight.
Bystander @ #210 Tuesday, April 1st, 2025 – 2:31 pm
At what cost. Genocide is genocide.
And those more productive public servants replacing private consultants were overwhelmingly based outside Canberra.
The Liberals have been completely deceptive and misleading on that whole topic.
Pegasus says:
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 4:47 pm
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Anthony Albanese confirmed yesterday the agency he has promised to establish if re-elected would be a different model to the one the government proposed during this term
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And remind us again Pegasus why it didn’t happen this term. Another success for the party of no.
Bluey Chronicles Day 5
A pinch and a punch and…
Bluey reckons the home team’s active undermining of Dutton continues with a reference to leadership ‘missteps’ by the Nationals this time. Bluey reckons with friends like that, who need enemies.
In the Paul Murray tummy rub pub special Dutton was in his comfort zone. The self-selecting pub punters got his woke jokes. But… Dutton spent time attacking the Teals and the Greens. Great for Liberal Lie Hards… but Bluey reckons WTF. Teal voters don’t attend Paul Murry’s Magaland Cooker woke-thrashing wanker events.
Dutton visited flooded areas in Queensland, presumably to remind his LNP crusties that he didn’t mean it when he pissed off from Alfred for his Sydney Money Run. They’re getting flood upon flood upon flood up Clancy of the Overflow way. Towns flooded. Station Homesteads barely emergent. Stock collecting foot rot. Bluey wonders whether Dutton will take the opportunity to mention extreme flood event frequency and increasing insurance rates when you can still get them, and errr… youse all know what. Yeah. Nah.
Bluey reckons that until May three all roads lead to Melbourne’s outer suburbs.
Dutton made another grab for the Melbourne outer urban young males by promising to kill the metro stone dead. Dutton added that he would double the money, and build the airport rail instead. Bluey reckons that if any turkeys are suckered into believing Dutton, the metro WILL be killed stone dead. But the airport rail will be like all those carparks the Liberals promised but did not build. Dutton is doing the good old carney shell shuffle with both shells ending up empty. Do rubes abound?
Sukkar reckons that easing the serviceability threshold for borrowing for houses will be all good. Nuts to that. Bluey reckons it is a sure way to blow up the housing asset bubble some more. Stupid, stupid policy. Nuclear Never Never, bosses caviar and grange, subsidising CO2 emissions, shutting down mass transit, fracking the east coast, tens of thousands of job cuts… what is it with the Libs and stupid policy?
Albanese did health funding in Adelaide then headed for Melbourne. Bluey reckons Albanese is working nicely to his strengths.
Polling continues to show that the Force is with Albanese. The ever-cheery Darth Dutton is claiming Underdog Status. Bluey reckons that traditionally this has been the go-to in Aussie politics. Aussies hate cocky, right? But Bluey is not so sure. He reckons that Magalanders and Cookers like to feel powerfully successful – one of Trump’s tricks.
The huge switcharoo in the poll plethora is in Aussie attitudes to Trump. Aussie turkeys have spotted Christmas. No April Fools they. The move is from 40% reckoning Trump is a dangerous waste of space to 60% thinking he is a dangerous waste of space. Big Diffs. Dutton just now threatening to tie education funding to his war on woke on the same day that Trump has targeted trashing Harvard might work for Dutton’s Queensland Cookers but not for anyone with functioning synapses.
Bluey reckons that Dutton might be worried about his primaries bleed to PHON and maybe even to the Trumpet of Pratts. Else, why try to compete with them?
As for the views about Trump and any possible connection to Dutton’s personal ratings slump, Bluey reckons real humans might be thinking that Cash was having a go at the truth and that Dutton DOES HAVE exactly the same attitude as the Humanoid Perpetual Black Swan Event in the White House.
Orange is the New Black.
The next Orange Event will be Liberation Day. Tomorrow.
Albanese has already been quite firm. The media bargaining code, the PBS and Australia’s biosecurity are not up for negotiation. Just like that. No. No. No. Strongly prime ministerial… considering we are in Caretaker Mode.
