DemosAU has published one of its quarterly multilevel regression and post-stratification polls for Capital Brief, which estimates results at seat level based on demographic and geographic modelling and a large-sample survey. It rates Labor the more likely winner in 84 seats, although its randomised simulations of 20,000 potential scenarios suggests this flatters them, the probable range of outcomes being from 73 to 85. This would nonetheless seem encouraging for Labor given the poll credits them with only 27% of the primary vote.
By contrast, One Nation’s 26% vote gets them rated favourites in only 24 seats (range 22 to 35), whereas the Coalition’s 22% gets them 34 (range 25 to 44). The Greens are credited with 13% of the vote but no seats, a Liberal National win being rated the most likely outcome in their remaining seat of Ryan, although this is projected as a close three-way result. The pollster’s full release features primary vote, two-candidate preferred and win probability estimates for every seat. The survey was conducted August 4 to September 19 from a sample of 9740.
The latest result from a Roy Morgan series that has moved from weekly to fortnightly has Labor steady on 26%, One Nation down one-and-a-half to 24%, the Coalition down one to 21.5% and the Greens unchanged on 15%. Labor holds two-party leads of 53-47 over the Coalition on respondent-allocated preferences, out from 52.5-47.5; 53.5-46.5 on previous election preferences; and 54.5-45.5 on a respondent-allocated measure against One Nation, out from 53.5-46.5. The pollster’s full report features primary vote breakdowns by state. The poll was conducted September 28 to October 11 from a sample of 2655.
Zoomster
Have to agree with your local Nat, the Liberals should be pushing back on ON, the Liberal Party’s approach to ON is weak.
Fargo61 says:
Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 10:22 am
nadia says: Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 10:19 am
“…Always handy for a PM to have a couple of DD’s sitting in his intray.”
Perhaps not, considering the likely composition of the senate after a DD.
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Nah
The ALP and (strengthening) Greens vote are still on track to jag roughly half the Senate seats plus Pocock in the ACT.
QLD, atm, is the only state where the LNP & ON could jag 4 out of 6, or 7 out of 12 at a DD.
The recent Federal polling in Tasmania is shocking for the LNP – they’re not even at outright quota for a sole Senator at a half senate (needing 14,3 & sitting at 14%).
The Monday Morgan poll had some nasty figures coming out of Tasmania, hence the reason Sen Duniam is probably resigning.
Link (to the Tas data, refer page 3 of below)
https://roymorgan-cms-prod.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/12061524/10366-Federal-Voting-Intention-October-12-2026.pdf
Charlie says:
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Hey Charlie, since I’m here plopping my greasy fingers down on the keyboard like fat little frankfurters, I gotta ask: How come you change your name all the time? Are you on the run from the law or something?
It will definitely be interesting to watch, zoomster.
FWIW, I’m not particularly a fan of the Coalition’s policy platform. Jess Wilson looks to me exactly what she appears on paper. No real world experience, no “wisdom”, she’s just an inexperienced career politician straight out of a think tank. She’s moving on from the negative phase to a positive agenda currently, with the expectation of winning an election, and i can’t see much evidence she knows what she’s doing. She is just going to do exactly what the Coalition policy wonks and senior public servants tell her to do, similar to Crisafulli. And it will be all wrong, because fundamentally, it will just largely be a continuation. There really does need to be a hard reset. You’ve got to blow shit up. You’ve got to throw away the consensus of the last couple of decades and start again.
Ante Meridian says:
Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 10:27 am
nadia,
I was waiting for someone to raise the spectre of a double dissolution based on the current Senate impasse.
Given the state of the half-senate that won’t be up for re-election next time, and the fact that the next election can theoretically be called about nine months early anyway, the only way Albanese would consider a DD is if he goes barking mad.
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Today – fully agree, it would be barking mad.
But we don’t know what the polling will look like in 12 months time. It could improve quite dramatically for the ALP from it’s current position of circa 27%.
As an example – a messy LNP/ON govt in Victoria running around sacking public servants etc could deliver a polling windfall to the Federal ALP by late next year.
If he does get a few DD triggers, the DD window will close on/around 21-Jan-2028, so he’s got plenty of time to play around with the Senate.
Always handy to have a couple of DD’s and not need them, than need them and not have them!
