Two new pollsters have just provided their first federal voting intention numbers since the election, one being Essential Research, which has Labor on 35%, the Coalition on 27% and the Greens on 11%, and goes further than any other pollster yet in having One Nation at 13% – together with an undecided component of 6%, so the numbers for each should be considered slightly higher in practice. The pollster’s 2PP+ measure has Labor leading the Coalition 51% to 44%, with the balance undecided. Leadership ratings have Anthony Albanese falling back to where he was pre-election, down five on approval over the past month to 44% and up three on disapproval to 46%, while Sussan Ley is down three on approval to 32% and up four on disapproval to 41%.
The poll also finds a four-point drop since last month in the view that the country is headed in the right direction to 34%, with wrong direction up three to 50%; 53% rating the immigration rate too high, 40% about right and 7% too low; 17% believing Australia should be more like the United States and 58% less; 39% rating the government’s 2035 emissions target too ambitious, 13% not ambitious enough and 48% about right; 34% supportive of Australia’s recognition of Palestine with 30% opposed (both unchanged on a month ago); and negative attitudes across the board to Donald Trump. The poll was conducted Wednesday to Monday from a sample of 1001.
Amir Daftari of YouGov relates via X that the voting intention result from the pollster’s weekly omnibus survey had Labor on 34%, the Coalition on 27%, the Greens on 12% and One Nation on 12%, with Labor leading 56-44 on two-party preferred and Anthony Albanese leading Sussan Ley by 50% to 28% on preferred prime minister. Breakdowns by vote at the May election support the contention that the One Nation surge is coming largely at the expense of the Coalition. The poll was conducted Thursday to Tuesday from a sample of 1329.
India’s rapid transition to renewable energy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMrn-JewoCo
While the world moves on, the Liberals have moved on to talking about micro reactors.
Stopping the boats?
Crayfishboatgate main story West oz today again.
Boat owners pincer move to get ‘top dollar’offered by ABF.
“Crayfishing boat owners are contacting brokers asking how they can get top dollar for their vessels after it was revealed authorities are buying up boats to give to people smugglers “
Globalist federal labor government love open borders helping to get as many people in and also to keep as many here by not booting them out.From planes to the sea let em all in hey labor!
The poll also finds a four-point drop since last month in the view that the country is headed in the right direction to 34%, with wrong direction up three to 50%;
‘ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence increased 1.7pts to 86.3 this week before today’s Reserve Bank meeting on interest rates. Consumer Confidence is now 4.3 points above the same week a year ago, September 23-29, 2024 (82.0), and just 0.5pts below the 2025 weekly average of 86.8.
An analysis by State shows a broad trend with Consumer Confidence reversing the results of last week and increasing in the four largest States of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia, but down in South Australia.
The main driver of this week’s increase in Consumer Confidence was an improvement in buying sentiment by a net 3% points compared to a week ago.’
Depends who you ask the ‘wrong direction’ question of?
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-indias-power-sector-co2-falls-for-only-second-time-in-half-a-century/
So, based on the thread data, we should expect crazier behaviour from the Liberals as they try to stem the bleeding to the crazies.
Supreme Court in the US won’t consider Reserve Bank board members firing until Jan 2026, with a ruling unlikely until June. Meanwhile she will remain on the board.
About the same speed as most HR departments, plus stymied Trumps plans to install his own board member.
Good on India!
And Happy Birthday Mahatma Gandhi!
pp
Really, “stop the boats” was over a decade ago now. It could be argued that it was part of the foundation for the Liberal Party’s destruction. The foundation for the bleeding to One Nation.
What you going to do? As you try and reclaim the crazies you continue to abandon the center.
The Campion College library named after Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/the-far-right-figures-teaching-students-at-a-sydney-college-20250930-p5mz2v.html
S&P overnight set its 29th record close for the year.
All under Trump so the Trump derangement suffers aka labor party nutters who said tariffs will collapse the world economy err should also remember Dow and Nasdaq record closes over 2o times each also this year.Unemployment is low.
Meanwhile Dems supporters lefties kill and threaten and block government.Sick!
Australian labor party and Dems also love law breaking illegals!
Labor gives boats to people smugglers !
We have revealed the biggest foreign influence operation in modern Australian history.
