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.
Rakali @ #1812 Sunday, November 13th, 2022 – 11:33 am
There are six first grade Rugby League teams in Samoa, all confined to Apia. By contrast there are 23,000 plus registered Rugby Union Players (that’s enough for around 1,150 teams). Rugby Union is the national sport, and has been since the 1920’s. Rugby League started in 1984.
‘Pi says:
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 12:52 pm
I’m pretty sure in war effort terms, strategically speaking, casualties are worse than fatalities, because for each casualty it requires two or more other units to care for them. I can’t remember where I read it, long ago. But i believe it was in the context of one of the justifications for banning weapons like shotguns from war, which was attempted once. The more I think of it, it might have been in Churchill’s WW2 tome. He was a brutal realist in some ways.’
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Casualties consist of all killed in action or wounded. Your point about the amount of resources required to look after wounded soldiers is pertinent. Against that, an important input to morale is whether soldiers think they will be looked after if they are wounded.
Simon Katich says:
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 10:37 am
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.
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Can’t see it, unless there is something direct liking a journalist with with the scheme itself.
dave @ #1821 Sunday, November 13th, 2022 – 11:52 am
I wonder if Andrew_Earlwood will attack Penny now? I mean, what would she know? 😐 🙄
Space Kidette knows all about Rugby League in PNG. I miss Space Kidette on PB. 🙁
Did Guy obtain permission from the gas industry, his federal LNP counterparts and Murdoch before making this promise?
Ven
“ Looks like a suicide mission by the pilot of smaller plane because the Big plane was going straight and smaller plane came at an curved angle.”
You’ve really got to wonder what the pilot of the small plane was thinking/doing. Unless the larger aircraft had strayed way off its route (unlikely given its size and the ATC management at the time). My initial reaction is that I actually suspect just a critical error by the pilot of the small plane. My logic is that I don’t see taking out six other innocent people as fitting the usual suicide pattern (though certainly there have been airliners with suicidal pilots that have done exactly that).
Having undertaken many dozens of parachute displays at air shows and subsequently mixing with aircrews, I observed that there can be a tendency for a minority of experienced pilots to push the envelope on occasions such as air shows. It is after all an opportunity for them to show off their skills. Sometimes it would appear with fatal results (though I’ve never experienced a fatality at an air show but certainly some unintentional near misses).
Stumbling block to a ‘mandate’ for change (Denis Shanahan)
Labor still has a great store of goodwill, but the government is now paying the dire price of being a small political and policy target with no detailed agenda.
His heroes did fuck all ever.
Maybe he thought he was Maverick.
It should be noted that the crowd for the England Samoa ‘world cup’ semi-final league game at Wembley was less than 40,000 ie well under half the stadium capacity of 91,000. How many will turn up for the ‘final’ now that England are goneski?
45 minutes later England played Japan at Twickenham, 15 kms away, in a one off rugby game of no particular import. Crowd 81,400. Sold out.
citizen @ #1859 Sunday, November 13th, 2022 – 1:12 pm
Think I prefer cheaper clean energy controlled by the state SEC.
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BREAKING: Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto wins re-election to the U.S. Senate in Nevada, NBC News projects. https://nbcnews.to/3O9zthp
Andrews announces $250 power bonus for Victorian households in 2023.
Pi says:
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 12:52 pm
I’m pretty sure in war effort terms, strategically speaking, casualties are worse than fatalities, because for each casualty it requires two or more other units to care for them. I can’t remember where I read it, long ago. But i believe it was in the context of one of the justifications for banning weapons like shotguns from war, which was attempted once. The more I think of it, it might have been in Churchill’s WW2 tome. He was a brutal realist in some ways.
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I can certainly confirm being taught that fact at Duntroon a thousand years ago (4 soldiers removed from battle to carry out one injured soldier). Although I can’t speak about the Ukraine or Russian tactics in relation to this specific issue, or even if there are any, this tactic was quite prevalent in Lebanon whereby the Hezbollah used it against the Israelis.