Landlord of the Yearsays:
Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 10:35 am
Zoomster
Have to agree with your local Nat, the Liberals should be pushing back on ON, the Liberal Party’s approach to ON is weak.
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Completely agree. It’s one reason Taylor needs to go. But it’s coming from what’s left of the Liberal membership. They are telling the leadership they need to play nicely with One Nation, but looking at my local branch, I suspect many will just vote for One Nation anyway.
The Liberal membership itself is the problem. Doesn’t make them much different to the ALP, it’s at the heart of much that’s gone wrong in recent years.
Wombat,
One thing Crisafulli is doing well is keeping a lid on his side’s nasties. We know they are there, heck we know who they are, but he’s keeping them quiet and relatively under control. For now.
And yes, Qld Labor still seem to be upset at the electorate. Going to have to swallow that soon and get on with it. Keep an eye on Lance McCallum.
Victoriasays:
Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 10:32 am
The wombat
Which everway I look at it. A coalition one nation vic govt will be a Bona fide shit sandwich.
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I think that Jess Wilson will get a majority in her own right.
And I think ON will perform about as well as they did in SA.
Dan Tehan, for instance, looked & sounded like a man possessed. There’ll probably be an MPI after QT.
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Dan Tehan could do with an MRI after QT
The Wombat
Jess does know what she is doing, but one of the Liberal Party’s problems is how to deal with ON while keeping the Sky24 fed party members happy.
The Liberal Party trying appeasement in the hope ON will preference them, to help the Liberals win seats they rarely if ever win is a strategy that has empowered ON and left the Liberal Party federally in political tatters.
SL
Apparently, India achieved 30 giga watts Solar energy power tiil now.
Please, watch Modi speech at Bloomberg economic Forum, if you can. You would understand why he is such a great communicator
nadia,
Twelve months from now we’ll be in the window where Albanese can call an election for the HoR and half the Senate*. If the polling has improved for Labor by then, he can do just that and keep the half-senate from last time where Labor did exceptionally well. No need to risk starting from scratch with lower quotas that give minor parties a look-in.
* At the earliest, writs issued on the first of July 2027 for an election on the first Saturday in August.
Just on the DD calculations.
* Parliament opened on Tues 22-July-2025
* Constitution states Parliament expires 3 years from opening, so
* Parliament closes at 23.59 (& 59 seconds to be pedantic) on Thurs 21-Jul-2028
* DD can’t be called within six months of Parliament expiring (note, a DD can be held within six months of Parly expiring).
* Last date to call a DD should be Fri 21-Jan-2028
I stand corrected on these calculations, but I think they’re fairly close (maybe a day out)
Landlord
If you think Jess Wilson know what she is doing, I shake my head in disbelief.
She is just a first term MP.
You may say what about Bob Hawke, who was 1st termer and who led ALP to power in 1983.
First of all Hawke was Exceptional talent
Second of all he was in political sphere for atleast a decade before that.
He had charisma, which is an important criteria for a leader to succeed.
So, please so please give it a rest.
So, Vic Labor have played the abortion card. Desperate times.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-15/free-abortion-pledge-ben-carroll-state-election/107267554
I support the policy.
What do Le Pen and FIGJAM have in common?
Both have promised to stop military aid to Ukraine.
Ante Meridian,
Always better to have them and not need them, than need them and not have them.
Rex @11.06 – Yep!
Upcoming Polls:
* Bugger all actually. If Roy Morgan is now fortnighly, I’m guessing YouGov is our next poll on Tues.
* Should have a Vic State based newspoll in the Australian though. They mentioned they’d drop a poll in both October & Novemeber.
Fargo61
OK thanks, I was not aware it could work that way. I thought it was claimed as a tax deduction. If that is not the case I withdraw my criticism.
Lambie is right of course and we all know it deep down.
But Labor HQ, backed by their partisan supporters who fall into line like lemmings, continue on with their BS.
Ven
Hawke and Wilson are not comparable, Hawke was a veteran of the labour movement, Wilson is a first termer but has been around politics as an advisor.
Good morning All. Where a story is paywalled, I’ve added a free link alongside it.
