Polls: Indigenous voice, leadership approval, skills shortages (open thread)

Strong support in principle for an Indigenous voice to parliament; a largely positive response to the Jobs Summit from those who noticed it; and no sign of the sheen coming off Anthony Albanese.

Time for a new open thread post, though I don’t have a whole lot to hang one off. There’s always US pollster Morning Consult’s tracking poll on approval of Anthony Albanese, which continues to record no significant change since June, with Albanese currently on 60% approval and 27% disapproval. This gives him the third best result of 22 international leaders being followed by the pollster, behind India’s Nahendra Modi and Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

There are also two new sets of supplemental results from last week’s Resolve Strategic poll in the Age/Herald:

• A series of questions on outcomes from the Jobs Summit published on Saturday had favourable results for multi-employer bargaining, more TAFE places and allowing older Australians to earn more before losing the aged pension, but only 34% in favour of the increased migration intake, with 33% opposed. Only 24% rated themselves “definitely aware” of the recent Jobs Summit, compared with 38% for “vaguely aware” and 38% for unaware. Thirty-six per cent agreed it had achieved its (non-political) objectives compared with 19% who disagreed and 46% who were either undecided or neutral.

• The Age/Herald had a further result yesterday showing a 64-36 break in favour of a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous voice, evidently based on a forced response. Clear majorities were recorded in all states, and while there is no reason to be dubious about this, the Tasmanian sample especially would obviously have been exceedingly small.

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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  3. Rakali @ #489 Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 – 12:03 pm

    England is in a terrible mess. Maybe one day they will choose democracy but i fear they prefer destitution. But will the majority of the Scottish and Welsh populations finally wake up.

    The London Labour Party’s Scotland branch manager Anas Sarwar, like his leader the Most Highest Poo Bar Lord Starmer, is the cream of society (rich and thick).

    His family company does not allow its serfs to be unionised and does not pay the “living” wage.

    Failing Scottish voter support, he is obviously destined, under a Lord Starmer regime, to be appointed a Labour Peer and unelected become the Scottish Secretary .

    I suspect Xi and Putin would be jealous of the Westminster show.

    It’s surprising the EU allowed such an undemocratic country as a member.

    No wonder the London Labour Party in Scotland is called the red tories (tóraidhe, Irish for robber).

    Labour are call Red Tories by Trolls, Trots, Tankies, the Yestapo and weapons grade Berkshires like yourself

    A rather mean-spirited take on Sanwar by the way, I’ll give a bit of credit to someone who could live life as a trust fund playboy but opts instead for University and a career as an NHS dentist. Not to mention joining and being active in Labour from the age of 16

  5. Well played Ray.

    That smudge against Anas goes back to his 2017 leadership campaign.

    Rather than looking for promotion into the House of Lords, he has publicly stated his desire for the Lords to be abolished and replaced by an elected second chamber.

    Smudging centrists is a life’s work for a trot and Rakali bigotry is merely conforming to Marxist Electoral Theory: the centre must fail at all costs; because otherwise the proletariat will not rise up for the glorious revolution.

  8. “Here’s the Atlas project observation of the event (via Earth-based telescope)”

    Thanks! That’s a decent plume – and far better imagery than what was expected from ground-based observations (i.e. a brightening dot.) Also pleasing to see that Dimorphos still appears to be intact.

    Correction: The blob is Didymos, not Dimorphos. Given the plume was directional, I think Dimorphos survived – but some LICIACube images would be nice.

  9. Ray (UK)

    “ weapons grade Berkshires like yourself”!
    ————-

    I don’t understand that but I’ll take that as a compliment, thank you.

    The only ONE Scottish London Labour MP in Westminster is the glorious Ian Murray …

  10. Andrew-Earlwood

    Rather than looking for promotion into the House of Lords, he has publicly stated his desire for the Lords to be abolished and replaced by an elected second chamber.
    ———-
    You do know that the abolition of the House of Lords has been UK Labour policy for over 100 years! But oddly never implemented.

    Why do you think rich boy Sarwar will be the first in a century to effect that revolution?

    You do know that Lord Starmer has already ruled out the abolition of the House of Lords.

    You do know that 40% of these £350 per day unelected parasites who can against the wish of the hoi poloi be members of the Executive Government are in fact Labour Lords!

    I’m surprised at you.

