The Australian reports the first Newspoll in four weeks finds no abatement in the Coalition’s loss of support to One Nation, with the former down four on the primary vote since the last poll to 24% and the latter up four to 15%. This smashes records at both ends: the Coalition’s 27% in the previous poll was already their worst ever, while One Nation’s previous record was 13%. Labor and the Greens are both down a point, to 36% and 11% respectively, with Labor’s two-party lead unchanged at 57-43. Sussan Ley’s approval rating has tumbled seven points to 25%, while her disapproval is up nine to 58%. Anthony Albanese is at 46% approval and 51% disapproval, both up one from last time, and leads 54-27 on preferred prime minister, out from 51-31. The poll was conducted Monday to Thursday from a sample of 1265.
James Campbell of News Corp also reported yesterday on a poll from Freshwater Strategy, which had gone quiet since markedly overstating Coalition support in its polling before the May federal election. It found Labor leading 55-45 from primary votes of Labor 33%, Coalition 31% and One Nation 10%, with no result provided in the report for the Greens. The poll also found 35% holding that the country is headed in the right direction, compared with 52% for wrong direction; that 22% now rate immigration “one of the most important issues they want the federal government to focus on”, compared with 11% in February 2024.
This is the guy, Donald Trump, at the apex of the pyramid, that nath has apparently got the hots for:
Hack, Grocery price rises aren’t just due to tariffs tho. Partly ICE.
steve777: “Re Meher @7:30.
You say that Jacinta Price “was moved” to the Liberals. By whom?”
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Sorry it’s taken me so long to reply. I have been engaged in other things since 7.30.
I suspect that the people behind Jacinta’s move are the same people who are behind all the crap pumped out on Sky News. They are very rich people who want to shift the Coalition further to the right and, in particular, into an extremely hostile stance re climate change targets and renewables. I don’t think I need to name any of them.
What some of these people – and, in particular, some of their hangers-on – are dreaming of is some sort of grand right-wing coalition led by two right wing Liberal leaders (most likely Hastie and Price), Barnaby back in charge of the Nats (because they know that, whatever he might say in public, Littleproud is a moderate in his heart), and One Nation.
Under this scenario, the newly minted grand coalition would run with a very Trumpian agenda and would make much of alleged ties between Labor and the Greens and also of any Labor or Young Labor branch which happens to be silly enough to float some policy idea that might be construed as “woke.” The whole campaign would be along the lines of “it’s an emergency: you have to get rid of Albanese Labor, or else suffer the whole country being transformed along the lines that the Greens and the rest of the woke left would like to see.” Jacinta Price is an ideal person to run this agenda for them: ie, “she’s Indigenous, so when she says something is too woke, you’d better believe it.”
I am confident that this approach will fall totally flat in a nation which has compulsory voting (so you have to win over close to a majority of voters to achieve office), has fixed its boat people problem, and has a generally easy-going culture based on the concept of “live and let live.” But I would also agree that it is probably the only way a far right coalition would have any hope of getting its combined vote much above 30 per cent. But not much further than that. And 30 per cent is enough in the US, but nowhere near enough here. The demographics of the US combined with the low turnout rate mean that a politician like Trump can win an election without winning a majority of votes in any of the major cities. That’s not possible here.
And a further problem is that the right wing lacks a charismatic leader: Hastie and Taylor are definitely not the go in that respect. I suspect that the forces behind the scenes are seriously thinking about trying to propel Barnaby into an overall leadership role. That wouldn’t make any sense at all, but would still make more sense than any other conceivable option.
But the far right diehards keep telling themselves that Tony Abbott got elected by running hard to the right. Of course, he was running against a Labor Party that had torn itself apart, but they tend to forget that bit, as well as what a complete clown show Abbott’s two years in government turned out to be.
This week we’ll find out what stuff the moderates in the Liberal Party are made of. On Insiders this morning, Bragg behaved like he was terrified of his own shadow, but if you ignored his mode of presentation and listened closely to what he said, them were fighting words. And, behind the scenes, there are business people and former Liberal pollies (most likely including Howard) who would like to see another Coalition Federal government in their lifetimes, or at least their children’s lifetimes. If Ley is removed this week, it won’t be a peaceful transition.
Perhaps I’m a bit paranoid, but I reckon this is the sort of stuff that’s going on in Coalition land at present.
Probably AI generated. Trust nothing you see.