A Senate ambush: Nick Newling reports that the Coalition, the Greens, One Nation and the crossbench joined forces in the Senate to sink Labor’s bill cutting the private health insurance rebate, and with it the $3 billion aged care plan the savings were meant to fund. Mark Butler vows to bring it back. Tess Ikonomou has the story for free in the Guardian, reporting that the Greens blocked the bill over a carve-out for pensioners.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/butler-vows-to-bring-back-health-rebate-bill-after-senate-ambush-sinks-3b-aged-care-plan-20261014-p615m1.html
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/14/labors-bill-to-cut-private-health-insurance-rebate-blocked-by-greens-over-pensioner-carve-out
Credit card fallout: Tom McIlroy reports that Jim Chalmers denies Albanese overruled him on the ATO’s credit card ban. In his analysis, McIlroy writes that a small political spot fire has turned into a major irritant for the PM, and is putting strain on his relationship with his treasurer.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/14/jim-chalmers-denies-anthony-albanese-rolled-him-over-credit-card-payments-for-tax-bills
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/oct/14/anthony-albanese-jim-chalmers-labor-strain-credit-card-tax-economy
Trusts: Shane Wright reports that the overhaul of trust taxes is expected to raise $40 billion. Chalmers faces a campaign of nearly two years against it as businesses warn of accounting turmoil. Patrick Commins explains what is happening with discretionary trusts and why some Australians are worried.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/a-matter-of-trust-20261014-p615cu.html
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/15/australia-discretionary-trusts-tax-changes-labor-coalition
The bigger picture: David Speers argues that Chalmers and Frydenberg have more in common than either would admit, as reform gets harder by the day in a toxic political climate. Shaun Carney writes that so many people are angry, and it is becoming clear why. In his Boyer Lecture, the Lowy Institute’s Sam Roggeveen argues that the bold foreign policy Australia needs has no political home right now.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-15/david-speers-reform-in-toxic-political-climate-tax-gst/107264086
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/so-many-people-are-angry-it-s-becoming-clear-where-this-comes-from-20261015-p615ij.html
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-14/boyer-lecture-keynote-sam-roggeveen-asia-australia/107260512
Natassia Chrysanthos reports that outgoing Liberal senator Jonno Duniam used his final speech to parliament to urge his party not to copy One Nation.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/don-t-mimic-outgoing-liberal-warns-party-against-copying-one-nation-20261014-p615di.html
Paul Daley writes that violent and abusive language is seeping into our political debate, and argues that we have Donald Trump to blame.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/oct/15/violent-and-abusive-language-is-seeping-into-our-political-debate-we-have-donald-trump-to-blame-ntwnfb
Migration pushback: Holly Tregenza and Ewa Staszewska report that hospitality bosses warn of empty cafes and kitchens under the proposed migration cuts.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-14/hospitality-industry-warns-shortages-migrant-workers/107266454
Greens: Matthew Knott reports that David Shoebridge has warned the Ukrainian-Australian community “don’t burn your bridges” over the party’s opposition to military aid.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/don-t-burn-your-bridges-shoebridge-warns-ukrainian-community-over-military-aid-20261014-p615kk.html
Security: Matthew Knott reports that a recording device has been found on a navy ship, prompting an investigation, and Jacqui Lambie is calling for “zero tolerance”. Josh Butler reports that it was a video recording device in a cabin on HMAS Leeuwin in Cairns. Echo Hui and Meghna Bali report that the alleged Chinese spying network at the centre of a current case also targeted a former premier and an AFP commander through LinkedIn.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/recording-device-discovered-on-navy-ship-sparking-investigation-20261014-p615mt.html
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/14/video-recording-device-found-in-cabin-of-hmas-leeuwin-navy-ship-in-cairns
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-15/alleged-chinese-spies-targeted-australian-officials-via-linkedin/107266478
Resources: Stephen Dziedzic reports that Resources Minister Madeleine King has left open the possibility of nationalising a China-linked rare earths company. Sarah Basford Canales reports that King told the National Press Club that Australian industry will rely on gas for the “foreseeable future”.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-14/federal-politics-resources-minister-open-nationalising-company/107266624
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/14/australia-reliant-on-gas-for-foreseeable-future-madeleine-king-press-club
Climate: Graham Readfearn asks whether it really is “madness” to count emissions from fossil fuels burned overseas, as the Coalition claims after last week’s High Court ruling. Nick O’Malley argues that calling the Fiji climate talks a dud misses the point, but the gains are in jeopardy.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/14/is-it-really-madness-to-account-for-emissions-from-fossil-fuels-burned-overseas-the-coalition-sure-thinks-so