The Israelis are renowned for bringing every soldier off the battlefield regardless therefore they ran significant risks to many more soldiers to ensure everybody’s repatriation. Knowing this, the Hezbollah were happy to maim initially with the intent of inflicting greater subsequent harm on a larger group of soldiers. From what I’ve read, the Russians don’t share the same concerns for their injured or fallen in Ukraine and I suspect the sheer size and speed of this war mitigates against such deliberate action.
Rex Douglas says:
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 1:23 pm
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If confirmed, fantastic news.
Cronus
Yes its confirmed.
A win in Nevada gives the Dems 50 seats with a run-off in Georgia to come.
yabba @ #1860 Sunday, November 13th, 2022 – 1:19 pm
So what? Rugby has always been more popular than Rugby League in England.
My prediction of the dems getting over the line in both the house and senate is still very possible.
Interesting times ahead……
Andrews announces expanded after hours care for EVERY specialist school in the state. Excellent social policy.
Victoria @ #1869 Sunday, November 13th, 2022 – 1:34 pm
Remember when some here said you were crazy for thinking that?
With odds of a split U.S. Congress rising, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned that lawmakers’ failure to raise the statutory limit on U.S. debt posed a “huge threat” to America’s credit rating and functioning of U.S. financial markets.
Yellen told Reuters in an interview in New Delhi on Friday that cooperation is still possible with Republicans on some issues, but lifting the debt ceiling is a non-negotiable item.
Some Republicans have threatened to use the next hike in the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling as leverage to force concessions from U.S. President Joe Biden, a Democrat. U.S. public debt stood at $31.2 trillion on Wednesday and without an increase, analysts anticipate a potential default crisis by the third quarter of 2023.
Another interesting point re World Cups. New Zealand beat England in the women’s Rugby World Cup final at Eden Park yesterday, bringing England’s 30 match winning streak to an end, by pinching a 5 metre England lineout in the last couple of minutes. Crowd 42,579, a sellout, and substantially bigger than that for the league men’s ‘world cup’ semi at Wembley, featuring the home team.
Hi Yabba
How’d the mighty Wannabees go? I guess at least the crowd in Florence was bigger than the crowds the Waratahs get now
BTW there were once 6 RL teams in Apia but it has expanded and they are now doing Island of Origin.
https://asiapacificrl.com/2022/09/10/honours-shared-in-samoa-island-of-origin-openers/
Just trying to remember how state of origin went for the Rah-Rah
C@tmommasays:
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 1:03 pm
I wonder if Andrew_Earlwood will attack Penny now? I mean, what would she know?
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About as much as any other ex union official.
Victoria says: Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 1:34 pm
My prediction of the dems getting over the line in both the house and senate is still very possible.
Interesting times ahead……
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I would never bet against your uncanny instincts Victoria : )
Taylormade says:
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 1:43 pm
C@tmommasays:
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 1:03 pm
I wonder if Andrew_Earlwood will attack Penny now? I mean, what would she know?
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About as much as any other ex union official.
中华人民共和国
LOL Taylormade
C@tmomma @ #1868 Sunday, November 13th, 2022 – 1:32 pm
So, the rugby league ‘world cup’ is a sad joke. The only ‘important’ rugby league games played in the world are Australian state of origin. The women’s Rugby World Cup final got a bigger crowd than the men’s league semi, with an England team playing in both. But so what! Nothing much, except the extent of league delusions.
I’m still fascinated by the “Angry Victorians Party”. I’m sure Taylormade will preference them if not give them his number 1.
But what interests me most is their post election party. Imagine turning up to that! There would be a lot of anger in that room. Bahaha.
Cronus says…
I suspect (due in no small part to the Coalition and its intentional policies and demonisation of unionism) that there is a need to re-educate our society as to the importance of unionism before the collective knowledge and experience and benefits are lost to the annals of history.
I attended a Retired Teachers Association meetind a while back (not regularly as they are held in Sydney) and put my point to one of the VPs from NSWTF that my experience was that far too many Members believe that the Federation will ride in on a white charger and fix their specific problems in the workplace (of which there are far too many).
This isn’t the way it works as members should approach their supervisor, make a complaint and if there is no acceptable response , mention is then made that the Federation Organizer for the area will be informed and to expect contact from same in the very near future.
