Newspoll: 54-46 to Coalition
GhostWhoVotes reports (though James J in comments had the numbers 45 minutes earlier) that Newspoll has the two-party preferred vote at 54-46, compared with 55-45 a fortnight ago and 59-41 the fortnight before. The primary votes are 32% for Labor (up two on last time), 46% for the Coalition (up one) and 12% for the Greens (steady). Julia Gillard’s approval rating is up three to 30% and her disapproval down three to 60%, while Tony Abbott is respectively down three and up four to 31% and 60%. Julia Gillard leads as preferred prime minister 40-37, reversing Abbott’s 40-36 lead last time.
Today’s Essential Research was less encouraging for Labor: it had them losing one of the points on two-party preferred which were clawed back over previous weeks, the result now at 57-43. Primary votes were 50% for the Coalition (up one), 33% for Labor (steady) and 10% for the Greens (steady). Other questions gauged views on the parties’ respective “attributes”, with all negative responses for Labor (chiefly “divided” and “will promise anything to win votes”) rating higher than all positives. The Liberal Party did rather better, rating well for “moderate” and “understands the problems facing Australia”. Bewilderingly, only slightly more respondents (35%) were willing to rate the state of the economy as “good” than “bad” (29%), with 33% opting for neither, although 43% rated the position of their household satisfactory against 28% unsatisfactory.
UPDATE (29/5/12): Morgan have broken the habit of a lifetime by publishing their weekend face-to-face poll results on a Tuesday, never having been known in the past to do it earlier than Thursday. My best guess is that they wished to offer a riposte to Newspoll’s relatively encouraging figures for Labor – “today’s Newspoll showing a swing to the ALP is simply unbelievable”, says Gary Morgan in the accompanying release – with their own results, which show Labor support at an all time low on every measure. The poll has Labor’s primary vote down 4.5% on the previous week to 27.5%, the Coalition up 3.5% to 49% and the Greens up 2.5% to 13%. This translates into 61.5-38.5 on respondent-allocated preferences and 58-42 on preferences as they flowed at the previous election.
Categories: Federal Politics 2010-
Maybe Donovan is announcing a new poem. Here is a bit of his poem on beer
http://www.independentaustralia.net/about/ia-contributors/about-david-donovan/poetry-of-david-donovan/beer-in-the-arvo/
by shellbell on May 29, 2012 at 9:59 pm
WTF is hansrad?
by ShowsOn on May 29, 2012 at 9:59 pm
Dio
augustus is august
me i am gus
dont play any of your penny arcade games , sunshine
by gusface on May 29, 2012 at 9:59 pm
Dio
Ever heard of staff being offered money for an organ?
by Dee on May 29, 2012 at 10:00 pm
ShowsOn,
Have you ever had a photograph published in The Times of London, before Rupert got his grubby fingers on it? I have.
Have you ever had your photos published in newspapers around the world? I have.
Piss off.
by Scringler on May 29, 2012 at 10:00 pm
vic
A sneak peak was given of it this afternoon.
I believe this is still only the tip of the iceberg.
Once the full details become available,
MOAR will ROAR and SOAR and SCOAR – FOAR SHOAR!!!
by Dan Gulberry on May 29, 2012 at 10:00 pm
It Just Are
by Schnappi on May 29, 2012 at 10:00 pm
[Sykes to the Bunch after “They” foiled the bank robbery,
From The Wild Bunch, 1967
Dir. Sam Peckinpah.]]
1969.
by ShowsOn on May 29, 2012 at 10:00 pm
Hansrad is the place low flyers like you are referred to
Its how I got the 10k figure
ps
get a life, lifeless
by gusface on May 29, 2012 at 10:01 pm
Poroti, 3 days of trekking to get tat effing picture to prove Diog is all wRONg
by The Finnigans on May 29, 2012 at 10:02 pm
DG
Interesting times
by victoria on May 29, 2012 at 10:02 pm
St Facial, can u believe it, even I’ve missed you
by Centre on May 29, 2012 at 10:03 pm
BK
I aint going to lie down and die
especially when such #fucktards as shows off and perennially bemused failure, pollute this blog with unsinkable turds
by gusface on May 29, 2012 at 10:03 pm
I read Hansard, even when I’m not in it.
This doesn’t impress me because I don’t read The Australian and / or the Sunday inserts inserted in The Australian. I do read Hansard though.
You’re very evasive. But I’m happy to get to wait until Speed Dating Friday before I get to know you better.
by ShowsOn on May 29, 2012 at 10:03 pm
Dee
Definitely not. I can’t imagine how anyone could organize that for any amount of money. Perhaps a cornea might be possible but I can’t imagine any other organ.
by Diogenes on May 29, 2012 at 10:03 pm
Centre
for you and you alone , would I turn
by gusface on May 29, 2012 at 10:03 pm
Clearly you’re just jealous that I’m in Hansard.
by ShowsOn on May 29, 2012 at 10:03 pm
that’s where Showy belongs with them low flyers like Abbott, Prissie, Bishop, Sloppy. oh they got mentioned everyday in the Hansard.
by The Finnigans on May 29, 2012 at 10:04 pm
Lateline for MOAR apparently!
by Dee on May 29, 2012 at 10:04 pm
Centre, very sad. obviously the ladies have turned you off
by The Finnigans on May 29, 2012 at 10:05 pm
Finns
I believe my prediction of Obama becoming the president came true the same day you took that photo.
