Matters related thereto
Roy Morgan has spared the government a new set of poll results this week, presumably holding over last weekend’s face-to-face results for a combined two weeks’ result to be published next week. So here’s some stuff that has accumulated during my recent period of indolence:
• The federal parliament’s Joint Standing Committee of Electoral Matters brought down its report into the 2010 federal election a fortnight ago. One noteworthy innovation is a less pompous report title, “The 2010 Federal Election: Report on the conduct of the election and related matters” replacing the traditional formulation of “Report on the conduct of the (insert year) federal election and matters related thereto”. Antony Green summarises its recommendations here; now that my holidays are over I’ll shortly get around to reviewing it and will have more to say after I’ve fully absorbed it.
• One of the majority report’s recommendations was that the federal government follow the example of New South Wales and Victoria in allowing government records such as drivers licences, vehicle registration and Year 12 school enrolments to be used to automatically update the electoral roll. However, this is opposed in the dissenting JSCEM report from the committee’s Coalition members, for reasons I do not find persuasive. Antony Green has reviewed the impact of such measures in New South Wales since their introduction last year, observing that only 12 per cent of the 70,000 people whose enrolments have been added or updated have taken the trouble to enrol the old-fashioned way for the federal electoral roll. His conclusion: “On the evidence so far, by the time of the next commonwealth election in the second half of 2013, there could be as many as 200,000 voters enrolled for NSW elections and eligible to vote at commonwealth elections who will be missing from the commonwealth roll or be enrolled at the wrong address.”
• Draft electoral redistribution boundaries have recently been published for both our nation’s territory parliaments. Antony Green surveys the results for the Northern Territory here and the Australian Capital Territory here. An ACT redistribution would normally be of minor interest, as the territory is only divided into three electorates for purposes of a regionally based system of proportional representation, but Antony asserts that in this case the changes are radical enough to be of substantial interest, and in particular to put at risk the fourth seat the Greens won at the 2008 election. For the Northern Territory, Antony has calculated new margins for each of the 25 seats, with the caveat that the enormous sitting member factors which result from pocket-sized electorates of 4000 to 5000 voters make party-based margins less reliable than usual.
• There has been much talk lately about the possibility of an incoming Coalition government calling an early double dissolution election should it meet Senate resistance from its efforts to abolish a carbon tax. Tony Abbott’s argument to those concerned about the resulting uncertainty and expense is that opposing its repeal in the Senate would be politically suicidal for a defeated Labor Party, a case pursued by Queensland legal academic James Allan in The Australian.
There was a fair bit of material I had been compiling on Western Australian matters to coincide with a looming quarterly state Newspoll, but I was caught on the hop when it was published a month earlier than I’d anticipated.
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Gusface…
Not true there was still grounds for unfair dismissal and what occurred in the ACTU ad was one of those.
I don’t want to get into a personal abuse flinging match with you gusface.
Flexibility
Ability to have pay that went above and beyond the Union award.
Gillard has brought us back to pre-Keating days with draconian and inflexible IR arrangements…when the Tories get back in they’ll bring back AWAs with the no-disadvantage test and the sky wont fall in.
by Glen on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:45 pm
Meanwhile in WA:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/9892812/teacher-pay-fight-turns-toxic/
by Frank Calabrese on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:46 pm
finns
frank sorta let the cat outta the bag when he talked about barnett
the nurseys in nsw are set to sell out like their wa cuzzes
by gusface on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:46 pm
Spoken by a true apoliogist for Howeard style Workchoices.
by Frank Calabrese on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:47 pm
Glen
you can shuffle your notes as much as you like
stop.spouting.shite
by gusface on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:47 pm
The Fiberals’ Policy Pea-and-Thimble Trick.
They say they’ve got a climate change policy, but they’d kill it off at the first opportunity.
They say WorkChoices is dead, buried and cremated, but they’d resurrect it at the first opportunity.
by Cuppa on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:47 pm
Thefinnigans The Finnigans
Well well well, the #NewsCorpse #hackgate is now turning into an #emailgate where James Murdoch has been accused of lying to the Hearing
5 seconds ago
by The Finnigans on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:48 pm
Because the electorate will vote the Tories out next election
by MickGCollins on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:49 pm
WTF!? “union award” is an oxymoron! An Award is a statutory entitlement.
70% of people work on a union negotiated Enterprise Bargaining Agreement. Awards are what people work on if they aren’t on an EBA.
BULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL SHIIIIIIIIIIIITT
Most people work on EBAs, there are now even better provisions to ensure that both sides negotiate an EBA in good faith.
Great, except we will go back to how things were when 1% of people were on AWAs while 70% were on EBAs because AWAs were completely pointless because people had better pay and conditions if they just stayed on an EBA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by ShowsOn on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:50 pm
finns
lulzsec siad they had hacked the curry exchange for up to 3 mths afore ltd news tried to ahem rewrite history
1+ million yes million emails
gornski
by gusface on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:50 pm
Workchoices was a lie. Its intention was to screw worker and reduce salaries, conditions and give employers the whip hand.
You have *FAILED* to prove this.
You have failed to *prove* this happened in real life.
You have failed to prove Workchoices did not permit this.
Your reference did not contain any of the following words -
- unfair or
- dismissal
The electorate passed its judgement.
