Reuters Poll Trend is back in business, presumably resuming its old methods of providing a weighted aggregate of results from Newspoll, Morgan and ACNielsen. As such it tells us nothing we didn’t already know, but its trend line is a handy thing to have. The current finding combines three weeks of results and has Labor’s two-party lead at 56.6-43.4, down from 57.3-42.7 previously.
Couple of legal matters to attend to:
• A legal challenge is proceeding against Labor’s 74-vote win in the seat of Chatsworth at the March 21 Queensland election. The LNP cites incidents of double voting and a strong overall result for Labor on absent votes as evidence of fraud. I’ve got a hat waiting to be eaten if the challenge is upheld.
• Gary Clark, husband of the former Lindsay MP Jackie Kelly, has been given the maximum fine of $1100 and ordered to pay more than $2000 in costs for his role in the distribution of fake pamphlets purporting to be from the “Islamic Australia Federation” in the week before the federal election. The ABC reports Magistrate Geoff Bradd aptly observing it was “difficult to think of a worst case of breaching the electoral act”, for which the penalties would seem to need strengthening.
• Note posts below on the latest state Newspoll results for Western Australia and South Australia.
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I’m gagged ShowsOn what can I do?
Every time I feel like deviating from the one true path an electric impulse shoots through my electronic collar and my behaviour self-corrects.
Its great to be living in Labor nirvana here in Sydney.
No Partiinost on my part Diogenes. I am independent like the Marlboro Man.
Ellis’ books on politics are hilarious, a friend has the one that was pulped because it supposedly defamed Abbott & Costello.
There was a hilarious piece in one featuring Tony Abbott as John Howard’s Jeeves. There was even a plot in one where he poisons Howard’s tea.
Avoid smearing people, or entire groups of people, without providing any evidence?
Given that he did cheat on his wife, I’m not sure how they could publicly ’support’ him without looking like imbeciles
mea culpa in advance if someone else has posted this. I’ve been off the computer all day and there are way too many blog posts to go back and check if this was already put up …..
Gotta love it
Yes ShowsOn your quite right please punish me now!
ESJ
You do know that three Marlboro Men died from smoking their own product….
Shows On,
No supposedly about it, Abbott, Costello and Tanya Costello received a defamation payout.
why havent they mounted the arguments you are mounting?
Because they are subject to the ‘moral media’, and I am not
I thought it was from ciggies
Gus,
I think this whole thing started with inappropriate mounting.
Really Diogenes? 3 US Presidents died from being President too!
The whole point is to get you to regulate your behaviour on your own, hence the expensive electric shock collar.
I don’t care what the court ruled, our defamation laws are a joke if those idiots can claim defamation from a book that shifts constantly between political critique, and political satire.
Very droll Gusface
The Marlboro Man was a campaign to make men start using filtered cigarettes which were considered a bit feminine. It obviously worked. I don’t know if they even sell unfiltered ciggies still.
Poor ShowsOn you probably dont even see the irony in your 265.
Why was it considered important to make mean smoke filtered cigarettes?
Was it simply because they kill people slower, and / or make people less sick, so they will have the chance to buy and smoke more?
If men wanted to smoke non-filtered cigarettes, why didn’t Marlboro just concentrate on selling them?
Hmmm. No wonder you didn’t follow the US election. Eight POTUS’ have died in office. You could get away with the 4 of natural causes as being unrelated to being POTUS but you’ll have a lot of trouble explaining the four who were assassinated.
GG, what happened to Ronnie in my absence? Has he been outplaced?
You probably don’t even see the irony intended in my 265.
We assumed he was working as your secretary.
Who did I forget Diogenes? McKinley, Lincoln, Kennedy? Otherwise the point is still correct.
Any man can die at any time including a US president but only a president gets assassinated for being president.
272 that’s actually funny ShowsON.
The first malboro ad I saw was at a drive-in way way back
The tag was “come to malboro country” with appropriate mood music (bit like the old VB ad music).
I unfortunatley remember most of the other brands tags as well
;(
I agree, she did a terrific, job.
Umm, GG is a little sensitive, what didn’t you like, “Minister of not now”. The point that if the press was little bit more honest about war then perhaps there would be less of a tendency to support it. Or perhaps that using carbon to create an environment to increase plant growth is more likely to succeed than fanciful ideas of pumping it underground. His distaste for trial by media. What exactly didn’t you like.
