Newspoll: 53-47 to Labor

Malcolm Turnbull’s personal ratings bounce back from recent lows, amid an otherwise stable set of readings from Newspoll.

Via James J, tomorrow’s Australian brings us another result showing Labor leading 53-47 on two-party preferred, from primary votes of Coalition 38% (down one), Labor 38% (steady) and Greens 10% (steady). For some reason, Malcolm Turnbull’s personal ratings have recorded an uptick, with approval up four to 34% and disapproval down four to 54%, but lead as preferred prime minister is unchanged, shifting from 42-32 to 43-33. Bill Shorten’s ratings are unchanged at 36% approval and 51% disapproval. The poll was conducted Thursday to Sunday from a sample of 1846.

Author: William Bowe

William Bowe is a Perth-based election analyst and occasional teacher of political science. His blog, The Poll Bludger, has existed in one form or another since 2004, and is one of the most heavily trafficked websites on Australian politics.

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  1. Matt31
    Told Ratings #7:30 are the lowest seen in years of looking tv ratings, low enough to be drawing attention on tv ratings discussion forums.

    This is tweet I put on twitter,thanks to you. Incredible the number of replies and retweets back, to date about 1000 according to my stats and coming in so fast.the way things are going there will be no audience soon, these replying appear to be just about all ex viewers, who like me were avid watchers before Leigh

  2. Asked if Brandis could be excused because he had arguably done the right thing by Western Australian taxpayers, Dreyfus said, “not when it’s inconsistent with the constitution and commonwealth laws”, which he said it were the attorney general’s “first duty” to uphold.

    Dreyfus said that Brandis was “unfit” to hold office and should resign, both because of the Bell litigation revelation and because Labor believes he lied to the Senate about whether he consulted Gleeson before making the legal services direction. Brandis has always denied misleading parliament.

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/nov/25/labor-asks-if-george-brandis-engaged-in-corrupt-conduct-over-wa-deal?CMP=soc_568

  3. I’m just stunned that George gets called “corrupt” and he says “no comment”. Jesus, George, that’s pissweak even for you.

  4. AntonB

    The stupidity of the WA Liberals, Hockey and George Brandis eminent jurist that he is, is the Constitution, enacted taxation and bankruptcy law, and the lengthy precedent of the ATO robustly defending the Commonwealth revenue, all said don’t do it this way.

    If they really wanted to reimburse WA for the Bell losses, just do it – no need for the dodgy path.

  5. Substandard and Poor ‏@64AnthonyP · 15m15 minutes ago

    Somewhere in Australia, Peter Dutton is thinking, “I’m so glad to be in a government that includes men like George to take the heat off me”.

  7. I wonder if there is a similar backstory to the $882m Rupert got from the Tax Office for his asset shifting rort. On the election of the Hockey kleptocrats in 2013, the ATO dropped the case.

  8. SPROCKET – Exactly, it’s about the Sovereignty of Parliament and our Laws. Ministers can’t just give away hundreds of millions cos they feel like it. They are trustees of our money.

  9. How interesting that the SMH’s chief political correspondent, Massola, spends his time looking through keyholes into Opposition suites while the West Australian absolutely blows the doors of this govt. Says it all.

  10. lizzie @ #1302 Friday, November 25, 2016 at 12:33 pm

    Asked if Brandis could be excused because he had arguably done the right thing by Western Australian taxpayers, Dreyfus said, “not when it’s inconsistent with the constitution and commonwealth laws”, which he said it were the attorney general’s “first duty” to uphold.
    Dreyfus said that Brandis was “unfit” to hold office and should resign, both because of the Bell litigation revelation and because Labor believes he lied to the Senate about whether he consulted Gleeson before making the legal services direction. Brandis has always denied misleading parliament.

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/nov/25/labor-asks-if-george-brandis-engaged-in-corrupt-conduct-over-wa-deal?CMP=soc_568

    Hated (on PB) Lib stooge Fran Kelly interviewed Mark Dreyfus on RN Breakfast this morning about this. Well worth a listen if you can overcome irrational prejudices.

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/disobeyed-order-beginning-of-stoush-between-gleeson-and-brandis/8057076

  12. Problem with the Brandis story is, as usual, a little complicated for most busy people to grasp (Turnbull’s ‘hardworking Australians’).

    Result: confirmation that ALL pollies are unethical. Sigh.

  15. I would have thought the essence of this is very simple: George wanted to help WA win a court case so it got hundreds of millions of dollars instead of the ATO

  17. So the commonwealth would have lost $300 million or a percentage thereof to the WA government, who else has/had claims ahead of WA’s that would also have been out of pocket by the deal? banks? employees? mum and dad investors?

  18. So all that money that the federal Coalition ‘generously’ handed over to WA to compensate for it’s GST discrepancies was on top of this other money that was just going to magically appear on WA’s balance sheets in the run-up to the next State election?

    The Coalition really, really, really must be on the nose in WA.

    I also imagine that the Coalition Bobsey Twins, Cash and Bishop, were in on the deal.

    I also imagine that when not if Labor win the next State election, once they get their hands on the State Treasury’s books they will open a very big can of worms and will find some verrry interesting things out about Barnett’s government. Bad enough even to spell the end of Christian Porter’s career because the rot set in with him.

