Courtesy of The Guardian, this week’s Essential Research poll has Labor’s two-party lead bouncing back to 54-46, after two weeks at 52-48. Primary votes will have to wait for later. The poll also has particularly interesting supplementary questions this week in relation to the National Broadband Network. Only 24% of respondents expressed support for the Coalition government’s fibre-to-the-node downgrade, compared with 43% who preferred Labor’s abandoned fibre-to-the-premises plan. The network’s failures are attributed to the government by 39%, compared with only 19% for Labor. Fifty-four per cent rated that the NBN would “fail to adequately meet Australia’s future internet requirements”, with 23% saying otherwise. However, 52% thought the NBN had improved their service (presumably where applicable), compared with only 17% who thought it worse and 28% about the same.
Essential Research: 54-46 to Labor
Labor bounces back in the Essential poll after a brief lull, as respondents mark the government down on the National Broadband Network.
A R @ #1046 Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 – 5:26 pm
Acapulco Gold or Mellow Yellow? 😉
guytaur @ #1041 Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 – 5:25 pm
And that’s my point. Politics should have nothing to do with it. For a Labor Premier to even consider not rubber stamping whoever the relevant party nominates for a Senate causal vacancy is a complete and utter disgrace. Inexcusable.
Jay is effectively pardoning Joh for his corruption of the process in 75 and openly inviting Coalition Premiers to pull the stunt again on Labor. Just on the pure idiocy of opening up the potential for the Coalition to screw Labor over it is unforgivable. But we should hold ourselves to a higher standard than those filth anyway.
Antony Green does his damn best to remain apolitical and we shouldnt spend time trying to guess his views but thanking him for his apolitical service.
You gotta laugh #25475187932:
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/morale-is-very-shaky-730-loses-senior-reporter-among-11-abc-staff-20171101-gzcgxr.html
I wonder what shaky morale looks like?
Better tune into 7.30 tonight.
just got phonepolled by Galaxy for the Qld State election
I can’t say I’ve ever even wondered about Antony’s political views. The guy is straight down the line. That’s why he’s held in such high regard.
Ides
I’m inclined to agree. That he’s been calling elections since before I entered primary school (and many of them that would have been painful for supporters of one party or another) and no one has much idea at all of his political positions is absolutely to his credit.
So section 15 finally gets some light thrown on its inadequacies. This could end up in the High Court. If they are still a member, Weatherill could prorogue the SA Parliament and appoint any NXT Member he likes (who serves until the 14th day from the next sitting of the SA Parliament).
It is better that an ALP Premier pull a stunt like that because then it gets fixed before the Coalition can do the same, hopefully fixing the non-appointment loophole as well (used against the ALP in Tasmania).
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-01/tim-storer-steps-forward-to-replace-nick-xenophon-in-the-senate/9108390
Re: Weatherill, why not?
The raving right have written a new set of rules for Australian politics. It goes roughly like this.
If you can do it and shaft your opponents, do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8DgszzXOo0
Just remember; only eat the white snow. Not the yellow snow.
BW
Yes. Unless its in the law Labor should not hold back on this.
After all Labor is not blocking supply and then doing this.
Make the right realise Labor can play hard too. Maybe then the LNP will agree to reform this law.
Relying on convention means Labor is relying on the LNP to play by convention.
We have seen what respect the LNP gives to convention. Its convention overboard when its in their eay to power.
Labor should avoid Milquetoasting at all cost.
It has been their downfall too many times.
Is it not a bit strange that most of the dual nationals have been from the Senate?
Suppose there are two or three more LNP members in the lower house who find themselves ineligible – then Malcolm loses control of the parliament; unless of course he trickles them out one by one!
Damn right.
Or left?
Check out @FinancialReview’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/FinancialReview/status/925610862924238848?s=09
David Rowe don’t think Malcolm is a good rider?
Uhlmann good again! It’s doing my head in.
WTTE: “The backbench is beginning to worry that all this confusion is making them un-electable, and that is a problem for Malcolm Turnbull.”
Simon Katich @ #1062 Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 – 6:07 pm
I feel like I’m suddenly in the military.
