Roy Morgan maintains its post-election form of publishing intermittent large-sample results from accumulated weekly polling, on this occasion reporting Labor with a lead of 57-43, in from 57.5-42.5 a month ago. The primary votes are Labor 36.5% (steady), Coalition 31% (up half), Greens 12% (steady) and One Nation 7% (down one-and-a-half). The accompanying report has breakdowns by state and gender. The poll was conducted from June 30 to July 27 from a sample of 5159.
Also on the polling front are further numbers from last week’s Resolve Strategic poll in Nine Newspapers, showing 46% would think it a good think if Australia became more independent of the United States on foreign policy and national security, with 22% rating it bad. Displeasure with Trump’s election win is down on its post-liberation day peak in April, now being rated bad by 53% (down fifteen) and good by 18% (up seven). The lack of a meeting between Trump and Anthony Albanese is rated mainly Albanese’s or Australia’s fault by 26%, Trump’s or the US’s by 38%, and nobody’s by 17%.
We’ll call it the “Peoples Jeff Kennet that is one cm higher than Dan Andrews Statue Statue”.
Pisays:
Friday, August 1, 2025 at 8:09 pm
We’ll call it the “Peoples Jeff Kennet that is one cm higher than Dan Andrews Statue Statue”.
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So a dick 1 cm higher than Dan the man?
‘Felix says:
Friday, August 1, 2025 at 7:42 pm
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Ethos has something to do with it. It was made quite clear to me that if you killed a cyclist in Holland the onus of proof was against you.
Do we have a PB’er moonlighting Stateside?
“Geoffrey Epstein is running for mayor of a major Boston suburb. Not that Jeffrey Epstein.
Among the differences between disgraced New York financier and Geoffrey Epstein, who is running for mayor in Framingham, Mass.: “He’s a dead American, and I’m an alive Australian,” Epstein said.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/29/geoffrey-epstein-is-running-for-mayor-not-that-one-00481698
My son got Jeffed. His statue needs a big axe hovering over teachers and nurses.
I’m not against a Dan Andrews statue provided the ears are accurate.
nathsays:
Friday, August 1, 2025 at 8:32 pm
I’m not against a Dan Andrews statue provided the ears are accurate.
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Do you have the same demand for King Charles statues? As that’s a lot of extra bronze that would be required.
In Bill McKibben news:
+ Bill talks up the power of solar: “There’s so many things that are interesting to me about solar power. In the largest sense, it’s really beautiful to imagine relying on a power source that you can’t hoard. I mean, that’s the architecture of the fossil fuel industry. That’s how they got rich. They have concentrated deposits of a resource that you could monopolize and hoard.
This is exactly the opposite. Every place on earth gets sun and wind every day. And nobody can really figure out how to stash it away. In fact, I’d wager that it’s going to be hard, even for human beings, to figure out a way to fight wars over solar power going forward. There’s also things that appeal to everyone. I live my life in both red and blue rural parts of the country. So I know lots of people who fly Trump flags. For many of them, this is an easy sell, because your home really becomes your castle once you have your own power supply. Then, you have something worth defending with your AR-15.”
https://heated.world/cp/169762317
+ Climate activists have taken to the streets in support of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign. “Mamdani has racked up a slate of endorsements from NYC’s most prominent climate groups. Four days before the primary election, 350 Action, the political action arm of the organization famed climate activist Bill McKibben co-founded, endorsed Mamdani as their top candidate. The New York City working group of Third Act, McKibben’s newer group for activists over 60, has also supported Mamdani’s campaign.”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31072025/new-york-climate-activists-zohran-mamdani/
+ Bill discusses his latest book:
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/shameless-self-promotion
I think there could be a book in this. Safe words to use when you want imply something that you could get sued for if you actually described it.
中华人民共和国
It could be an addendum to “Nath’s Compendium of Stooges – International Edition”.
In Thailand one can be sued for leaving a bad review about a restaurant or other business.
Added, to leave a bad review about a certain personage means certain incarceration so Colourful is not on my menu.
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I’ve been giving this some thought. I would go with:
“The slanderers guide to non-slanderous slander: As endorsed by lawyers”
So you would look up the word like corrupt or sexual deviant. Then you would see what the lawyer safe word to use instead. If there was no actual legal safe word. It would just say that with a recommendation of placing “alleged or allegedly” in front of it.
Entropy says:
Friday, August 1, 2025 at 4:13 pm
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When I was kid along the small creek that ran through the Hat Factory at Eltham. I often saw Rakali swimming there and scurrying off into the blackberry bushes that lined the creek when approached. There a very good sized rodent. A fight between a black rat and Rakali would be like Dany DiVito taking on Arnie. Not sure if they still occur on the Hat Factory creek, hopefully they still do? Though officially I’m not sure it is a creek, it is called Karingal Yalloc.