Hard Being Greensays:
Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 11:40 am
Ideally targets have time frames attached, they are less meaningful if they don’t
I can’t imagine many actually believe Labor can hit net zero by 2050 but points for trying
Great article from Amy Remeikis today on how political parties keep learning the wrong lessons from defeat
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025/11/08/labor-liberals-lessons-remeikis
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I’d make three observations:
– it would be a mistake to lean the wrong lessons from Mamdami, whose policy suite would be considered a “weak cave-in” by Australian standards.
– Medicare was Hawke/Keating. Whitlam did “Medibank” which from my vague understanding was closer to Obamacare in character than Medicare.
– the trajectory of the 2035 emissions reduction target, if held, would be net zero by the mid-2040s.
Knowing history seems important to learning from it.
nath says:
Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 11:57 am
gollsays:
Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 10:41 am
Nath,
Are you a Trumpist?
Or just being a Sunday morning pedantic ?
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Yes I am a Trumpist. Bow down before your Orange God you scum.
中华人民共和国
Nath is serious. He is the leader of a secret cabal called the “Orange Shitgibbon” Society.
He hires out extras in movies like “Planet of the Apes” or those Monkey movie where some strange Virus starts.
Those extras now form part of Trumps Cabinet.
Nath is now very powerful and gets the occasional Spring Roll for free when he orders his Cantonese delights.
There are really two “inflations”. There is the economic inflation – how much things are going up in a given time period. This is the headline inflation rate…..
There is also an additional “inflation” in the political sphere. People remember when a product cost X dollars but the product now cost X plus dollars. Although the price might have stopped rising rapidly, people still feel that the product should cost X dollars. It takes a long time for the memory of former prices to fade….
This makes any political declaration on Inflation fraught with danger. If you claim that you have stopped inflation, it might be true in an economic sense but in a voter mental state there are still going to be inflated prices to where they things should be. And claiming that you will lower prices is foolish, because it is unlikely to happen to get the price low enough to meet people’s memories.
Poll: More than 4 in 10 voters support ‘No Kings’ movement amid high, early interest in the next election
Two-thirds of voters say they are very enthusiastic about the midterms, with the majority favoring Democratic control of Congress, according to the latest NBC News poll.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/poll-high-interest-no-kings-2026-midterms-fueled-democratic-enthusiasm-rcna242391
“More than 4 in 10 registered voters (43%) say they support No Kings, a larger share than some past political protest movements measured by NBC News polling, and about the same size as the Black Lives Matter movement was in April 2023.
A little less than 3 in 10 Americans supported the tea party movement in September 2010, the first time it was asked in an NBC News poll, and about the same amount supported the Occupy Wall Street movement in November 2011.
Meanwhile, today, one-third of registered voters said they currently support Trump’s Make America Great Again movement.”
https://www.pollbludger.net/2025/11/02/newspoll-57-43-to-labor-open-thread-3/comment-page-47/#comment-4621909
Omar, Sunday morning fuzz, so can you elaborate?
How is a carbon tax in effect at the pump? Fuel price slashing optics?
There is some irony in Jacinta Price shifting from National party room to the Liberals. If she had stayed in the Nationals, she might have found herself as leader by now and probably having more influence than she does now. The Nationals might even have got defectors from the Liberals in the last six months with her as leader.
BS Fairman: “There is some irony in Jacinta Price shifting from National party room to the Liberals. If she had stayed in the Nationals, she might have found herself as leader by now and probably having more influence than she does now. The Nationals might even have got defectors from the Liberals in the last six months with her as leader.”
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As I posted earlier, the idea of the Nationals making an Indigenous woman their leader is inconceivable. I suspect she had ambitions of becoming the deputy of the Nationals, and had the facts of life explained to her, which is why she shifted to the Libs.
Perhaps in 20 or 30 years time.
It’s almost like the world is not the same as during the French revolution, during the Cold War or the 90s, and old definitions of right and left, or conservative for that matter, are not very valuable.
If Albo’s government is more conservative than Hawke’s (although I suggest that anyone saying that has a rather foggy memory of what Australian society was like in the 80s; modern Australian left wingers would be horrified at the social conservatism, treatment of women and so on) it’s a product of shift in societal expectations about matters economic, immigration, security, terrorism etc.
You can’t seriously expect to just transplant past leaders into the present and think they could both get elected and govern exactly the same way they did in the past.