  14. Election Maps UK
    @ElectionMapsUK

    Liz Truss has now been in office for 21 Days. Unlike her predecessors, she has not yet received a ‘bounce’ in the polls.

    Change in party VI polling after 3 weeks:

    Boris Johnson: +5.7%
    Theresa May: +3.9%
    Liz Truss: ±0.0%

  15. In my best Jim Royle voice “Red Tory my arse”

    Jessica Elgot
    @jessicaelgot

    Keir Starmer announces new nationalised Great British Energy, which will be publicly owned, within the first year of a Labour government

    (Starmer is giving his keynote speech to conference)

  16. Boerwar at 5.40 and 6.17 pm

    It was more than an impression that there was a shift to the left in Australia in May 2022. It was a reasonable expectation, borne out by the counting on the night, and strongly affirmed since.

    When a racist nong like Nigel Farage gives the LNP advice to give up on Kooyong, Curtin etc then some historic shift has occurred. Before the 2022 Teal wave, there may have been some justification in Labor seriously considering proportional representation. Carmen Lawrence thought so in the mid 1990s. Now history has moved on. Under a hypothetical PR, the LNP losses to the Teals would not be so historically debilitating as they in all probability are.

    Every election needs to be read in its own context, not patched into a slap dash make believe generalisation. And electoral systems matter. The Italian one is very peculiar, a real bastard like Berlusconi. The fascists won not because of their policies, but because they appeared to replace the 5 Star jokers as the outsiders. Covid has not gone away. Italy actually has the worst record of mismanaging Covid in western Europe, worse than the UK or Greece. Meanwhile, what is the third dose Covid vaccination rate currently in Italy? 71%. In Australia it’s just 56%.

    See: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html

  17. Keir Starmer tells conference “Scotland needs a Labour government”, and pledges never to work with the SNP: “we can’t work with them, we won’t work with them, no deal under any circumstances”.
    ———
    Lord Starmer will only ‘work’ with nations that vote Labour (or support London rule) and He doesn’t give a fuck who people vote for.

    I suppose His Lordship will have a lot of trouble with those bloody taigs voting for Sinn Fein who He could never ever ever work with.

  19. Snappy Tom says:
    Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 12:35 am
    There is a Lord surnamed Starmer?

    Not according to Google, mate.
    ————

    Lord Starmer is my name for the current ultra unionist, anti Scottish leader of the London Labour Party: Sir Keir Rodney Starmer KCB KC.

    Ok?

  20. poroti says:
    Tuesday, September 27, 2022 at 2:58 pm
    Cronus

    The mobilisation, at face value from what we currently know focussing on the ethnic minorities, aged (over 40s) and untrained or poorly trained can only be disastrous
    “Where on earth did you hear that ? The people called up were reservists who have previously served in the Russian army and have combat experience. Or those that have specialised military skills. Conscripts are specifically excluded.”
    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/what-does-vladimir-putins-partial-mobilisation-mean-russias-military-machine-2022-09-21/

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    poroti

    As you’ve no doubt heard, truth is the first casualty of war.
    Having written daily operational reports to UN HQ in New York for 12 months, I’m acutely aware of the need for as much accuracy as possible with as little editorialising as possible (and certainly no exaggeration). If in doubt, underestimate.

    To this end, and being very aware of the media’s susceptibility to exaggeration, I attempt to write (particularly with respect to military issues) in a measured manner and therefore tend towards the conservative use of numbers/facts etc until almost absolute confirmation can be gained. I take reports about what Putin/Russia say with considerable wariness and instead rely on a broad range of sources (and experience where available) before jumping to conclusions about many things we’re being told.

  21. I am confident the polls will significantly narrow when this “voice” referendum is exposed for that it really is, that it gives 1 race it’s own special parliament when 97% of the Australian population does not.

    I am not afraid to say I will be voting no on this.

    Listen to Jacinta Price.

  22. Daniel says:
    Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 3:23 am
    “I am confident the polls will significantly narrow when this “voice” referendum is exposed for that it really is, that it gives 1 race it’s own special parliament when 97% of the Australian population does not.
    I am not afraid to say I will be voting no on this.
    Listen to Jacinta Price.”
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    “that it gives 1 race it’s own special parliament”.