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There are Rakali in the Darebin Creek near me, so there’s a good chance they’re still in Karingal Yalloc and the Plenty
andrewmcksays:
Friday, August 1, 2025 at 9:16 pm
Entropy says:
Friday, August 1, 2025 at 4:13 pm
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When I was kid along the small creek that ran through the Hat Factory at Eltham. I often saw Rakali swimming there and scurrying off into the blackberry bushes that lined the creek when approached. There a very good sized rodent. A fight between a black rat and Rakali would be like Dany DiVito taking on Arnie. Not sure if they still occur on the Hat Factory creek, hopefully they still do? Though officially I’m not sure it is a creek, it is called Karingal Yalloc.
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There are Rakali in the Darebin Creek near me, so there’s a good chance they’re still in Karingal Yalloc and the Plenty
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Good to know as the Darebin is even closer to the city. Though the Karingal Yalloc headwaters were only about 1 km from the Plenty River at Greensborough. It flowed the other way into the Diamond Creek at Eltham not far from were the Diamond Creek entered the Yarra. Not far from there in the Yarra I sometimes saw Platypus.
We still have Echidnas in our neck of the woods.
Hey C@t.
Good story.
https://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/9028707/echidna-encounters-charming-locals-at-werri-beach/
If it’s blocked here’s the context.
On a sunny Monday, Werri Beach local Frankie Ferguson did a double-take when she spotted an echidna taking a stroll along the beach.
“I was wondering what exactly it was, it looked like a little spiky ball walking down the beach… I then realised as I got closer that it was one of these little creatures and it was just so fascinating!” Ms Ferguson said.
Originally from New Zealand, Ms Ferguson had never seen an echidna before. She has since seen multiple echidnas around Werri Beach.
“We had one [echidna] that was sort of walking across the road into the fish and chip shop on Werri Beach,” she said.
An echidna was spotted strolling along Werri Beach on July 28, 2025 and along a driveway in the suburb on July 19. Footage supplied
Given that the echidna was in an off-leash area of the beach, she was worried that curious dogs might get hurt when interacting with the echidna.
“My main concern was just dogs running up, trying to grab it, thinking it was like a little spiky ball and it being an unnecessary journey to the vet for dog owners.”
WIRES volunteer Tracy Burgess advises people to keep their dogs away from native animals.
“A dog is not generally gonna do too much damage to an echidna,” she said.
“It’s going to be very much persuaded not to by those spines and an echidna that’s scared anyway will roll up into a ball.”
Unless they look like they are in distress, she advises people to leave echidnas alone.
“Leave them alone, enjoy them from a distance and take photos if you want to,” Ms Burgess said.
Ms Ferguson said there have been quite a lot of echidna sightings among locals around Werri Beach, Gerroa and Gerringong.
You’ll occasionally see echidnas in Lane Cove National Park, a strip of parkland along the Lane Cove River, about 1-2 km wide and surrounded by suburbs, about 10 – 20 km from the Sydney CBD.
Ye gods, Rowan Dean should probably cut down on the bath salts if he actually agrees to put pictures like this of himself on the Sky News Australia youtube channel.
Re Kirsdarke @ 10:26.
https://www.pollbludger.net/2025/07/29/morgan-57-43-to-labor-open-thread/comment-page-27/#comment-4578524
Let me guess – that’s his reaction on election night May 3 when it was clear that Labor had been returned in a landslide.
Steve777 @ #1315 Friday, August 1st, 2025 – 10:30 pm
More accurately his reaction to an American woman confronting an ICE Agent. But Dean’s so cake’d up on Trumpism that it’ll probably be his reaction if Labor gains seats in 2028.
Marlon Brando – Godfather
Life lessons as per Vito Corleone (must watch)
If you hold a gun…
https://youtube.com/shorts/ap2dqhFid5c?si=BIWxNUaOV3AblqmJ
Unfortunately, this is what US has taught the world
And
Unfortunately it is so true. This has what the world has become.
Kirsdarke
Gerrymandering at its worst on the dictats of Trump
Texas House Republicans unveil new congressional map that looks to pick up five GOP seats
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/1/2336094/-Texas-House-Republicans-unveil-new-congressional-map-that-looks-to-pick-up-five-GOP-seats?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_1&pm_medium=web
“Texas GOP lawmakers released their first draft of the state’s new congressional map Wednesday, proposing revamped district lines that attempt to flip five Democratic seats in next year’s midterm elections.
The new map targets Democratic U.S. House members in the Austin, Dallas and Houston metro areas and in South Texas. The draft, unveiled by state Rep. Todd Hunter, R-Corpus Christi, will likely change before the final map is approved by both chambers and signed by Gov. Greg Abbott. Democrats have said they might try to thwart the process by fleeing the state.
