The Financial Review has the results of a large-sample poll from RedBridge Group, the second pollster to take the field post-election after Roy Morgan. The results are not far off Roy Morgan’s: Labor on 37%, compared with 34.6% at the election; the Coalition on 31%, compared with 31.8%; and the Greens on 11%, compared with 12.2%. Labor is credited with a 55.5-44.5 lead on two-party preferred, compared with an election result of 55.2-44.8 – lower than I might have expected based on preference flows from the recent election, but perhaps explicable by One Nation accounting for a larger share of “others”. Breakdowns are more balanced than you might expect with regard to gender, but results by age tell a familiar story of the Coalition vote descending from 44% among the 65+ cohort to 19% among 18-to-34, the Greens rising from 2% to 24%, and Labor fairly consistent across the board. The poll was conducted “late June” from a sample of 4036.
Another item of federally relating polling emerges from a report by Alexandra Smith of the Sydney Morning Herald on debate within the Liberal Party over whether to challenge independent Nicolette Boele’s 26-vote win in Bradfield in court. Local branch presidents are calling on the party to put up the money, but others consider this “a risk financially and politically”. The report cites polling conducted in mid-June for Climate 200 which suggests Boele would likely win a by-election resulting from a legal challenge, with her primary vote up from 27.0% at the election to 33.2%, with Gisele Kapterian’s 37.3% comparing with an election result of 38.0%.
I’m all good Upnorth.
Hope all is the same with you.
Just waiting for two new knees, which should be coming up soon, done the time.
Went public, will not pay the private parasites a cent.
Enjoying your regular posts.
Keep them coming.
Been There says:
Thursday, July 10, 2025 at 12:26 am
I’m all good Upnorth.
Hope all is the same with you.
Just waiting for two new knees, which should be coming up soon, done the time.
Went public, will not pay the private parasites a cent.
Enjoying your regular posts.
Keep them coming.
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Good luck cobber it’s a bugger to have bad knees. The old man went Public last year his Ticker. Best treatment in the world and all for free. I get a bit cranky when people say our health system is “third world”. They’ve obviously never lived or visited a Third World country.
Of interest Hospital care was not free of charge in Queensland until 1946, when the Commonwealth introduced its first scheme for free care in public hospitals. Free access became a sacred cow in Queensland, unlike the other Australian states where charges were introduced in the 1950s and 1960s until the Whitlam government re-introduced a free hospital scheme in the early 1970s.
Good luck with the knees mate stay strong.
Cheers Upnorth!
Take care.
I’m putting the head down on the pillow now.
Goodnight to you and all!
So, I can report the Bangkok Poll Bludger knees up was a raging success.
Not well attended but all participants enjoyed the company and the food.
Stay well friends.
And once again I thank Sir William for the incredible service he provides. This website is extraordinary.
Any regular posters who don’t tip in a few shekels for that service need to take a long hard look at themselves.
MABWM reporting from Bangkok. Thank you and good night.
Fifteen months till the next Midterm elections in the USA.
Who’s counting?
New thread.