Newspoll: 59-41 to Coalition
Word on Twitter is that Newspoll has the Coalition’s two-party lead out from 56-44 to 59-41, from primary votes of 27% for Labor (down two) and 51% for the Coalition (up three). But for a 26% result in the September 16-18 poll, this would be the lowest primary vote Labor had ever recorded since Newspoll commenced in 1985. The two-party figure ranks as the Gillard government’s equal worst result, along with the poll of September 2-4. Newspoll hasn’t always reported two-party preferred results, but my own calculations tell me there remain unbroken records from the respective honeymoon periods of Rudd (63-37 in February/March 2008) and Howard (60.5-39.5 in April 1996). Julia Gillard is up a point on disapproval to 63% and steady on approval at 28%, while Tony Abbott is down two on approval to 33% and up one on disapproval to 55%. Tony Abbott has widened the preferred prime minister lead he gained in the previous poll, from 41-39 to 41-36. As always, the sample for the poll was around 1150, with a margin of error of 3%.
Categories: Federal Politics 2010-
The point is that the Rudd Cult like to imply that the NSW Right exclusively supports the Gillard camp, and that Rudd was exclusively supported by the left.
By any objective assessment this is fanciful.
by confessions on May 1, 2012 at 11:41 pm
Besides watching 24 also watching offspring,mother accused of her daughter being conceived by a different father ,keeps asking the mother who is her father,mother opens door and says you were born in a glass jar,slams door.reopen doors and says your father is tony abbott,dropped my glass of port,all of the above is true.
Enough of that show for tonight.
by Schnappi on May 1, 2012 at 11:41 pm
I remember the vitriol directed against the NSW right by one evan whatshisname. They were the worst bastards on earth. Now they could end up supporting his god. You’ve gotta laugh.
by Gary on May 1, 2012 at 11:42 pm
Wisewords from a rev head, no less:
by Space Kidette on May 1, 2012 at 11:42 pm
Re Commonwealth Commissioner for Children and Young People…Labor are just following the Greens initiative.
Greens Sarah Hanson-Young brought two bills to the Senate to establish a Children’s Commissioner.
18 November 2010: http://www.probonoaustralia.com.au/news/2010/11/new-call-australian-childrens-commission
15 August 2011: http://www.theage.com.au/national/do-more-for-children-un-urges-20110814-1it05.html
30 April 2012: http://sarah-hanson-young.greensmps.org.au/content/media-releases/government-adopt-greens-push-national-childrens-commissioner-welcome-step-gre
1 May 2012: http://sarah-hanson-young.greensmps.org.au/content/media-releases/government-must-fund-national-childrens-commissioner-next-weeks-budget
by Pegasus on May 1, 2012 at 11:42 pm
Keneally is a dill, as evidenced by her trouncing at the last election.
Bit of eye candy I guess, but silly nonetheless.
by Henry on May 1, 2012 at 11:43 pm
It is quite amusing if Abbott wasnt the punchline.
by bluegreen on May 1, 2012 at 11:43 pm
Keneally jumped the shark tonight.
by Think Big on May 1, 2012 at 11:43 pm
A lot of eye candy.
by Gary on May 1, 2012 at 11:43 pm
Dunno Gary, think I preferred the extensions.
by Henry on May 1, 2012 at 11:44 pm
more eye candish since she ceased being premier
by shellbell on May 1, 2012 at 11:45 pm
As I’ve said, if the Libs are to win the next election I want Tone there.
by Gary on May 1, 2012 at 11:45 pm
Oh dear, now you’re making sexist remarks about Keneally.
Even blind Freddy can see that the Carbon Tax is killing Labor……except of course the blinkered, blind, delusional Gillard groupies on Poll Bludger.
by Thornleigh Labor Man on May 1, 2012 at 11:46 pm
Pull the other one
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1646783/Stoner-promises-to-improve-CSG-policy
by Schnappi on May 1, 2012 at 11:46 pm
Can do candish?
by Henry on May 1, 2012 at 11:46 pm
Jesus, if you voted labor at least once in the past then you are wedded to them and are a traitor if you don’t vote for them forever more. Thats the mentality of some.
