The Australian reports the latest Newspoll has Labor with an two-party of 51-49, unchanged from the last poll three weeks ago, from primary votes of Labor 33% (up one), Coalition 38% (up two), Greens 13% (steady) and One Nation 6% (down one). Both leaders record improved personal ratings, with Anthony Albanese up two on approval to 44% and down two on disapproval to 51%, and Peter Dutton up three to 41% and down five to 49%. Albanese’s lead as preferred prime minister has narrowed slightly, from 46-38 to 46-39.
Respondents were also asked to pick favoured Labor and Coalition leaders out of lists of six contenders, with Anthony Albanese recording 28% as preferred Labor leader ahead of 13% for Tania Plibersek, 10% for Bill Shorten, 8% for Jim Chalmers, 4% for Richard Marles and 2% for Chris Bowen. Peter Dutton likewise scored 28%, with Jacinta Price on 14%, Sussan Ley on 6%, Angus Taylor and Andrew Hastie on 5% apiece and Dan Tehan on 3%. The poll was conducted Monday to Friday from a sample of 1258.
Also out today is the monthly Freshwater Strategy poll from the Financial Review, which has the Coalition leading for the first time on two-party preferred at 51-49, after the previous results had it at 50-50. The primary votes are Labor 31% (down one), Coalition 40% (steady) and Greens 13% (steady). Anthony Albanese is steady on approval at 34% and up two on disapproval to 48%, while Peter Dutton is at up one to 36% and down one to 39%. Albanese’s lead as preferred prime minister is at 45-39, out from 43-41 last time. The poll was conducted Friday to Sunday from a sample of 1060.
It appears that Burney has been forced out similar to Joe Biden. The right call.
Lehrmann’s lawyer sporting the Posie Parker big sunnies/peroxide blonde look.
Labor went for the sugar hit, didn’t do their homework?
Never mind, the gloss will wear off PM Dutts.
By about 2039.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-25/bruce-lehrmann-delay-pay-money-owed-network-ten-appeal/104138186
Hawke/Keating got the ball rolling on private in public services etc so ironic labor types decry it.
Feds may want to go before WA election.Otherwise people will know they can give federal labor a good kicking well deserved with the knowledge they have the backstop of a state labor gov.
If marsupials are already glowing in the dark then Duttons nuclear will make no difference!
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“that is, quite possibly, the single dumbest statement ever made on PB………
I suspect the character limit in the comment box wouldn’t allow one to list all of the reasons that the Morrison government deserved to be dumped for”
Lots of things … yup, our Boer will likely have a list 🙂 …….
But really, i think a lot of what got Morrison gone boils down to the Liberal obsession with avoiding anything to do with policy and governance to focus exclusivley on holding power any way they could. They simply werent up to doing both at the same time.
Linda Burney is 67. She has been in parliaments, NSW and Federal, for 20 years.
And campaigning for her people for years before that.
It is well known that her health has been less than the best for a few years.
Comparing her to Biden tells us everything we need to know about the person who did it. A word I wouldn’t use in polite company.
Agree Rossmcg – any criticism of Labor is outrageous and should be stopped.
Joe Biden was suffering from exhaustion.
Resignation was the only way he could ever hope to regain his health.
Same is true for anyone suffering from exhaustion.
Thanks D&M so a one point shift from the greens to the alp compared to last yougov.
Lars Von Triersays:
Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 10:40 am
The over heightened rhetoric on here of recent days suggests it’s dawning on the super fans that Albo is in a losing position.
It’s really a very febrile mood.
That end of term dilemma do we wait for things to change and be accused of hanging on or do we go now ?
Interesting fact 20% of Melb cbd office space is vacant – pointer of more economic trouble ahead. Quarterly cpi next wed also an important marker.
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So nothing to do with the ongoing trend of people working from a home office?
I certainly believe it is. I think a fair bit of CBD office space will need to be converted into living areas in the future. As this trend will only continue. Though having more people living in our CBD’s is not a bad thing. It may help to revitalise inner city cafe culture for instance.
So logic says Burnie will be replaced by MM from the NT if you don’t want to an Abbott. Giles won’t have to face another barrage of questions because he will probably be sent to purgatory given the ‘too many immigrants’ meme the Fibs are about to launch in the next HOR sitting. Having a Minister with a word finder issue will not cut it. Sorry Albo, Giles helped you get the PM gig but he has to go in my opinion. Flip Burke over to immigration – he won’t be the soft target Giles was/is.
Thanks D&M. Despite the febrile commentary by some on here, it is steady as she goes once again. Not the best grist for the mill 😉
Good, get rid of that dead-wood useless giles, an albatross around Albo’s neck 😡
UK cartoons and other miscellany
Christian Adams
Dave Brown
Stokoe
Jonsey
Guy Venables
[The King’s Bentley fleet is going electric.]