(wipes tears from eyes at memory of happy moment)
by Diogenes on May 29, 2012 at 10:05 pm
Schnappi
I think I may have been announced in a Gazette as a potential promotion (subject to appeal) but in Hansard? A place for villains.
by CTar1 on May 29, 2012 at 10:05 pm
Clearly you’re concerned that no MP has stated in parliament “This guy on the internet who likes to pretend he is a dolphin…”
by ShowsOn on May 29, 2012 at 10:06 pm
Lizzie @ 1200
She lies back and thinks of Germany.
Poor lady.
by fiona on May 29, 2012 at 10:07 pm
A Judge, yes a current serving Judge, has an apparently huge conflict of interest that could lead to #RegimeChnage, yet the #MSMhacks ignore
by The Finnigans on May 29, 2012 at 10:07 pm
I was referring to when Waylon Green wrote the lines, not when the movie was released.
by Bushfire Bill on May 29, 2012 at 10:07 pm
shows off
1 have been in hansard 3 times
2 met every labor pm
3 after rupert replied TWICE TO MY TWEETS, DECIDED TO ADOPT HIM
4 U, on ther hand , I decided, belong in the contaminated waste as does your way below average posts here
by gusface on May 29, 2012 at 10:08 pm
i dont need that. My BISONs are being quoted, talk about everyday, everywhere and every moment
by The Finnigans on May 29, 2012 at 10:08 pm
CTar1
Hansard is full of villians of both sexes,even some which we are still uncertain of.
by Schnappi on May 29, 2012 at 10:09 pm
No, just tired of hearing about it.
by Bushfire Bill on May 29, 2012 at 10:09 pm
+1 here
by The Finnigans on May 29, 2012 at 10:09 pm
The finns
And you should be proud!
by victoria on May 29, 2012 at 10:09 pm
Scringler –
A place for SO before the pit is emptied ???
by CTar1 on May 29, 2012 at 10:09 pm
I’m here now, so knock it off everybody.
by William Bowe on May 29, 2012 at 10:10 pm
So what sort of block was Chris Watson?
by ShowsOn on May 29, 2012 at 10:10 pm
‘Ullo… Dad’s back. Quick kids. Best behaviour.
Oh, bugger it… Shows On is showing off, Dad!
by Bushfire Bill on May 29, 2012 at 10:12 pm
Bushfire Bill
I’ll raise your Wildbunch
No, maybe I can’t win, maybe the only thing I can do is just take everything he’s got. But to beat me, he’s gonna have to kill me, and to kill me, he’s gonna have to have the heart to stand in front of me, and to do that, he’s gotta be willing to die himself and I don’t know if he’s ready to do that. I don’t know, I don’t know.
Rocky Balboa
Rocky IV (1985)
by Rossmore on May 29, 2012 at 10:12 pm
Diogenes,
gusface
Posted Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 9:31 pm | Permalink
re craig
1 he is innocent until proven guilty
2 see 1
3 try and pretend otherwise- and u iz a fibtard- no if, no buts
No relation to gusface ask william to verify
by Augustus on May 29, 2012 at 10:13 pm
actually prior to EGW they seemed to be somnobulent
tho I wasnt questioning their repose
by gusface on May 29, 2012 at 10:13 pm
That’s too much…
by drake on May 29, 2012 at 10:14 pm
As William’s wingman, I full endorse this statement.
by ShowsOn on May 29, 2012 at 10:14 pm
Schnappi
That’s deep (well maybe … I’m not actually sure … )
by CTar1 on May 29, 2012 at 10:14 pm
Augustus
Dio likes his little cankers
he has them in profusion on his body and in his posts
by gusface on May 29, 2012 at 10:14 pm
PPL keep asking that and I honestly don’t know why.
PERCEPTIONS. Simple. CT asked to go Indie 4 times or something.
PM acceded to the request when the combined issues of him and Slipper were overpowering in the ‘chaos perception’.
In other word “he made himself scarce from the party” like anybody else would in that situation.
It wasn’t an admission of guilt from CT.
It wasn’t an accusation of guilt by the PM.
It was simply a defusing of energy (attempted anyway)
by jenauthor on May 29, 2012 at 10:15 pm
Shows off
I thought you were the spoonman?
solly
by gusface on May 29, 2012 at 10:15 pm
I’ll see your Rocky IV and raise you the best line that ever was in the history of Westerns:
Pike to Wild Bunch,
The Wild Bunch, 1967,
Dir. Sam Peckinpah.
by Bushfire Bill on May 29, 2012 at 10:15 pm
Dio
Many years ago my mother worked in the nuclear science division in a major hospital in Victoria.
She arrived at work one morning & her locker had been broken into.
A letter had been left offering her $16,000 for a kidney. A huge amount of money for the time.
There was a big investigation but staff were not informed of the outcome.
by Dee on May 29, 2012 at 10:15 pm
i came, i saw and i fainted – veni vidi vico
by The Finnigans on May 29, 2012 at 10:16 pm
jenauthor
I have something I am really proud of.
I haven’t been published in The Australian.
by ShowsOn on May 29, 2012 at 10:16 pm
gusface,
can’t sat I mind being confused.
BTW cool name as well
cheers
by Augustus on May 29, 2012 at 10:17 pm