The latest fortnightly Essential Research poll finds both major parties unchanged on the primary vote, Labor at 31% and the Coalition at 32%, with the Greens down two to 13%, One Nation up one to 8% and 6% undecided. The pollster’s 2PP+ measure has Labor down two to 49% and the Coalition up two to 45% – the narrowest result this term – with undecided likewise at 6%. A result on the Indigenous Voice maintains the remorseless trend, with no up three to 51% (hard no up one to 42%, soft no up one to 8%) and and yes down one to 41% (hard yes down two to 28%, soft yes steady at 12%).
Regarding the government’s latest package of workplace laws, the poll finds 79% are in favour of criminalising wage theft, with only 6% opposed; 66% support “closing loopholes so that employers can’t use labour hire workers to undercut full time workers”, with 12% opposed; and 54% support “ensure that gig workers who work through digital platforms have minimum rights and entitlements”, with 15% opposed. Forty-nine per cent favoured “businesses maximising profits for shareholders” as the cause of rising living costs over 32% for the alternative cause of wage and salary increases for workers, and 42% felt workplace power tilted too much in favour of employers compared with 12% for workers. The poll was conducted Wednesday to Sunday from a sample of 1135.
Also doing the rounds is a Victorian state poll from RedBridge Group that shows primary vote shares much as they were at the November election, with Labor on 37%, the Coalition on 34% and the Greens on 13% (36.7%, 34.5% and 11.5% respectively at the election). However, Labor is credited with a wider two-party preferred lead of 56.5-43.5, compared with 55.0-45.0 at the election. The poll was conducted August 31 to September 14 from a substantial sample of 3001, allowing for credible breakdowns by gender, age, region, education, income and home ownership in the pollster’s report.
A few days ago I wrote that Trump seemed better at reading the national mood on abortion than his primary opponents. I, er, I may have spoken a little too soon:
https://www.9news.com.au/national/northern-territory-news-chief-minister-natasha-fyles-allegedly-assaulted-at-nightcliff-markets/122ad004-153f-48e6-85d2-5cf66261dc0a?ocid=Social-9News
Has the assault on Natasha Fyles been posted yet?
Player One says:
Sunday, September 24, 2023 at 5:33 pm
Boerwar @ #1413 Sunday, September 24th, 2023 – 4:32 pm
The other is entirely a matter of unnecessary personal consumption by choice by the world’s wealthy individuals (which includes most Australians) at the expense of the climate, the homeless and biodiversity.
You mean like driving a fossil fuelled SUV?
It’s not even on the same scale.
But you knew that.
Cooker.
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Tourism is responsible for 8% of the world’s CO2 emissions. Tourism is mainly done by the wealthy at the expense of the poor. Tourism contributes to the world’s homelessness. Tourism impacts badly on biodiversity. All a matter of personal choice.
Eco-resorts are greenwashers for same. Why not fly in your private jet to:
https://www.google.com/travel/search?q=eco%20tourist%20resort%20in%20kenya&g2lb=2502548%2C2503771%2C2503781%2C4258168%2C4270442%2C4284970%2C4291517%2C4597339%2C4757164%2C4814050%2C4864715%2C4874190%2C4886480%2C4893075%2C4924070%2C4965990%2C4990494%2C72248050%2C72248051%2C72298667%2C72302247%2C72317059%2C72321071%2C72364736%2C72367208%2C72368563%2C72370225&hl=en-AU&gl=au&ssta=1&ts=CAESCAoCCAMKAggDGhwSGhIUCgcI5w8QCRgcEgcI5w8QCRgdGAEyAhAAKgcKBToDQVVE&qs=CAEyE0Nnb0lzWWEtME1ETHhjWWFFQUU4CkIJCX6Rl2a9GtlTQgkJMYMPClwWjRpCCQmY2-pXcuxMBA&ap=aAG6AQhvdmVydmlldw&ictx=1&sa=X&ved=0CAAQ5JsGahcKEwi407bV6sKBAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQBQ
‘B.S. Fairman says:
Sunday, September 24, 2023 at 6:31 pm
https://www.9news.com.au/national/northern-territory-news-chief-minister-natasha-fyles-allegedly-assaulted-at-nightcliff-markets/122ad004-153f-48e6-85d2-5cf66261dc0a?ocid=Social-9News
Has the assault on Natasha Fyles been posted yet?’
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Assaults, often in the vicinity of alcohol fumes, have been a feature of NT politics. Sometimes the ministers do the assaulting. Sometimes they are the assaultees.
Someone in the NT doing the cream pie trick – so 1998.
I thought that stopped after Wendy Deng attacked the guy who cream pied Rupert.
Again, this was a useful article, and the NO case has some serious questions to answer here:
https://theconversation.com/the-voice-how-do-other-countries-represent-indigenous-voices-in-government-212875
‘Surprisingly, the current debate on the Voice to Parliament seems to have missed the fact Torres Strait Islanders have effectively had an elected voice to both federal and state governments for almost 30 years.