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/calling-climate-talks-a-dud-misses-the-point-but-the-gains-are-in-jeopardy-20261014-p615dj.html
Jessica McSweeney reports that the Federal Court has overturned Tanya Plibersek’s protection order, which had stalled part of the McPhillamys gold mine in central west NSW. Lisa Cox has it for free in the Guardian, and on the ABC, Joanna Woodburn reports on the $1 billion mine.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/block-on-nsw-gold-mine-rejected-by-federal-court-20261014-p615fl.html
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/14/federal-court-overturns-tanya-plibersek-protection-order-nsw-goldmine-mcphillamys-blaney
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-14/federal-court-overturns-commonwealth-gold-mine-decision/107260458
Michael Bachelard reports that former and current members describe the Exclusive Brethren as a controlling sect, not a religion, as leader Bruce Hales faces a high-stakes showdown.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/brethren-a-controlling-sect-not-a-religion-say-former-and-current-members-20261014-p615e8.html
NSW One Nation: Michael McGowan writes that the party is starting to feel like a clearing house for bitter exes. Jessica McSweeney reports that state leader Mike Newman is looming large at parliament, turning up to Question Time and backing anti-vax bills.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/one-nation-in-nsw-is-starting-to-feel-like-a-clearing-house-for-bitter-exes-20261015-p615ds.html
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/crashing-question-time-backing-anti-vax-bills-one-nation-leader-looms-large-at-parliament-20261014-p615hg.html
Bevan Shields reports that when Redfern’s Aboriginal Medical Service begged for help, Archbishops Anthony Fisher and George Pell said no, even though a congregation of sisters had donated their own buildings for it.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/redfern-s-aboriginal-medical-service-begged-for-help-archbishops-anthony-fisher-and-george-pell-said-no-20261015-p612xu.html
Health: Rob Harris reports that the rural health funding gap has blown out to $9.2 billion, and that several government departments delayed approving publication of the data for months.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/appalling-rural-health-funding-gap-blows-out-to-9-2-billion-20261014-p615d7.html
Victoria’s election: Wendy Tuohy reports that the Carroll government has pledged free abortions to end the “postcode lottery” of care.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/free-abortions-pledged-to-remove-women-s-postcode-lottery-of-care-20261015-p615g9.html
Tasmania: Ashleigh Barraclough reports that a man’s death after no ambulances were available has put the spotlight on the Liberals’ promise to ban ramping.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-15/patient-death-ambulance-ramping-promise-tasmanian-liberals/107264586
NT: Jane Bardon reports that Indigenous women in remote communities are documenting the domestic violence crisis and offering their own solutions.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-15/remote-nt-communities-work-to-break-domestic-violence-cycle/107262158
Higher education: Kelly Fuller reports that NSW universities justified job cuts with financial figures that no one could check.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-15/nsw-university-financial-models-job-cuts-inquiry/107244202
Sydney: Catie McLeod asks whether getting to the new Western Sydney International Airport, which is about to open, will be cheaper.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/15/the-new-western-sydney-international-airport-is-about-to-open-will-it-be-cheaper-to-get-to
Tech: David Swan reports that Australian children’s AI chats are up for sale after the Character.AI chatbot app went bankrupt, since Disney is paying US$20 million for the technology but not the users’ chats. He also reports that ASIC has dropped its insider trading probe into billionaire Richard White.
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/australian-kids-ai-chats-for-sale-as-chatbot-app-goes-bankrupt-20261015-p615g2.html
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/asic-drops-insider-trading-probe-into-billionaire-richard-white-20261015-p615q7.html
Science: Shannon Corvo and Jean Kennedy report that a Sydney archaeologist helped retrieve ancient ceramics from what is believed to be the world’s oldest known shipwreck, found off Türkiye.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-15/worlds-oldest-shipwreck-found-in-turkiye-archaeologists-say/107267406
Compiled with the assistance of Claude (Anthropic, Claude Opus 5.5) and edited by Douglas and Milko.
I’ve read the ON Victoria policies, and agree that they’re very bland motherhood statements (with the occasional odd kick given just to show it’s ON).
I highly doubt that the actual ON candidates have read them or (if they have) intend to pay them much attention (after all, they’ve had virtually no input into them, and a seat in Parliament beats a party bureaucrat hands down any day of the week).