This unusual mid-decade redistricting comes after a pressure campaign waged by President Donald Trump’s political team in the hopes of padding Republicans’ narrow majority in the U.S. House.
Currently, Republicans hold 25 of Texas’ 38 House seats. “
“A statue of divisive former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews is in the works one year after he resigned from the state’s top job.”
This lie gets a good run.
The divisive part stumps me. Those who claim he was divisive are by and large the cookers.
In his first election he beat a one-term government.
In his second election he amassed an overwhelming majority.
In his third he smashed his previous record, while remaining divisive in the eyes of the Liberal party… you know that bastion of harmony that is suing itself to bits on a daily basis.
Then he said, you know peeps, I’m good. And he left.
The divisive line is so very passe and reeks of poor sportsmanship in the mouth’s of losers.
Oh wouldn’t the libs love a leader so divisive he smashed them in to the ground, and will do so again at the next state election, from the political grave. Effing hilarious.
Meanwhile – Tassie continues to Tasmania.
MABWM
Conservatives hate government—but not when it benefits them
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/31/2335752/-Conservatives-hate-government-but-not-when-it-benefits-them?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_3&pm_medium=web
“For once, a conservative is being honest about his hatred for the government and support for its destruction—so long as it doesn’t impact him.
“There are government programs that I’d like to see discontinued or cut back, especially those that don’t affect me,” but don’t touch the programs he personally depends on: “But the ones like the Postal Service, yes, we count on them,” Rick Wallace, a retired firefighter in rural Nebraska, told the Nebraska Examiner.
Of course they do. He lives in the kind of place where, if efficiency or cost savings become the standard, he’s completely screwed.
Wallace’s local mail carrier, Roger McDonald, drives nearly 150 miles every day to hit 334 delivery points. That kind of route bleeds money, and the long distance and sparse population density are part of why the U.S. Postal Service experiences annual losses. It’s also exactly the kind of thing that would vanish under President Donald Trump’s proposed privatization scheme, where unprofitable routes would inevitably be slashed, regardless of who’s left behind.
Postal carrier Josiah Morse steps carefully on a snowy sidewalk, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, in Portland, Maine. The U.S. Postal Service’s stretch of challenges didn’t end with the November general election and tens of millions of mail-in votes. The pandemic-depleted workforce fell further into a hole during the holiday rush, leading to long hours and a mountain of delayed mail. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
A U.S. Postal Service carrier delivers mail in Portland, Maine.
But the government isn’t supposed to be profitable. It’s supposed to serve the common good, even when that good is a tiny outpost in the middle of nowhere.”
For what it’s worth, I don’t believe that is actually from The Godfather, Parts 1 or 2. It appears to have been done with AI.
Ven @ #1318 Friday, August 1st, 2025 – 11:08 pm
Rotten bastards. Hope this backfires on them. Texas is already gerrymandered to hell, trying to push it any further would probably break the system in that they’d lose much more in that map than they would in the current map if there’s something like a 5% swing towards Democrats.
But then again the Democrats don’t seem particularly keen on winning elections anymore and just want to whine for someone to do something, so the Republicans will probably get what they want and the Democrats can just eat shit like usual.
I wonder if the media will interview Dan Andrews re Kennet?
Given their bias I guess not
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William Bowesays:
Friday, August 1, 2025 at 11:13 pm
Marlon Brando – Godfather
Life lessons as per Vito Corleone (must watch)
If you hold a gun…
https://youtube.com/shorts/ap2dqhFid5c?si=BIWxNUaOV3AblqmJ
For what it’s worth, I don’t believe that is actually from The Godfather, Parts 1 or 2. It appears to have been done with AI.
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William Bowe
You could be right. I don’t know. I saw Godfather 1, 2 and 3 long time ago. It is loaded on to YouTube.
That is tone with which Marlon Brandon delivered his dialogues in Godfather.
I just thought that speech resonates in current world.
If you think it causes problems for you, you can delete it.
Prudence @ #1323 Friday, August 1st, 2025 – 11:16 pm
I think Andrews would probably follow the same post-politics life as Steve Bracks, in that he totally isolates himself from the media.
Although in doing so he probably would be wise to install security cameras in case Herald Sun “journalists” come poking around his bins at night looking for a scoop.
Ven at 11.08pm.
I think I read somewhere that if the Republicans do implement a gerrymander in Texas, Democrats in some states, California in particular will do the same with the threat to more than counterbalance the gains made by the cheating Texans.
They say two wrongs don’t make a right, but if the Democrats can do it, in this case it is justified.
If there was justice in the US you would hope the Trump fiasco would lead to a significant Democrat majority and then real reform to their voting system. I am not confident.
No, I’m not bothered about it, I just found it a little odd. I don’t remember it from the films, and the clip has Vito Corleone sounding as he would if Marlon Brando couldn’t act very well.
