Newspoll: 56-44 to Coalition
GhostWhoVotes tweets that the first post-carbon tax announcement Newspoll is one of the happier poll results for the government of the past fortnight: the Coalition’s two-party lead has eased to 56-44 from 58-42 a fortnight ago and support for the carbon tax is up six points to 36 per cent, with opposition down six to 53 per cent. On the primary vote, Labor is up two points to 29 per cent, the Coalition is down two to 47 per cent and the Greens are up one to 13 per cent. Julia Gillard has gained two points on approval to 32 per cent, but her disapproval remains stuck on 59 per cent. Tony Abbott is down three on approval to 39 per cent and up three on disapproval to 52 per cent, and has only just maintained his lead as preferred prime minister, dropping two points to 41 per cent with Gillard up two to 40 per cent.
We also had from the Herald-Sun yesterday a poll of 625 voters in Julia Gillard’s electorate of Lalor, conducted by JWS Research using its usual methodology of automated phone calls. The company has had a rather patchy record with its previous political polling, and the latest survey has been criticised for asking respondents attitudinal questions before proceeding to voting intention. It points to a 14 per cent swing against Gillard – solidly higher than the trend of recent national polling – although she still leads 58-42 on two-party preferred. Gillard has a four-point net positive approval rating among her own constituents, but the carbon tax is opposed by 43 per cent compared with 33 per cent in support. Fifty-seven per cent rate her “honest and trustworthy” (either quite or very), with 34 per cent opting for the negative.
UPDATE: Bernard Keane in Crikey reports the latest Essential Research result has the Coalition lead at 55-45, down from 56-44 last week and 57-43 the week before. Labor’s primary vote is up a point to 32 per cent, and the Coalition’s down one to 48 per cent. However, Tony Abbott’s policy of scrapping the carbon tax has the support of 50 per cent of respondents, with only 36 per cent opposed. There are also questions on trust in the media, which is found to have “slumped dramatically in recent months”. Trust in daily newspapers rates in the low 50s, television and radio news and current affairs in the high 40s and talk radio in the low 30s. With respect to specific outlets, the ABC and broadsheets are more trusted than the commercial media and tabloids. Fifty-eight per cent say the government should not allow one company to own the majority of Australia’s major newspapers – as News Limited does – which is up from 50 per cent since the question was last asked in November.
UPDATE 2: Full Essential Research report here.
Categories: Federal Politics 2010-
further
a flake is one who falls apart under questioning
a shark just comes here to take a bite and piss off
by gusface on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:05 pm
Gus
Lol on that!
by Atticus on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:05 pm
r
I want all the Do-nothing deniers to live to be 100 so that they can see what they have achieved.
So, please stick around, pal.
by Boerwar on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:06 pm
b
perhaps you and finns can patent him?
by gusface on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:07 pm
GG,
Funny that. I have not watched a single Potter but, when they come out in a package, I’ll buy the DVDs. Not the books; I have too many other ones I want to read. The DVDs? Because people whose judgement I value, say they are great entertainment, escapism. And don’t we all need that!
by This little black duck on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:07 pm
g
No interest, no traffic, no clicks, no profit. Not worth it.
by Boerwar on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:08 pm
Some people said to me that the last film was just so much digital violence.
But I have not seen it so I don’t know.
by Boerwar on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:09 pm
Gus,
I had a call today from someone who saw dogs like mine being lead up Northbri Ave in Salisbury East but I couldn’t find anything. I sent photos to the woman who rang and she is going to keep an eye out, and I put up posters in the shops.
by Puff, the Magic Dragon. on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:09 pm
Boerwar,
U haz Mordor Nicht? Chrome only, I think.
by This little black duck on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:09 pm
rishane
nice link,
Agree, what are they thinking as no good can posible come from this. The repugs make Abbott look positively left of centre let alone.
by rummel on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:10 pm
In it, Mr Howard is labelled ‘one of the most sensible leaders in the Western world’.
Mr Costello is cited on page 520 for calling on Muslim leaders to denounce terrorism and for advising Islamic migrants to adopt Australian values.
But he distanced himself from Breivik on Tuesday, saying he had ‘committed a monstrous crime’.
‘Nothing justifies it and certainly not his deluded rantings about Islam or political correctness,’ he said in a statement.
‘My sympathy goes out to the victims of this despicable act.’
http://www.skynews.com.au/topstories/article.aspx?id=642833&vId=2589308
Cossie just went up a few points in my book!!
by gusface on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:10 pm
….. the tea party
by rummel on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:10 pm
TLBD
Haz nothing.
by Boerwar on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:10 pm
Boerwar,
ditto.
by Puff, the Magic Dragon. on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:11 pm
Puff,
I’m sure you have but have you been in touch with the various dog clubs around?
by This little black duck on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:11 pm
Bed time. Good night all.
by Boerwar on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:12 pm
Replace the wind turbine by a Windshuttle.
by Scarpat on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:12 pm
The Finnigans
What is the term where a persons “knowledge” increase/decreases in the opposition direction to their understanding of the subject.
Ratty, that an easy one, Evan2GB
LOL
I suppose I asked for that sort of answer.
But I have seen it mentioned on PB before where a lack of education imposes no limits on the opinions some people have. However those with an education were more inclined to undervalue their knowledge.
