Three new polls of federal voting intention:
• The Australian reports the first Newspoll in four weeks has Labor down a point to 31%, the Coalition up one to 21%, One Nation down one to 26% and the Greens up one to 12%. Anthony Albanese is down one on approval to 39% and up two on disapproval to 57%, while Angus Taylor is down two to 35% and up one to 42%. Albanese’s lead as preferred prime minister shifts from 45-37 to 44-36. As with other recent Newspoll results showing One Nation leading the Coalition, no two-party preferred result is provided. The poll was conducted Monday to Thursday from a sample of 1232.
• The monthly RedBridge Group/Accent Research poll for the Financial Review sets new records for One Nation, up a point to 29%, and the Coalition, down two to 17%, with Labor steady on 32% and the Greens up one to 13%. Labor holds two-party leads over both One Nation and the Coalition of 53-47, respectively in from 54-46 and steady. Anthony Albanese’s favourable rating is down three to 29% and his unfavourable rating is up one to 46%; Angus Taylor is steady on 19% and up two to 22% (24% had not heard of him, only one point down on a month ago); and Pauline Hanson is up two to 38% and up three to 43%. A three-way preferred prime minister question has Albanese down a point to 33%, Taylor up four to 14% and Hanson steady on 23%. The poll finds 61% holding Donald Trump most responsible for rising petrol prices compared with 14% for Anthony Albanese and 16% for neither. It was conducted Monday to Friday from a sample of 1003.
• The monthly Fox & Hedgehog poll for the News Corp tabloids has Labor steady on 30%, the Coalition down one to 23%, One Nation down two to 23% and the Greens up one to 13%. The pollster’s three-party preferred measure has Labor up two to 46%, the Coalition steady on 27% and One Nation down two to 27%. Labor’s two-party lead over the Coalition is unchanged at 51-49, and its lead over One Nation is out from 53-47 to 56-44. Anthony Albanese is down two on approval to 30% and up two on disapproval to 49%, Angus Taylor is down two to 24% and up one to 24%, and Albanese’s lead as preferred prime minister shifts from 40-35 to 39-35. The government’s handling of the fuel crisis is rated good by 18% and poor by 57%, but 55% hold disruption from war in the Middle East as the factor most responsible compared with 24% for the federal government and 15% for stations and suppliers. The full release has regular personal ratings on a range of political figures other than the two leaders. The poll was conducted Tuesday and Wednesday from a sample of 1810.
The Australia Institute also has polls from three teal seats conducted as part of its campaign for a gas exports tax. When a forced-response follow-up for the initially undecided is included, the results are as follows:
• In Kooyong, independent Monique Ryan 29.7%, Liberals 34.8%; One Nation 13.4%; Labor 12.8% and Greens 5.7%. A respondent-allocated two-candidate preferred result has Ryan and the Liberals at 50-50. The poll was conducted March 17 and 18 from a sample of 1184.
• In Mackellar, independent Sophie Scamps 31.4%, Liberal 25.0%, One Nation 21.7%, Labor 14.7%, Greens 4.7%, with Scamps holding a 56.7-43.3 two-party lead over the Liberals. The poll was conducted March 17 to 19 from a sample of 1046.
• In Wentworth, independent Allegra Spender 30.6%, Liberal 25.7%, One Nation 16.3%, Labor 16.4%, Greens 7.9%, with Spender holding a 59.4-40.6 two-party lead over the Liberals. The poll was conducted March 17 to 19 from a sample of 1190.
newy boy if you’re referring to the suggestion that C@tmomma is your ‘gal pal’…I was barely able to contain my urge to throw my laptop against the wall.
Putting that aside though, there is something not right about ALABAMA imo.
If you are drawn to discuss or debate Greens Defence Policy you my go blind or wake up needing to shave your hands.
Socratessays:
Thursday, April 2, 2026 at 7:55 pm
One more comment on Trump’s rambling speech today. It was full of whoppers but there was one critical one.
This is Trump’s excuse to avoid fixing the mess his war has created. But its a bluff.
The USA does not depend on Persian Gulf oil for its own supply. But as long as the SOH remains closed, world oil and gas prices remain high for everyone, including USA. If oil prices remain high, Trump will feel a lot of heat from US consumers (and voters) over this one.
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If international law breaches were actually persued, Netanyahu and Trump would be held to account.
Neither have any shame, but the rest of the world despise them.
There will be an alliance of countries, which includes Australia, that will somehow attempt to provide safe passage through the SoH.
Greens policy is to turn the ADF into a Light Mobile Force.