Its BS, you vote for what is best for the future of democracy, and Australia.
Thomas, you just lay down, think spreadeagled things and suddenly the entire government of Australia is what you want, and under your most responsible control. I feel, personally, that my life has been somehow lessened by a woman being the prime minister. It has
by grey on May 1, 2012 at 11:46 pm
Wrong.
The federal fGreens are pinching a Labor govt initiative in WA to implement Children’s Commissioner.
by confessions on May 1, 2012 at 11:46 pm
Blimey! Look what I found on Google news.
http://www.capsulecomputers.com.au/2012/05/leisure-suite-larry-returns-in-all-his-sleazy-glory/
by scorpio on May 1, 2012 at 11:47 pm
Does Keneally have any real power in the NSW right ?
For whatever reason she has put this out there it will be played as
” NSW right warns PM.Drop the tax or we withdraw support ”
For pure practical reasons it just cannot be done.
by Doyley on May 1, 2012 at 11:47 pm
Go to bed Evan, past your bed time.
Oh and case you haven’t noticed, the carbon price will float in a couple of years.
Thought you were banned btw?
by Henry on May 1, 2012 at 11:48 pm
Get a life. What utter crap, (the first sentence).
We’ll see (second sentence).
by Gary on May 1, 2012 at 11:49 pm
No, just had the best first-glance polling and some people had grudges against Sartor.
by bluegreen on May 1, 2012 at 11:49 pm
Pegasus #2254, sorry but thats really overreaching yourself. The government has been very systematically working on this for years in response to lobbying by all sorts of people, most recently feeding into the UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review process. Have a look at the documents and tell me how its a greens initiative.
By the way have you actually read the Greens Bill for a Children’s Commissioner? It’s woeful. It reads like something, well, like something drafted by Greens. Well meaning but pitifully unprofessional stuff.
by Marrickville Mauler on May 1, 2012 at 11:49 pm
Sartor has some grudges and let them all hang out in his book, the Fog on the Hill
by shellbell on May 1, 2012 at 11:50 pm
Gary
As I’ve said, if the Libs are to win the next election I want Tone there
Perhaps to lie like the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckcH0Wrmy74
by Schnappi on May 1, 2012 at 11:51 pm
Keneally would be voicing what senior Labor figures are saying privately.
Imagine if Gillard did amend the carbon price package – what would be the reaction from those here who have argued that the thing should never be altered?
by Thornleigh Labor Man on May 1, 2012 at 11:51 pm
Seems like Keneally thinks the Carbon Price will be as bad as the Libs say… which displays a lack judgement on her part. However given the way the media have been going I’m sure they can conflate a few trivial issues into an almighty disaster…
Yep, Channel 7 made up crap.
by Tobe on May 1, 2012 at 11:53 pm
bluegreen @2271,
Thanks for that.
She should toughen up then.
by Doyley on May 1, 2012 at 11:53 pm
I thought Fitzgibbon said the report of him dropping support for Gillard was BS.
by Diogenes on May 1, 2012 at 11:53 pm
Shellbell
At lest Sartor would have done stuff. In my view it would have been worth a lot to ALP pride and saved about a dozen seats.
by bluegreen on May 1, 2012 at 11:53 pm
In the same media release linked to by confessions:
Convert to Rent Initiative: http://greens.org.au/files/Convert_to_rent.pdf
by Pegasus on May 1, 2012 at 11:54 pm
Watching Tangle which i recorded on Sunday night.
‘Dawe’ from Clarke and Dawe appears as a talkback radio host.
by confessions on May 1, 2012 at 11:54 pm
TLM while I think the carbon scheme should be changed to better reflect what’s happening elsewhere I don’t think Gillard can do it without ending up in even deeper trouble. If it was to be done it would need to happen with a change of leader.
by davidwh on May 1, 2012 at 11:55 pm
Good point.
by Tobe on May 1, 2012 at 11:56 pm
it would be suicide for her to change the carbon price package.
by middle man on May 1, 2012 at 11:56 pm
Despair.
