The latest monthly federal poll from Resolve Strategic in Nine Newspapers records little change on voting intention, with Labor steady on 28%, One Nation up one to 27%, the Coalition up one to 24% and the Greens down one to 11%. Anthony Albanese’s combined very good and good rating is down three points to 34%, while his poor and very poor rating is steady on 53%; Angus Taylor is respectively down one to 39% and down three to 30%; and Pauline Hanson is respectively up one to 47% and down four to 37%. The now established three-way preferred prime minister question has Albanese down three to 29%, Taylor up two to 21% and Pauline Hanson down one to 25%. The poll was conducted Sunday to Saturday from a sample of 2250; state results for Victoria, and perhaps also New South Wales, should follow over the coming days.
Ashasays:
Monday, September 14, 2026 at 12:14 pm
“There’s no cost of living crisis, all my rich friends are still doing great!”
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That’s the long and the short of the situation.
Holdenhillbilly:
Yes, wealthy people and morons with no impulse control still exist. Doesn’t mean lots of others arn’t doing it tough.
We pay the bass strait tax.
Woolies has now stopped selling Tasmanian meat in Tasmanian shops as it was sending it all to Victoria for processing, then shipping it back. No longer considered cost effective.
MI:
Oof, I’m sorry to hear that.
Speaking of Australian’s view of AI, Fox&Hedgehog have dropped this poll canvassing this exact issue.
Link: https://www.foxhedgehog.com.au/news-den
In summary:
* ALP/Lib voters and men are broadly in support of AI infrastructure etc.
* Greens and ON voters appear to be broadly hostile to it.
* Women, in general, are a bit sceptical.
The meth statement attached to the above link suggests that Federal polling was also done, but they haven’t released the polling figures as yet.
Sample was circa 10000 with the poll period being 21-Aug to 2-Sep
10000 would be a mega sample if they do release the poll data.
Their last Federal poll was on/around 1-June
Mostly Interestedsays:
Monday, September 14, 2026 at 12:17 pm
I tend to go for a chicken parmy
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It’s pronounced PARMA
yeah, same item we bought recently a AMart furniture was 30% higher here than the Sydney AMart shops
Holdenhillbilly, Monday, September 14, 2026 at 12:19 pm:
Ever heard of the lipstick effect? Ie, consumers cutting back on expensive consumer purchases during a downturn, but consoling themselves by turning to increased purchases of cheaper goods like lipstick to help them feel better? Maybe that goes for these other things you refer to as well. They sound relatively cheap.
On travelling overseas: the disparaty in prices between first and third world countries means that a trip overseas can often be a way of saving money rather than a sign of wealth. Even for those who just want a holiday, going to Bali or Vietnam or even Thailand can work out significantly cheaper than vacationing, well, pretty much anywhere in Australia.
I don’t mean this as a whinge, I might add. Those places are so much cheaper largely on account of poverty, poor wages and worker protections, lax regulations, little concern for the environment, and other not-so-pleasant things we would never want here in Australia.
– SMH
Ashasays:
Monday, September 14, 2026 at 12:01 pm
Zoomster:
I’m going to hazard a guess that Goll’s Poll Bludger commentary is not going to get quite the same news coverage as the Prime Minister appearing on a podcast.
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You are pretty safe there.
Albanese’s remarks about the Japanese PM made the BBC and CNN.
@Asha
Undoubtedly. My cousin went on a honeymoon in Bali and slipped on the gangplank of the ferry he and his wife were boarding. He ended up in hospital (with a bird’s nest in the operating room) to get 8 stitches.
Probably not going to be fond memories from this one.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has branded Indigenous Australians “the most primitive race” in a freshly unearthed podcast interview from last year. “We’re actually all leaning towards this … teaching about Aboriginal culture and language – for what?” she said at the time. “What the hell have they done in this country for … supposedly 60,000 years? “They’d never invented the wheel. There was nothing here. What are we actually holding up? A few, you know, rock paintings. “Sorry, they’re the most primitive race on Earth, and we’re supposed to be holding up and saying what they’ve achieved. They’ve achieved nothing.”
Lord Ashcroft poll out of the UK (about 4 days old now)
* Labour 28
* Tories 21
* Reform 20 – polling 3rd now
* Green 14
* LibDems 8
Link: https://www.gbnews.com/politics/nigel-farage-reform-labour-tories-poll-lord-ashcroft
nadia, Monday, September 14, 2026 at 12:41 pm:
nadia, good poll for UK Labour. BUT … it has a somewhat marked Labour lean, and it is not part of the British Polling Council.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Polling_Council
I’d still look at its trend over time, though, for evidence of drifts towards or away from Labour.
HH @ 1240, gosh.
I’ve just found the article & interview you referenced.
Link: https://www.news.com.au/finance/culture/inside-parliament/one-nation-leader-pauline-hanson-calls-indigenous-australians-primitive-race/news-story/269cc0bd33764ba6784a7e784e206810
…. and going by the comments section attached it looks like the right wing bots are active too.
A couple of years ago this would have been career ending for a politician.
What on earth is coming up next?
@Holdenhillbilly at 12:40pm
What a despicable thing for her to say.
Oh, but we mustn’t call her a racist apparently.
Kirsdarke:
I caught dengue a few years back on Nusa Penida and spent four miserable days in the local public hospital, where wild dogs prowled the courtyard and mosquitos freely flew in and out of my ward. (I was worried I was going to kill everyone there!) They kept screwing up my drip and as such it would drain my blood back up into the IV everytime I moved the wrong way.
The whole stay and treatment cost me $10 AUD a night. You get what you pay for, I guess.
I personally find some excitment in just how sketchy those countries can be – there’s something liberating about realising you no longer fear death – but it definitely isn’t for everyone.
Teenage girl in class the other day showed me her fingernails.
$80
Do you think that there would be any MRPs for the 2027 News South Wales state election coming fairly soon?
Yeah, even by Hanson standards, that is pretty disgusting.
nadia:
Monday, September 14, 2026 at 12:47 pm
Save for her, a woman’s place is in the home.
Zoomster:
Which she paid for with her own money, or the bank of mum and dad?
Wealthy people with more money than sense don’t cease to exist in an economic downturn.
Strange Fruit 11:41
Edited to add, what kind of person sits in an expensive restaurant, making haughty jokes with their fellow diners about how tough life is?
Rod Steiger?
https://youtu.be/O2om9pd-gOc?si=F910C_pDm79j-CYS
Asha
Given the demographics around here, we’re not talking wealthy.
Ashasays:
Monday, September 14, 2026 at 12:06 pm
I understand *why* we need to be investing in AI, but that doesn’t mean we need to be happy about the human race eagerly blundering their way into the plot of a Black Mirror episode, nor smugly deride those with very real concerns as braindead luddites.
If you aren’t terrified about what the future holds, you arn’t paying attention.
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I am very sceptical when business leaders, especially those with a technology lead, demand a pause in further development. The overwhelming affect would be to block competitors to Anthropic if such measures were to be taken place.
Besides, I’m yet to see any evidence that AI overwrites other existing consumer protections – do we need to bring back “The Checkout” as a national reminder?
And a “middle power treaty to ban AI research” is how we handle over the market to thr USA and China.
Neither did the Britons.
But there is a strong case for saying that Indigenous Australians managed this continent, with its particular patterns of climate, soil and water availability, more sustainably than any society that has subsequently inhabited it.