The Greens funding policy supports this because 1% is not enough for the ADF to be supplied with heavy weapons.
This leaves the Greens’ Light Mobile Force ADF with some soldiers who would be facing in a real war people who ARE armed with heavy weapons. Like artillery.
Those soldiers would get slaughtered.
Given that that was the Greens grand plan it would be fitting for the Greens soldiers to be practicing what they preach.
My main message is really simple. The Greens need to stop focusing on slagging Labor over national security and defence while the Greens need to give priority to a root and branch revision of THEIR national security and defence policies.
I don’t expect that to happen. After all, it is more fun to slag Labor.
But it is what SHOULD happen.
haha. I was trying to figure out why my typing was slowing down.
“Greens policy is to turn the ADF into a Light Mobile Force.”
Ok this is getting boring.
You know that is incorrect and yet you keep spouting it.
Kinda confirms my suspicion that you have a whole bunch of “ready to go” lists and phrases saved on wordpad though.
“My main message is really simple. The Greens need to stop focusing on slagging Labor over national security and defence while the Greens need to give priority to a root and branch revision of THEIR national security and defence policies.”
You slag Labors AUKUS policy all the time!
One rule for BW, another rule for non believers I see 🙂
Thanks. Interesting. I hope your last sentence is right. Meanwhile there would be massive uncertainty in anxiety in hundreds of thousands? millions? of homes as we post.
Ashasays:
I’m guessing the Dalton/Brosnan version is currently enjoying their well-earned retirement – I like to imagine he gave up the manwhoring at some point and got back together with someone like Kara or Pam or Natalya.
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It seems the only whores are men these days. But maybe a Bond who is in a long term serious relationship would be fascinating. The first third of the movie could be concerned with the struggles of finding appropriate child care.
I saw a funny cartoon today.
Donald Trump is in a psychiatrist’s office, on the couch.
The psychiatrist asks him:
“These Iranians you’ve been talking to lately… are they in the room with us now?”
Omar, as I said earlier, never trust anything a tankie says.
The Greens should recognize that the world is shifting rapidly and that they should reset their national security and defence policies accordingly.
If you and Peg are any indication, they won’t.
Imagine how empty BW’s day would be if he couldn’t slag off the Greens and repeat the same go to lists incessantly over and over and over and over, all day, every day.
I need details re this ..??
haha.
It seems like a while since I’ve posted a graph. So here you go:
The way US oil exports ramped up in the 2010s is quite remarkable. As is the toll they’ve imposed on Gulf exports in the last month:
And THAT is Peg’s personal contribution to the Greens’ need to revise their national security and defence policies in light of the massive changes in the global security environment…
Is there a way to calculate the number of liters of petrol and diesel that are being saved on a daily basis in Australia by renewables and EVs?
BW my boy, its a bit rich considering that your economic and social policy is very late 20th early 21st century in mind.
Excluding your occasional acceptance of failed Labor defense policy ie AUKUS, you are truly Fukuyama’s strongest solider at home
Miskal
I’m done on the topic. Get back to me when the next Greens national policy conference adopts sane national security and defence policies.
While we are on the topic of casting in Bond movies:
I do actually have some base requirements on my own for the actor playing Bond. I think they should be a guy, they should be somewhere between the ages of 25 and 45 (at least in their first movie), played by a somewhat conventionally good-looking man in decent shape, they should eithet be British or capable of putting on a believable British accent, they should be attracted to women (which doesn’t nessecarily exclude them being attracted to men either…. Skyfall had a bit of fun trolling to audience with that one), and should be either attractive and / or charismatic enough that I can believe that a bunch of beautiful woman would go to bed with them.
Apart from that, I don’t really give a shit. Make them black, asian, ginger, whatever… long as they look good in the tux and have a “Bondian” voice and can handle themselves in the actions scenes and deliver the quips naturally and generally just continue being the unashamed manwhore and semi-functional addict with a borderline sociopathic level of recklessness when it comes to collatoral damage and destruction of public property that we all know and love, that’s good enough for me.
Moneypenny… yeah, she should be a woman, but I couldn’t care less about the actress’s ethnicity or skin colour as long as she has chemistry with the lead actor.
As for M, Q, Leiter, Tanner, etc… cast a good actor who I can believe in the role, and I’m satisified. Black, gay, trans, whatever… who gives a fuck.
M and Q are job titles anyway, they could be anyone, Tanner basically just exists to provide exposition, and its practically a running gag that Leiter looks completely different everytime he appears. The most shocking thing about the Craig-era Leiter was that they actually had the same actor playing him for three films, rather than replacing Jeffrey Wright with Antonio Banderas or Gilbert Gottfried or something for QoS and NTtD.