    To the best of my knowledge, that is a factually incorrect statement though it is a lie that I expect the coalition will attempt to spread shamelessly.

  23. You learn something about people every day, just seen Feargal Sharkey give a rousing speech to Labour Conference

    Didn’t know he was a big Labour man

  26. Ray(UK),
    Got a link for Feargal Sharkey?

    Also, I must say, I was very disappointed to hear Shaun Ryder of The Happy Mondays had become a rabid supporter of the Tories. He did fry his brain with drugs though. 😀

  27. I will be voting a resounding YES in the referendum, but I also think the polling on the Voice will tighten significantly as we get closer to the referendum date.

    The Greens are opposed and I reckon the coalition will oppose it too, so expect both to campaign against the Voice. This makes the referendum doubly difficult to succeed, and if history is any guide, means the referendum will fail.

  30. This article by Max Boot outlines the chaotic nature of the mobilisation by Putin, and also provides evidence to show that it is not only those with military experience and skills that are being drafted:

    It turns out there’s a good reason Russian dictator Vladimir Putin waited so long — nearly seven months — after launching his failing war of aggression against Ukraine before beginning even a partial mobilization of military manpower. The mobilization, announced last week, was intended to showcase Russian strength. Instead, it is revealing the hidden weakness of Putin’s kleptocratic rule.

    Like many dictators, Putin is good at staying in power and looting the treasury — but little else. He might strut like a strongman, but when push comes to shove, he is revealed as a miserable coward presiding over the empty husk of a petro-state.

    https://wapo.st/3DZDtya

    (I’ve unlocked it so you can read it for free)

  31. Morning all. Thanks Cat for the WaPo mobilisation link. It is consistent with several articles I have read in the past year critical of Russia’s mobilisation ability, due to past cuts Putin made to the mobilisation structure itself and the length of time of conscription back in 2008. So the reserve strength was mythical.

  32. On other foreign policy, surely two of the dumbest decisions in the past decade were:

    1. Angela Merkel relying on Nordstream 2 for gas supply from Putin. Now it is sabotaged.
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-27/nord-stream-gas-pipeline-leaks/101480172

    2. Cutting Australia’s Pacific aid budgets and Abbott joking about rising sea levels.
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-28/pacific-leaders-to-sign-11-point-declaration-with-united-states/101477194

    I think blowing up Nordstream will be an own goal for Putin. Germany suffers in the short term but there is now no leverage Putin has left over Germany. They might finally start sending tanks to Ukraine.

  33. Soc,
    Thanks. 🙂

    I also thought that article was a worthy read because it gave a sober assessment about whether Putin would hang on despite the destabilisation that the mobilisation has caused. Sadly, it seems, he is too entrenched to remove easily.

  34. Cat

    Yes Putin is effectively propped up by the apparatus of a genuine police state.

    As per the maps I posted yesterday, the prospect of rebellion and withdrawal of poorer frontier republics from the Russian federation is a much greater risk.

  35. Socrates @ #33 Wednesday, September 28th, 2022 – 7:08 am

    Cat

    Yes Putin is effectively propped up by the apparatus of a genuine police state.

    As per the maps I posted yesterday, the prospect of rebellion and withdrawal of poorer frontier republics from the Russian federation is a much greater risk.

    Yes, from what I’ve read Turkey is making a play for the majority Muslim Eurasian States outside Russia and is in a battle, geopolitically, with China for influence over them as Putin’s influence wanes. Within Russia Putin seems to be targeting the majority Muslim areas of Dagestan and Chechnya. There’s a lot still to play out yet, not only in the Ukraine.