Tom the first and best – I had a quick squizz at the NXT constitution, seems the ‘Management Committee’ (i.e. Nick + Stirling) can expel a member at any time for any reason. Under S15, you need to still be a party member at the time you are sworn in as a senator, otherwise your place becomes vacant again.
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I don’t think it’s got to do with what he’s been smoking. More to do with being South Australian … examples being Cory, Mary Jo Fisher, etc.
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You always struck me as a Andrew hastie type… 🙂
Tim Nichols on the ABC cooking hamburgers in a shop in Nambour.
Could be an outcome of how much money the LNP has to campaign with or proving he can do anything Poorleen can do?
Not good at taking orders IoM.
BTW, I’m a great admirer of Green, but he did editorialise on his TV spot on Parry. He probably intended it within the confines of the constitution, but in the context of Parry it didn’t look “apolitical”.
I don’t think it’s totally up to Weatherill to determine who to choose to replace X in the senate. According to the ABC article referenced by Guytaur, Weatherill is taking the wise step of seeking advice from the Crown Solicitor’s Office on how to proceed. Also the replacement will be chosen by a joint sitting of parliament where the Liberals and other parties can vote. So Weatherill really isn’t the final arbiter.
So who is going to put themselves forward for President of the senate?
I imagine it comes with a nice salary, offices and a big chair.
It might be another bun fight, no doubt Trumble will handle its with his usual aplomb.
There is clearly a difference between a disqualification and a Senator retiring.
Tom @ #637 Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 – 5:15 am
Yeah, I have been increasingly wondering that too.
Fox is getting way too hysterical and disconnected from reality over Trump’s self-inflicted troubles, even by their own abnormally low standards.
If Trump takes Fox and Murdoch down with him, I will be happy to publicly thank Trump for that important contribution to the progress of humanity. 🙂
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/01/the-adani-problem-will-haunt-palaszcsuks-election-campaign?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+AUS+v1+-+AUS+morning+mail+callout&utm_term=250367&subid=22688624&CMP=ema_632
If Weatherill prorogues the SA Parliament, while the Senate is sitting, he can have the Governor appoint any NXT member and then notify the Governor-General and have the NXT Member in before NXT can do anything about it, as the NXT could well find out on the floor of the Senate as the Swearing is announced. It is a major hole in section 15.
Tom FB
So to confirm, S15 allows a state premier to appoint a replacement senator without state parliament approval?
If Weatherill is smart he’ll leave it to Xenophon.
Perhaps the easiest way to fill all the senate vacancies at the moment would be to run a nationwide raffle with tickets at, say, $10 a pop. A great fund raiser for the government and a few happy prize winners (subject to them passing the citizenship check!)
Section 15, first paragraph:
[If the place of a senator becomes vacant before the expiration of his term of service, the Houses of Parliament of the State for which he was chosen, sitting and voting together, or, if there is only one House of that Parliament, that House, shall choose a person to hold the place until the expiration of the term. But if the Parliament of the State is not in session when the vacancy is notified, the Governor of the State, with the advice of the Executive Council thereof, may appoint a person to hold the place until the expiration of fourteen days from the beginning of the next session of the Parliament of the State or the expiration of the term, whichever first happens.]
People are justifiably pissed off over the destruction of the NBN.
They should be equally pissed off over paying among the highest rates for electricity in the world.
Meanwhile, the bin chickens running this government supports the status quo, and the main stream media can’t seem to come to grips with the issue. Presumably because the argument involves more than a single component.
e.g.
And then there’s this.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/time-for-australia-to-wake-up-to-scale-and-pace-of-clean-energy-transition-49862/
https://mobile.twitter.com/FinancialReview/status/865097120197611520
David Rowe just retweeted his May cartoon hopefully pertinent now
Tom fb
Ta! Thats a silly potential opening.
Tom to exploit that scenario a premier would need to forgoe all further state parliament sessions until the end of the federal Senate term.