When Hawke and Keating were around, the internet was for all practical purposes non existent yet, the optimism of the end of the Cold War was upon us but 9/11 was still to come, and they dragged our economy kicking and screaming out of the dark ages of protectionism into an era which, whatever free trade complainers say, has been far more prosperous for Australians collectively (no, just for the 1%). At the same time, when I was a kid open racial abuse still occurred on the footy field and in the stands (Nicky Winmar’s stand was a huge moment for the young me, political awareness-wise) and open gay-bashing was still rife in a way I think younger people today think hasn’t happened for like a century.
There is way too much focus on the words ‘net zero’. Whether or not the Coalition place a fatwa on net zero or not makes no difference, if:
a) They are not going to formulate any credible policies to reduce emissions, and
b) Undermine policies that are in place to reduce emissions.
It seems pretty clear that a) and b) are the plan.
Bizzcan:
“it would be a mistake to lean the wrong lessons from Mamdami, whose policy suite would be considered a “weak cave-in” by Australian standards.”
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I’m not sure about that.
It’s difficult to compare apples and apples in terms of Australian politics and US municipal politics. US mayors are more powerful than Australian ones – even the Lord Mayor of Brisbane – but they are still compelled to focus mainly on parish pump issues. It’s not really possible for the Mayor of New York to socialise the means of production, and drastically raising taxes on the rich will simply lead to capital flight out of the city, taking jobs with it.
A big issue in New York is rent control, something favoured only by the most left-wing of Australian politicians (eg, nobody in the ALP), notwithstanding the harsher laws on landlords that Labor-governed (ie, most of them) have imposed in recent years.
At one point Mamdami proposed to establish publicly owned shops, but I believe he has walked that back. Of course, Steven Miles promised publicly owned petrol stations, but we never got to see whether he would really have gone ahead with that idea.
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“Medicare was Hawke/Keating. Whitlam did “Medibank” which from my vague understanding was closer to Obamacare in character than Medicare.”
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Actually they were broadly similar, with differences in how they were delivered. Medicare was better funded and was marketed far more effectively. And Hawke and Blewett did a good job at getting enough buy-in from medical professionals to prevent the constant undermining that went on with Medibank.
nath says:
Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 12:09 pm
Probably AI generated. Trust nothing you see.
Cope.
Says some likely overweight guy, living the life of Reilly, who, if he is married doesn’t have to expect the ICE goons to come knocking at his door and ripping his wife out of his arms and throwing her out of the country, if she might happen to be someone from another country.
Has the Lars Von Trier worm gotten that deep into your brain, nath? That’s really sad if so.
TK I’m talking about fuel excise, maybe I misunderstood you.
@Bizzcan – “I’d make three observations:
– it would be a mistake to lean the wrong lessons from Mamdami, whose policy suite would be considered a “weak cave-in” by Australian standards.”
The main thing to learn from Mamdani is his communication methods. Transplanting policy from an American city mayor in a strongly Democratic state to Australia at any level is just silliness.
So Australia take the Ashes 3 Nil but Kevvie Walter’s reckons the Poms put on a tough tour. He said anyone saying is was a “walk in the park” were in the wrong park.
I hope these Ashes fixtures can become regular again.
meher baba – I think in the current state of confusion, the XX chromosomes and the black genes might have actually overlooked. Especially if the Sky News after Dark crew had come on board big time. She just didn’t have the patience and the timing….
The fact that Sky News is broadcasted free to air in much of regional Australia is creating a massive regional/City divide.
Upnorth,
The Brits actually had a bloody good coach this time. I heard one of his rev up speeches and it was quite inspirational. I wanted to run onto the field myself by the end of it! 😆
You just had to look at who was sitting in the audience for Jacinta Price’s National Press Club No Voice speech to know who in the Liberal Party was probably working behind the scenes to drag her across from The Nats. Michaelia Cash.
TK I’m talking about fuel excise, maybe I misunderstood you.
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Isn’t the fuel excise unrelated to carbon taxing?
Yes, NZ are phasing it out – to be replaced by a km based road usage charge. There are concerns how this larger lump sum payment will be dealt with compared to the smaller fee paid for at the pump at each fill. They are addressing that somewhat with flexible payment instalments. But I dont think that is what you are talking about with “optics”.
Re Meher Baba @12:09.
Thank you. Interesting.
Arky @ #2362 Sunday, November 9th, 2025 – 12:22 pm
It is interesting how much the Centrists want you to believe that it is no longer “valuable” to think of things in terms of “Left” or “Right”. I wonder why that should be? Let’s all sing along with the Centrists:
Nope, that doesn’t rhyme.