At least $108 million AUD – likely far more – has flowed into Australia from foreign donors to underwrite a network of third-party groups dedicated to shutting down the use of fossil fuels and other progressive agendas.
The organisations we investigated raised and spent more last year than both major parties spent combined at the last election.
Their structure creates the illusion of a spontaneous, grassroots movement. In reality it is a foreign-funded, centrally directed campaign that has astroturfed the national debate and entrenched a fifth column within our democracy.
How did we allow foreign entities, with no accountability to the Australian people, to bankroll such a vast network of activist groups focused on delaying and disrupting our critical infrastructure?
Gerard Holland and John Anderson pushing the National Party climate denial rubbish under the guise of a slick institute, probably funded by Gina and the fossil fuel cartel.
https://www.page.org.au/About/Vision/
Elon Musk overnight is now worth $ 500 billion.Cleaned out USA gov waste as well.
One bad move by Trump is investing overnight in a lithium company as sodium batteries are scaling up and lithium prices are and will go down the toilet.
Lookee here fin review main story online etc now says the labor fed gov failures for a year sat on plans to introduce a triple zero watchdog.A Glum face dominates the front page of AFR the “ new to this” woke leftie labor failure Anika Wells.
There’s a lot of misinformation about the 22nd Amendment been spread on here, regarding that the language is vague, there’s a loophole or some other One Simple Trick (that armchair lawyers are the only people clever enough to notice) to bypass the law. That’s not the case. The language is pretty straightforward and tight, and any insistence of exemptions or work-arounds would be laughed out of any even slightly impartial judicial body.
That said, there is technically “One Simple Trick” here and that having a majority of the Supreme Court stacked by cronies. If Trump decides to run for a third term, I’m sure the briefs and supporting judgement summaries might cite these imaginary loopholes to give some pretense of legality but the exemption they found was and only was “We control the Supreme Court”
If that ends up being the case, it’s not a legal fight anymore. It’s just tyranny. And it’s a problem. I’ve heard some people say “It’s not that bad because I think term limits are stupid” but that’s not the point. As long as it’s in the constitution, it needs to be obeyed. Whether or not the 22nd Amendment should be repealed (legally) is a separate conversation. If Trump can have himself made exempt from that part of the constitution, what’s stopping him from doing so with other parts?
Which brings me to another talking point: “Well Democrats should fight fire with fire and run Obama” or “Democrats should hammer home how unconstitutional this run is and win on a ‘No tyranny’ platform” or other such things that assume that they can use electoralism to make such a decision bite Trump in the end. But again, if he’s decided to and been enabled to run a third term, then he’s not going to accept any electoral defeat. Yes, just like in 2020. But, unlike then, they’re more prepared this time and, if the courts are willing to let him break the law like that already, what’s to say they won’t allow him to take other measures to overturn the results?
That’s not to say that, if he does run for a third term, the opposition should just give up on beating him electorally because the game is already rigged. Try and beat him at the ballot box and force him to resort to overturning the results. The more a tyrant’s mask of legitimacy slips, the harder it is for them to hold on to power.
Of course, I am just speaking hypothetically. Trump supporters can chill out with the “TDS” shit. I was just covering the idea of him bypassing the 22nd Amendment.
Also, as commentators, we can do our part in not legitimising it by acting like there is some clever and legal loophole that he can exploit.
So much winning!
pied piper
Is finding it hard to justify any reason to support the federal lib/nats, the federal lib/nats are giving no policies for pied piper to sprout about
Trump has signed an executive order basically pledging Article 5-esque security guarantees to Qatar.
Protecting the Trump family investments.