However I think it a bit rich that now you think carbon pricing is something terrible, when not so long ago you were down with it being the ‘greatest moral challenge of our time’. I still think it is and I am no Rudd lover.
by Fiz on May 1, 2012 at 11:57 pm
He was a “can do” for sure but made the odd enemy
by shellbell on May 1, 2012 at 11:57 pm
Tobe ,
why not look at what abbott says about it in this video,or is abbotts opinion worthless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckcH0Wrmy74
by Schnappi on May 1, 2012 at 11:57 pm
out.
by middle man on May 1, 2012 at 11:58 pm
Point is Evan, Keneally has very little clout anywhere these days.
She will be out of politics in 12 months is the whisper I hear.
by Henry on May 1, 2012 at 11:58 pm
Once again Greens hack Pegasus illustrates the utter meaningless crap Greens MPs come out with:
Squeals the Greens muppet, readily and approvingly linked to by Pegasus.
But WTF does this actually mean? As I said earlier, no mention by the Greens of the state Liberal govts actaully putting the kybosh on federal housing initivates as BOF’s govt did recently.
So where does this leave the Greens and their OMG ACTION NOW!!!! simplistic demands which are devoid of actual reality?
by confessions on May 1, 2012 at 11:59 pm
TLM,
Any change to the Carbon legislation or pricing at this stage is impossible.
Compensation is about to flow, tax cuts and change to the threshold are calculated on the $23 price.
Any reduction will rip the heart out of the budget. Any permits presold would have to bew refunded etc etc etc.
it cannot be done.
Besides the greens and Windsor/Oakie would not accept it.
As well, how would the PM look. Stands for nothing etc etc would flow from the MSM.
Labor would not gain support it would lose support just as Rudd did.
by Doyley on May 1, 2012 at 11:59 pm
But I suspect that she’ll do something drastic like that, in a last ditch bid to save her leadership, or Swan will be asked to cobble together some new tax cut proposal in next week’s budget.
It amuses me greatly that a woman with such dire poll ratings is treated as a god like figure over here.
by Thornleigh Labor Man on May 2, 2012 at 12:00 am
signing off for the night with a link to astonishingly accurate Daily Tele reporting on cost of living v cost of lifestyle – some of mordor’s forces laying down their weapons or is that too much to hope for?
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydneys-big-apple-lifestyle-drives-up-cost-of-living/story-e6freuy9-1226344116375
by Marrickville Mauler on May 2, 2012 at 12:01 am
When Murdoch’s second most prestigious masthead (after The Wall Street Journal), dumps on him, it is over.
Front cover of The Times 1/5/12
by Dan Gulberry on May 2, 2012 at 12:01 am
On carbon pricing let the market determine the price, if it goes to $8 so be it., the sooner we have a free and open ETS the better.
by mexicanbeemer on May 2, 2012 at 12:01 am
confessions
Tetchy, tetchy
Sweet dreams
by Pegasus on May 2, 2012 at 12:01 am
Why should we be changing carbon pricing?
All the credible evidence in the world suggests we should be doing more, not less to ameliorate AGW.
by confessions on May 2, 2012 at 12:01 am
Evan, you know why you have a knob on your thingy. It’s so your hand doesn’t slip off. Calm down pal, you’ll be overcome.
by grey on May 2, 2012 at 12:02 am
Schnappi,
What drives me nuts is the way people point the finger at the contorted way Gillard finally passed what was always ALP policy… the carbon price.
And meanwhile Abbott will just say whatever suits his audience from one day to the next. We suspect he doesn’t believe in global warming but he has the same CO2 reduction targets as the government… and that’s conviction?????
by Tobe on May 2, 2012 at 12:04 am