The flood of polling in the week after the budget is inevitably followed in the week after that. Here’s all I have:
• The tracking poll of Anthony Albanese’s personal ratings maintained by US pollster Morning Consult records no significant change, with Albanese starting November on 57% approval and 30% disapproval, down one and up two from the start of October.
• As reported by Anna Macdonald at The Mandarin, Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers told the Joint Standing Committe on Electoral Matters the commission was struggling to attract staff at election time due to low pay and “bizarre behaviour” at polling places. Specifically, Rogers said the May federal election was marked by “people coming into the polling place and recording interactions with our staff, shouting at our staff, and some fairly bizarre behaviour that we haven’t seen previously”.
• Independent ACT Senator David Pocock has made a submission to the inquiry calling for the two territories to have six Senators serving six-year terms on the same staggered cycle that applies to the rest of the Senate, as distinct from the current situation where they have two Senators each whose terms are tied to the House.
Just dull, grey and cool here today on the Central Coast.
Why on earth should that fat f**k, Donald Trump be entitled to a free and clear run to the Republican nomination to run for the White House in 2024?
BK, upper Sturt took a beating. Very exposed area.
Ha. Just been notified that even if we did have off grid home power, we couldn’t use NBN – their Nodes have run out of backup power.
Cronus says,
Have four consecutive generations simply assumed the existence of these gains, failing to understand the need to maintain them until they again come under existential pressure requiring renewed focus on their importance?
As a lifetime union member (IEU and NSWTF) and a Fed Rep/NSWTF Councilor and Association President I know full well how some young teachers just assume pay rises , working conditions somehow just materialise. Hoping the shit-show that is education today will wake some of them up to the need for strong unions.
SK
Hell, you must have copped it big time!
BOM warning us that there is a chance that thunderstorms, big hail… etc, etc, etc.
Have a look at this collision at a US air show !
https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/status/1591544328648019970
Straight talker this Clare O’Neil.
BK
They look like models to me.
Speers has Interruptus Syndrome this morning. O’Neill not taking any of his crapola.
BK @ #1749 Sunday, November 13th, 2022 – 9:10 am
Oh look, IR top of the agenda.
Sun is out and a bit windy where I am in Melbourne atm.
Hope it stays like this!
T20 cricket final may have a chance
And, btw David, GAGF with your gotcha time questions.
Boy, this battle against catastrophic climate change is going really well …
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/nov/12/coal-projects-in-great-barrier-reef-catchments-approved-without-environmental-impact-statements
No wonder Albo didn’t want to show up at COP27. He would have been laughed out of the room.
Love Claire O’Neill, did not tolerate any bullshit from David Speers.
Boerwar
No, not models.
https://twitter.com/BNONews
6 feared dead after two planes collide over Dallas air show as spectators watch
Two vintage warplanes collided over an airshow in Dallas, the FAA said.
The collision happened about 1:20 p.m. as they were flying over the Wings Over Dallas Air Show at Dallas Executive Airport.
There was no official word on casualties but an ABC producer tweeted that six people may have been killed.
https://nypost.com/2022/11/12/planes-collide-over-wings-over-dallas-air-show/
BK @ #1749 Sunday, November 13th, 2022 – 9:10 am
The best articles in AFR these days are those reprinted under license from overseas outlets, FT, WaPo, NY Post etc as have been for sometime.
BK
Yep. My bad. I’m just writing a paper on fake news… so I am hyper sceptical ATM.
Jennifer Hewitt with shock revelation – someone has to pay for increasing wages.
PvO assuming the role of chief Smug on the Couch.
Four Tories … ahem … journalists … sanctimoniously tut tutting about labor BAAAD re, multi-employer bargaining.
It’s a damn shame that any small businesses are exempt; they are the cockroaches that suppress wages and curtail humane working conditions. Particularly in my old industry – the road transport industry, where undercutting by small transport operators directly end up in road fatalities.
Who exactly is Lambie a ‘battler’ for? Certainly not the families of workers caught in this sort of bind.
Dandy Murray says:
Saturday, November 12, 2022 at 10:54 pm
“it’s a sin wave”
Well, we assume/like to think it is. Phasors are as much of a modelling construct for electrical engineers as the inflation rate is in economics.
*…and runs away*
You don’t need to run away from me. The assumptions should be drilled into young Engineers, as the network becomes increasingly non linear it becomes increasingly important that the limits of our very wonderful tools are understood.
yabba says:
Saturday, November 12, 2022 at 11:21 pm
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Fred, Believe you me, I know about P1 in spades, and normally have them blocked. Just chipped in today because of the particular inanity of the exchange with Barney of Lots of Places. In the past said P1 has expostulated in its usual inane manner about integration of renewable power sources into the existing AC network, while plainly not having the foggiest about the nature of the endeavour.
I understand you pain. Her confidence and lack of understanding is something to behold.
PvO
Internal group of Liberal MPs and Senators… the metropolitan rump. There are 15 of them.
What a disgrace! Not a single word on Insiders about the robodebt royal commission revelations.
Not One Word on this thing called the Robodebt Royal Commission.
frednk @ #1774 Sunday, November 13th, 2022 – 9:54 am
Oh look, Yabba does have one little friend.
Isn’t that nice? They can get together and discuss their impedence problem. Perhaps someone (someone braver and with a stronger stomach than me) should tell them there is medication available for that these days.
Bit of a Snap there BK.