Good Morning! Here’s Your Local Ish News and Views Roundup
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is rallying a democratic alliance to invest huge sums needed to counter China’s grip on critical minerals and transform Australia into a power player in the race to fuel defence and green energy revolutions.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/pm-spruiks-australia-as-power-player-in-defence-and-energy-technology-20251001-p5mzas.html
Prime minister ‘concerned’ by reports of Chinese ban on BHP iron ore imports
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-01/albanese-concerned-reports-china-ban-bhp-imports/105838320
Albanese endorses Trump’s Gaza role, but isn’t ready to nominate him for a Nobel Prize
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/albanese-endorses-trump-s-gaza-role-but-isn-t-ready-to-nominate-him-for-a-nobel-prize-20250930-p5mz3o.html
‘International Stabilisation Force’ in Trump Gaza plan will be biggest challenge in peace
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-02/international-stabilisation-force-trump-gaza-challenge-analysis/105841802
Despite a deep conviction planet Earth is heading in the wrong direction, voters are trusting Labor to navigate the wormholes. Peter Lewis
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2025/oct/01/albanese-world-stage-mantra-could-be-dont-panic
Have you heard offshore windfarms kill whales? (They don’t.) Or that electric vehicles catch fire more often than petrol cars? (It’s the opposite.) Perhaps you’ve heard “natural” gas is clean? (It can be worse than coal.) This is what climate misinformation looks like. These claims are common, influential and damaging. They’re often spread for a reason: to slow the uptake of clean alternatives to fossil fuels. Unfortunately, they are shaping public opinion.
https://theconversation.com/pr-firms-are-spreading-climate-misinformation-on-behalf-of-fossil-fuel-companies-could-australia-stop-them-266353
Health Minister Mark Butler’s plans to rein in spending on the $220 billion care sector are coming under attack, as state premiers take Labor to task over hospital funding and disability reform while the Coalition and Greens demand more funding to deal with waitlist blowouts in aged care.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/premiers-accuse-albanese-government-of-betraying-hospital-patients-amid-ndis-reforms-20251001-p5mz5s.html
Stephen McInerney and Stephen Chavura both teach at Campion, a well-connected college in Sydney’s west that promises undergraduates a vibrant campus, Catholic values, and a focus on the classics.
The pair also promotes white nationalism. (Jesus wasn’t White)
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/the-far-right-figures-teaching-students-at-a-sydney-college-20250930-p5mz2v.html
Our electoral system works. Two changes would make it better. Michael Yabsley
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/our-electoral-system-works-two-changes-would-make-it-better-20250724-p5mhm3.html
First jet aircraft to land at Sydney’s new airport as testing ramps up.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/first-jet-aircraft-to-land-at-sydney-s-new-airport-as-testing-ramps-up-20250929-p5myqg.html
To understand the Victorian Liberal Party, just follow the hatreds. Chip Le Grand
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/victoria/to-understand-the-liberal-party-just-follow-the-hatreds-20251001-p5mz54.html
Berlin: German police arrested three men they suspect of preparing a serious act of violence against Jewish targets in Germany for Hamas, prosecutors said on Wednesday, a week before the second anniversary of the militant Islamist group’s attack on Israel.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/germany-arrests-three-men-suspected-of-targeting-jewish-institutions-for-hamas-20251002-p5mzfk.html
Israeli naval forces board pro-Palestinian flotilla 75 miles from Gaza. About 20 Israeli naval ships approached the fleet of more than 40 boats carrying aid, activists on board say
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/israeli-military-vessels-pro-palestinian-flotilla-gaza
Is the Trump plan for Gaza designed to fail? – Full Story podcast
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2025/oct/01/is-the-trump-plan-for-gaza-designed-to-fail-full-story-podcast
Trump’s peace plan is everything Israelis dreamed of. But it’s a fantasy. Roy Schwartz
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/01/trump-peace-plan-fantasy-us-president-gaza
Trump thinks the body works like a battery. Scientists have shown why he’s wrong. And nuts.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/trump-thinks-the-body-works-like-a-battery-scientists-have-shown-why-he-s-wrong-20251001-p5mz8j.html
US government shuts down as Trump, Congress fail to agree on spending
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/we-can-do-things-trump-warns-of-cuts-as-us-government-shutdown-looms-20251001-p5mz4w.html
Democrats liken Trump to Putin after call to use US cities for military training. Illinois governor JB Pritzker and others condemn president for suggesting cities be used as military training grounds
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/01/democrats-jb-pritzker-trump-putin-immigration