I think there may have been a reference to some site or other
For the life of me I cant remember the term used and I have need of it
by Ratsars on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:12 pm
TLBD,
No, I will give them a call. That is a good idea.
by Puff, the Magic Dragon. on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:13 pm
Duck,
It’s an onslaught in Growler Grove.
Books, videos, movies, voice discs and Herald Sun paraphenalia.
My kids are peeved because their mother, my wife, got on TV as one of the characters at the opening.
Obsession is watching a movie at midnight for $35 a head when it played last Sunday at our local Hoyts with 10 people,
by Greensborough Growler on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:14 pm
Profit Uber Alle. Fukushima Boerwar Finnigans ltd.
Please send me a spotters fee for directing you to this enormous opportunity to increase profit uber alle. From Pomgolia aka Ingurland check it out. Get behind the campaign now .Get in early into the chimney sweep market.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8662816/Children-should-be-allowed-to-leave-school-at-14-claims-former-CBI-chief.html
by poroti on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:14 pm
night
by rummel on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:14 pm
poroti
they iz looky!!
we let school before we were born
by gusface on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:16 pm
Subcutaneous id tags work a treat.
I saw your photos. If I see one around here I’ll get on to it. What is the breed? I have no idea how far and wide dog smuggling is.
by This little black duck on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:17 pm
You made me do it then
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eDaSvRO9xA
by poroti on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:20 pm
GG,
Kids gone is a bonus, sometimes. Enjoy them and their vagouries while you can. They are what you made them, after all.
by This little black duck on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:20 pm
Speaking of which (as you were), Kim Beasley’s second partner certainly had an unfortunate surname …
by Fulvio Sammut on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:22 pm
gusface
Orrrrrrrr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
by poroti on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:23 pm
This will go down well in NSW:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-26/parramatta-jail-could-close-as-budget-saving/2811480
by Frank Calabrese on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:26 pm
gus,
You allude to this seminal work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ohr4P8E_io
by Greensborough Growler on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:26 pm
TLBD
They are micro-chipped.
They are Tenterfield Terriers, but the mother has a bit of Jack Russell in her I think, so they are a bit larger than normal.
by Puff, the Magic Dragon. on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:28 pm
frank
nsw nurseys are ramping up the ads
the drums say ther is to be mass privation in hospitals
fatty has bought in worser worstchoices than howard
the reality is starting to sink in
by gusface on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:28 pm
GG poroti
[You allude to this seminal work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ohr4P8E_io
u iz looky
in my day we only had hand drawn pictures
by gusface on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:30 pm
Duck,
Wouldn’t miss the adventure for any price.
This week my daughter confronts death of a close friend. same week she flies out to Europe for a huge life experience. In the mean time, some of my other children are doing lots of interesting things.
Hey, normal life for everyone.
Dear wife thinks that waving her wand makes magic. She seems to be right.
by Greensborough Growler on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:32 pm
Me mum was a nursey and you piss them off at your peril. When it comes to a choice between nursey and pollie sympathy stakes pollies are lambs to slaughter. Nurses have been screwed over without complaint for many decades. When they start getting bolshie then things have become pretty dire.
by poroti on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:33 pm
gus,
You had a hand?
by Greensborough Growler on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:33 pm
Puff,
Ta. My daughter has a Jack Russell mix. They call him their first born. Son-in-law was a dog handler in the RAAF and knows how to keep dogs. Kimba George is now 13 and looks like going for another year or so.
by This little black duck on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:33 pm
poroti
apropos our ealier discussions
I just hope they dont go down the WA path
by gusface on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:34 pm
GG,
Your lady wife waves the wand but the kiddies check the daddy too. Happy times.
by This little black duck on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:35 pm
GG
mum would go down market at 4 am to see if see could sell left foot for a used hand
it only took twenty feets till I got me hand
thems were the days
by gusface on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:35 pm
TLBD,
Fur-babies.
by Puff, the Magic Dragon. on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:36 pm
Though the WA Nurseys got sold a pup in 2005 with Mark Olson siding with Barnett.
by Frank Calabrese on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:36 pm
Pollbludger aka http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9EbR0ckb40
by This little black duck on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:38 pm
Ducky,
I’m in charge of nuclear disarmament.
If you knew how many daughters I have, I would win the Nobel Peace Prize.
by Greensborough Growler on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:39 pm
GG,
In times past: a ladder and ten quid.
by This little black duck on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:41 pm
Bed
by This little black duck on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:43 pm
Having seen the “above and beyond” that nurses do by way of me mum being one (on the bright side she met my dad when he was a patient) and also being in hospital a few times myself that this tradition continues. Basically when nurses get bolshie then things are not right. As for the W.A. nurses they should compare and contrast the Australian dairy farmers who sold the coops and the Kiwi dairy farmers who voted to keep them . Hint hint the Aussie dairy farmers are now being screwed over by Coles and Wooolies.
by poroti on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:44 pm
goodnight duckie.
by Puff, the Magic Dragon. on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:44 pm
Ducky,
Indeed.
by Greensborough Growler on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:46 pm
Frank Calabrese
Mind boggling stupidity. Turkeys voting for Xmas. As I mentioned to Gusface it is up there with the stupidity of Australian Dairy farmers voting to take the money and run for their dairy co-ops. Short term sfa gain for long term serfdom.
by poroti on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:49 pm