  38. Good morning Dawn Patrollers

    David Crowe says Albanese has a watchdog choice – to align with Dutton on secret hearings or to wedge him.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/albanese-s-watchdog-choice-to-align-with-dutton-on-secret-hearings-or-to-wedge-him-20220927-p5blff.html
    John Lord reckons Albanese should put niceties aside in the NACC negotiation.
    https://theaimn.com/put-niceties-aside-albo/
    Meanwhile, a crossbench campaign will demand crucial changes to Labor’s plan for a national corruption commission in a bid to encourage more public hearings after the government unveiled a $262 million pledge on the new watchdog.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/row-brewing-over-corruption-watchdog-secrecy-20220927-p5ble9.html
    The SMH editorial says, “The lack of a serious anti-corruption body at the federal level has been a running sore in Australian politics for too long. Breaking an explicit promise before the 2019 election to create such a body was one of the most craven failures of the Morrison government. The Albanese government has, however, shown more courage and this week it is delivering on its election pledge to legislate what it calls the National Anti-Corruption Commission.” It points out that, contrary to claims it is a kangaroo court, the ICAC has only called public hearings in a handful of cases after conducting extensive secret private hearings.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/federal-icac-must-have-power-to-shine-light-on-corruption-20220927-p5blf2.html
    Paul Bongiorno says that the moment of truth for long-overdue national anti-corruption commission has arrived.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2022/09/27/paul-bongiorno-national-anti-corruption-commission/
    The day has finally arrived: an Australian government today made good on its commitment to legislate an integrity watchdog, the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC). But there is one major bone of contention … secrecy. Callum Foote reports on the spectre of a Secret National Anti-Corruption Commission (SNACC).
    https://michaelwest.com.au/labor-delivers-national-anti-corruption-commission-nacc-with-secret-hearings/
    The Albanese government has escalated its attacks on Optus over the company’s massive data breach, demanding to know why customers were not informed their Medicare numbers may have been accessed as part of the cyberattack that hit almost 10 million accounts.
    https://www.smh.com.au/technology/optus-hacker-releases-10-000-customer-records-20220927-p5bl7x.html
    This is one of the great corporate debacles in terms of brand damage. The CEO might ask her new hire, former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian, for advice, says Jennifer Hewett.
    https://www.afr.com/companies/telecommunications/optus-attack-a-wake-up-call-for-boards-20220927-p5blch
    Elizabeth Knight tells us why the Optus boss is unlikely to survive the data hack. Knight says this has been a wake-up call to the industry and corporate Australia which have paid notoriously scant attention to the cyber risks.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/why-the-optus-boss-is-unlikely-to-survive-the-data-hack-20220927-p5ble1.html
    And the telco’s customers have complained they have not been allowed to change their driver’s licence despite the risk of fraud after the massive cyberattack.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/optus-customers-struggle-to-change-driver-s-licences-to-avoid-fraud-20220927-p5blct.html
    However, Victorians whose personal details were stolen in the Optus hack will be able to replace their driver’s licence online after the state government requested that the telco pay.
    https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/victorians-unable-to-change-driver-s-licence-number-after-optus-hack-due-to-reactive-policy-20220927-p5bldd.html
    Senior government officials will be called before a royal commission to give evidence explaining their roles in the robodebt scandal, reports Luke Henriques-Gomes. The commissioner, Catherine Holmes, said on Tuesday that although much was now known about how the failed scheme operated, little had been revealed about the government’s response “behind the scenes” to warnings and criticism.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/sep/27/scott-morrison-and-alan-tudge-could-be-called-before-robodebt-royal-commission
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    https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2022/09/27/cashless-welfare-cards-senate-scrapheap/?breaking_live_scroll=1
    George Williams says that Albanese has an opportunity to introduce a bill of rights for Australians.
    https://amp.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/time-for-that-bill-of-rights-from-labor/news-story/25d804855dae717cf2024c2ccb952305
    Clancy Yeates argues why the RBA shouldn’t simply follow the US Fed.
    https://www.smh.com.au/money/borrowing/why-the-rba-shouldn-t-simply-follow-the-fed-20220923-p5bklu.html
    Widening interest rate differentials and the rapid appreciation of the US dollar is causing turmoil in currency and other financial markets, explains Stephen Bartholomeusz.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/the-fed-is-driving-the-world-towards-recession-or-worse-20220927-p5bl8i.html
    Anxiety levels are rising as investors face a highly explosive cocktail of rising interest rates, falling asset prices, tighter financial conditions, and a bleaker economic backdrop, writes Karen Maley.
    https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/investors-suffering-withdrawal-pangs-as-the-era-of-cheap-money-ends-20220927-p5bla3