BKsays:
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 9:59 am
Well they did warn you in the program notes. 😐
Strayan white supremacy…
Time and tide: today marks half a century since Gough Whitlam’s 1972 “It’s time” campaign launch.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/from-blue-poles-to-beijing-50-years-since-whitlam-s-it-s-time-20221031-p5buar.html
citizen says:
‘A curious opinion piece by a fellow described as “an Australian Rhodes Scholar completing his PhD in ethics at Oxford”.’
In the footsteps of the Mad Monk and Angus ‘I Was At Oxford With Naomi Wolf’ Taylor?
BK says:
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 9:59 am
What a disgrace! Not a single word on Insiders about the robodebt royal commission revelations.
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If you want to know how Robodebt got as far as it did and kept going as long as it did, there’s your answer. Robodebt was simply of no interest to the talking heads who are only interested in politics and in what the Murdoch and Fairfax media promote as of interest.
It took Federal Court action to finally get formal legal advice. Even the Ombudsman did not appear to look at the law independently. As for the biggest crime, the way the victims were treated when they tried to deal with the debt notices, nobody seemed to care at all other than the people who were trying to help them.
They were all just small people who owed relatively little amounts of money each (that is relative to what the movers and shakers of our media earned).
ItzaDream @ #1626 Sunday, November 13th, 2022 – 9:59 am
Its so blatant, and disgraceful.
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Ehnes was magical, and the Brahms also terrific, I think you would agree.
Musk’s house of cards is unsustainable …
Twitter…One engineering manager was approached by Mr. Musk’s advisers — or “goons,” as Twitter employees called them — with a list of hundreds of people he had to let go. He vomited into a trash can near his feet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/technology/elon-musk-twitter-takeover.html
yabba @ #1785 Sunday, November 13th, 2022 – 10:26 am
Ehnes completely other-worldly!
BK, we are at the end of the line. Only 10 or so houses effected by the downed wires so SAPN will focus on higher priorities. We were out for 7 days last time. Coincidentally, my interviewed with a Ch9 crew got aired at the end of day 6.
Don’t know why they chose me – the distraught ladies in the street are far more camera friendly.
Neil Mitchell wants all you social media nutters and mindless sycophants to avoid the spin and get back to the serious analysis of the MSM.
TPOF, any indication the media role (or lack of) might get a guernsey in the hearings? Perhaps they know it is coming?
It is disgraceful. Their heads aren’t in the sand – instead, stuck up their own tomorrows.
Morning all. A belated thanks BK for the roundup, and also for warning me off Insiders.
Sorry I just deleted most of a tweet about Ukraine. It is unconfirmed and I no longer trust it. In retreating from Kherson Russia has undoubtedly lost a significant number of troops captured and killed. But nobody official will say how many yet.
Anyone taking bets on the T20 final happening?
I foresee the great pre-game entertainment taking place, the music concert, the introductory speeches, welcome to country and the national anthems being sung and the first drops of heavy rain coming down and the covers coming on just before the first ball is due to be bowled. Rain will then continue til the scheduled finish time on the reserve day upon when the sun shall break through.
BTW, I’m also available for predictions on the Victorian election…
Clare O’Neil has the fearless aggression that Labor has been so desperately missing since Keating.
Labor’s next PM.
‘Socrates says:
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 10:38 am
Morning all. A belated thanks BK for the roundup, and also for warning me off Insiders.
More good news starting to filter out from Ukraine. In all the euphoria last week over US mid terms and Kherson being recaptured one thing I could not understand was why there were no reports of Russian losses or prisoners. The Russians claimed that they successfully withdrew 30,000 soldiers under fire across two wide river crossings without loss. Really?
Turns out not so much. Looks like a large number are still trapped on the right bank, perhaps 18,000 to 22,000. It will take Ukraine a while to round so many up. Ukraine might seek to swap these prisoners for the Ukrainian civilians forcibly removed into Russia.’
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These are the crucial numbers for assessing the true military value of the Fall of Kherson.
Boerwar
Agreed. It will be significant, but sorry the number I posted before is not corroborated by anything official. It will still be in the thousands though.
Rex Douglas @ #1793 Sunday, November 13th, 2022 – 10:41 am
Keating had fearless aggression and brains. None of the current Labor “luminaries” seem to combine both traits **
** With the possible exception of Penny Wong. But of course she will never be PM.
‘Socrates says:
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 10:46 am
Boerwar
Agreed. It will be significant, but sorry the number I posted before is not corroborated by anything official. It will still be in the thousands though.’
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Fog of war, so no worries. I am hoping that one of the more reputable sites will do the numbers more accurately. It seemed to me before the Fall of Kherson that it was an almost ideal opportunity for Ukraine. 155mm shells lobbed on the bridge approaches should have been able to stop altogether or significantly halt the retreat. I am surprised that the Russians do not seem to have used the time they did have to turn Kherson into a nightmare of mines, IEDs and booby traps.
The other morning very early ,sky neeews was running a banner saying
Elon musk reports that twitter is or might be heading towards Bankruptcy.
Was there for a few minutes.
I can’t see the military sense in Ukraine swapping Russian soldiers for Ukraine civilians.
“Why else has Daniel Andrews followed Donald Trump and crafted a social media strategy for a platform dominated by mindless sycophants and spin rather than serious analysis?”
“Mindless sycophants and spin?” The foundational brief for Neil Mitchell’s shock-jockery, surely?