ESJ,
As you may recall, ron had a fairly idiosyncratic writing style. Following a concerted effort by a few of the house bullies to run him off the reservation, ron withdrew a few months ago.
Sadly missed by this amigo.
Elmer Bernstein’s score for The Magnificent Seven?
Gone but not forgotten GG.
ESJ
James Garfield.
SO
They marketed filtered cigs as the healthier option when people started to point out that a lot of their customers were dying.
Advertising – It Works!
Well, sometimes…
That’s really hilarious, did people honestly believe that a filter that still lets MOST of the smoke through would save them!?
Are people THAT stupid?
My vague recollection is that the companies said the filter caught the “tar”, were people dumb enough to think that that alone would save them?
Don’t answer that question…
fredn,
If you like his humour, then own it. Your perogative.
I only hope Wendy Machin had her handbag closed to protect against an incoming techniclour yawn.
I think thats it, tho i read somewhere that it was slighly higher tempo for different ads/countries
I liked the catchiness of the catch- phrases
Catching up after being offline due to a power failure from 12.30pm til 9.20pm (Damn Storm.
I’ve got got quite a few of those old Malborough RAdio Ads on CD, along with a lot of other bits of Perth Radio history from a well known weekend 6PR Presenter who William may be aware of due to his work as a Music Jornalist and I’ve got to say the audio imagry is quite spectacular.
And for a video memory featuring a couple of Beatles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRnC6rz7Z0c
ShowsOn,
One of my colleagues this week has gone on a “my bodies a temple” purge.
No drugs, alchohol or fast food. The concession to smoking was to buy a bag of “roll yer owns” because this would slow down his intake.
Cigarette addiction is the most pernicious one of the lot.
The other US President assassinated was Garfield in 1881.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield
I see ESJ has made the move to Crikey. Welcome back. I presume the Senator has kept you busy.
285, power was off in Ellenbrook too but I don’t know for how long. We had just entered the Morley Centro shopping centre when the first wave hit. Made the mad dash through the car park as fast as we could on foot to avoid getting wet. While still drizzling when we got home, the power was back on. Clearly had been out though as clocks needed to be reset.
Diogs
)for the general thrust of their green new deal, minor problems aside.
I commend the actions of the running-dog puppets of the US imperialist regime (
GLEN
I suspect you may be right about the upcoming German election. Nevertheless I still hold out hope for um, well, a repeat of last time I guess. The SPD-Greens couldn’t possibly get a majority but I think its still posible for the CDU/CSU-FDP to fall short of a majority. An SPD-Green-Left coalition is probably off the cards and I don’t think either the Greens or Left will go with the CDU. So the only plausible options are CDU/CSU-FDP or SPD-Greens-FDP or CDU-SPD but I think the first is far and away the most likely.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,601451,00.html
Click on the graph. You can moniter polling by different agencies, or averaged out or use the nifty ‘coalition calculator’.
Adam, are you around? You know about German stuff. What’s your prediction for the German federal election, indirect presidential election, German section of the EU elections and for the EU elections in general?
Frank,
Bloody Greens!
Didn’t take them long to you back to the dark ages, did it?
GG
I’ve met plenty of addicts to just about everything who say exactly that.
ShowsOn
I’ll list some of the ad campaign slogans the tobacco companies used in 1955 to get people to use filtered cigarettes.
“just what the doctor ordered”
“Double-Barreled Health Protection”
and my favourite “your voice of wisdom says SMOKE KENT”, which was used for a filter which contained asbestos.
aka the Micronite filter
Speaking of Kent Cigarettes, this is how they used the cast of the Dick Van Dyke show to promte their prodduct as Christmas gifts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSpNViOJpL8
Unbelievable! Does anyone know when cigarette advertising was banned on Australian TV? I mean actual adverts, I know the ban on sports sponsorship took much longer (early 1990s?)
It was Septemember 1976
http://www.naa.gov.au/about-us/publications/fact-sheets/fs252.aspx
Thanks Frank! Interesting to see the Fraser government adopted one of Whitlam’s ’socialist’ policies. I was always lead to believe life was insufferable under that ‘regime’?
But note that the suppoert wasn’t widespread in Cabinet.
ESJ, welcome back.
No 297
Banning cigarette advertising is commonsense if the nation is picking up the tab for healthcare.
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