Perhaps this one is more appropriate …
Better?
UpN, I see the ruggers got beat again – by Italy. All the hype through the year of a resurgence seems to be – hype? Two big games coming up but I find them unwatchable.
Team Katich what I meant by that was that dropping the bowser price by 50c makes it look a lot like you’re trying to encourage fossil fuel use, and it’s bad timing for that. It’s an awful look.
Unintended consequences of making petrol relatively more attractive as a fuel for any non-vehicular use could include eg. people going off grid in metro areas and using generators for their energy gap needs.
Wallabies slipping to 10th in the world. A minority sport so no surprises.
nath says:
Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 12:09 pm
Probably AI generated. Trust nothing you see.
Nath
When it comes to forming government the Liberal have taken themselves off the field.
The question is what happens now.
Does politics move to the left because of the growing inequality; do the Greens grow up, become more than the party of little no, start putting forward viable policies and become a viable option?
I don’t know, we have not seen an opposition self destruct for 80 years.
Team Katich says:
Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 12:06 pm
Hack, Grocery price rises aren’t just due to tariffs tho. Partly ICE.
Yes. Trump is driving workers away from horticulture, domestic service, transport, retail/hospitality, to name just the most obvious. This harms the economy in many ways. The price of hatred in Trump’s America is higher prices for everything.
I mean I don’t really care most days if people call Trump a pedo. But every now and then it kinda irks me that the worst thing you can say about someone is bandied about with no evidence. Of course the people doing it would go mental if pp for example started making the same claim about a labor figure.
Player One says:
Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 12:46 pm
A crypto-Reactionary troll whinging because others no longer see the world in the ideological terms that best suit them.
Yes c@t. And Obama deported 4 million people and not a peep out of you.
Team Katich what I meant by that was that dropping the bowser price by 50c makes it look a lot like you’re trying to encourage fossil fuel use, and it’s bad timing for that. It’s an awful look.
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Ah, OK. Yes, I think that is why NZ have staged it. EVs go on to RUC now, ICE cars later. That makes good sense. But, eventually, it is best to have all vehicles in one system.
Sure, I guess some people may see lower fuel prices and not link it to the RUC that they pay via other means and then see it as a market signal to keep buying ICE cars. Not many tho I would imagine. The RUC charge will be very noticeable.
Hadnt thought of people buying fuel for other purposes. Buying a petrol motor brushcutter or mower or generator seems ridiculous to me anyway – the battery equivalents are great for occasional use. I am about to buy an electric generator that is a UPS in the office, runs home appliances in a blackout and awesome when camping.
Hack, I am pretty sure I remember reading that Smith advocated for free markets across state boundaries, including labour markets.
Not that Trump (or big corporates) are interested at all in free markets of any type – other than when it suits a narrative of calling liberals communists.
TK if we’re not careful with policy, there will be people charging large residential batteries from stationary generators, then using the battery to charge their EV. win/win/win ?
“When it comes to forming government the Liberal have taken themselves off the field.”
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When it comes to governing for the betterment of society, both Labor and the L/NP have taken themselves off the field by their subservience to foreign owned big corp.
One of the few differences between Whitlam’s Medibank and Medicare was that you could insure against out of hospital medical costs – a reform well worth considering now
Omar,
TK if we’re not careful with policy, there will be people charging large residential batteries from stationary generators, then using the battery to charge their EV. win/win/win ?
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I just dont think a 50c a litre drop at the pump will create that sort of behaviour. Arent we told people dont like the inconvenience of EVs, yet they will buy a fuel generator, travel regularly to the petrol station to fill up their gerry cans, carry heavy cans to fill the generator, run it to charge their batteries – all while the sun shines on their solar panels or the retailer gives them free electricity for a few hours during the day and night?
I know a chap who has inefficient UF slab electric heating yet he is heating his house during this cold snap for free (he has a plan with free hours at night and day) and doesnt nothing but set the timer on an app while sipping beer at a pub. I dont see him rushing to the petrol station when he hears petrol prices have dropped 50c. And…. his panels are 50% shaded – so it isnt an ideal situation.
nath says:
Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 1:01 pm
There are the pics….Trump with 13 or 14 year old girls, barely pubescent, sitting on his knee, an arm around them, a hand on their thighs, his gaze on their bodies.
He was and remains a predator…a hunter of the vulnerable.