Asha says:
Thursday, April 2, 2026 at 7:56 pm
Well it’s all over. The next James Bond will be a woman. No doubt there will be a Mr Moneypenny, who will probably be gay. M will be a person of color and Q will be transitioning.
Technically we already had a male Moneypenny in Craig’s first film, he just had a different name.
And the Q from the Craig universe is gay… or, at least, bi.
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And double technically, we also had a female 007 in the last Craig film as well.
Anyhow, it all had to happen after the sale by EON productions to Bezos or Disney or whatever corporate streaming service it will all be about milking it for ‘content’
If it turns out anything like what happened to Star Trek with the absolutely abysmal Star Fleet Academy* it is best to just let it die an honorable death.
*If you are lucky to have missed this, just check the reviews on youtube, it takes the inclusion agenda to an extreme.
QRF and security at whatever base the plane is at, or any embassies we have?
D F McS
Just when I was about to suggest 007 Barbie Bond animated by AI.
Also Bond committed to a long term relationship previously, it just wasn’t much of a happily ever after for the briefly Mrs Bond.
It is quite possible that some Australian citizens have been kidnapped somewhere in the ME.
We just don’t know. Except it is not Desi Freeman.
Ashasays:
Apart from that, I don’t really give a shit. Make them black, asian, ginger, whatever… long as they look good in the tux and have a “Bondian” voice and can handle themselves in the actions scenes and deliver the quips naturally and generally just continue being the unashamed manwhore and semi-functional addict with a borderline sociopathic level of recklessness when it comes to collatoral damage and destruction of public property that we all know and love, that’s good enough for me.
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Well of course. Diversity is great, fake corporate diversity with boxes ticked for this and that is another thing.
I always thought Idris Elba would’ve been a good Bond. Probably a bit old now.
I dont like Star Trek Acadamy because of dismal plot lines and lousy writing.
Youtube commentators dont like STA because a klingon wears a dress and its too inclusive.
We are not the same.
And thats not getting started on Andy Weirs comments about how he prefers Star Trek when its just Romulans and Star Fleet shooting each other, and non of the social commentary stuff…
I mean, its not like OG Trek has an episode about racism where half a planet was black and white, and the other half was white and black. Or the planet turned into nazis. Or the planet where people were fighting over a mistranslated copy of the deceleration of independence. Or Spocks Brain…
Asha says:
Thursday, April 2, 2026 at 8:18 pm
While we are on the topic of casting in Bond movies:
I do actually have some base requirements on my own for the actor playing Bond.
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Easy, just make sure he walks like a ‘panther’
Bit ‘late’ in the evening for you Omar.
Hate to take advantage.
Keep doing your ‘late night’ posts. Always a good read.
I’m watching the footy.
Nath:
No Time to Die already sort of explores that concept, at least in the opening. He and Madeleine have been in what seems to be a traditional relationship in the several years between Spectre and that film.
The ending of The Living Daylights also suggests Bond and Kara will continue seeing each other for a while, though they’ve clearly broken it off by the time of License to Kill. (Or perhaps Kara was sitting at home in Bond’s apartment in London while he was off dismantling a South American drug cartel and banging Pam and Lupe.)
And, of course, he was ready to give up both the spy life and the womanizing for Tracy in OHMSS (albiet he does cheat on her multiple times at Piz Gloria), but we all know how that turned out.
No Nick Daicos no Collingwood?
Bond would never have let the SoH close in the first place.
Been There @ #2070 Thursday, April 2nd, 2026 – 6:33 pm
Nah. It was worth repeating. 🙂
BW
Because he is fictional.
It should be pointed out that while No Time to Die does indeed feature a black woman as 007, she isn’t playing Bond, but a completely different character who was given the 007 designation after Bond retired.
Bond’s poor opinion of his replacement and the gradual development of their relationship from mutual loathing to grudging and then genuine respect is in fact a plot point in the movie, including an amusing scene where Bond chews out M for his decision to give her the 007 number.
Boerwar:
Thursday, April 2, 2026 at 8:10 pm
Not that a court sitting as the final arbiter of the US Constitution is supposed to take into account the untoward socio/economic effects of its decisions, but the utter chaos that would ensue if Trump gets his way would be such that it may sway one or two justices. Locked in would be the three liberal justices, and I think that at least Roberts & Coney Barrett would be against Trump’s argument. Five is enough, but I’d also add Gorsuch to the list. In my view, Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh are beyond hope and patently conflicted.