Bluey reckons that the Greens’ promise to force Labor to spend $110 billion on Greens’ priorities has all the tactical hallmarks of the Trot’s take-it-or-leave-it success in destroying any hope Australia had of getting an EPA in the last government. The Greens’ Plan is for Labor to take the odium of raising the $110 billion while the Greens take the praise for getting it spent. Talk about horizontal fiscal schizophrenia. Bluey reckons why waste a vote taking a punt on the Trots? Better to have a flutter on the Miracle Mile.
Bluey reckons that the interest rate hold is good for the Liberals and bad for everyone else. Bluey also reckons that China’s current bout of bellicosity feeds into a Liberal strength.
Bluey is a bit of a China watcher. He reckons that when Xi needs a big distraction he does performative military drama around Taiwan. Here is the real thing: Xi is in the middle of an almost unprecedented purge of very, very senior PLA brass. He badly needs a unicorn. He does not need a hot war right now.
Bluey notes that the Indies are disproportionately represented in the FMD bugger-up column. Teal Boele for Bradfield said to a 19 year old hairdresser that her hair wash “was so good and I didn’t even have sex with you”. Allegedly. Boele has apologized. Bluey notes that Dutton is safe in the hair washing space.
Scores
Bluey reckons that today was a bit of a drifter. Dutton is doing artful dodger when it comes to answering real questions. He set the agenda today with the SRA Kill Button. Albanese is on-song but the interest rate zero did not help.
Labor Plus one for the Adelaide health thing. Plus 1 for being strong about what is on the table with Trump. Minus one for the SRA thing. Minus 1 for the interest rate decision. Minus 1 for the MSM pile on.
Liberals plus one for SRA agenda setting. Minus one for Dutton looking shifty as usual. Plus one for the MSM rah rah brigade.
Greens plus one for claiming they will force Labor to spend $110 billion the way the Greens want Labor to spend it.
PHON plus one for the usual.
Nationals plus one for the usual.
Indies plus one despite the usuals
Cumulative score
Labor minus 1 for a total of 5
Liberals plus 1 for a total of minus 4
Greens -1 for a total of 1.
PHON plus 1 for a total of 5
Indies 0 for a total of 4
Nationals 1 for a total of 4
ToP 1 for a total of minus 1.
nadia88 at 3.36 pm, Mavis at 4.02 pm
Well said Mavis. There is room in the pool for intelligent observations as well as an imaginary psephologist.
The Hanson figure in this and other polls is exaggerated, maybe because of the alienation from the majors and because Hanson is the only named option beyond Labor, Liberal or Green.
Even if that Labor rat and poor writer of fiction M. Latham does not make more embarrassment from the little or nothing he has to be proud of, the Hanson vote in NSW will be well below 9%.
The main seat in which Hanson could come second is Hunter. Even if Mr Bond runs second, Repacholi will win.
Leftie I feel Palmer PM candidate Suellen Wrightson should be at the debate next Tuesday night.
I asked Bluey about nadia88 and Bluey reckons that nadia88 is welcome just as soon as she sheds her cephalopodicidal urgings.
Bluey reckons live and let live is the Bludger way to go.
@Bizzcan
Not quite. The Airport line only runs as far as Claremont. To get to Cottesloe you need to transfer over to the Fremantle line and go another 3 stops. 🙂
Boerwar at 5.05 pm
Bluey has a soft spot for the local orange nutters (Hanson franchise).
Even a nerd would know Labor has been outperforming them so far.
– Aunty
Watch the federal lib/nats and propaganda media units, go in a real frenzy if the interest rates get a cut in may happens they will accuse the reserve bank of helping Labor
Dr Doolittle says:
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 5:14 pm
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PHON may be picking up a fair bit of the UAE vote. The latter does not seem to be drifting to the Trumpet of Pratts. If so, this will be a big disappointment to Lib strategists. Dutton has gone just about as feral Cooker as he can get away with and he just cannot seem to be as convincingly nasty and racist as his direct competition. The practical problem is the preference bleed.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/02/albanese-spooked-into-ditching-national-environment-watchdog-for-a-second-time-critics-say
“Plans for a federal environment protection agency have been shelved indefinitely after Anthony Albanese intervened to quell a pre-election backlash in Western Australia.