Of course, there will be videos. Epstein filmed everything. He traded on the depravity of his marks, among whom Trump was certainly prominent. He blackmailed them. This how he became rich. Trump paid Epstein. Now, Trump will never pay for anything if he can avoid it. But he paid Epstein. He paid Epstein for girls and for silence. Trump having sex with children. There’s no question about that. If the E-files could clear him of these allegations he would have released them long ago. But he is resisting every move for disclosure. He is concealing the files because they are damning. There is no doubt about this. The FBI and the D-o-J have the files and they are suppressing their release. The House is no longer meeting in order to further postpone their release.
Trump knows that the MAGA cohorts will go completely feral once the E-files are published and he is already pre-emptively dismissing these core supporters.
Profound shame awaits him. He knows it. Complete humiliation is before him. He cannot stand it. He must also know that there are criminal penalties for sexual exploitation of minors. He faces imprisonment. He and all his minions know it.
Oh look, Paul the A is back having finally gotten over his massive case of butthurt following the May 25 federal election – after death ridingAlbo and the federal labor Government for the previous 2 or so years. It seems like he can now – finally – make it onto the porcelain throne unassisted to death ride Starmer and UK Labour:
“paul A says:
Saturday, November 8, 2025 at 8:14 pm
Thank fuck.
Looks like Sir Keir Wanker is on his way out. I suppose a 15% primary has it’s limits.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/11/08/keir-starmer-facing-a-plot-oust-him-amid-labours-dire-poll-ratings-24651423/
and
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/labour-mps-plotting-oust-keir-072433263.html
and
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2131159/cop30-climate-change-keir-starmer
The 3rd article suggests he shouldn’t have gone to the COP30 wankfest.
There all wearing bow ties too. I real big climate wokefest of the looney left.
Anyway, hopefully goodbye Keir. Good riddance actually
18 months in power and he’s done fuck all except for stitching up pensioners. Fucken hilarious.”
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Wouldn’t it be terrible – for Paul the A – if all of Starmer’s little good works and initiatives finally sink into the cognitive dissonant British population (aided by 3+ years of Reform shitfuckery at a local government level) and – having seen off the threats from the trots internally – Starmer … wins the GE in 2029.
Dunno if that is possible, but … imagine the pain for Paul the A then. … me thinks the butt hurt will be so great he’ll be on the bag for the rest of his miserable, bitter, racist, (not so) crypto fascist existence.
Inshallah.
Rex Douglas says:
Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 1:20 pm
“When it comes to forming government the Liberal have taken themselves off the field.”
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When it comes to governing for the betterment of society, both Labor and the L/NP have taken themselves off the field by their subservience to foreign owned big corp.
I am asking if the Greens can bring themselves onto the field, I don’ think same same is going cut it. You don’t have to be very bright to see that is nonsense.
Amy R does nail it:
Australian politics 101: Getting the lessons wrong every time
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025/11/08/labor-liberals-lessons-remeikis
“But the “lesson” from 2019, repeated as nauseam, is that Labor should never try.
We saw a more recent version of it when the government folded on its super reforms. Instead of holding the line on a modest reform affecting only the top earners in Australia, it folded at the first sign of the ole scare machine whirring up.
They’ll tell you that it’s them “listening”. But to who? The same loudest voices they always listen to, which is how we have ended up where we have.
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We know that a lot of Whitlam’s reforms remain; that he crashed or crashed through. And there will be talk of his arrogance, the downfall he could have avoided if he just bent, and the legacy he could have left if he only compromised.
Lost in that analysis, and the lessons not learnt, is that we have his legacy because he didn’t bend. Because he knew that to compromise, to give in, would mean nothing ever changed.
But the lesson learned – and repeated over and over again – is that to be brave, to reform, to push for what is right for those not used to seeing policy work for them is to be punished.
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These lessons get repeated to each and every leader and potential leader – stand up, but not out. Work for the centre, not for all. Slowly, slowly even as people tire of waiting. And when it inevitably ends with people losing faith in politics-as-usual and turning somewhere else, those same people scratch their heads and wonder what went wrong. Don’t people understand that there are rules to this? That there is a book of lessons that they just need to understand a little better?!
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But we should be looking at what Labor is turning to custard on. We’ll be hearing a lot of Gough Whitlam’s legacy, of Medicare and the fights he had to change Australia. Of the reforms Labor still proudly presents as its legacy. All of that is easy to write in hindsight, but it doesn’t make it true for now.
The lesson from the last election still hasn’t been learned – the Liberal vote fell so far that Labor won seats it hadn’t even considered possible. But Labor is still looking to the Liberals for approval on policies where it wants the status quo to continue.
