Labor has enjoyed an unlikely sounding spike in the latest Morgan poll, to 61-39 from 57-43 a fortnight ago, for which the most likely explanation is that the previous one was a rogue. Its primary vote is up 4.5 per cent to 53 per cent while the Coalition is down 5.5 per cent to 33.5 per cent. The Greens are up two points to 8 per cent. Furthermore:
• The Victorian Nationals have endorsed Bridget McKenzie, a university lecturer and former school teacher from Leongatha, for the safe number two position on the Coalition Senate ticket at the next election. McKenzie fills the position held at the 2004 election by Julian McGauran, who subsequently defected to the Liberals and will now be the number three candidate on the Coalition ticket, with Michael Ronaldson at number one.
• Andrew Landeryou at VexNews reports that industrial relations lawyer John Pesutto has emerged as another challenger to Josh Frydenberg’s bid to succeed Petro Georgiou as Liberal member for Kooyong.
• Imre Salusinszky of The Australian notes that beef stroganoff enthusiast John Murphy would almost certainly lose his seat of Lowe in the event that an early election required a “mini-redistribution” to reduce New South Wales to its required number of seats.
• The Australian Parliamentary Library has published a paper mapping poverty rates by federal electorate.
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And won’t that piss off the Libs and may split the Nats as well
Tomixmusic has posted Comedian Paul Jennings 1975 novelty hit “THe Bob Hawke Drinking Song” which poked fun at the drinking habits of the former PM.
http://tommixmusic.blogspot.com/2009/04/download-no193-paul-jennings.html
Frank,
That biog of Jennings does him no justice. I can remember him as the straight man on World Championship Wrestling on Channel Nine back in the late Sixties. He teamed up with the legendary Jack Little as the prebubescent punching bag for such Sporting icons as “Killer” Kowalski and “Spud” Murphy.
Sundays would be a Football Show with Tony Charlton, followed by the wrestling, followed by the sainted Bob Santamaria and his Point of View and then a dubbed Movie about Hercules. Ah, what a life.
I always thought that he’d been eaten one week when I didn’t watch.
I’m pleased he managed to carve out another career.
what about wallby bob mcmasters
wallby=wallaby
Gus,
Could have thrown in Larry O’Day, Spiros Arion and Mario Millano. They were all icons.
Mark Lewin and the “Sleeper Hold”.
Good old wallaby bob was the ref and suffered many a wrestler diobeying him
the height of my prepubescence was going to the PCYC in Canberra to watch Mario Milano vs the iron sheik?
I personally thought wallaby bob was about 200 yrs old
Mike Hunt used to be the ref on TV. Easily the fittest particpant in the circus.
Kevin bloody shooting star!
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2009/04/03/morgan-61-39-5/comment-page-19/#comment-257491
I suspect the Eritrea Daily might not be produced or published in Eritrea as such as it is. But it’s views are quite clear.
sorry wrong link:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25300806-601,00.html
http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/profiles/b/bob-mcmaster.php
So he was both
I only remember him as the ref.
TP,
In politics you know you are in for a bad day when the International Cricket Council takes a set against you.
Nice work Fins.
So anything we gained from dumping Nelson last September has gone worse than before.
I guess we should have stayed with Nelson.
Soon we will be able to call Turnbull-
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Half Nelson
LOL
With regards the latest polls, I think it pertinant to look back to the views of Tony Abbott, some 2 weeks ago:
http://www.theage.com.au/national/costello-only-interested-in-being-a-good-mp-abbott-20090329-9f6c.html
Glen, after the China Syndrome failed, what’s next? The Italian Job?
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/web/2009/04/06/1238869870779.html
Gusface LOL!
How low can Turnbull go??
I wonder if Tuckey would have a PPM rating of 18%…probably.
“Mr 18 per cent. Why does this man bother?”
If Malcolm visited a few strip clubs, had some dealings with Brian Burke, occasionally talked about political shitfights and upheld the service levels on airlines, he too might be Mr Popular one day, a man of the people.
OF COURSE you should have. Why waste Turnbull with the dead years of 08-09? He should have come in in 2010, and then even if he lost he could claim not enough time to work with the voters blah blah. Now if he loses in 2010 he’ll have nothing to fall back on as an excuse.
But then it was his own fault for being in a rush.
The Matrix, for bugs.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16902-bug-eats-electricity-farts-biogas.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
The Key number not released (yet) is the difference between those who think he is doing a good job and not.
If it’s in negative territory, it’s obituary time.
Anyhoo night all – enjoy picking over the scabs of newspoll. See you all tomorrow on the new thread.
My final thought – will Turnbull’s net satisfaction be negative?
I’m going with yes – minus 1%.
Spot on GG. We wait…
Looks like the public can relate to pox airline food…
If only Howard were this inept, contrived and duplicitous. He would have won a fifth term!
I don’t think the answer is for them to change leader. No point in doing that if you don’t know what your platform is, what you stand for and what policies you want.
We all have an idea what they should do, why don’t they?
Patrick,
It was because he was, that he didn’t.
New thread.
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