I wouldn’t make an judgements at all about a future ON’s parliamentary performances based on those documents.
As we have seen, even the most pure and moral of parties will ignore their policy platform when it suits them.
Speers article has Chalmers and Frydenburg as comparable when it comes to doing the hard yards on economic reform.
The difference is that Chalmers is making the reforms while he’s in Parliament, whilst Josh is making them afterwards.
It would seem that Speers couldn’t find examples of the same reforming zeal when Josh was actually Treasurer.
Wow. Says more about them than anything else.
Frydenberg was gifted a once in a generation opportunity for reform but spent the time moaning like a baby after losing their toy.
US inflation rate up from 3.3% to 3.7% for the year to September.
This is the kind of thing that makes an impact on the American voter: through their hip-pocket nerve. It will translate directly to the midterms.
I think it’s a bit premature to be drawing too many conclusions about what might happen in 2028 for us. I’d be particularly wary of predicting a surge in Green votes. The punters will not be happy if they discover that Shoe-Bridge is another Blocker Bandt over the coming 18 months.
Rex
Think you’ll find these are state issues, over which the Feds have no control.
Oh, look, it’s actually in the article —
‘The government says “the responsibility of criminal justice system predominantly sits with state and territory government”, and that’s why they’ll reject the bill, ‘
The Hobart AFL stadium contract has been handed to the BESIX Watpac consortium. This is the same group who are building the Brisbane Olympics stadium. The Chinese company didnt get the contract, the people who built the Beijing Olympics stadium.
of course no final costs even hinted at
https://archive.li/yGq0L
Thanks D& M
Australian voters shouldn’t dare burn their Shoebridges.
That Victoria thread is giving flashbacks of looking through the infamous 57-43 leadership spill thread from 2013.
you’re one strange cat TBM
In this morning’s ‘The Mandarin’ email newsletter (07:42 AEST) there’s a claim under the heading, Treasurer’s plan to squash the sway of ‘far-right’ negativity that Jim Chalmers urges progressive reformers to meet angry voters drawn to One Nation’s politics with “respect and understanding”.
https://www.themandarin.com.au/322211-treasurers-plan-to-squash-the-sway-of-far-right-negativity/
(You’ll need an account to read the article.)
If the reporting is accurate, he goes on to say, “We understand that a desire for the past is rooted in a dissatisfaction with the status quo. If anything, taking these pressures seriously, not dismissing them, not disregarding them, is the first of three essential elements of the government’s response.”
It’s a shame only the first bit gets into the sound bite. Because of course you should listen to angry voters with respect. But understanding is a goal not an attitude. You reach understanding, you don’t start there. To declare that you will meet voters with understanding is a condescending misstep. They already don’t trust you. Leaving your preconceptions behind should be part of the message.
EDIT: dumb square brackets…
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.7 per cent in September, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
Sean Crick, ABS head of labour statistics, said: “This month there were 39,000 less employed people and 9,000 more unemployed people. “As a result, the employment to population ratio fell 0.3 percentage points to 63.6 per cent, and the participation rate fell 0.2 percentage points to 66.8 per cent. “This September a higher proportion of people remained unemployed compared to recent years.
“This follows from last month when a higher proportion of people who were previously not in the labour force moved to being unemployed.”
https://www.abs.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/unemployment-rate-47-september
ON’s policy document has been run through a plagiarism and AI checker. Here are the results and sources.
4.7% unemployment rate.
IMF’s unemployment prediction for unemployment reaching 4.7% next year didn’t last long.
It seems there is little I need to add to the comments already made here on David Shoebridge’s arrogant and hostile attitude towards Ukrainians. When Trump and Vance mistreated President Zelenskyy so shamefully at the White House in February 2025, the rest of the world (including almost all Australian voters) saw something to reject. Shoebridge, evidently, saw something he liked and to be emulated.
Shoebridge, you need Australia a lot more than Australia needs you. Think about that before you open your mouth and reveal what an arrogant turd you are. You are currently doing an excellent job burning the Greens’ bridges with a lot of voters, including me.
FIGJAM copying Trump on Ukraine?
Victoria @ 10.34am
As I posited a week or so ago, The Greens Political Party chose the second worst candidate in the Moet Marxist.
It could have been worse.
They could have elected Mahreen.
I wonder how long Sarah Hanson-Young will remain a Green Senator?