    A global recession is increasingly likely, writes Peter Martin who provides some suggestions on how Australia could escape it.
    https://theconversation.com/a-global-recession-looks-increasingly-likely-but-heres-how-australia-could-escape-it-191336
    Michael Pascoe writes, “RIP trickle-down economics – even the financial markets have given up”.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2022/09/28/michael-pascoe-trickle-down-economics/
    Assistant Treasury Minister Andrew Leigh says that ensuring multinational and large businesses pay their fair share of tax is pivotal to funding services to ordinary voters.
    https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/multinational-tax-avoidance-a-threat-to-budget-bottom-line-leigh-20220927-p5blam.html
    Unless humanity starts making urgent changes, neoliberalism will have disastrous consequences on our planet, writes Simon Cole.
    https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/capitalism-the-fourth-great-humility-will-consume-us-all,16805
    Jacob Greber reports that Resources Minister Madeleine King has demanded the three major east coast gas producers sign a government-drafted deal that may include what some industry figures slammed as an “unworkable” and distortionary price cap mechanism to shield domestic manufacturers.
    https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/stand-off-over-gas-price-caps-20220927-p5blf0
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    https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/the-great-australian-pipedream-rising-house-prices-make-us-feel-wealthier-20220927-p5bl83.html
    The Canberra Times reveals that former NDIS Minister Linda Reynolds wrote to Treasurer Frydenberg last October, encouraging him to work with states and territories to set up the National Injury Insurance Scheme which the Productivity Commission had recommended more than a decade ago.
    https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7919641/tragic-and-significant-gap-former-ndis-minister-lobbied-for-new-insurance-scheme/?cs=14329
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    https://www.smh.com.au/national/half-of-gps-say-staying-open-is-financially-unsustainable-as-medicare-rebate-fails-20220927-p5blc2.html
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    https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7920655/abortion-access-in-australia-needs-inquiry-after-roe-greens/?cs=14329
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    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/27/there-is-a-simple-path-to-affordable-childcare-in-australia-does-labor-have-the-courage-to-take-it
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    https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/husband-s-account-of-caddick-disappearance-confusing-coroner-says-20220927-p5blfu.html
    Lisa Visentin tells us that the Greens have refused to say whether Aboriginal elder Geraldine Atkinson’s written complaint to party leader Adam Bandt triggered an internal review into the meeting.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/no-response-to-elder-s-complaint-as-bandt-professes-full-confidence-in-thorpe-20220927-p5bld7.html
    Dana Daniel reports that Australia risks being at the back of the global queue for variant-specific COVID-19 jabs, with the government yet to strike a 2023 supply deal with Moderna even as it anticipates a shortfall in mRNA vaccines.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australia-facing-mrna-vaccine-shortfall-in-global-race-for-latest-jabs-20220927-p5bl9q.html
    Alastair Clarkson and Chris Fagan were part of a group accused of “bullying and intimidation” of Indigenous players, while running the Hawthorn football department like the “Russian Mafia”, according to a News Corp report on a review of the club’s handling of its Indigenous players.
    https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/bullying-intimidation-claims-allegedly-part-of-hawthorn-report-20220927-p5blh4.html
    Pouring cash into London to solve regional inequality? That’s trickle-down Trussonomics, declares Simon Jenkins.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/27/cash-london-regional-inequality-trickle-down-trussonomics-uk-economy
    January 6 changed America explains Thomas Zimmer who says there are two directions the country could go now.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/27/january-6-changed-america-here-are-two-directions-the-country-could-go-now
    As Putin desperately mobilises, hope is not a valid option for the West, declares Mick Ryan who says, “The surge of Russian soldiers into Ukraine in the coming months will not result in any decisive change of fortunes for the Russian military. All it means is that the cost of the likely Ukrainian victory will be much higher on both sides.”
    https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/as-putin-desperately-mobilises-hope-is-not-a-valid-option-for-the-west-20220927-p5bl9f.html
    We are in a far more dangerous situation than the Cold War, or either of two world wars, writes a concerned Dennis Argall.
    https://johnmenadue.com/we-are-at-war-and-it-may-soon-be-nuclear-war/
    Gas is pouring into the Baltic Sea from three separate leaks on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines amid claims by seismologists in Sweden and Denmark of two sharp spikes in undersea activity, possibly indicating explosions, and speculation about sabotage.
    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/27/nord-stream-1-2-pipelines-leak-baltic-sabotage-fears
    Daniel Johnson explains what Giorgia Meloni wants for Italy and why she infuriates the EU.
    https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/what-giorgia-meloni-wants-for-italy-and-why-she-infuriates-the-eu-20220927-p5bl8x.html