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Three months after scuttling a draft deal that his environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, reached with the Greens and David Pocock to establish the nature watchdog, Albanese has again pushed the reform off the agenda.
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The latest intervention came after the WA premier, Roger Cook, and WA-based miners reacted furiously to the renewed push from Plibersek, Labor backbenchers and Labor’s grassroots environmental action group (Lean) to rescue the stalled legislation before the election.
In a message to his federal colleagues, Cook – who is facing a state election in March – said the WA government would not “stand by idly and allow you to damage our economy”.
Lean’s co-convener, Felicity Wade, declined to comment on the decision to pull the EPA bill.
But in a social media post, the group said delaying the legislation was a “terrible loss” that would allow the illegal logging of endangered species habitat to continue.
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“Gina Rinehart, Roger Cook, the WA mining industry said ‘boo’ and the prime minister jumped,” she {S H-Y} told reporters in Canberra.
The Australian Conservation Foundation’s national biodiversity policy adviser, Brendan Sydes, echoed Hanson-Young’s sentiment.
“Three years on, the Albanese government has nothing to show for its 2022 election commitment to establish a national environment protection agency,” he said.
“It’s disappointing the government has been spooked by a blatantly self-interested campaign run by the resources industry and peak business groups opposing the independent administration of national nature laws.””
Empty promises, vested interests, political donations, join the dots
Mavis, who was the last genuinely funny Australian politician ?
Scott you understand there isn’t another rba meeting before the election .
frednksays:
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 4:32 pm
Rex Douglas says:
It has actually been good for the town, it is recovering very nicely..
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Been for a walk down Moorabool St lately. Past the whitewashed shops, junkies and homeless people.
Also home to the worst pothole in the state. Corner of St Georges Road and Seabeach Parade, North Shore.
Pegasus says:
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 5:17 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/02/albanese-spooked-into-ditching-national-environment-watchdog-for-a-second-time-critics-say
“Plans for a federal environment protection agency…’
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These plans were killed stone dead by the Trots.
First with an absolute demand that climate change HAD to be a trigger. Then, after sitting on the EPA for two years and losing a couple of seats, the Trots dropped the MUST HAVE climate trigger and pretended to negotiate.
Their new red line absolute demand was land clearing. The true beauty of that for the Greens? Federal Labor could NOT deliver it because that is the purview of the states.
What a hyena pack of mongrels those Trots are.
And peg… hapless? Just cuts and pastes the Trots lines for them.
If Australians DO NOT WANT AN EPA IN THE NEXT GOVERNMENT THEY SHOULD VOTE DUTTON/GREENS.
Dutton is genuinely funny in a Darth Vader sort of way.
He just doesn’t know it.
Lars Von Trier says:
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 5:21 pm
Scott you understand there isn’t another rba meeting before the election .
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Thats why I said May ,
Bullock says RBA will ‘wait and see’ on possible May rate cut
It wont stop the federal lib/nats and propaganda media units claiming they were robbed, even if the interest rate cut happens after the election
Spending has to be cut and taxes need to go up regardless of who forms govt.
Neither of the majors are telling the truth.
It’s really going to come down to who pays ? Labor policies have disproportionately advantaged the wealthy.
See the ev tax exemption and in means tested electricity rebate as examples.
P1 is completely ok with folk in Gilmore giving the architect of this clusterfuck a preference vote over Labor if they want, so long as they do performative art and vote for community independents above the two majors first.
Because – apparently, despite all evidence to the contrary ‘lib:lab-same:same’. In fact if pressed, P1 would – nudge nudge, wink wink – recommend ‘as a last resort’ a preference vote for the candidate whose party is most susceptible to roll out the pork. Nudge nudge, wink wink.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/bungled-nsw-train-project-risks-running-later-than-worst-case-scenario-20250401-p5lo54.html