Besides being a form of devolved self-governance, the Torres Strait Regional Authority is empowered to “advise the federal minister for Indigenous affairs on matters relating to Torres Strait Islanders”.’
So, one group of Australian Indigenous people have basically had a Voice-type, elected advisory body for 30 years now. And we want to deny that to the other, larger group of Indigenous Australians?
Huh? Seems rather unfair to say the least. Why are we even debating this? What say you, NO campaigners?
Rupert may have passed the poisoned chalice to Lachlan.
USD$757m to Dominion, $2.6b pending to SmartMatic, and now the pension funds want all of that paid by the Directors (that’s you Lachlan) back into the company. The smart move would be to settle.
Hopefully News Corpse has Directors insurance, but it will be a diminished outfit who must be licking their wounds after going all in with Dotard.
New York City’s public pension funds have joined shareholder litigation blaming media mogul Rupert Murdoch for the potentially multibillion-dollar scandal at Fox News over the conservative network’s role in spreading false conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
The lawsuit—joined by public pension funds for the state of Oregon—is one of four investor complaints in recent months to target the Australian news tycoon, his son Lachlan, former US House Speaker Paul Ryan, and other Fox Corp. board members.
It was made public Sept. 15, the same day as another suit brought by a different group of pension and investment funds, including one representing workers in Rhode Island and another run by Sweden. The new complaints came nine days after the first two investor cases were consolidated in Delaware’s Chancery Court.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/murdochs-blamed-by-nyc-pension-funds-for-fox-defamation-scandals
I didn’t realise Rupert swung that way.
Looks like a boomer cooker was the culprit.
“Seems rather unfair to say the least. What say you, NO campaigners?”
They’ll say “we need to get rid of that as well”.
“Clearly not if they ask for this referendum which has crashed into a brick wall.”
Which isn’t the fault of the indigenous population. A very long, bipartisan process resulted in the Uluru Statement and then the referendum. That Dutton stabbed them in the back for political gain isn’t on them, nor will it be their fault if/when it fails. The fault will be with the rest of us, and a far cry from the indigenous “preferring disaster to success”. Maybe the most deeply cynical might prefer the failure but on the whole, who would want such a rejection from the people living on your stolen land? That you can’t even have this milquetoast voice?
As for the Dutton backup plan, the virtue signalling, empty handed “recognition preamble”, that wouldn’t be a success for the indigenous, just another in the long line of white man’s hand me down edicts that do nothing and could only be called a success if your goal is to do nothing.
I was waiting for someone to say that – disgusting
Lars
Who would have thought that supporting Suharto’s New Order and getting caught spying for commercial advantage and thereby undoing any goodwill fostered by UN peacekeeping would have consequences, huh?
OC
Rupert’s trashing of democracy on 3 continents has only been matched by his conga line of floozies – all so besotted by the Aussie Adonis that they frolicked with the geriatric on the Bahamas beach.
Soaring petrol prices pushed local inflation higher in August, data this week is expected to show, with the increases showing little sign of abating. The market forecasts headline inflation data to climb to 5.2 per cent for the 12 months to August, against 4.9 per cent for the 12 months to July, as cash rate futures traders bet heavily on the Reserve Bank increasing rates by another 25 basis points before March.
AMP chief economist Shane Oliver said a 9 per cent climb in petrol prices last month will be a significant driver of the inflation print this week, and the September quarter figures due for release on October 25. The average price of regular petrol has continued to rise this month, and was up 14.1¢ to 220.4¢ per litre in Sydney for the week to Thursday.
But Dr Oliver said the RBA was likely to brush off inflation’s rebound as an anomaly related to a months-long campaign by Saudi Arabia and Russia to cut oil’s global supply and force energy prices higher. “Monetary policy has gone from ultra-easy to tight, households and businesses are under much more pressure now than 18 months ago,” he said. “So, central banks will be inclined to think petrol prices can act like a tax on spending. My inclination is the RBA will look through August’s inflation, but obviously that depends on inflationary pressures elsewhere continuing to decline and in Australia’s case as long as the broader inflation trend is down they won’t read too much into it.”
https://www.afr.com/markets/equity-markets/soaring-petrol-prices-tipped-to-fuel-australian-inflation-rebound-20230924-p5e73o
Talk about being handed a poisoned chalice:
The lawsuit—joined by public pension funds for the state of Oregon—is one of four investor complaints in recent months to target the Australian news tycoon, his son Lachlan, former US House Speaker Paul Ryan, and other Fox Corp. board members.
Will Toned Abs have to take out ANOTHER mortgage on his house?
C@t
Lachlan has picked The Lyin’ Friar as his useful idiot..
