Newspoll: 54-46 to Coalition
GhostWhoVotes reports that Newspoll has the Coalition’s two-party lead at 54-46, unchanged from the previous poll, with the primary votes at 31% for Labor (down one), 44% for the Coalition (down two) and 14% for the Greens (up two). Julia Gillard’s net approval is 4% less bad than last time, her approval up two to 32% and disapproval down two to 58%, while Tony Abbott is respectively up one to 32% and down one to 59%. On preferred prime minister, Gillard is up two to 42% and Abbott is up one to 38%.
It should be noted that most of the polling period (Friday to Sunday) covered what in every state but WA was a long weekend, when an unusually large number of potential respondents would be away from home. Given that absent and postal votes tend to favour the Coalition, it might be anticipated that this would bias the result slightly in favour of Labor, although measures may have been taken to correct for this. As far as I can tell, Newspoll used to abstain from polling over the Queen’s Birthday weekend, but changed this policy last year.
UPDATE: Essential Research has two-party preferred unchanged on last week at 56-44, from primary votes of 49% for the Coalition (down one), 32% for Labor (down one) and 10% for the Greens (steady). The monthly personal ratings have Julia Gillard up a point on approval to 32% and down four on disapproval to 56%, with Tony Abbott down four on approval to a new low of 32% and up one on approval up one to 54%. Funnily enough, Newspoll and Essential concur that both leaders’ approval ratings are 32%. Gillard and Abbott are tied at 37% on preferred prime minister, compared with a 38-37 lead for Gillard last time.
Other questions gauge public trust in various institutions, recording a remarkable drop for the federal parliament from 55% to 22% since the question was last asked in September, and other sharp drops recorded for trade unions (from 39% to 22%), environmental groups (45% to 32%), business groups (38% to 22%) and, for some reason, the Reserve Bank (67% to 49%). The poll also finds 60% disapproving of bringing in overseas workers with only 16% approving, 32% believing labour costs and taxes might drive mining companies away against 49% who expect them to carry on regardless.
UPDATE 2: Roy Morgan makes it three polls in one day by reporting its face-to-face results, which it evidently does on Tuesdays now rather than Fridays. This result is Labor’s best since March, their primary vote up half a point to 33% with the Coalition down 2.5% to 42.5% and the Greens up two to 12.5%. On two-party preferred, the Coalition’s lead has narrowed from 55.5-44.5 to 52-48 on previous election preferences and from 58-42 to 55-45 on respondent-allocated.
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by guytaur on Jun 14, 2012 at 10:55 am
zoomster
I’d like to think his “raconteuring” would go a little like this .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QsNXd57Ppw
by poroti on Jun 14, 2012 at 10:57 am
OK.
My OH has given me an assignment – I have to research solar hot water services and solar electricity.
Help!!!
by zoomster on Jun 14, 2012 at 10:57 am
http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2012/06/14/3524848.htm
Demonstrates why the Tory NBN plan will never work and why it will be quietly dropped at the very first opportinity.
Then it will be a case of ‘The Coalition has always supported the NBN.’
by smithe on Jun 14, 2012 at 10:58 am
…the best systems and what deals are available…
by zoomster on Jun 14, 2012 at 10:58 am
Yesterday some people asked about wi-fi,this may help.
by Schnappi on Jun 14, 2012 at 10:59 am
Yesterday some people asked about wi-fi,this may help.
by Schnappi on Jun 14, 2012 at 10:59 am
poroti
I think you’ve nailed it with that. I bet Mrs Costello gets really, really tired of the nightly raconteuring.
I can see it now..
Peter – I coulda had the top job, I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum on a seat, but that #*# Howard just wouldn’t step down..
Tanya… Yes dear, I know dear, let’s talk about something else now dear. I’ve heard all this eleventy squillion times already.
Peter – I still say I coulda had the job, I coulda been………
by leone on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:06 am
Just heard some idiot on 2GB saying that “driver error”, not “Speed” caused traffic accidents.
So, all we have to do is eliminate driver error.
Simple.
by Bushfire Bill on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:07 am
Video up http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/ Scroll down the videos until you reach it.
by OzPol Tragic on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:07 am
@BB/2659
Easy solution, get rid of the drivers and cars.
That way neither of them can harm each other or others.
by zoidlord on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:09 am
Leone 2658
If Tanya is at all like Janette, she’ll happily join in the raconteuring.
by gigi on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:11 am
by guytaur on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:12 am
zoidlord
This will be the future. Sooner than we think.