Veterans react to Hegseth’s ‘insulting’ address to generals and admirals. Defense secretary’s speech touching on physical fitness and doctrine of lethality was seen as ‘egotistical’ and ‘dangerous’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/01/pete-hegseth-generals-speech-veterans-react
Stephen Colbert on Pete Hegseth: ‘A five-star douche’
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/oct/01/stephen-colbert-pete-hegseth-speech
What do Trump and Hegseth’s inflammatory speeches to military generals signal? The Trump administration evidently seeks to transform the US military into a partisan tool of the president’s regime. Moira Donegan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/01/trump-hegseth-speeches-military-generals
Trump is a fascist: We are the resistance By Dr Martin Hirst
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/trump-is-a-fascist-we-are-the-resistance,20221
Briggs warns Australia will struggle to ‘get the genie back in the bottle’ if it doesn’t protect creatives from AI theft. Productivity Commission under fire for failing to consult Australian artists about copyright issues around AI recommendations
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/30/briggs-warns-about-artist-copyright-ai-australia-productivity-commission-abandoning-creatives
On Monday, the Taliban ordered a sweeping shutdown of internet and telecommunications services across Afghanistan, citing a decree by their leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, aimed at curbing “immorality”. It has left millions of Afghans – both inside the country and across the diaspora – isolated, voiceless and trapped in a silence that feels suffocating.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/01/afghanistan-internet-shutdown-taliban-calculated-effort-consolidate-power-silence-dissent
Internet and mobile coverage restored in Afghanistan after 48-hour blackout ordered by Taliban authorities
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-02/internet-and-mobile-coverage-restored-in-afghanistan/105842126
Social media ban sparks deadly unrest and leadership shake-up in Nepal. By Anny Chau
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/social-media-ban-sparks-deadly-unrest-and-leadership-shake-up-in-nepal,20220
Russia accused of sabotaging last power line into Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
Satellite images of damaged area show no sign of shelling that Moscow says prevents repair
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/russia-accused-of-sabotaging-last-power-line-into-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant
Commission rejects Hungarian push to unblock €550M as relations turn sour. Brussels will only release €163.5 million in advance payments as frustration grows toward PM Viktor Orbán’s pro-Russia stance.
https://www.politico.eu/article/commission-rejects-hungarian-push-unblock-550-million-relations-turn-sour/
Europe in ‘most dangerous situation’ since second world war, Danish PM warns. Mette Frederiksen tells EU leaders all countries are affected by ‘Russian hybrid war’ via drones or sabotage
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/europe-dangerous-situation-since-second-world-war-russia-war-drones-sabotage
Will Keir Starmer become the latest UK prime minister to be ousted?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-01/will-keir-starmer-latest-uk-prime-minister-to-be-ousted/105837812
From pharmaceuticals to kitchen cabinets, Trump’s tariff program expands
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-02/us-tariffs-industries-countries-most-impacted/105822256
Trump delaying triple-digit pharma tariffs to negotiate drug price deals
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/01/trump-delays-triple-digit-pharma-tariffs-to-negotiate-drug-price-deals-00590051
What Saudi Arabia’s role in the Electronic Arts buyout tells us about image, power and
‘game-washing’
https://theconversation.com/what-saudi-arabias-role-in-the-electronic-arts-buyout-tells-us-about-image-power-and-game-washing-266359
A pair of the cryptocurrency industry’s best-known billionaires is going full MAGA. President Donald Trump is thrilled.
The rest of the $4 trillion industry? Not so much.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/01/the-blockchain-network-crypto-begins-to-fret-over-winklevoss-brothers-embrace-of-maga-00588310
Noel Turnbull
The Apocalypse and the Antichrist
For US multi-billionaire Peter Thiel, 23 September must have been a rather disappointing day.
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10/the-apocalypse-and-the-antichrist/
Morning all. The Israeli navy boarded the Gaza aid flotilla while it was still in international waters. The vessels were confirmed to be unarmed when inspected by Spanish, Italian and Greek authorities. This is clearly a violation by Israel of the UN Convention on Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). That is the same law Australian naval ships use to carry out Freedom of Navigation exercises in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-02/global-sumud-flotilla-intercepted-by-idf-near-gaza/105838920
#weatheronPB
There’s no mistaking.
The shadows have hard edges,
and summer is here.
So, my eyes narrow,
as I prepare for my day,
anticipating.