Same old lines
Catch you ’round A
Going off of past precedent, Bond’s efforts to keep the strait from closing would probably have caused untold destruction and civilian casualties, a major international incident, and shaved a decade off of M’s life as he or she desperately tries to stave off World War III.
Is there a single time-zone in Australia where it would be considered “late in the evening” right now?
Surely Bond would have had a special SoH opener gadget?
Oh, he would have been excellent, but I agree he’s too old for it now. He’s only four years younger than Moore was in A View to a Kill.
Patterson Joseph is another one I felt would do well in the role back in the day. He’d have made a great Doctor too, especially if he were to play it like Johnson from Peep Show.
Boerwar
Lets estimate it 🙂
EVs are now approximately 2% of all vehicles on the road.
Assume they have dropped vehicle fuel consumption by 2%.
Daily fuel consumption is approx. 49,000 ML/day. https://onlyfacts.io/transport/fuel
So 2% should be 1000 ML per day or 1 million litres per day saved by EVs.
Perhaps there is a quiet agreement to diplomatically tell Trump to piss off out of the Gulf…
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/02/penny-wong-to-join-talks-with-35-countries-excluding-us-to-explore-ways-to-reopen-strait-of-hormuz
shiftaling says:
Thursday, April 2, 2026 at 3:17 pm
Griff says:
Thursday, April 2, 2026 at 2:53 pm
Shouldn’t have said it. Best not to promise something outside your locus of control to deliver.
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Possibly – then he shouldn’t have said it today or should have hedged it. Sounds like he intended to say it as he did though, for what it’s worth.
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Agreed.
Miskal says:
Thursday, April 2, 2026 at 8:22 pm
I dont like Star Trek Acadamy because of dismal plot lines and lousy writing.
Youtube commentators dont like STA because a klingon wears a dress and its too inclusive.
We are not the same.
And thats not getting started on Andy Weirs comments about how he prefers Star Trek when its just Romulans and Star Fleet shooting each other, and non of the social commentary stuff…
I mean, its not like OG Trek has an episode about racism where half a planet was black and white, and the other half was white and black. Or the planet turned into nazis. Or the planet where people were fighting over a mistranslated copy of the deceleration of independence. Or Spocks Brain…
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The OG Star Trek and TNG all had a decent element of social commentary, from the initial casting to various eisdoes, it was one of the great things that meant you could watch it either for the photons and phaser action or analyse it to your hearts content.
In SFA the commentary is a little more in your face, as subtle as a being hit by a lemon wrapped in a large brick. It’s as if they had to try an include every possible Inclusion criteria imaginalbe to make it ‘hip’ for the ‘yoof’ so have gender, neurodivergent, body image, i mean the works. And tell me WTH is Holly Hunter on with all that lounging around on sofas like an over active teenager. I mean, when the line from the body image/autistic/gender fluid cadet who says in a great Ralph Wiggum impression ‘i swallowed my communicator’ you got to think…this is supposed to be Star Fleet Academy, place of the bestest, most bigly smart winners in the Federation where the likes of Picard and Janeway came from.
I do realise Wesley is supposed to be from SFA so maybe the standards started dropping there.
There is an interesting story in the Guardian about a NZ Doctor who has sent an invoice to the Chumpistan Embassy for the extra money she has to pay for fuel.
Obviously the Kiwis get it with regard to Epstein’s mate’s impact on the world economy.
BW, BEVs still only make up <2% of the fleet – so overall they're not saving us a lot of liquid fuel.
Growth is rapid, however, as the number of registered BEVs (as of Jan 31 each year) shows.
2021: 15 860
2022: 33 978
2023: 72 572
2024: 159 920
2025: 249 873
https://www.aaa.asn.au/research-data/electric-vehicle/
SLsays:
Thursday, April 2, 2026 at 7:49 pm
Albo’s NPC speech, etc: https://www.pm.gov.au/media
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What’s your thoughts on getting this one done? Gas reservation wasn’t until 2027 I thought:
“And we will pursue every option to ensure that increases that might be there in coal and gas prices do not flow into electricity prices.”
And separately, does the EFA stockpiling role extend to petrol (beyond underwriting cargo)?
Thanks. If anyone asks I will be telling them that an expert has estimated that evs are saving a million litres per day in Australia and have, since the War started, saved Australia 32 million litres.
Thanks. It bemuses me that Albanese has not mentioned this. The way NOT to depend on Middle East oil is to go EV. I think our annual import bill is around $30-$40 billion so a nice little tilt to the balance of trade figures while we're at it.