  19. Funny how the ‘Brandis branded corrupt…’ story is first or second item on the SMH web site, but nowhere to be seen on ABC online.

  21. Poor old Aunty.

    This week there were emotional scenes at a meeting between staff and management as the changes – including giving a second program to conservative Tom Switzer and cutting most of the music programming – were discussed. Management team members were jeered when they claimed there was still music on RN because Fran Kelly played music on Breakfast. On Thursday staff passed a no-confidence motion against management – namely the architect of the changes, director of radio Michael Mason.

    “The continuing erosion of specialist programming in music, features and religion is a serious breach of the ABC charter and a disservice to the Australian audiences that the ABC is funded to serve,” the motion said. “A systemic failure on the part of the senior radio management to genuinely engage or listen to the professional advice of Radio National staff about major change including the recently announced cuts to ABC jobs and programs.” The staff also slammed Mason’s recent introduction of a new layer of management with its “preposterously named executives” while reducing the number of actual program makers.

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/25/meet-fran-kelly-disc-jockey-abc-bosses-defend-their-music-cuts

  22. I should have picked this out in bold.

    Management team members were jeered when they claimed there was still music on RN because Fran Kelly played music on Breakfast.

  23. Adrian
    Thank you for good hour all I had was comments about Leigh Sales and #730 unusual as normally retweets,which were huge too but people felt compelled to talk as well. Still coming in but dear Georgie Brandis story now starting to take over

  24. Can you imagine the MSM uproar if Dreyfus was as corrupt as Brandis whilst in government? Makes Dastyari’s indiscretion look so trivial.

  28. ‘Can you imagine the MSM uproar if Dreyfus was as corrupt as Brandis whilst in government? Makes Dastyari’s indiscretion look so trivial.’

    But Sam’s indiscretion was so simple! Not to mention trivial.
    The MSM doesn’t do complexity.

  29. @ bemused – so typical of you to turn an immoral action by the right wing into a criticism of the left. You will do anything you possibly can to take attention away from the failings of the right, in order to try to keep them in government as best as you can. Please stop.

  31. adrian @ #1328 Friday, November 25, 2016 at 1:52 pm

    ‘Can you imagine the MSM uproar if Dreyfus was as corrupt as Brandis whilst in government? Makes Dastyari’s indiscretion look so trivial.’
    But Sam’s indiscretion was so simple! Not to mention trivial.
    The MSM doesn’t do complexity.

    Dastyari was just breathtakingly naive and stupid, showing a sense of entitlement that fuelled resentment among the proletariat. And he did benefit personally from it.

  32. Well I see that Federal debt crisis has passed, with George Brandis happy to give away $300 million of Commonwealth revenue! Seriously, why should my taxes be used to pay Brandis a salary of $300K+ as AG when he plainly does not uphold his duties of office?

    As for the politics, apart from the appalling contempt AG Brandis has shown for the duties of his office, how could his political judgement be so bad as to believe he could keep all this quiet by gagging the SG?
    http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/labor-labels-george-brandis-corrupt-following-new-justin-gleeson-revelations-20161124-gsx9e6.html

    Brandis was also happy to spend $80K in legal costs stopping people seeing his appointments diary, and then there was this charming episode too:
    http://www.latrobevalleyexpress.com.au/story/4153910/george-brandis-must-explain-370000-appointment-of-liberal-donor-says-labor/?cs=12

    What shall we call George Brandis SC? The Bagman?

  33. voice endeavour @ #1329 Friday, November 25, 2016 at 1:54 pm

    @ bemused – so typical of you to turn an immoral action by the right wing into a criticism of the left. You will do anything you possibly can to take attention away from the failings of the right, in order to try to keep them in government as best as you can. Please stop.

    What on earth are you on about?
    I regard myself as being on the left and don’t see any self-criticism in my posts.

  34. ‘Thank you for good hour all I had was comments about Leigh Sales and #730 unusual as normally retweets,which were huge too but people felt compelled to talk as well.’

    I know that ABC (growing) management is seeking new audiences, but I don’t think that the extremely pissed off demographic is one that they should really be chasing.

  37. Ah Brandis… ironically he may have stuffed up so much that he has acquired a Trumpian cloak of invisibility. No-one is shocked or outraged by anything he does simply because it is impossible to take him seriously. It’s a bold strategy – lets see how it works out for him.

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  40. ‘Credit to news.com.au for succinctly cutting to the core of the Gleeson-Brandis-Bell-WA shenannigans.’

    Yes, but it’s interesting that there’s no byline on that story.

  46. I don’t think George realises how badly he’s behaved (he’s that stupid). That’s why he’s acting like he’s been caught with his fly down. No, George, you’ve been called corrupt. You should respond.

  48. Yes, but it’s interesting that there’s no byline on that story.

    Yes, I spotted that too. Perhaps a Labor staffer supplied them with it? 😉

  49. ‘I watch ABC local news but unless 7:30 promises something I’m interested in I switch to almost anything else.’

    Yeah, anything else sometimes includes nothing or the Food Network, which is close to the same anyway. Iron Chef America is just dire, but better than 7.30.

  50. Soc

    Dealings for personal benefit are not unknown for George Brandis:

    I’ve seen it said that ‘George’ donated $10,000 to the Qld Supreme Court Library.

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