A ReachTEL poll for Sky News has Labor leading 53-47, unchanged from the last such poll on October 25. However, rounding would have had to have worked pretty hard to prevent Labor gaining a point: the primaries have the Coalition down one to 33%, Labor up one to 36%, the Greens up one to 10%, and One Nation steady on 9%. Malcolm Turnbull’s lead in the forced response two-party preferred question is 52-48, compared with 51-49 last time. Also featured: 69% support for a banking royal commission, with 12% opposed.
ReachTEL: 53-47 to Labor
Overwhelming support for a banking royal commission, but stable voting intention in the latest ReachTEL.
Dan Gulberry @ #1694 Friday, December 1st, 2017 – 6:26 pm
The answer my friend is blowing whistles in the win!
Elau,
That’s right. But I believe Gallagher’s confirmation was post noms. Which is why I mentioned her.
GG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq4aOaDXIfY
and Townsville is looking like it’s goin to a recount.
The big Hornsdale (Tesla) battery is already having an effect on price. It knocked about $100/MWh off the wholesale price of electricity for about half an hour during the period yesterday graphed below.
Once the punters understand how it works to backup and condition power on the grid and moderate extreme price events, they might drop this inane claptrap about not being able to support the entire grid for long periods.
Battery installation is about to go ballistic.
Maiwar still a slim chance.
ratsak @ #1704 Friday, December 1st, 2017 – 6:36 pm
I forgot the point! labor’s in front.
48 would be a lovely rough end of the pineapple sideways inserted into Canavan, Nicholls and every other right wing dickhead that has made fools of themselves with inanities about doing deals since last Saturday.
Elaugaufein @ #1699 Friday, December 1st, 2017 – 2:32 pm
I think the ACT investigation is more about how they allowed someone who wasn’t eligible to fill a casual vacancy, so more into their procedures.
As you say the CoDR is only interested in the last election.
Trog Sorrenson @ #1705 Friday, December 1st, 2017 – 6:37 pm
Don’t be absurd.
I know. Who would design a battery for wingless flight?
It’s been said ad nauseam that trolls, in whatever guise, should be avoided at any cost – I agree with such sage advice.
That notwithstanding, I verily believe that the PB echo-chamber is well overdue for a revamp, a number of contributors needing a kick up the proverbial.
That’s why I hang off every word of Poorleen.
The price curve above (already posted – I apologise) shows exactly why the Snowy 2.0 business case will go up in a puff of smoke. Every time more battery capacity is added, as grid installations or behind the meter, the price variations flatten off a little more. Once batteries are ubiquitous they will virtually disappear.
Big centralised pumped hydro is dependent on being able to contract for a low price to pump water uphill and make money (inefficiently) generating when prices are high. In a year or two the only market for Snowy 2.0 will be if a major grid outage isolates a bunch of energy sources leaving the Snowy connector unscathed.
Due to the 20% inefficiency deficit of pumped hydro compared to batteries on the charge-discharge cycle, it won’t be able to compete.
It’ll be like the SA desalination plant. A great idea at the time, now running at only 10% capacity.
Most people are left hanging off the words that come from the leader of Divided Nation.
But that’s due to the incomprehensibility of them! 🙂
By the way BK, I steal your cartoons, without attribution. Please forgive thee, one of the less pompous contributors.
BIG D
Those are words?
ratsak @ #1715 Friday, December 1st, 2017 – 3:04 pm
Allegedly!!! 🙂
ratsak
The Kiwis 😀
https://www.rocketlabusa.com/latest/rocket-lab-reveals-first-battery-powered-rocket-for-commercial-launches-to-space/
How are you going Puffy? I know that Bibo passed to you my apology, which was entirely warranted.
Maiwar the diff between Green & ALP is 4 votes. If ALP jumps Green to 2nd place ALP wins with Green prefs
Those damn kiwis!