Many teachers will not make that initial contact and subsequently, when told that they must do that, they get the shits with the Union and start the whole ‘why should i pay my dues when?’…etc.
There is much to be done in getting workers back to the thinking that made unions so successful in the past. Not talking Union Bovver Boys, but just aaware of the power the union has just by merely mentioning its name…worked for me many memorable times.
An Angry Victorian is probably still a little bit saner than your average Queenslander.
nath says:
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 1:51 pm
An Angry Victorian is probably still a little bit saner than your average Queenslander.
中华人民共和国
Total agreement with you there cobber. That’s why we got rid of our Upper House in 1922!
Upnorth – Be Proud of your Pragmatism says:
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 1:52 pm
nath says:
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 1:51 pm
An Angry Victorian is probably still a little bit saner than your average Queenslander.
中华人民共和国
Total agreement with you there cobber. That’s why we got rid of our Upper House in 1922!
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Kind of backfired when Joh got in. Probably should have gone with reform instead of blowing up the joint.
nath at 1.51 pm, Upnorth at 1.52 pm
Covid per capita death rate in Victoria is 884; in Qld it is 435. In New Zealand it’s 642. Singapore 285.
C@t
Yes I do! The joke is on them now! Lol
Jacquie Lambie getting a ‘whole lot of luvin’ on what’s left of Twitter.
PhoenixRed
Haha. My instincts arent always accurate. I really thought an extra senate seat was in the offering in Ohio. I believed Tim Ryan had a big chance to beat JD Vance. I was way off on that one!
I am seriously happy about the US Senate outcome.
yabba @ #1878 Sunday, November 13th, 2022 – 1:48 pm
No, the Rugby League World Cup is not a ‘sad joke’. Or maybe only to snobs.
Who cares about the numbers who went to see this or that code final? Maybe only sad individuals for whom that sort of triviality is important.
Rugby League has always been popular among the Working Class in the North of England. Always has been, always will be. That it is not AS popular as Rugby Union is neither here nor there, really.
Victoria @ #1887 Sunday, November 13th, 2022 – 2:11 pm
The Republican Senate Campaign Committee had to spend 10s of millions of dollars on that campaign to save Vance.
Victoriasays: Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 2:11 pm
PhoenixRed
Haha. My instincts arent always accurate. I really thought an extra senate seat was in the offering in Ohio. I believed Tim Ryan had a big chance to beat JD Vance. I was way off on that one!
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In the US there still seems to be a possibility for the House to fall to the Dems so if that happens it would be just icing on the cake …..
Soooooo…….. Dems keep the Senate (maybe with better numbers than they have now. Dem Biden President. The House will be Repug…but close.
Big loser these mid-terms seems to be Trump who has dominated the Repugs…but the candidates he endorsed didn’t do very well so the worth of his endorsement is now questionable….and DeSantis shaping up as challenger to him.
Whats the chances that there are some Repugs in the house that will flip and vote with the Dems on some things?? Maybe to keep the Jan 6th committee stuff going so as to damage Trump??
Dr Doolittle @ Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 2:03 pm
“nath at 1.51 pm, Upnorth at 1.52 pm
Covid per capita death rate in Victoria is 884; in Qld it is 435. In New Zealand it’s 642. Singapore 285.”
Nothing to do with latitude now is it? 😉
IIRC at one of the early RL world cups the Lebanese team consisted entirely of Australian players and out of squad only one or two of them had ever been to Lebanon.
Rex Douglas says:
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 1:23 pm
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Who votes Republicans… old uneducated white men
nath says:
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 1:55 pm
Upnorth – Be Proud of your Pragmatism says:
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 1:52 pm
nath says:
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 1:51 pm
An Angry Victorian is probably still a little bit saner than your average Queenslander.
中华人民共和国
Total agreement with you there cobber. That’s why we got rid of our Upper House in 1922!
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Kind of backfired when Joh got in. Probably should have gone with reform instead of blowing up the joint.