Banx
Mark Parisi
Tjeerd Royaards
Ellis Rosen
Rod Emmerson
Patrick Blower
Matt
Nicola Jennings
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The French Connection
Sanaga
Last day of the summer sales. “Everything must go!”
Chaunu
“Cease Fire!”
I’m going to miss Burney trying to answer questions in QT.
Linda Burney, the Minister for Indigenous Australians and first Aboriginal woman in the lower house, will retire from politics at the next election.
A rolled gold dud .
Close the door on the way out!
Kevin Bonham@kevinbonham:
#YouGov Albanese net -10 (42-52) Dutton net -4 (42-46) both up 7, Better PM (favours incumbents) Albanese leads 45-37 margin down.
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Lots of sound and fury in our politics at the moment, but apparently signifying very little to the average voter. :;
Just MOE stuff in this and other recent polls.
Monopolies should not be privatised.
https://www.watoday.com.au/business/companies/the-bank-threat-that-shook-up-australia-s-800b-property-monopoly-20240724-p5jw9h.html
I think the Feds probably need to read the room and do a bit more here.
You gov suggests tax cuts have failed to save the govts bacon.
Burney seems a nice lady with a lot of life challenges but she should have resigned or been sacked immediately after the voice failed. Too little to late.
Badthinkersays:
Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 9:21 am
Problem Labor has is there was never a good reason to dump the Morrison Government.
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What a deluded statement.
Inflation rate in the June Qtr 2022: 6.1%
Budget prediction: A deficit $78 billion (Frydenberg prediction)
Net Government debt: $889.8 billion (Frydenberg budget prediction)
Whole sale electricity cost June Qtr 2022: $264 per megawatt hour (MWh)
Number of secret Ministries held by PM: 5
Number of separate sexual assault allegations involving Liberals: 3
Number of scandals just involving DPM Barnaby: many
Selected other big failures:
Vaccine rollout
Allowing vapes to be sold without any controls
Failure to legislate jobkeeper with a pay back clause for profitable business
Illegal Robodebt scheme and associated suicides of its innocent victims
I predict that the Coalition will continue to slag Burney and that the Greens will continue to claim that Labor, and hence Burney, has zero ambitions.
Burney will go down as one of Australia’s best federal ministers for Indigenous Affairs.
I have known personally and/or worked under most of them.
Her immediate predecessor should have resigned in protest when his views were fatally compromised by Morrison.
Burney’s achievements are considerable and will, IMO, mostly be sustainable.
The focus on direct Indigenous implementation is a step change from her predecessors.
She has succeeded in reversing the hundreds of millions in funding removed from Indigenous Programs under Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison – the disastrous results of which we are seeing in Alice Springs as we post.
Her physical voice was damaged due to sickness which meant that she struggled to project during the Voice referendum. This was, IMO, a tragedy. It says much about Dutton that he abused this advantage ruthlessly in his destruction of the Voice.
Burney was, and remains, subject to intense personal racist abuse. This was particularly so during the Referendum period.
Burney has also had to contend with the childish histrionics of the Greens’ Thorpe (it’s the Revolution, stupid!) and the cavalier and blustering Know-nothingism of Price… the consequences of the colonial period no longer exist. Truly. When it comes to understanding the issues, consulting with Indigenous people, framing policy development and program delivery, Burney has been infinitely more nuanced, comprehensive and integrated than Price.
Burney was doubly unfortunate in that she had to deal with persistent and destructive wedge politics from both the Greens and the Coalition.
Burney will be remembered in particular for various initiatives to give Indigenous women a greater direct role in Indigenous Affairs and for ensuring that national programs and investment, including in particular that for domestic violence, has a separate Indigenous component.
Her contribution to several huge spending initiatives in relation to remote communities is impressive.
Burney reinforced success by supporting huge increases in the Indigenous Protected Areas and doubling of Indigenous Ranger numbers to 2,000.
If you are Pageboi, none of this actually happened.
Burney is honest. Burney has integrity. Burney is a fighter for her people, a leader who has delivered much of substance. Burney demonstrates humbleness, humour, grace and gravitas.
Compare and contrast Reynolds, Price, Ley, Cash, McKenzie, Hughes, Hanson, Joyce, Dutton, Taylor…
We are all very fortunate to have had Burney as a Minister. I am sorry that she is leaving but can understand why it a good choice.
The battle for costs in Bruce Lehrmann’s long-running defamation case has continued, after the former Liberal staffer told the Federal Court he wants to delay paying the $2 million he owes to Network Ten.