Kirsdarkesays:
Friday, August 1, 2025 at 11:21 pm
Prudence @ #1323 Friday, August 1st, 2025 – 11:16 pm
I wonder if the media will interview Dan Andrews re Kennet?
Given their bias I guess not
I think Andrews would probably follow the same post-politics life as Steve Bracks, in that he totally isolates himself from the media.
Although in doing so he probably would be wise to install security cameras in case Herald Sun “journalists” come poking around his bins at night looking for a scoop.
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Sounds like a good recycling initiative. Dan’s garbage recycled into Herald Sun garbage.
It’s Brando but from Apocalypse Now
The 1951 Book That Explains Trump’s Cult
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/31/2336096/-The-1951-Book-That-Explains-Trump-s-Cult?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web
“The True Believer’s Playbook: How Trump’s Movement Mirrors Classic Cult Psychology
Eric Hoffer’s 1951 masterpiece The True Believer reads like a prophecy written 70 years too early. The longshoreman-philosopher dissected mass movements with surgical precision, identifying the psychological patterns that drive people to surrender their individuality for a cause.
Today, his insights feel uncomfortably relevant.”
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nathsays:
Friday, August 1, 2025 at 11:31 pm
It’s Brando but from Apocalypse Now
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You could be right. I did not see Apocalypse Now.
Granny Anny @ #1326 Friday, August 1st, 2025 – 11:24 pm
Yeah, there’s also the very likely scenario if that the Republicans make an outrageous Gerrymander the Democrats just… whine about it and don’t do anything else and instead plead for comity and crap, in which the Republicans simply laugh at them and continue to win.
New York Times:
Fed Up With Netanyahu and Handling of Gaza War, Democrats Rebuke Israel
Votes in the Senate made clear that the longtime bipartisan consensus in support of Israel is, at least for the moment, in tatters.
In New York City, Democrats, including some Jews, embraced Zohran Mamdani as their nominee for mayor, elevating a Queens assemblyman whose anti-Israel activism played a foundational role in his path to politics.
Nationwide, a Gallup poll released this week found that approval of Israel’s military actions in Gaza had plummeted to 8 percent among Democrats. By contrast, 71 percent of Republicans said they approved of the country’s military action in the enclave.
And more generally, nearly 70 percent of Democrats expressed an unfavorable view of Israel, compared with 37 percent of Republicans, in a poll released by Pew Research Center in April. In 2022, 53 percent of Democrats and 27 percent of Republicans held negative views of Israel.
Then again maybe it’s not from Apocalypse now. I can’t remember it being said actually.
Was it from a deleted scene or some piece of AI generated nonsense?
nath says:
Friday, August 1, 2025 at 11:50 pm
“Then again maybe it’s not from Apocalypse now. I can’t remember it being said actually.
Was it from a deleted scene or some piece of AI generated nonsense?”
Aren’t most films ‘AI generated nonsense’? Oh, sorry. That’s “special effects”!
I reckon you can get anyone to believe anything if they don’t know how to critically evaluate inputs. We live in crazy times.
@Kirsdarke: That photo of Rowan Dean is pretty much the textbook “3 invisible dicks” pose.
Arky @ #1337 Saturday, August 2nd, 2025 – 12:29 am
Haha, yeah. Not that it really matters though since his Trumpist wing have owned being overtly gay with Trump’s stupid double handjob “dance” in which they can both own that while being hateful to LGBT+ people.
“Yeah, there’s also the very likely scenario if that the Republicans make an outrageous Gerrymander the Democrats just… whine about it and don’t do anything else and instead plead for comity and crap, in which the Republicans simply laugh at them and continue to win.”
Can’t wait for the Supreme Court to rule that any Democrat gerrymander is racist against white people and block it but that every Republican gerrymander is acceptable legal partisan activity.
New thread.
We will never having Virginia Subs:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2vpvws68BxY
I wonder if PP will extol the virtues of the Chump administration today?
There is a report today that Chump has sacked the Labour Secretary because of unfavourable employment figures being reported.
Typical right wing methodology, employ people who will dupe the population into thinking it’s all OK.
Of course a bit of Epstein distraction doesn’t go astray either.
Kirsdarke at 11.35pm.
It might have been Governor Newsom, or someone in his sphere who made the threat to gerrymander California to counter balance any dodgy map drawing by the Texans.
He is hardly a fan of Chump so he probably meant it. The population of California is about 40 million compared to Texas just over 30 million so he has a few more votes to play with.
https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/f-35-fighter-vs-j-20-mighty-dragon-we-might-not-like-the-answer-in-a-war/, I note the USofAADoD has ordered F-15EX Super Eagles, and is diverting further JSF/ F-35 Lightning II/ 5G orders to 6G initiatives, be it AF/ N/ MC/ SC