Asha @ #1454 Sunday, September 24th, 2023 – 6:30 pm
All good fodder for Democrat ads, as the Mango Mussolini tries to square the circle between the Republican Base and the General election in 2024. 🙂
sprocket_ @ #1468 Sunday, September 24th, 2023 – 6:56 pm
I thought he was going to be his Performing Seal? Will balance a ball on his nose for onions. 😐
From Lachlan Murdoch’s announcement..
Abbott would bring “decades of executive leadership, expertise in matters of trade, economic and public policy, and a strong international business development network,” Fox told its shareholders, who will vote at the annual meeting on November 17.
I am thinking Abbott is more of a good “cultural fit” for News Corp than say Peter Costello for Fairfax/Nine?
Does the Guardian have a Board? Maybe they can put Julia Gillard on it?
Ah yes, such a “strong international business development network” that he was hastily shoved into the corner like an embarrassing porn magazine left on the coffee table within weeks of him being appointed as a UK Trade Envoy by Boris Johnson’s government in 2020.
Speaking of that, it was honestly gobsmacking to see how the UK media reported on Abbott at the time compared to the Australian media. Conservative Ministers were told point blank “But he’s a misogynist” and they had no reply to that. It’s particularly galling considering how much the Australian media slavishly buttered him up from 2009 to 2015 when they finally decided “oh we can’t do this any more. Sir Prince Philip?!”
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/five-years-a-thousand-messages-how-a-top-public-servant-tried-to-influence-governments-20230919-p5e5ss.html
Five years. A thousand messages. How a top public servant tried to influence governments
The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes reveal a cache of messages Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo sent to a Liberal powerbroker in a bid to promote conservatives, oust enemies and revamp the national security regime.
By Nick McKenzie, Michael Bachelard and Amelia Ballinger
September 24, 2023
One of Australia’s most influential public servants, Michael Pezzullo, spent years using a political back channel to two Liberal prime ministers to undermine political and public service enemies, promote the careers of conservative politicians he considered allies and lobby to muzzle the press.
The secret efforts of the Department of Home Affairs secretary to build his power while reshaping successive coalition governments and Australia’s national security regime are revealed in hundreds of encrypted messages Pezzullo sent to influential Liberal Party powerbroker Scott Briggs, obtained by The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes.
From Dennis Shanahan in the Oz:
“No-one is suggesting Albanese will face the same fate as Hughes did on the defeat of his divisive vote but the damage from a defeat will affect his prime ministerial authority, credibility and judgment. His colleagues are already showing signs of concern about decisions made over Qatar and Qantas flights into Australia, a distraction from cost-of-living issues, the full impact of carbon emissions reduction measures and the bizarre exclusion of the States from the Covid 19 inquiry.”
When Republicans call it a post-birth abortion they hate it, when it’s called a school shooting they love it. Hmm.
The real question is, ‘Will Lachlan eventually ditch his loss-making old media in Australia?’
He may not have the vanity of the old lecher in being a ‘kingmaker’ in some far flung outpost.
Jeebus!
The Pezz – who knew?
https://www.smh.com.au/national/five-years-a-thousand-messages-how-a-top-public-servant-tried-to-influence-governments-20230919-p5e5ss.html
By “Hughes’ fate”, I presume Dennis Shanahan means being reelected in two consecutive landslide victories and governing for another six years?
It strikes me Albo’s promise of a bipartisan parliamentary committee to set up a Voice post a referendum win is a blatant attempt to win Liberal voters over to the fold.
Actually he’s done things in the wrong order – seeking bipartisanship first and then getting such a committee to design a referendum question both sides of politics could agree on, that would have been a far more prudent course of action.
Lars: I’ll pose the same question again – how many Labor MPs really support the Voice as wholeheartedly as their leader and Linda Burney, how many are campaigning that hard for it?
I know the general secretary told them they all had to work their butts off to get the Voice over the line, I guess if you refused to do so, they’d take away your preselection.
Pezzullo on Julie Bishop..
Pezzullo derided former foreign minister Julie Bishop, describing how he “almost had a heart attack” in 2018 after she briefly emerged as a prime ministerial challenger. When she was a backbencher, Pezzullo mocked the fact that she had appeared in a fashion shoot with TV personality Kerri-Anne Kennerley, and later criticised the former foreign minister in response to a story headlined Julie Bishop has an epic fashion moment for a good cause.
“Sorry. She has agency and autonomy. I get it. But how does this advance the cause of strong, independent policy or business relevant women?”
Pezzullo on Marise Payne..
He described then defence minister Marise Payne, a leading Liberal moderate, as “completely ineffectual” and told Briggs: “Marise is a problem!”
When Briggs responded that former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull “thinks so too” but “it may be too hard for him to dump a woman”, Pezzullo responded: “If she stays then she has to stop thinking and acting like a Foreign Minister lite … she looks weak. And she doesn’t have a clear view of the national interest – it’s just whatever Defence wants.”