‘frednk says:
Thursday, October 2, 2025 at 5:52 am
India’s rapid transition to renewable energy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMrn-JewoCo ‘
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Slightly nationalistic propaganda tone to it. India’s CO2 emissions are increasing but at a reducing rate of increase.
India’s coal consumption of coal in 2024 was at record levels.
Between them, China and India are contributing something like two thirds of the world’s total coal-fired CO2 emissions. Contrary to the constant slagging meme, is not Australia that is flooding Pacific Island nations. It is China and India.
‘…China, the world’s largest coal consumer, accounted for over 56% of global demand in 2023. The country’s coal consumption increased by 6% to 4 883 Mt, with the power sector accounting for 63% of its coal demand. India, the second-largest consumer, saw a 10% rise in coal demand, reaching a total of 1 245 Mt.
…’
https://www.iea.org/reports/coal-2024/demand
I have no legal expertise, but that said, the 22nd Amendment looks pretty clear to me:
”Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
…”
The rest of section 1 says that the incumbent President when the amendment is proposed and the incumbent when it becomes operative (both Harry Truman) can finish their term. These provisions no longer have effect. Section 2 just says that the Amendment has to be ratified by three quarters of the States’ legislatures, which happened back in 1951.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Trump has been elected twice, once in 2016 and again in 2024. He has to leave at the end of his current term.
From Kos Samaras:-
We explore the real contest unfolding inside parts of the Coalition. At its core, this isn’t really about a contest of ideas. It’s a contest over who gets to defend their own patch.
Take Andrew Hastie’s electorate. The Census illustrates a community profile that looks very different to metropolitan Australia: older, less diverse. In a seat like this, an anti-immigration or anti-net zero platform may well resonate, at least in the short term.
But the bigger picture is harder to ignore. The further you move into urban Australia, the more these positions collide with younger, more diverse, and more globally connected electorates. Which raises the strategic dilemma: doubling down on one patch may secure a base, but it comes at the cost of shrinking relevance everywhere else.
Liberals look to be condemned to many years of opposition or extinction.
World News & Politics Patrol:
Taiwan will not agree to 50-50 chip production deal with US: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-will-not-agree-50-50-chip-production-deal-with-us-negotiator-says-2025-10-01/
Fire engulfs Russia’s fifth-largest oil refinery in Yaroslavl, authorities deny drone attack: https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/01/fire-engulfs-russias-fifth-largest-oil-refinery-in-yaroslavl-authorities-deny-drone-attack/
Ukraine Officially Reveals Long-Range Neptune-D Missile With 1,000 km Reach: https://united24media.com/latest-news/ukraine-officially-reveals-long-range-neptune-d-missile-with-1000-km-reach-12127
Primatologist Jane Goodall, famous for her study of chimpanzees, has died: https://news.sky.com/story/jane-goodall-famous-for-her-study-of-chimpanzees-has-died-13442337
Ed Miliband tells Elon Musk: Get the hell out of our politics and our country: https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/politics/ed-miliband-elon-musk-tommy-robinson-labour-conference-b2837211.html
Retired general: Trump sounded ‘incoherent, exhausted’ in Quantico remarks: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5531676-trump-mccaffrey-quantico-speech/
Trump Cuts Funding to 16 Blue States That Didn’t Vote for Him: https://newrepublic.com/post/201223/trump-cuts-energy-funding-16-blue-states-democrats-shutdown
‘Trump Is FAR Weaker Than He Looks’: AOC Says GOP Shutdown Plan Already ‘Backfiring’: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-trump-weaker_n_68dc929ce4b0f3800bcd3698
US to lose $15B in GDP each week of a shutdown, White House memo says: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/01/us-gdp-loss-shutdown-00590927
Supreme Court blocks Trump from immediately firing Fed Gov. Cook: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/supreme-court-blocks-trump-immediately-160740970.html
Pentagon plans widespread random polygraph testing, nondisclosure agreements: https://www.reuters.com/world/pentagon-plans-widespread-random-polygraph-testing-nondisclosure-agreements-2025-10-01/
Trump administration puts on hold $18 billion in funding for New York City infrastructure projects: https://apnews.com/article/shutdown-new-york-rail-projects-money-withheld-ada494e08ae9ae5269c6ce554ecdbd43
Thanks for the roundup Cat. I don’t get the purpose of Trump and Hegseth’s meeting and speeches to the generals. It didn’t impress anyone internally or externally. Frankly Trump sounded weak.
