The Australian reports Newspoll has One Nation edging back into the lead on the primary vote, gaining one point on three weeks ago to 30% while Labor holds steady on 29%, with the Coalition up a point to 19% and the Greens down one to 13%. Anthony Albanese was up a point on approval to 38% and steady on 59% disapproval, Angus Taylor was down one to 33% and up four to 50%, and Pauline Hanson was up one to 47% and down one to 48%. Albanese’s lead over Taylor on preferred prime minister was out from 44-37 to 44-35, while a three-way question was entirely unchanged on last time with Albanese on 46%, Taylor on 23% and Pauline Hanson on 31%. The poll also has a question on housing prices which differs from others showing support for a fall in including a “stay about the same” option, which was favoured by 32%, with 30% favouring an increase and 32% a decrease. The poll was conducted Monday to Friday from a sample of 1243.
The latest monthly RedBridge Group/Accent Research poll for the Financial Review has Labor edging back in front of One Nation on the primary vote, holding steady at 29% while One Nation drops three to 28%, with the Coalition steady on 22% and the Greens up two on an unusually weak result last time to 12%. Labor’s two-party lead over One Nation is in from 53-47 to 52-48; the Coalition retains a 52-48 lead over Labor on respondent-allocated preferences (which suggests RedBridge Group is finding more One Nation voters favouring the Coalition than is Roy Morgan), while Labor leads 52-48 on previous election preferences compared with a 50-50 result last time. A three-way preferred prime minister result is little changed, with Anthony Albanese down a point to 31%, Pauline Hanson steady at 24% and Angus Taylor steady at 15%. There are also approval ratings that I will hold back on reporting until I see the full results. The poll was conducted Monday to Friday from a sample of 1006.
I was wondering if Mr Deming was still out and about 🙂
He certainly IS, poroti!
When will the South Australia poll be on DemosAU’s website?
Fubar
Excellent. Now that we have established the principle we can apply it.
Private commercial television is struggling these days despite receiving government payments. Shut them down? Good idea. ABC and SBS should be enough.
The Austal and Civmech shipyards in Perth have struggled on several projects despite large government assistance. Shut them down too? Great news for Adelaide.
And so on.
Luigi Smith says:
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 at 5:27 pm
The US Navy is still there. I’ve worked with them.
Slaves and serfs are expendible Kirsdarke. Once Hanson becomes PM, if the polling and election results till now after last election are anything to go by, then the Left, Brown and Black people could become slaves and serfs.
There is no need for that because Labor is leading comfortably in that state.
Vensays:
Slaves and serfs are expendible Kirsdarke. Once Hanson becomes PM, if the polling and election results till now after last election are anything to go by, then the Left, Brown and Black people could become slaves and serfs.
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Tough but fair.
Mavis@4:40 pm
Projection by Tim Wilson because Wilson knows about “L-NP governments budget, and the dodgy numbers that always underpin it”
As you said in a previous comment that you would ingratiate yourself to Hanson government by becoming one of its whipping boys.
Looks like the High Court will be busy under a ON government.
Socrates says:
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 at 5:27 pm
“Yet more proof if it is needed that privatisation of essential services is a bad idea.”
The story you linked to is nothing of the sort. It is a story about the failure of Local Government and State Government to maintain infrastructure.
Good onya ‘The Wombat’ that Australia and Australians survive nuclear catastrophe. Am I glad that I am an Australian citizen or what?
Yeah, bully for you, Fubar.
I think you are confusing HEH with the much newer Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station at Kojarena near Geraldton. That would be a likely nuclear target, but HEH is of little value.
A good way to work out what matters is to look up who operates stuff.
ADSCS, Pine Gap and Shoal Bay are operated by ASD. Humpty Doo is part of HMAS Coonawarra. Air Force operates the JORN stations.
Guess who operates HEH? The Defence Materiel Organisation. Ever worked for them, Fubar? It won’t do my credibility any good by mentioning that I have.
The Nerd Reich wants to ‘destroy’ democracy, and its mask has slipped.
“Billionaires have become radicalised against democracy,” the American independent journalist Gil Durán tells the ABC.
“We have to realise how much power we have, and to stop being tuned out from the very real threat we face from a billionaire class that has gone off the edge of sanity into an altered reality.
The Nerd Reich (2026) has debuted as an instant New York Times bestseller.
“But we also need to realise where we’re at, how we got here, and who’s paying for it all.
It’s not just Trump anymore. It’s a regime. And it’s a regime that is funded and supported and strengthened by the oligarchs of Silicon Valley.”
That is Durán’s warning to Australians.