Will she join her other former colleague upon the Senate cross bench or better still, join Dorinda Cox on the Government benches.
At least on the Government benches she will have the opportunity to develop and influence policy.
The reported Kimberley Guilfoyle situation is delicious, if it is true.
Trump disowned her by telling journalists that she was “not a family member” and merely “dated Don Jr. for a while”, when in fact she had been engaged to Junior for years, co-owned millions of dollars worth of property with him, spoke at Trump rallies on numerous occasions and was generally a Mar-a-Lago grifter and hanger-onnerer.
Nevertheless, Don Jr. threw her over for a beautiful blonde socialite, who is no less than the daughter of Jeffrey Epstein’s (now deceased) lawyer. A Russian oligarch, best pal of Putin (and claimed to be the best pal of Don Jr., despite not speaking a word of English, and Junior not speaking a word of Russian) shouted them their wedding reception. No wonder Trump refused to attend!
Meantime, Kimberley was banished to Greece where she set about sexually harassing her staff (an old habit) and threatening the Greek government with overthrow by the Trump administration if they did not employ her new Greek boyfriend’s construction company on big public projects.
It all came unstuck when one of her grift victims, a grossly demeanoured huckster from Kentucky, went public with allegations that, after already taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from him, Kimberley was shaking him down for a further $hundred-thousand more, urging him to pay it directly to her Amex credit card account. While revealing these goings-on, the huckster also announced that he had bribed both Don Jr. *AND* Don Snr. directly with installments amounting to a $million more… a part of his story that the mainstream media have neglected to zero-in on, so far.
Now, apparently, Kimberley is making it known that the considerable amount of dirt she has on the Trump family itself is about to be dished, unless she receives less shabby treatment than has lately been offered to her.
Huge, if true…
If I was Kimberley I’d be keeping away from lengths of rope, high windows, sharp knives, steep stairways, knotted bedsheets, polonium, and the bushes behind the 18th hole at any Trump golf course for the foreseeable future.
Macca
‘At least on the Government benches she will have the opportunity to develop and influence policy.’
I remember, back in the day, reading The Democrats policy platform.
I found it so depressing that all that work had gone into coming up with ideas that were never going to be implemented.
Sometimes I got one phrase into an accepted government policy. But it was three or four words more than any Democrat ever got.
Monica Lewinsky saying she’ll take one for the team and give Trump a blow job in the Oval Office, because apparently that’s what it takes for the Republicans to impeach a President…
And that plagiarism score is the reason why I think the Coalition/One Nation combo will probably actually be pretty workable. I can see Jess Wilson has copied a lot of policy, too.
Having One Nation largely agreeing on policy, but not inside the tent might work fine. In some way it’s preferable to give problematic parts of the Coalition a place to sleep outside the church.
I’m trying to be optimistic. I’ve decided I need to make more of an effort to be positive. It might work. I’m not convinced One Nation is a terrible thing to have happened. The OGs are nuts, sure. The newbies, well, I have a fair degree of sympathy for their perspectives.
What i think down deep might be a bit different.
A true patriot.
zoomstersays:
Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 12:13 pm
Monica Lewinsky saying she’ll take one for the team and give Trump a blow job in the Oval Office, because apparently that’s what it takes for the Republicans to impeach a President…
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It’s unlikely the bloke could get it up anymore. But the Democrats should recognise they made a terrible error in not impeaching Clinton. He should have been impeached. Failure to do so was pivotal in giving us Trump.
In fact, Clinton should have just resigned. He should have been told to resign, or face impeachment. I’m still convinced this case broke American politics. I only become more convinced every day.
A real patriot would bite his bits off.
The more I think about it, the more outrageous I find it that a political party leader in this country tells an ethnically defined section of the Australian community: “Don’t burn your bridges.” That is a threat, pure and simple, to harm that community for a political position many within it are taking, that their homeland deserves support against a violent, military invasion. What would Shoebridge say of a political party leader telling Muslim Australians to cease their backing Australia’s support for Palestinian statehood and their urging further help for them, lest they “burn their bridges”?
Shoebridge is a disgrace and has to go.
Completely agree, newy. I think it may be even worse than stuff Hanson has said.
Shoebridge is a bad dude. I don’t like him being in my parliament.
Shoebridge sounds like Australia’s Jeremy Corbyn.
He’s worse than cornpop