Accept it or face the same judgement again in the future.
by dave on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:51 pm
Thefinnigans The Finnigans
Phone hacking: PM (Cameron) says James Murdoch has ‘questions to answer’ – James is the new corpse in #NewsCorpse bbc.co.uk/news/uk-142459…
30 seconds ago
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14245922
by The Finnigans on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:51 pm
and for those confused by anony lulz and wiki
anony is the clearing house
lulz is the operational arm
wiki the warehouse
by gusface on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:52 pm
Frank
I apologise for the Libs not keeping the no-disadvantage test.
by Glen on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:52 pm
Was one of the great reforms by Labor of Hawke/Keating Givt
by The Finnigans on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:53 pm
Barnett’s fiirst Media Stunt as organised by his Spin Doctor Dixie Marshall.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/video/watch/26001920/13095816/
by Frank Calabrese on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:53 pm
yike, Givt = Govt
by The Finnigans on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:53 pm
This is the glen method, keep spouting the same rubbish, day after day, has the blog concentrating on his lies, giving the Libs the exposure they want here, instead of the majority concentrating on assisting the Govt however we can…from now glen thankfully no longer exists in my scheme of things, not that it/he whatever it is, did
by david on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:54 pm
Sure you do…
Is that a pig I see flying overhead ?
by Frank Calabrese on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:54 pm
finns
i like giverment
by gusface on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:56 pm
Dave there is no point continuing this debate.
You lost. The anti-discrimination section in the Act covered unfair-dismissals and you just can’t accept it. Understandable because you’re a partisan poster.
No shame in admitting you were wrong Dave. Just accept it and move on.
Lets drop it…we’ve argued about as much as we can about this point
by Glen on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:56 pm
Tin foil hats and all eh david???
Of course I could say the same thing about you and the PB Labortariat but I don’t because this is a free forum to express our political ideas.
Do you hear me advocating any Liberal policies on here? I’m no mouthpiece.
by Glen on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:58 pm
and Cue Doug, Billy Green and Johnny Dick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABb4Uzg8Qac
by Frank Calabrese on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:59 pm
LOL, Contador going for it already
by Dario on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:00 pm
Electricity is electricity.. whether it comes from a gas turbine, a wind turbine, or out of your arse, Glen
by cud chewer on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:00 pm
I see that Nana Moussaka has got the Eurozone by the balls. As if dear old Nana has STD that she is going to give to Silvio.
So they are throwing moneys at Nana as if there is no tomorrow.
by The Finnigans on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:00 pm
Just point out where –
your *proof* shows that it never have happened in real life
Where in your document does it show she’d have cause for unfair dismissal even under Workchoices itself
You failed yet again.
The section you reference just doesn’t say that.
by dave on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:00 pm
You’re being very disenguenous Glen
by MickGCollins on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:01 pm
What a joke. Dave pursued Glen all evening, trouncing him again and again.
by Cuppa on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:01 pm
Yes
and yes you aint always a mouthpiece only
sometimes you are just an arsehole
by gusface on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:01 pm
According to Simpkin on Their ABC, senior Liberals want Phoney to sack Turnball from the front bench.
by evan14 on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:01 pm
That’s good news for Evans actually. He needs somebody else to cause the Schlecks problems today.
by Dario on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:01 pm
finns
grease is the word?
by gusface on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:02 pm
I defend the right of Glen to express his point of view, even though he’s on the opposite side of politics to myself.
Less abuse here of those we are ideologically opposed to – OK?
by evan14 on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:02 pm
I have NO intention of dropping it.
I will constantly remind you of it until you – withdraw !
by dave on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:03 pm
William Bowe:
James Allen is hardly an objective observer, the type you’d expect as the Garrick Professor of Law at UQ.
He’s giving the 2013 election to Tories and almost instructs Labor to join with the Tories in the Senate to repeal the carbon tax legislation.
No where in his article do I see an analysis of the economic ramifications of repealing the tax.
Maybe he hopes to become the Attorney in an Abbott led government.
It’s a provocative piece in my view, not fitting an academic of his seniority.
by charlton on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:04 pm
EVAN
comedy hour starts at 12 o’clock
by gusface on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:04 pm
Wow, Frank Schleck gone already
by Dario on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:04 pm
Dario…
1st,2nd,3rd and 4th in at it together wow!
by Glen on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:04 pm
cuppa, what’s under the third thimble?
by smithe on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:05 pm
charlton
Flintish?
by gusface on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:05 pm
“Do you hear me advocating any Liberal policies on here? ”
What policies?
by Goshome on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:05 pm
That is your right but it will get boring after a while.
Hear Hear Evan
by Glen on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:06 pm
dtf, we are getting the whole race tonight!
by Puff, the Magic Dragon. on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:06 pm
two very tiny budgies
by gusface on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:06 pm
Yup. Only about half the normal distance because nearly half of it is uphill
by Dario on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:07 pm
that’ll be the ‘Stop the Boats’ policy – Phoney’s BoatPhone!
by Cuppa on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:07 pm
Ads on SBS! Grrrrr
by Dario on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:09 pm
I accept your unconditional surrender.
It was always going to be the only outcome.
Try telling the truth occasionally. Its a hell of a lot easier.
by dave on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:09 pm
Thefinnigans The Finnigans
@
@lyndalcurtis @GrogsGamut keep on pedalling? i can only assume you guys are talking about the Fibs keep on pedalling lies #tdf
46 seconds ago
by The Finnigans on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:10 pm