Read more: http://techland.time.com/2012/05/08/googles-driverless-cars-now-officially-licensed-in-nevada/#ixzz1xj3RjM9U
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/06/13/self-driving-cadillacs-could-be-on-sale-next-year/
by poroti on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:12 am
TLM
Wake UP man, the seas will be devoid of FISH by 2050 at the rate they are overfishing!.
by 1934pc on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:12 am
@poroti/2664
That maybe the case for every other country, but Australia is pretty backwater.
Especially when the Coalition party comes in.
by zoidlord on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:15 am
bluegreen
Only time will tell if she was RIGHT!.
by 1934pc on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:18 am
[Latika Bourke @latikambourke 13s
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott 'already, already, the harm is being done' [from the carbon price].]
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by victoria on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:18 am
@latikambourke: Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says ‘the steel industry has no future in this country under the carbon tax.
by guytaur on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:20 am
The marine reserves is well timed.This 143 meter ocean “vacuum cleaner” arrived in Australia a couple of days ago. A very good reason as to why we need reserves.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-30/super-trawler-headed-for-tasmania/4042862
by poroti on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:21 am
by victoria on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:22 am
Thats a future PM aargh
by Schnappi on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:23 am
guytaur
Snap
by victoria on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:23 am
….because until Anna began the mudslinging, she was cruising to victory….
Let’s just rewrite history because it suits your prejudices…
by zoomster on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:24 am
@latikambourke: Opposition Leader Tony Abbott ‘I’m running a fact campaign here.
by guytaur on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:24 am
by victoria on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:24 am
by victoria on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:25 am
@latikambourke: Opposition Leader Tony Abbott ‘we’ve seen in QLD just how dirty, grubby and desperate Labor Govt’s get.
TLM sound familiar?
by guytaur on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:25 am
Thank goodness I am not watching Abbott spew this drivel
by victoria on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:26 am
I reckon Abbott better watch what he says. The Slipper case is not over yet
by victoria on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:27 am
Good Old El-Slacko. Faithfully tweeting the absurd.
It Abbott said his shit doesn’t stink, she’d tweet it.
What kind of journo does that?
by smithe on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:28 am
by victoria on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:28 am
who was that idiot “journo” who asked Abbott about labor’s dirt unit?
softball powder puff stuff. Even the fool Abbott dispatches it.
FFS the standards of the meeja in this country is appalling.
by Henry on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:30 am
It just means that Abbott is running a Smear/Dirty/Lying Campaign.
Nothing more nothing less.
by zoidlord on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:31 am
So there we have it. Fear to run under Abbott. So now it is just a question of how long until Christian Porter can get there. If that is the strategy as it seems to be the LNP have calculated they are losing the next election.
by guytaur on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:32 am
Evacuated tube collectors might be worth a look, Zoomster. They are more efficient than flat plate panels.
http://www.ata.org.au/sustainability/solar-hot-water/
…are you going to need to rely on electricity for a booster tank or town gas?
by joe2 on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:33 am
Yes, well there’s Fact and then there’s Abbott Fact: Basically any drivel that comes to mind.
Whyalla being wiped off the map is, of course, an Abbott Fact.
by smithe on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:34 am
What bullshit.
by lizzie on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:35 am
Evan14′s trolling is becoming ever more blatant. Sadly some people continue to engage with him in a serious manner. I’m a bit perplexed why William has been tolerating him for so long.
by Mithrandir on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:35 am
smithe
I’m glad Latika tweets the pressers, then I don’t have to watch it myself.
by lizzie on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:36 am
joe2
town gas!! Oh, the lols…
We have a bottled gas system at present
by zoomster on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:36 am
@latikambourke: PM Gillard defends increasing the departure tax because Australians going abroad are spending their money overseas.
by guytaur on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:37 am
@latikambourke: PM Gillard says some of that increased tax will go towards supporting domestic tourism
by guytaur on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:38 am
The positive just oozes from Gillard. What a contrast to negative Abbott
by guytaur on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:39 am
I’d prefer it if she actually did her job and asked the twat a few questions, instead of merely regurgitating what he says as if it were Holy Writ.
Perhaps she shoulld be geiven another handle. How about The Regurgitator instead of El Slacko?
by smithe on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:40 am
@latikambourke: PM Gillard ‘first and foremost given all the Opposition ever says ‘no’ to everything it’s not surprising people are scrutinising them.
by guytaur on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:40 am
@latikambourke: PM Gillard ‘I think it is fair enough to get into the public domain, things like, [Oppn's claims on carbon price.]
by guytaur on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:41 am
@latikambourke: PM Gillard ‘scrutiny…can be a very legitimate thing
by guytaur on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:43 am
PM basally saying MSM are Edjeets for buying dirt unit story.
by guytaur on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:43 am
basally=basically
by guytaur on Jun 14, 2012 at 11:44 am