In April, Mr Lehrmann failed in his bid to sue for defamation over an interview aired by Network Ten between journalist Lisa Wilkinson and Brittany Higgins. His defamation case ended with the judge finding he had raped Ms Higgins on the balance of probabilities.
Ms Higgins had accused him of raping her in a parliamentary suite in the office where they both worked as Liberal staffers, in March 2019. A criminal trial over the alleged rape collapsed in 2022, leaving no findings against Mr Lehrmann. He maintains his innocence, and is seeking to appeal the defamation case ruling.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-25/bruce-lehrmann-delay-pay-money-owed-network-ten-appeal/104138186
Brendan O’Connor will go down as the Minister who rescued and restored the TAFE system after the Coalition did its best to destroy it.
The many hundreds of thousands of free TAFE places are a direct feed into improving individual’s lives, building social capital, increasing real wages and improving productivity. (If you are Pageboi this did not happen because Labor has zero ambition).
The benefits of this will accrue long after O’Connor goes.
Burney has been a disaster in just about every respect as minister. Nowhere near up to the role at any stage before or after her voice issues.
I see that the Liberal Show Trials grind on and on and on.
Badthinkersays:
Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 9:06 am
Natural monopolies shouldn’t be in private hands, but Labor sold them off in a flash, claimed they were being good little free marketeers.
I reckon NACC should be looking at that stuff.
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On elections, there’s never a good time, but as the Higgins situation unravels, those 675,000 voters who decided the L-NP brand was no good anymore in ’22, they might be having 2nd thoughts?
Anyone interested in a Chateau in a region of France so remote news of the Revolution hasn’t reached there yet, now’s your chance.
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The ongoing harassment of a Liberal staffer who was a rape victim by both Reynolds and her rusted on LNP supporters. Is unlikely to bring anyone back to the misogynistic LNP. They have locked themselves in as the nasty and vengeful harassers of a rape victim.
Also via Kevin Bonham.
Sohar, for anyone that prescribes to “its the economy stupid” schools of thought… thats a terrible result for the current government.
“Burney will go down as one of Australia’s best federal ministers for Indigenous Affairs”.
Set Race relations back decades.
Her legacy is locked in!
Entropy what happened? U got scooped by badthinker on a hlr development this morning.
I personally had expected a higher level of zeal from u.
Lordbainsays:
Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 12:32 pm
Sohar, for anyone that prescribes to “its the economy stupid” schools of thought… thats a terrible result for the current government.
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Historically how does this number compare to previous polls?
People are being asked question on phone. They have not got much time to think about these questions. I would of thought generally the number of people that think of something quickly on the spot to that question is likely to be around that normally anyway. It is probably higher during election periods when more people are concentrating on this sort of thing though.
Lars Von Triersays:
Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 12:38 pm
Entropy what happened? U got scooped by badthinker on a hlr development this morning.
I personally had expected a higher level of zeal from u.
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What happened to you blocking me?
I mean all good points Entropy, and I would suspect it isnt much better for the Coalition.
Its still not good numbers though (telling its Labor and Greens respondents that, while still scoring low, are still scoring higher then the average)
“Problem Labor has is there was never a good reason to dump the Morrison Government.
Labor had no coherent economic policies”
@Badthinker
Bahahahahahaha You call ‘Back in the black’ coherent economic policies. Labor have delivered back to back surpluses. While the Liberals left a debt five times the amount of Labor’s and pushed the national debt out to a trillion.
Liberals also wasted 40 billion on Job keeper to businesses that were not entitled to that money. And provided no mechanism to get that money back which was against advice.
Lordbrain @ 12.32 pm,
I assume Albanese and Chalmers are hoarding the lolly for a cynical pre-election cash splash. Not that that would make any difference, as any benefits wouldn’t be felt until after the 2025 election. Yay! Hung parliament.
Lars Von Triersays:
Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 12:38 pm
Entropy what happened? U got scooped by badthinker on a hlr development this morning.
I personally had expected a higher level of zeal from u.
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Despite your claims to the contrary. Go back and look through previous posts on the HLR topic. You’ll will find “Badthinker” raises this topic much more often than myself. In fact back in late April to early May he raised this topic often claiming there would be a July election to avoid the court case. When it was pointed out this would not include the senate. He changed his predictions in his HLR posts to an early election on August 3rd. The earliest time a joint house election could be held. This change occurred around mid May. Nearly all his monotonous and wrong election prediction posts he spammed us in the last couple of months. Also involved a statement on the HLR topic.
Don’t worry entropy ur still my go to guy on HLR lore no matter how much that johnny come lately bad thinker tries to usurp ur role.
Her physical voice was damaged due to sickness which meant that she struggled to project during the Voice referendum. This was, IMO, a tragedy. It says much about Dutton that he abused this advantage ruthlessly in his destruction of the Voice.