I blame Barnaby
I’d like a few of these in Australia:
Barney: you’re relatively new here – aren’t you?
That notwithstanding, I do admire brevity.
@jenauthor
I think the ALP need to recover more than 4 primary votes as the independent candidate’s prefs are reported to favour the greens by 150+
Palaszczuk has been re-elected, of that, there can be no doubt.
Tim, though, won’t accept the fact, which goes to his political nous.
Once again, the Ladder Threat beats terrorism for pain and injury. And what are Turnbull and Dutton doing? Fuck all.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/melbourne-weather-record-rain-sends-city-into-chaos-20171201-gzwy7e.html
No one over 40 should be allowed to climb a ladder without a licence.
Problem solved, Trog.
The only thing more dangerous than an old bloke up a ladder is an old bloke up a ladder with a chainsaw.
This former Liberal leader isn’t happy:
Fulvio Sammut
And ladders over 1.5m should be banned. Only prescribed cherry pickers, with a safety officer on hand, for cleaning gutters.
For a Lib Peter Collins always struck me as a decent human being. Him and Fred Chaney are probably the only two.
citizen
Collins wasn’t leaving anyone in doubt about what he thought. Polite, but very direct.
Install gutter guards and no more clogged gutters. Our family did this this for our 88 year old dad 10 years ago. Never had a problem since.
First Dog with an insight into the RC’s Terms of Reference!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/01/how-great-are-the-banks-so-great-gordon-the-banking-sector-ibis-and-the-royal-commission
speaking of banks. Jeremy Corbyn has a message..
“When bankers like Morgan Stanley say we’re a threat, they’re right.
The next Labour Government is a threat to a damaging and failed system that’s rigged for the few.”
https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/936323979358322689
Older people have no trouble at all actually climbing ladders……….the problem for them is their choice of coming down…………many still think they are 25 at the top of the ladder but discover they are just 25 pieces when they hit the ground after falling……………..
sonar @ #1732 Friday, December 1st, 2017 – 3:39 pm
You could go with the Asian solution!
What are gutters? 🙂
ratsak,
Peter Baume is another IMO.
jenauthor @ #1720 Friday, December 1st, 2017 – 7:10 pm
A much better outcome for the people of Queensland.
It’s interesting that in all of the coverage of the “extraordinary, indeed unprecedented, weather event engulfing Victoria and perhaps some parts of southern NSW”, there has been not one word spoken on the ABC or the BoM of any connection with climate change. Zip, nada. Not a sausage.
Mind you, there’s plenty of coverage of Turnbull’s troubles and whether or not the gov’t. can survive.
Next week could well prove to be peak popcorn.
I still reckon Turnbull has the reverse Midas touch when it comes to politics.
I did a bit of a search to try to see what sort of a judge Hayne was. I couldn’t find much, but, in my search I came across a blog that wasn’t very complementary about the competence of his wife.
We didn’t have gutters in the Pilbara either.
Is it only Perth were the inside of the gutter is lower than the outside?
Trog Sorrenson @ #1730 Friday, December 1st, 2017 – 7:30 pm
A gadget for doing it from ground level was advertised on TV recently.
I must get one.
BiGD…..lol
bemused – I don’t understand much about how this stuff works but won’t the Greens ask for a recount if it’s that close?
bc
Nope. Idiot design feature. I had to drill holes in the outside side in order to stop flooding inside the house.
monica @ #1740 Friday, December 1st, 2017 – 7:45 pm
I think Climate Change is now generally accepted outside a few fringe dwellers in the LNP, IPA and MCA etc.
Has Nicholls conceded that the Greens Party has won government in Queensland?
Or is he being stubborn?
Current bookies odds for who will be PM in February:
Turnbull 1.90
Bishop 3.50
Dutton 5.50
Morrison 7.00
Abbott 7.00
Frydenberg 17.00
boomy. there could be a few others, but they don’t exactly leap into the mind do they?