中华人民共和国
No cobber can’t agree there. As the late Honourable Edmund Dennis Casey once told me, abolition of the Upper House was one of Labors’ finest achievements. At the next Queensland State Election (2024) Labor will have been in power for 69 years of the last 106 years (Tories 37).
In Victoria, Labor (assuming they win in 2 weeks), will have held Government for only 42 of the last 108 years (1914-2026).
Apart from the Joh era, Queensland has lead reform in many areas. Take the Death Penalty for example. Queeensland was the first jurisdiction in the British Empire to abolish it (in 1922 the same year the Upper House was canned). The last execution in Australia took place in 1967, when Ronald Ryan was hanged in Victoria.
Upper Houses tend to be conservative bastions blocking Labor agendas. The episode Federally in 1975 and disgusting outcome case in point.
Dog’s Brunch says:
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 1:51 pm
Cronus says…
I suspect (due in no small part to the Coalition and its intentional policies and demonisation of unionism) that there is a need to re-educate our society as to the importance of unionism before the collective knowledge and experience and benefits are lost to the annals of history.
I attended a Retired Teachers Association meetind a while back (not regularly as they are held in Sydney) and put my point to one of the VPs from NSWTF that my experience was that far too many Members believe that the Federation will ride in on a white charger and fix their specific problems in the workplace (of which there are far too many).
This isn’t the way it works as members should approach their supervisor, make a complaint and if there is no acceptable response , mention is then made that the Federation Organizer for the area will be informed and to expect contact from same in the very near future.
Many teachers will not make that initial contact and subsequently, when told that they must do that, they get the shits with the Union and start the whole ‘why should i pay my dues when?’…etc.
There is much to be done in getting workers back to the thinking that made unions so successful in the past. Not talking Union Bovver Boys, but just aaware of the power the union has just by merely mentioning its name…worked for me many memorable times.
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+1, it’s worth the time, effort and emotional investment.
I’m just as interested in my grandsons education as I was my own children, the importance to our future society is immeasurable.
nath says:
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 1:51 pm
“An Angry Victorian is probably still a little bit saner than your average Queenslander.”
+1, which is why we import so many.
Cronus
“ From what I’ve read, the Russians don’t share the same concerns for their injured or fallen in Ukraine and I suspect the sheer size and speed of this war mitigates against such deliberate action.”
That seems to have been a pattern since the Soviet era. In the Winter War vs Finland in 1939/40 the Soviets suffered a grimly high death toll, including a high ratio of killed to wounded. A major factor was the lack of casualty care.
With nobody to evacuate them out of the bitter cold to aid stations, many Soviet soldiers froze to death after being imobilised by otherwise survivable wounds.
Aspects of later Soviet uniforms like the Ushanka fur hats were only adopted from the Finns after reviewing why they suffered so many losses.
C@tmomma says:
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 2:15 pm
yabba @ #1878 Sunday, November 13th, 2022 – 1:48 pm
C@tmomma @ #1868 Sunday, November 13th, 2022 – 1:32 pm
yabba @ #1860 Sunday, November 13th, 2022 – 1:19 pm
It should be noted that the crowd for the England Samoa ‘world cup’ semi-final league game at Wembley was less than 40,000 ie well under half the stadium capacity of 91,000. How many will turn up for the ‘final’ now that England are goneski?
45 minutes later England played Japan at Twickenham, 15 kms away, in a one off rugby game of no particular import. Crowd 81,400. Sold out.
So what? Rugby has always been more popular than Rugby League in England.
So, the rugby league ‘world cup’ is a sad joke. The only ‘important’ rugby league games played in the world are Australian state of origin. The women’s Rugby World Cup final got a bigger crowd than the men’s league semi, with an England team playing in both. But so what! Nothing much, except the extent of league delusions.
No, the Rugby League World Cup is not a ‘sad joke’. Or maybe only to snobs.
Who cares about the numbers who went to see this or that code final? Maybe only sad individuals for whom that sort of triviality is important.
Rugby League has always been popular among the Working Class in the North of England. Always has been, always will be. That it is not AS popular as Rugby Union is neither here nor there, really.
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And having lost to Italy overnight, Australian Rugby Union has likely achieved its nadir, how embarrassment was that?