He was speaking to the ABC about his new book, The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-02/the-nerd-reich-silicon-valley-fascism-war-on-democracy-abc-2026/?
@nath at 5:50pm
Excuse me, what do you mean by that?
Kirsdarkesays:
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 at 6:00 pm
@nath at 5:50pm
Tough but fair.
Excuse me, what do you mean by that?
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Slavery has gotten a bad name courtesy of Hollywood films and Leftist propaganda.
First the polling turns against you, then the media goes more feral.
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https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/just-five-nations-outside-the-pacific-to-attend-australian-climate-event-20260902-p60tov.html
@nath at 6:01pm
Are you being serious here?
Fastwheels at 5:59 pm
I think our Nerdfuhrers grew up reading Ayn Rand, Henlein and the like.
B. S. Fairmansays:
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 at 5:19 pm
Boerwar – Yes, the shed is the HQ apparently. It is registered for all their material too.
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Maybe Rudy Giuliani organised it for them?
It doesn’t happen to be called Four Seasons Total Landscaping ?
Kirsdarkesays:
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 at 6:04 pm
@nath at 6:01pm
Slavery has gotten a bad name courtesy of Hollywood films and Leftist propaganda.
Are you being serious here?
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Totally. And I’ve even started up a company specializing in slave attire in anticipation of a ON victory.
Force your troublesome slaves into iron collars while the well trained slaves can be decked out in leather collars.
I’m looking for investors.
That is not funny, Nath.
Any interest FUBAR?
nath at 6:11 pm
Give Gina a call. Slaves would be a perfect match for her wishes.
https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/rinehart-calls-for-cheap-foreign-labour-ng-ya-214172
Tim Wilson on Sky News, as quoted by Mavis @4:40 PM.
That makes no sense. An average is a number, not a range. “Up to” suggests an upper limit to a range, a worst case scenario if you think house prices reducing is bad.
Wilson is either misrepresenting whatever data that statement is based upon or he doesn’t understand it. Given the loaded language he uses, probably the former.
Give Gina a call. Slaves would be a perfect match for her wishes.
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She would claim the manacles and chains as a business expense!
Steve777 at 6:18 pm
Beware of pollies using the word “average”. A room full of poor people and a bazillionaire makes for an excellent ‘average’. Median income ? Not so good. It is why our pollies love averages. Median figures are far less impressive.According to the Grattan Insitute 75% to 80% of we peasants earn less than the “average”.
And it appears nath wants to be cog in the ‘Nerd Reich’ regime.
Come to think of it to being a loan shark to whipping boy is a good skill set to transfer.
Maybe nath thinks that nerd dictators are benevolent dictators. I don’t know.
Talk of us lucky wee Australians surviving a nuclear holocaust because it would be confined to the northern hemisphere smacks of something of the wishful thinking 60-odd years ago.
A more likely scenario is what was outlined by Nevil Shute in his apocalyptic novel, On the Beach, where the world’s surviving humans gather in Melbourne as the radiation from a nuclear war gradually spreads and they wait for the end.
One thing not envisaged in that story was “nuclear winter”, in which the debris thrown up by nuclear explosions into the atmosphere would block out the sun’s rays and how such a “cloud” would spread across the globe, much as happened when an asteroid struck the earth 66 million years ago, causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. Hard to see how many humans could survive that.
Of course we can’t be sure how much of the world could survive a nuclear war or whether such a post-nuclear world would be worth surviving in. But let’s hope we don’t find out.
So far the world has avoided such a catastrophe, because not even the crops of lunatics in possession of nuclear weapons have wanted to destroy themselves along with the only world we are able to live in.
We have to keep working on making our planet nuclear weapons-free. I don’t know how we’re going to do that, but I know of no other way than to plead that we do.
As Ava Gardner said, If you are making a movie about the end of the world, Melbourne is the place to be.
Satire is alive and well here on PB.
Gardner is famously and apocryphally quoted as calling Melbourne “the perfect place to make a film about the end of the world.”Historical research shows this sharp remark was actually a journalistic fabrication created by a local reporter to spice up coverage after Gardner famously refused to give interviews or court the local press
Soaring oil prices have triggered a global bond market meltdown with borrowing costs hitting multi-decade highs, pressuring central banks to do more to stamp out inflation and raising the prospect of two more interest rate rises in Australia this year.
Government bond yields have been pushed to levels not seen since the global financial crisis in 2008 after an escalation in the Iran war this week sent Brent crude back above $US95 a barrel, fanning fears of runaway inflation.
https://archive.is/gT6yo
Confessionssays:
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 at 6:03 pm
First the polling turns against you, then the media goes more feral.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has hit out at criticism of the fact just five leaders from outside the Pacific have confirmed their attendance at Australia-organised United Nations climate events in Fiji and Tuvalu next month, branding it disrespectful to regional leaders.
