Galaxy: 56-44 to Coalition
Galaxy has published its first poll of federal voting intention in two months, and now as then the result reflects the overall polling trend: the Coalition’s two-party lead is at 56-44, compared with 54-46 last time, from primary votes of 49% for the Coalition (up two), 30% for Labor (down four) and 13% for the Greens (up one). Three further questions elicit a general mood of hostility towards the government, only one of which strikes me as being particularly instructive: 52% express support for a no-confidence motion and an early election, against 38% opposed. When Essential Research asked simply about support for a new election in early March, the results were 44% supportive and 46% opposed. The poll was conducted over the past there days from a sample of 1012, with a margin of error of about 3%.
UPDATE: Consolation of a sort for Labor from Essential Research, which at least doesn’t echo Galaxy’s finding of appetite for a new election (support down two since March to 42%, opposition up two to 48%), but their voting intention result has deteriorated yet further. The Coalition now leads 57-43, up from 56-44 last week, although the changes on the primary vote are slight: the Coalition is up one to 50%, with Labor and the Greens steady on 31% and 11%. Other questions find overwhelming support for the government’s aged care reform package (61% against 7% opposed), although 62% concede they know little about them. It was also found that 39% supported agreed with Joe Hockey’s sentiments about Australians receiving too much assistance from the government, with 33% disagreeing.
Categories: Federal Politics 2010-
BB@990:
Ssssssssshhhhhhh!
Keep your voice down!
by don on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:24 pm
lizzie
I hope and pray with all my heart that JG has the last laugh, and Grattan can slither away into oblivion
by victoria on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:24 pm
Looks like Gratten has become the Bolt of Fairfax
[Michelle Grattan answers your questions on the Labor leadership from 12.30pm AEST. Post your question now.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/michelle-grattan-live-chat-why-gillard-should-quit-20120430-1xts3.html#ixzz1tUid9JTy
I kid you not.
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/michelle-grattan-live-chat-why-gillard-should-quit-20120430-1xts3.html
by Tom Hawkins on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:24 pm
Sitting in a rocking chair stroking his cat in one hand and with a cuppa of tea in the other eyes & ears glued on the phone waiting for it to ring
by Bob Katter’s Hat on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Re Ashby and $50.000
______
I understood he now has a full-time publicist and PR person too !
How come…for a poor unemployed man..now . who would pay for that service ??
and what will Slipper say to that
by deblonay on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:26 pm
TH
Our msm and the coalition are excelling in vaudeville. This is where we have reached.
by victoria on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:28 pm
deblonay
Just had a thought, is the rumour a current pollie from Qld or ex pollie from Qld involved in funding Ashby?
by victoria on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Lizzie notice the word ,, stiinking left, thet would not vote labor if tbeir lives depended on it,
There was a terrible, tweet that turn left 2013 posted a few days ago from tne right, Make your hair stand no edge, so these are the types that now converse, withthis journalist in my youger
Days would no t miss.
by my say on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Now victoria – I hope you’re not suggesting KR.
by Tom Hawkins on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:30 pm
Who or what is NDIS?
When using acrontms please give a clue to their meaningifthey are not well knoew like say ACTU or ALP or NBB
by deblonay on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:30 pm
Joho on ABC 24 espousing his economic knowledge.
by janice2 on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:30 pm
TH
by victoria on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:30 pm
And I also have lots of friends and family who think Julia is doing a great job. It doesn’t tally with the polls and that may just be a reflection of my ability to choose the company I keep wisely but I also think that the notion that she is hated by all is a furphy that is being deliberately cultivated. We will see. Much water to pass under the bridge yet as much as we are all it is all over bar the shouting and that we should give up now. Lucky for the spartans some of this lot weren’t at Thermopylae.
by Gweneth on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:30 pm
@BB/990
Kevin Rudd is currently at:
Kevin Rudd @KRuddMP
Off to China tomorrow to catch up with our youngest son Marcus who is there studying Chinese.
by zoidlord on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:30 pm
National Disability Insurance Scheme
by victoria on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:31 pm
…As much as we are all told…
Sorry about typos.
And me -feeling better today. Each day is different. PB is a diversion. And must thank Ian for his posts. Love em.
by Gweneth on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:32 pm
Gweneth
I was quietly confident all week, but then seeing the msm this morning freaked me out. I have since calmed down. I am weak……..
by victoria on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:33 pm
by guytaur on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:33 pm
deblonay
NDIS = National Disability Insurance Scheme
by ltep on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:33 pm
In a fit of senile confusion, Ms Grattan announces that Ms Grattan should resign.
According to Ms Grattan, she has lost balance. She has developed a vicious streak when it comes to writing about Ms Gillard. This streak is entirely absent when Ms Grattan is writing about Mr Abbott. Ms Grattan is fixated on the personal rather than the policy when writing about Ms Gillard. OTOH, when writing about Mr Abbott, Ms Grattan writes about the policy rather than the personal. Ms Grattan noted that this sort of behaviour is inexcusable for a veteran journalist with my sort of record.
Ms Grattan announced that she is a once-excellent journalist and that her equine equivalent, the sway-backed old grey mare, would have been unsaddled and sent up to the back paddock for a well-earned retirement long ago.