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  40. Do not think labor will win scotlind any time soon starmer seems to be triying to emulent blair thinking labrs path to victory in stead of standing for somthing is t o be torey light and attack the left wing and think the snp is worse then toriessame with 19800s labor what is anoying about progresives is whiy the liberals or tories apeel to there base labor parties are to corshis off real reform on hanson agree with cat the greens gave hanson what she wanted more publisity dont think she was raceist the reason imo whiy hanson is stuck arround is that condeming her the media helped her stick arround if she was egnored she would have disapeared the greens just gave her what she wanted publisity

  41. So the Greens, who want open hearings on the NACC won’t even say whether they are conducting a private inquiry into the behaviour of Thorpe.
    I predict a herd of unicorns starting with ‘The Greens are pushing for…’

  44. Morning bludgers,

    Just thought I’d share my experiences thus far as a victim of the Optus hack. Communication from Optus has been appalling. I have received 2 emails from them, the first on Friday advising of the data breach, and a second on Saturday confirming that my personal information including my license number were compromised. Nothing else.

    I have tried a number of times to communicate with them using the secure message service in the MyOptus app, and it has been a total nightmare. If you can even access the messaging service (it often freezes at log-in with the spinning wheel of death), you then have to fight their chatbot before being put in a queue to speak to a consultant. This can take an hour or more. Unless you keep your phone and the messaging service active by scrolling your session will time out, leaving you to play a lottery of being able to connect to the messaging service again when Optus finally respond. Several times now I have been unable to get back into the messaging service before Optus close the chat due to inactivity, forcing me to start again.

    I have been able to confirm this morning that they are providing me a 12 month Equifax credit report subscription, but the instructions provided seem to be missing a critical code I need to be able to activate the subscription, so it’ll be back to chat roulette again to sort that.

    Nothing from Optus on compensation, but Victor dominello was on news breakfast this morning that Optus will be reimbursing me the $29 fee to get a new drivers licence number, although the means have not been specified.

    I have a mobile phone repeater in my boat which is tied to the Optus network and I’ve been a happy customer up until now, but I’m seriously considering changing providers after this experience. If it wasn’t for the repeater I’d have dropped them like a rock!

  45. do not see how SArwar can remain as labors scottish leader when he dislikes the trade unions and his family cumpanydoes not allow its members to be in the unions following blair is also strange as the uk are leaving eu which blair supported and blair is probaly responsible for labor being in opposition for a decade because he stood for nothing other then being a softer vertion of the tories

  46. ‘David Crowe says Albanese has a watchdog choice – to align with Dutton on secret hearings or to wedge him.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/albanese-s-watchdog-choice-to-align-with-dutton-on-secret-hearings-or-to-wedge-him-20220927-p5blff.html‘
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    In answer at QT yesterday Dreyfuss stated that the NACC would have hearings in private except where the Commissioners decided that there were exceptional circumstances or it was in the national interest to hold public hearings. I don’t know what ‘exceptional circumstances’ means.

  49. ‘Dr Doolittle says:
    Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 12:27 am

    Boerwar at 5.40 and 6.17 pm

    It was more than an impression that there was a shift to the left in Australia in May 2022. It was a reasonable expectation, borne out by the counting on the night, and strongly affirmed since.

    When a racist nong like Nigel Farage gives the LNP advice to give up on Kooyong, Curtin etc then some historic shift has occurred. Before the 2022 Teal wave, ….’
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    I am uncertain about this. I believe that there was a leftwards shift but that it has been over-egged. If you look at the far right and far left votes they both come out at around 12-15%.
    If you look at the Teals, around half of them are conservative in terms of economic policy.
    It might be better to imagine the Teals as the revenge of the Wets than as a really fundamental shift to the left in Australia.
    IMO the three policies that triggered the Teals (climate, women’s rights and NACC) will largely be neutralized in the next election.
    The general context then will be that the old lie about same old, same old will have been killed stone dead. (You get a sense of this with the increasing desperation of the Greens to come up with fringe lunacies.)
    In terms of the fabled left shift, this leaves the power of incumbency and the ability of independents to hang on, once they have established personal recognition.
    So, there was a shift to the left. It was partly, as poroti mentioned, a reaction shift to Morrisonian government. It is partly real. It has been over-egged – particularly in the economic policy space.

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