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Maybe if he stopped being disrespectful to world leaders then maybe more of them would show up. Especially the female ones.
After tit gate why would they even bother. You don’t know what he is going to say down the track.
Of course Melbourne is the centre of Australian civilization, such as it is.
@Taylormade
I bet you giggled when Tony Abbott made a remark about the Costa Concordia disaster, “Well that was one boat that was stopped”.
With everything going on in the US, I can certainly understand being anxious about the future of our country if One Nation do continue surging in support, but I think some of you need to chill out a little.
I’m pretty confident that Australia’s robust democratic systems will not allow One Nation to go to the full Trump, not without them spending a decade in office both federally and in multiple states eroding said systems.
We place far more restrictions upon our governments than the US does
(the amount of executive power the US President and their cabinet have is insane), have a much fairer electoral process that is (mostly) free of gerrymandering and malapportionement, and a largely apolitical and independent High Court.
The danger of electing a government that One Nation will play a substantial role in is that they are a bunch of bumbling incompetents and grifters (and Barnaby, I suppose) with crazy, ill-thought-out policies that they can’t even agree on half time, not that they will plunge us into fascism. Don’t get me wrong, their election will be terrible for the country, but it won’t be the end of democracy. At least, not in their first few terms.
And, to be honest, I would really caution against hyperbole about serfs and summary executions and all that, as I think that sort of stuff ultimately plays right into One Nation’s hands.
…not to speak of the contribution of so many nations which are in the ‘pay now’ phase of ‘fly now and pay later’. And not forgetting Trump’s tariffs and Bessent’s interesting approach to his job. The latter includes rolling over something like a quarter of the US debt within the next six months or so.
Strap yourselves in, folks.
The PM edition:
– SMH
Hadley would not have had an ulterior motive to expose Jones’s alleged aberrant behaviour; he (Hadley) is not that sort of bloke. They certainly played rough at 2GB in the era of Jones & Hadley.
Roll on the ICAC inquiry. Dear Charles, P will be in the hot seat again tomorrow. Damn it, I’ll be otherwise engaged.
He’s joking, Ven.
@Asha That, and the fact that since state governments will mostly be Labor and Liberal, that will also really moderate One Nation as well wether they like it or not, plus a left-wing blocking majority in the Senate won’t help them either.
Taylormadesays:
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 at 6:36 pm
Confessionssays:
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 at 6:03 pm
First the polling turns against you, then the media goes more feral.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has hit out at criticism of the fact just five leaders from outside the Pacific have confirmed their attendance at Australia-organised United Nations climate events in Fiji and Tuvalu next month, branding it disrespectful to regional leaders.
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Maybe if he stopped being disrespectful to world leaders then maybe more of them would show up. Especially the female ones.
After tit gate why would they even bother. You don’t know what he is going to say down the track.
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LOL the hypocrisy, as nath suggested once you have more front than an Amazon warehouse.
Oakeshott Country:
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 at 6:32 pm
You’d probably recall that in those days, the first thing a VIP would be asked by the assembled media was, “What do you think of Australia?” – this, before they had even left the tarmac. When Joan Sutherland arrived back in Oz in ’65, after making her debut at the ROH in ’59, in the role of Lucia, one journo asked her (wwtte), why haven’t you returned to Oz earlier? She responded by singing a truncated aria. Here’s a clip of her arrival, but absent the exchange:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yHwuwRYfds
Mavissays:
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 at 7:14 pm
Oakeshott Country:
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 at 6:32 pm
‘As Ava Gardner said, If you are making a movie about the end of the world, Melbourne is the place to be.’
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You’d probably recall that in those days, the first thing a VIP would be asked by the assembled media was, “What do you think of Australia?”
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While Melbourne just relied on high profile Hollywood actors like Peter Lorre talking about visiting there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKdDZU3i7y4
Rats leaving the sinking ship…
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/liberal-frontbencher-announces-exit-ahead-of-nsw-election-20260902-p60tsg.html
Interesting developments in the Swans Pullman Five case, with the number dwindling after police interviews…
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/afl/sydney-swan-riley-bice-not-a-suspect-in-police-sexual-assault-investigation-20260902-p60tsj.html
If we’re talking nuke war in Australia you cant go past this gem of a movie.
Do yourself a favour and watch it.
https://youtu.be/gU9raAVgNCw?si=qBBVm5Ou0BOUusxu
It seems like the only Liberal parties that are doing well these days are the ones in Victoria and Queensland.