Never heard a dicky bird as far as interjections go when Burney was answering a question.
Burney was, and remains, subject to intense personal racist abuse. This was particularly so during the Referendum period.
Just a flat out lie.
Kangaroo Court ran a couple of stories on Burney and a failed AVO a couple of years ago, perhaps that’s what you’re thinking of, though it didn’t appear racist
https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2022/10/16/federal-mp-linda-burney-applies-for-an-avo-against-a-social-media-user-to-protect-her-reputation/
This is a Dutch story that will be interesting to follow.
Dutch courts dismissed an appeal and the Dutch navy will go ahead with building four of the French Naval Group’s “Blackfin Barracuda” diesel submarines, a follow on design from the one Australia cancelled under Morrison in 2021.
https://www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieuws/2024/07/24/keuze-voor-orka-klasse-onderzeeboten-definitief
There were a lot of good ideas in the French sub. It will be nice to think at least one NATO/Allied navy will benefit from them.
Badthinkersays:
Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 1:01 pm
“Burney was, and remains, subject to intense personal racist abuse. This was particularly so during the Referendum period”
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Kangaroo Court ran a couple of stories on Burney and a failed AVO a couple of years ago, perhaps that’s what you’re thinking of, though it didn’t appear racist
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Some of the posts on here about her go close to that i would say. I think you should look much closer to home on that topic.
Liberals also wasted 40 billion on Job keeper to businesses that were not entitled to that money. And provided no mechanism to get that money back which was against advice.
Whose advice?
Reality:
Companies were paid to keep workers on the books who would otherwise have been let go onto the unemployment rolls due to the economic situation.
Bottom line:
The policy saved money.
Some of the posts on here about her go close to that i would say. I think you should look much closer to home on that topic.
Uh huh?
One example of such a post?
wow, BW is easily impressed
The fee free places are a good initiative, but hardly equate to rebuilding and restoring the TAFE system. One oft quoted example is that there is not a single TAFE north of newcastle that offers bricklaying….
Likewise I think Burney has been a good minister, but you wouldn’t describe anything on that list as ambitious or game-changing, and the one really big thing in her portfolio, the voice, was a massive failure
In fact, you’ve kind of proved my point, as you do every time you post one of your pathetic listicles of things like ‘appointed woman to position X’, no-one is saying that the government hasn’t done things, it obviously has, but it’s a pretty damn long bow to describe anything this government has done as ‘ambitious’
In so many areas this country is in dire need of change – housing, the environment, equality, health, education etc etc etc, but all this government offers is the most timid incrementalism whilst doubling down on the neoliberal bullshit that got us here in the first place
Actually, I’ll concede the voice was ambitious, and to this nation’s great shame it failed
“They applauded like paid to perform seals….here’s a quick countdown”
https://x.com/Kahlissee/status/1816233955311706156
Minister Burney might be able to take a jet out to a remote community dripping with Gucci and tell people in the dirt what’s good for them but they’re in the dark and they have been in the dark,” Senator Price said in Canberra on Monday.
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She never recovered from that deadly sledge.
How does this fellow, who is supposedly broke, still manage to get lawyers to represent him?
On a more sombre note, the looming Federal Election will herald the end of the Parliamentary Lindas, I fear.
Linda White died, Linda Burney retired, Linda Reynolds soon to retire.
Since Linda was only popular from about 1945 to 1965, i’d say that’s it?
On a more cheerful note, will the looming landslide loss alert Labor luminaries to the failure of it’s females first preselection policies?
Let’s have a gander:
Cathy O’Toole in Herbert 2016-’19; Oncer; Susan Lamb in Longman 2016-’19, Oncer; Terri Butler in Griffith 2014-’22, Shadow Minister, lost safe seat.
Kirsten Livermore just scraped in Capricornia in 2013, retired, Safe Seat lost in 2013, now a L-NP stronghold.
Lilley: Safe Seat repesented by Annika Wells, L-NP fiasco in 2022.
Will she retire rather than face the upcoming music?
I guess Albanese and Dutton never imagined they’d go into the contraceptives business together.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/jul/25/the-real-reason-why-australias-birthrate-is-falling?CMP=share_btn_url
Badthinkersays:
Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 1:11 pm
Some of the posts on here about her go close to that i would say. I think you should look much closer to home on that topic.
Uh huh?
One example of such a post?
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There have been many posts on here smearing her name by yourself and others of your ilk. Whether some of their motivation is racial i don’t know? Though i’m certainly not ruling it out.
You yourself have accused her of being a racist. In past posts, you have also accused everyone who voted for the voice, including myself, as being racist too. Personally i think it far more likely you are though.