The Australian reports the first Newspoll since the Liberal leadership change shows little change on voting intention, with Labor down a point to 32%, One Nation steady on 27%, the Coalition up two to 20% and the Greens down one to 11%. Angus Taylor nonetheless records personal ratings markedly better than Sussan Ley’s at the last, with 35% approval and 38% disapproval, as compared with Ley’s 23% and 62%. Anthony Albanese is down three on approval to 40% and up two on disapproval to 55%, and his lead as preferred prime minister is 45-37, compared with 49-30 against Ley in the previous poll. The poll was conducted Monday to Thursday from a sample of 1237.
The Financial Review has a RedBridge Group/Accent Research poll with Labor down two points on a month ago to 32%, One Nation up two to 28% and the Coalition unchanged on 19%. Going off respondent-allocated preferences, Labor holds two-party leads of 54-46 lead over One Nation and 53-47 over the Coalition. A three-way preferred prime minister question has Anthony Albanese on 34%, Pauline Hanson on 23% and Angus Taylor on 10%. Net favourability ratings are provided of minus 13 for Albanese (down three), minus one for Taylor (up three), and minus two for Pauline Hanson (up one). Further clarity can be expected on these points when the print edition is published or the pollster’s own report becomes available. The poll was conducted Monday to Friday from a sample of 1006.
UPDATE: The RedBridge/Accent poll has Anthony Albanese down two on approval (combined very and mostly favourable) to 32% and up one on disapproval (very and mostly unfavourable) to 45%. Angus Taylor is at 19% and 20%, respectively up six and up three on the previous poll, conducted before he became leader, while Pauline Hanson is up one to 38% and down one to 40%. Further net ratings are provided for Jane Hume, Tim Wilson and Larissa Waters, all of whom are at minus three from low recognition, and minus 13 for the somewhat better known David Littleproud and minus 17 for the still better known Barnaby Joyce. Also featured are highly useful and interesting figures on respondent-allocated preferences broken down by party support, which I believe will be published overnight.
Also as you check through the Epstein files please count how many Shia are mentioned
p.s. not Shia, not X’n, just human
UK Labour has become fundamentally corrupted and seemingly incapable of changing course atm under the inert leadership of Starmer. The polite term for their implosion is Pasokification.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasokification?wprov=sfla1
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2026/02/starmer-is-driving-labour-to-disaster
New thread.
Dr Doolittle, Wednesday, March 4, 2026 at 1:40 am:
—————————
I agree with you on this one. And so does President Zelenskyy himself, from the rest of what I quoted from him. He raises the equally valid concern of Ukraine being weakened, by the diversion of Western (basically, US) munitions to the ME. Russia doesn’t similarly suffer from Iran’s munitions and military production being degraded, because they sucked all they needed from Iran a while ago and are now producing those Shahed-based drones themselves (with IP and expertise obtained from Iran).