In conclusion, Ms Grattan mused that it was ‘…time for some grass.’
In response to this announcement, a tribute has flooded in from Ms Grattan.
by Boerwar on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:34 pm
Gweneth
Good to hear. Ian’s posts are great. Did you see the one about him at the pub?
by victoria on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:34 pm
That seems to be what Vex is asserting. Somehow i dont think it will turn out to be Kevin Rudd, although he my be keeping a low profile on this one for other reasons. Didn’t he make some local electorate appearances with Slipper a while back??
by imacca on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:35 pm
JoHo just said Wayne Swan isn’t getting along with Julia Guillard at the moment!
Gawd he’s a dope.
by janice2 on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:35 pm
http://turnleft2013.wordpress.com/page/2/
Scroll down to bottom keep eyes to the right,
by my say on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:35 pm
Why not try googling it – the answer will hit you straight away.
BTW (By The Way) what is NBB? Is that something like an NBN?
by Tom Hawkins on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:35 pm
Mr Palmer must think that the Coalition lacks sufficient gravitas and also that it does not have enough clowns with monstrous egos already.
by Boerwar on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:36 pm
Imacca
I know who vex is alluding to. It is the same person we mentioned ourselves last week.
MB
by victoria on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:36 pm
A few days out from the budget Hockey is whinging about taxes to pay for NDIS. Making out Swan thinks higher taxes is savings
by guytaur on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:36 pm
It was a joke Joyce.
by Tom Hawkins on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:37 pm
Boerwar – agreed but all of them now report for duty to Murdochia in its various forms.
Just watched Clive Palmer and it seems he wants his family to take over the political scene with both of them standing for the LNP. How lucky Barnaby will be to have them join him in buffoonery.
by BH on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:37 pm
Boerwar
Why does Mr Palmer want a job that pays under $200,000 pa, when he currently makes a bucketload of money mining Qld to an inch of its life?
by victoria on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:38 pm
… which didn’t take long.
Are we all now informed and amazed?
by This little black duck on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:38 pm
GG
I was once at a very poorly attended meeting – my last for that organisation.
Due to the lack of numbers, the Sec was filling in movers and seconders very much at random.
So when the minutes came out, I had moved a motion of thanks for my service!
by zoomster on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:39 pm
BH
Barnaby on tweeter is trying to intimate that We the public should not be taking Clive seriously. What games these pollies are playing. QLD Libs and Nats are truly pushing the envelope. Where are the moderate libs? Do they see their party is being hijacked?
by victoria on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:40 pm
…and the minutes never lie!
by This little black duck on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:40 pm
First Q is on the NDIS!!!
by This little black duck on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:42 pm
Is Palmer planning to win a seat and then shove Abbott aside thereby becoming PM? That’s what I read into his announcement. How long before this is used to underMINE Abbott and Barnaby for that matter? Come on Labor – hit the airwaves.
by Tom Hawkins on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:42 pm
Ducky
If this is presser with PM, it is probably a replay from earlier. Dont have to wait too long. Direction of questions will change
by victoria on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:43 pm
It looks like Abbott, Hockey etc are speechless, scare-shit, shocku now that Clive Baby is after their job and will tell them what to do
by The Finnigans on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:44 pm
Don’t let it get you down.
From now till July 1st will be the worst period for spin and slander i think. Its the last chance for the Fibs to even try to head off any of the REAL delivery on the major ALP initiatives of this term.
I’d say that the ALP HoR members know that they made their choice in Feb to stick with the Gillard agenda / plan, and have more to lose by repudiating that, than by sticking it out.
Forget the MSM gasping for a leadership spill. They have missed most of the significant events of this term and keep going back to this since they figure they have to be right sometime.
The polls are crap, but that can and i think will change. Its mid term fer chrisake!
Hang in. Just think how good it will feel to visit Bolt, Akerman, or the Nuttertruckers blog after the ALP wins in 2013??
by imacca on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:44 pm
victoria,
It is.
by This little black duck on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:44 pm
Ducky
As I am not watching, not sure if this is a second presser
by victoria on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:44 pm
Per haps clive sees himself as pm
by my say on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:45 pm
Deb #1009, sincerely not attacking you here, it says everything about our media that a politically interested person would not know what the NDIS is.
It has been one of the major lines from the Government in parliament for months (PM, Swan, Macklin, Albo and more) and lots of backbenchers on both sides; Abbott has talked about it (albeit in slippery terms) and yet its almost nowhere in most media commentary. A few honourable exceptions there .
This is a government doing huge things but you’d be forgiven for not knowing.
by Marrickville Mauler on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:45 pm
Imacca
I am hanging in. Thanks
by victoria on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:45 pm
2 Qs on NDIS. Now, Thomson.
It doesn’t say LIVE.
by This little black duck on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:46 pm
TLBD #1035 – unbelievable! who was it? Not cokebottles I would expect…
by Marrickville Mauler on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:46 pm
Ducky
Is it with JMacklin and person doing sign language?
by victoria on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:47 pm
All males so far so, unless, …
And I don’t think Michelle is in Sydney.
by This little black duck on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:47 pm
Antony Green
http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2012/04/clive-palmer-for-canberra.html
by Leroy on Apr 30, 2012 at 2:47 pm