Another poll
https://www.buzzfeed.com/lanesainty/four-in-five-australians-dont-want-an-unequal-ssm-law?utm_term=.sjoRpPBYq#.riwAk5b3K
bemused
briefly @ #801 Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 – 11:19 am
It’s puzzling that anyone would want to re-enact a battle. The mock-up at Beersheba seems to me like adults playing morbid dress-ups. Battle are scenes of organised intentional killing. They should certainly be remembered, but turned into japes? I don’t think so.
I agree entirely.
I have respect for those who participated in the battle.
I respect and honour my father and his comrades in WWII, but I have no wish to re-enact their lives.
I think of my own father, who served as a very young man in a naval detachment on The Solomon Islands. He never offered to talk of the war to me; and when I asked him about what had happened he would make an excuse and change the subject. The few times he did speak of his experience, it was only to declare he had no wish to recount anything that he’d been involved with; and to let it be known, in undertones, that he’d burned his uniform, his colours and medals when he’d been discharged. Once or twice he bade me promise that I’d never volunteer for military service.
He absolutely forbade discussion of war and anything to do with it, including weapons and battles or any of the days of commemoration. His closest friendship was formed during the war. These two men remained dearest friends all along, deeply bonded by their experiences, that was plain to see. But neither of them would be drawn into a serious discussion about their service.
They obviously wanted to spare us, the children who followed, everything they had been obliged to endure. I think we should recall them in silence too.
https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/decorated-police-officer-kim-travers-to-take-on-christian-porter-as-labor-target-pearce-in-federal-election-ng-b88646013z
Decorated police officer Kim Travers to take on Christian Porter as Labor target Pearce in Federal election
I’ve met Travers. She will be a formidable opponent for Porter.
Trog Sorrenson @ #1080 Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 – 5:59 pm
So much for renewables being uneconomical.
If the government doesn’t get its act together it’s everyone else that’s going to be screwed as businesses buy up all the cheap, renewable power, exit the market for conventional power, and leave residential users to fill the void they’ve left.
four questions over barneys and parrys dual citz.
1. Both talk solely of their mums heritage back to first fleet etc but ignore their dads background. Are they ashamed of it, why shit on it by ignoring it. Seems highly unlikely they know all about mums heritage but not dads and thus would likely know any benefits of citizenship confering on them.
2. As others have noted keeping dual citz can have benefits for when you leave parliament, cant revoke and then ask for it back, can purchase land in NZ or work in UK, was this a factor.
3. parry waiting till the last moment meant cancellations fees for his bookings for the India trip, we , the taxpayer bear the cost for this. why?
4. did barny send otu any material before he “resigned” relating got the bi-election, this would appear a misuse of funds
“People are justifiably pissed off over the destruction of the NBN.”
Yes, but I’m even more pissed off when MTM is being rolled out inequitably.
At this late stage, I expected that I’d be lumped with FTTN. (Maybe FTTB if they think about it.)
I was very pissed off to see that a few blocks over, one street is apparently getting FTTC/dp. Who lives there, and what $%#@! strings did they pull to get upgraded?!
It would be impossible to forgo all sittings, as Parliaments tend to have an annual sitting requirement that means 12 months or just under is the length of time that can happen with Parliament prorogued.
**I don’t think it’s got to do with what he’s been smoking. More to do with being South Australian…**
I am not South Australian.
I am Earthian. Although I suspect all of my atoms are refugees from elsewhere.
Cormann on 7.30. Waiting for him to blame Labor.
Simon Katich @ #1092 Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 – 7:39 pm
And a devout follower of all things Kinky Friedman!
He didn’t!
Used to read Kinky until I got to the bit where he loves Piers Ackerman.
Trog Sorrenson
“People are justifiably pissed off over the destruction of the NBN.
They should be equally pissed off over paying among the highest rates for electricity in the world”…
We had solar 6kw installed in March in Hervey Bay. Result – first full power bill $300+ reduced to $10 for 91 days. Ergon charges us 28.5 c /kw and pays 10 c/kw for what we supply to them. We have a “battery ready inverter” but not sure about the saving of just $10 /qr versus the cost? Present system will pay for itself in about 5 years as well as providing Ergon with excess electricity worth well over $300o over the same period if no changes occur.
The LNP government is run by blockheads not to see the value of this for every home and business in Australia.