So we now know why Singapore aka Singtel is not being stripped of its license as they would appeal and labors incompetence would be in the courts and media for months.Explains why labor was very silent and soft on the Optus issue recently.
“New to this comment” a diversion?
Geez pray labor that Optus ooo does not fail again.
Cartoon Time!
Mark David
Matt Golding
Simon Letch
Cathy Wilcox
Alan Moir
First Dog On the Moon: Hollywood is in a flap! AI ‘actors’ are ‘trained’ on real actors who will never be paid for it
Ben Jennings on Keir Starmer’s anxieties over Nigel Farage
Ben Jennings on the new plan for Gaza
From the Internet
WTFGOP a.k.a on Twitter @Doggintrump @wtfgop.bsky.social
Get this: The WH confirmed that the construction of Trump’s $200 million golden ballroom will continue during his government shutdown while American soldiers go without pay.
Are we great yet?
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social
KIMMEL: “That sonofabitch… I never imagined we’d have a president like this, and I hope we never have another president like this again… celebrating hundreds of Americans losing their jobs – he took pleasure in that. The opposite of what a leader is supposed to be.”
Enjoy!
Socrates says:
Thursday, October 2, 2025 at 8:07 am
Thanks for the roundup Cat. I don’t get the purpose of Trump and Hegseth’s meeting and speeches to the generals. It didn’t impress anyone internally or externally. Frankly Trump sounded weak.
Just letting them know, despite all that, who’s the boss of them.
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Fastwheelssays:
Thursday, October 2, 2025 at 7:21 am
Trump has signed an executive order basically pledging Article 5-esque security guarantees to Qatar.
Protecting the Trump family investments
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Then why didn’t Trump impose sanctions on Israel and/ or bomb Israel?
Because
Trump always lies. Don’t believe what Trump says. Watch what he does. That executive order is not worth the paper it is written on when it comes to Israel.
As we all know that New Jersey is a small State when compared to California, Texas and New York and Illinois. Most of the Americans of Indian heritage live in these big 4 states+ NJ.
AI review:
New Jersey has the highest percentage of people of Indian origin in the U.S., with Jersey City’s India Square being a notable hub for Asian Indians. The New York City Metropolitan Area, including Jersey City, New Jersey, has the largest Indian-American population outside of Asia.
Map of Population of Indian Americans in each state
https://share.google/images/YSptZCtlgzuPyrmyy
My point being percentage wise NJ has highest Indian Americans.
I came to know from Indian American friends from NJ that there is a whispering campaign going on to convince the white kids not to mingle with Indian American kids because they are not good.
Dan Tehan’s 7:30 interview is getting a bit of coverage this morning. Unfortunately, the media mostly repeats his comments without fact checks or context. His main assertion was that nuclear energy is undergoing some kind of renaissance.
“Global nuclear generation is expected to rise by an average of 2% over the 2025-2026 period.”
(https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/cc64f0aa-30e4-4497-9cca-1ffae2c55fe5/ElectricityMid-YearUpdate2025.pdf)
If you want to call that a renaissance … yeah, whatever. I guess it is more growth than the industry has seen for a long time. Solar is the story:
https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2025/01/14/fastest-energy-change-in-history-continues/
Batteries are also going OK:
https://www.irena.org/News/articles/2025/Aug/Battery-energy-storage-systems-key-to-renewable-power-supply-demand-gaps
Bludgertrack 2028 – when will Bludgertrack 2028 be updated with the inclusion of these 2 national polls (Essential Research and YouGov)? Also when will Bludgertrack 2028 incorporate the DemosAU federal voting intention of 1,327 Victorians which indicated One Nation federal election primary vote support in Victoria has surged to 12% (as it is not currently displayed in the Victoria tab in Bludgertrack 2028)?
At the moment without the inclusion of these 3 polls, Bludgertrack 2028 is very out of date.
lol
nuclear renaissance = mutant half turtle living in sewer and going by the name of michelangelo
Dan rearranges The deck chairs on the Titanic
Cool your jets Rob. The thing is, no-one really cares if one nation is 9% or 12% this week, and no-one cares about your 1327 Victorians, because they are a bunch of deplorable cookers. Have a nice day mate.