Labor almost lost Fremantle, Bean and Franklin to independents, even as the swing was to it. Yet it still won’t address the weakness on its left flank.
Custard goes with a lot, but even the most ardent vanilla lovers start to crave something more substantial. Usually though, that’s a lesson learned only in hindsight – when it’s too late to serve up something different.
The imminent arrival of a range of sub $30k EV hatchbacks will see a great boost to EV sales.
The big ute and SUV dominated era won’t last, imho.
Hack. I can’t really respond to that except to say that unlike you I haven’t got a clue what’s in those files. How you managed to get a look at them I don’t know.
Senator Jessica Collins has attacked Albo for promoting the League in the Pacific to the detriment of Rah Rah.
Now I must declare an interest: I was born in New Zealand, and I have fond memories of watching the All Blacks play union on the weekends. I am no longer a New Zealand citizen, and now my love for the Wallabies knows no bounds, especially after such a huge season played with heart and hope.
This Pakeha believes she can decide which sport the natives should follow.
Zohran Mamdani gave these New York women ‘a glimmer of hope’. They helped make him mayor
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-09/how-women-powered-zohran-mamdani-into-mayors-office/105976734
“His consistent messaging about the sky-high cost of living in New York City is a theme many people around the country will relate to.
The way Mr Mamdani galvanised young people — particularly women — appears to have been a major factor in his success.
He won about two-thirds of voters under 45, including 84 per cent of women aged 18 to 29 and 65 per cent of women aged 30 to 45, according to an exit poll of more than 4,000 people, published by CNN.
Women make up a larger share of the American electorate than men and historically turn out to vote in higher numbers, too.
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New York City is home to the world’s largest Jewish community outside Israel, and CNN’s poll revealed the vast majority of this group — 64 per cent — had backed Mr Cuomo.
Mr Mamdani has a long history of pro-Palestinian activism and has been highly critical of Israel’s government and military, even pledging to arrest the country’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.”
Is there anything more illustrative of dumbing down than the blokes posing in front of NSW parliament.
These deadshits are so easily conned.
GA
“The NSW Greens have called for a new approach from NSW police and the premier, Chris Minns, after a neo-Nazi rally overtly targeting Jewish people was allowed to go ahead in Sydney on Saturday morning.
Greens MP Sue Higginson said on Saturday:
The Greens abhor antisemitism and racism and I was sickened to see neo-Nazis outside the NSW parliament today. The Greens condemn the actions and the rhetoric of these depraved racists. The Jewish community and people of colour in our state should not be subjected to this on our streets or news feeds.
Higginson said tougher laws on protests wouldn’t work this time, and that Minns “needs to deal with the actual issue”.
It’s time to set up a taskforce to work with the NSW police engagement and hate crime unit and the counter-terrorism command, and deal with the rise of the far right and racism in this state head on.”
As usual P1 has no arguments just labelling.
If declaring someone was an evil centrist was enough to clear CO2 out of the atmosphere, P1 would have instigated global cooling by now, but alas….
@Peg
“Amy R does nail it”
No she doesn’t.
If Labor listened to Amy, they wouldn’t be on 94 seats now.
It’s amazing how people who only know how to get to 12% and saw even that fall backwards at the last election are so incredibly confident on how to run a majority government.
She mentions that some of Whitlam’s reforms stuck, seemingly encouraging a “pass a lot of left wing policies and accept losing office on the back of it” attitude which sounds about right for the Greens who have openly given up on actually persuading Australia to accept their policies.
But the trick there is Whitlam was succeeded by Malcolm Fraser who was not a complete shit; and then Hawke and Keating who were able to actually cement Medicare among other things.
A Liberal government under any of the current mob would repeal everything possible, and as we saw after Gillard it could be another decade easily before Labor got back in if they go out messily, riding roughshod over the populace like Amy suggests.
She could not be more wrong; she just appeals to your prejudices. Classic Greens Echo Chamber writing. But dangerously wrong.
Pegasus says:
Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 1:25 pm
Amy R does nail it:
More unreadable same/same bs from an apologist for pro Reactionary political intransigence. Absolutely worthless opinion from a trot.
Meanwhile, Labor governs. 94 seats. The Reactionaries writhe. Their deputies, the Greens, sulk.
I’m looking forward to the further emaciation of Reactionary numbers in the Parliament and for the Green sinecures in the Senate to be extinguished.