Kamahl. No. JFC!
Seriously. I’ve got a couple of his lps here that belonged to my mother. Never got around to getting rid of them.
I’m feeling cold. Might light a fire.
Pezzullo on Christopher Pyne..
In the same exchange, Pezzullo urged the sacking of another leading moderate, the then defence industry minister: “And get rid of [Christopher] Pyne from that silly portfolio. You can say that he has done his job!”
sprocket_ says:
Sunday, September 24, 2023 at 7:27 pm
Pezzullo on Marise Payne..
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Well at least he didn’t fat shame her.
Pezzullo on George Brandis..
The ones who [are] sniping and conducting an insurgency [against Home Affairs] are a couple of Ministers … We must push on and over the top of this resistance,” Pezzullo messaged Briggs in August 2017. Then attorney-general George Brandis was “hand braking” the Attorney-General’s Department as he resisted the reforms.
“George has got them running in circles,” Pezzullo complained, accusing the then attorney-general of a “deliberate strategy” of ”lawyering” public servants “into a state of befuddlement”.
“Brandis behaviour is getting worse,” Pezzullo told Briggs in another encrypted message, prompting Briggs to respond: “I’ve fed that into the PM. I think things may be getting closer to a Brandis departure.”
I’m sort of liking the cut of Pezzullo’s jib
Pezzullo on Michael Keenan…
In a series of messages, Pezzullo also attacked another cabinet minister resisting the Home Affairs reform, former justice minister Michael Keenan, describing him as a politician who was “passive and lacks impact”.
“Keenan … needs to get with the program,” Pezzullo wrote in another message. “He needs to lift his sights and his horizons, rather than getting stuck on questions of status and prestige.”
Pezzullo now picking ministers…
“You need a right winger in there – people smugglers will be watching … Please feed that in [to Morrison and Turnbull],” Pezzullo messaged as the political battle played out in Parliament House.
“If Dutton is out, give me [Angus] Taylor or [Alan] Tudge,” Pezzullo texted as the pair also assessed the chances of right-wing senators Jim Molan and Michaelia Cash. When Briggs responded that Dutton may hold on to Home Affairs, Pezzullo responded: “Terrific.”
Kamahl repeating lies from the no campaign.
$40b for indigenous affairs.
Project fact check live. $4b.
Kamahl doubles down. “We’ll split the difference”
Hamish was very restrained.
GFY camel
Isn’t Kamahl a yes voter now ? I thought he changed during the week?
Lars Von Trier says:
Sunday, September 24, 2023 at 7:09 pm
I am thinking Abbott is more of a good “cultural fit” for News Corp than say Peter Costello for Fairfax/Nine?
Does the Guardian have a Board? Maybe they can put Julia Gillard on it?
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Tony Abbotts archrival Malcolm Turnbull ? I think the first public feud between the two former liberal party leaders was the republic Referendum , then entered the political arena ,
2009 Abbott challenged Turnbull for the liberal party leadership,
then in 2015 Turnbull repaid Abbott by challenging Abbott for the leadership, then 2018 Abbott was involved in the coup which cost Turnbull the leadership for the second time ,
there are some reports that Turnbull was involved in the final revenge which cost Abbott his seat of Warringah
Just did a backflip with hypocritical pike on live TV Lars.
Albo even claimed Kamahl-mentum yesterday fwiw.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/five-years-a-thousand-messages-how-a-top-public-servant-tried-to-influence-governments-20230919-p5e5ss.html
This has to be the most embarrassing and outrageous behavior by a public servant ever.
Resignation on the Minister’s desk on Monday. Questions for Dutton as to how and why he was manipulated by this back channel bingo, and what he knew and when..
Kamahl is indeed now a YES voter: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/learn-the-facts-kamahl-makes-voice-u-turn-to-support-yes-vote-20230922-p5e6t9.html
He switched when he “learned the facts” (i.e. realised NO was treating everyone as gullible mugs)
The Turnbully is worth about 250m – not sure a 500k faux board gig for a family he hates – would be a top 1000 priority for him.
He just recanted on the project.
Kamahl is now a bullshitting NO
Turnbull has FU money. Which is why the Murdochs didn’t like him.
With Tony Abbott on the Murdoch Board , the Abbott and Turnbull feud is far from over
Malcolm Turnbull who is in charge of calling for the royal commission into Murdoch media , will be more hell bent then ever for the biggest revenge on NewsLtd and TonyAbbott
About time the genealogy was repeated..
The Lyin’ Rodent begat
The Lyin’ Friar begat
The Lyin’ Waffle begat
The Liar from the Shire begat (with Pezz’s help)
The Lyin’ Spud
So Albo got played by Kamahl?
A good staff should have checked it was for real – before publicly referring to him in a press conference .