The three planks of Liberal energy policy:
1. Only powered by stuff that comes out of the ground
2. Anything but renewables
3. Has to be big and dirty
Solar and wind are going pretty well in Australia too. Yesterday, the October record for renewable penetration was beaten – 75.4%. Up from 74.9% last year.
https://www.aemo.com.au/Energy-systems/Electricity/National-Electricity-Market-NEM/Data-NEM/Data-Dashboard-NEM
It’s already 72.6% today, so yesterday’s record may not last long. There is another 18.1% of wind and solar being curtailed because “baseload” coal is too inflexible to get out of the way. The last thing the grid needs is inflexible nuclear generation.
Omar nevercomin – pollbludger does care about the 1,327 Victorians which is why it is reported and commented on as a continuing surge in One Nation primary vote support. By the way you’re not my mate and never will be. Have a crap day.
There was some posting last night about a possible Chump third term.
A significant impediment will be his age, his health, his mental decline, and the strong possibility that many more Americans will wake up to the inadequacies of his second term.
Does Pollbludger really care though Rob? Doesn’t seem like they care enough to update the chart to satisfy your whiny ass, which I put down to it being a marginal shifting of cookers from one basket of deplorables to another, hardly worth a mention. Take it easy old buddy.
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Socratessays:
Thursday, October 2, 2025 at 7:43 am
Morning all. The Israeli navy boarded the Gaza aid flotilla while it was still in international waters. The vessels were confirmed to be unarmed when inspected by Spanish, Italian and Greek authorities. This is clearly a violation by Israel of the UN Convention on Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). That is the same law Australian naval ships use to carry out Freedom of Navigation exercises in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-02/global-sumud-flotilla-intercepted-by-idf-near-gaza/105838920
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Is Israel a rogue nation, which thinks that no international law applies to it?
LNP went bat-shit-crazy, when Chinese Navy ship circumnavigate Australia in International waters. What does LNP have to say to this?
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Omar Comin’says:
Thursday, October 2, 2025 at 9:19 am
Does Pollbludger really care though Rob? Doesn’t seem like they care enough to update the chart to satisfy your whiny ass, which I put down to it being a marginal shifting of cookers from one basket of deplorables to another, hardly worth a mention. Take it easy old buddy.
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Omar
It appears PP belongs to the ccoker demographic of Liberals and Rob is PHON supporter. 🙂
Russell Vought Trump’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget being bipartisan in cutting funds to all blue states.
Israel has neither signed nor ratified the UNCLOS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_United_Nations_Convention_on_the_Law_of_the_Sea
Ven 😆
Absolute evil
https://x.com/Israel_katz/status/1973359224412352978
‘But Hamas’ doesn’t cut it… This is evil.
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Taiwan will not agree to 50-50 chip production deal with US: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-will-not-agree-50-50-chip-production-deal-with-us-negotiator-says-2025-10-01/
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Trump is intimidating and blackmailing or atleast trying to, if a country doesn’t agree to his terms.
Fastwheels
“ Dan rearranges The deck chairs on the Titanic”
As I recall that policy was sunk with heavy loss of MPs after hitting an iceberg in early May 2025.
Rob. Cool your jets! No need to get shouty. 🙂
Lol, Soc @ 9.32am. And getting the Liberal Stan Laurel to try and sell your sinking ship anew ain’t going to help matters.
Btw, as an engineer you would be familiar, no, with these ‘container-sized’ nuclear reactors Dan is spruiking? 😉
I know it’s pointless responding to PP’s bullshit but I was intrigued by his claims that the Australian Government is buying boats from crayfishers and gifting them to people smugglers. There is an article in the West Australian but I don’t know the details because most are behind a paywall.
I tried Google and up popped the exact words that PP posted.
However, I did find a news.com.au article that is probably much closer to the truth.
https://www.news.com.au/national/people-smugglers-are-trying-to-buy-fishermans-boats-to-get-asylum-seekers-to-australia-from-indonesia/news-story/6e60f2883d6f4172adcce6e0eaf14e01
It’d just more evidence that’s all you get from right wing loons is baseless lies.