Essential Research: 56-44 to Coalition
This week’s Essential Research shows no real change on voting intention, with the Coalition still leading 56-44 from primary votes of 32% for Labor (down one), 49% for the Coalition (steady) and 10% for the Greens (steady). Also featured are Essential’s monthly personal ratings, which likewise show little shift. Julia Gillard is down a point on both approval and disapproval, to 31% and 57%. Tony Abbott is respectively up one to 36% and down two to 51%, and his lead as preferred prime minister is up from 38-37 to 38-36 (I guess not too many people heard this then). A question on same-sex marriage finds 54% supportive and 33% opposed, respectively steady and down two on a year ago.
Preselection snippets:
• Phillip Coorey of the Sydney Morning Herald reports Gary “Angry” Anderson will seek Nationals preselection in Gilmore, the southern New South Wales seat which will be vacated at the election by the retirement of Liberal member Joanna Gash.
• In the neighbouring seat of Hume, where Liberal member Alby Schultz is retiring, Coorey further reports that state upper house MP Niall Blair is a further possibility as Nationals candidate, together with presumed front-runners Senator Fiona Nash and state government minister Katrina Hodgkinson. Leslie White of the Weekly Times recently reported both Nationals and Liberal internal polling had the Liberals ahead in the seat, but the Nationals remained confident they could win with Nash or Hodgkinson running.
• The Australian reports Matt Adamson, former Canberra, Penrith and national rugby league player, has been sounded out by the Liberals to run against Rob Oakeshott in Lyne. The Nationals have already endorsed David Gillespie, a local doctor who was best man at Tony Abbott’s wedding.
• The Victorian ALP has taken care of a whole bunch of preselection business, re-endorsing all sitting members and confirming Slater & Gordon lawyer Andrew Giles to succeed Harry Jenkins in Scullin, and United Voice official Lisa Chesters to succeed Steve Gibbons in Bendigo. The preselection for Melbourne will be held on August 26, with 2010 candidate Cath Bowtell considered the front-runner but Harvey Stern, president of Labor for Refugees Victoria, is also in the field.
• John Hogg, Queensland Labor Senator since 1996 and the chamber’s current President, has announced he will not re-contest the next election. Michael McKenna of The Australian reports Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Union state secretary Chris Ketter is “among the frontrunners” to replace him as a Labor Senate candidate – remembering that Labor won three Senate seats in Queensland in 2007, and the party fears it may only win one next year.
Categories: Federal Politics 2010-
Hee hee. Carbon tax electricity bill question straight after it! Hope he tables it.
by Aguirre on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:44 pm
Is Paul Neville an idiot or what for asking that question?
by BK on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:44 pm
Albo should ask him to table it.
by This little black duck on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:45 pm
Southcott’s pants are officially on fire
by Danny Lewis on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:45 pm
2:46 – must be time …
by This little black duck on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:46 pm
You didn’t get leave. That’s the end of it.
by triton on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:48 pm
Clawback is back!
by This little black duck on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:50 pm
CBC** = 3
** CBC – Claw Back Count
by BK on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:52 pm
Southcott up for another thrashing.
by ruawake on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:52 pm
The LOTO is wearing a what seems a favourite light powder-blue tie, on a day when he needs bold colours.
by Puff, the Magic Dragon. on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:52 pm
I hope I’m not being too controversial here, but I think Senator Madigan is a serious rival to Warren Truss for extreme dullness.
by triton on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:53 pm
Southcott does not do anger well. It comes out like a schoolgirlish hissy fit.
by BK on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:53 pm
Southcott has no shame AND no sense.
by fiona on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:53 pm
Southcott is sure a glutton for punishment.
Diogenes has a clown for a Member!
by scorpio on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:53 pm
THe no carbon yada yada yada is getting so boooooorriiiinng.
by Puff, the Magic Dragon. on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:54 pm
Carbon tax is so yesterday!
by BK on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:55 pm
Are Bishop the Younger and Southcott related?
by fiona on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:55 pm
So, one hotel didn’t work for him so he’s trying another.
by triton on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:55 pm
Is Southcott on a pub crawl?
by BK on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:56 pm
fiona
Yes, they have the same genes of dullness.
by Puff, the Magic Dragon. on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Swannie is looking bored – does he want a mining magnate bought on?
by CTar1 on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Labor people had high hopes that Madigan would be the kind of character that the DLP Senators of old like Vince Gair, Frank McManus and Jack Kane were. Sadly he is a boring little non-entity.
by Psephos on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:57 pm
Paul Fletcher jaundiced.
by fiona on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:58 pm
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by victoria on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:58 pm
Geoffrey Robertson warns the Poms of consequences re Equador
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He has said today in London that a breach of the kind involved in the entry into the Equadorian Embassy will be seen by governments around the world who want to storm a foreign embassy for whatever reason,,,as a justification which will abort the Vienna Convention on the safety of diplomatic premises…and have major consequences
One wonders what has prompted this action…pressure from Washington ?….or are the Poms just reverting to type…thinking the Raj is still there
I recall a long while ago after the Bloody Sunday massacre in Belfast I think..when..a crowd burned down the British Embassy in Dublin….,makes one like the Irish even more..just thinking about it !!…
by deblonay on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:58 pm
@StephenJonesMP: I can feel a suspension motion on its way in #qt
I am not so sure myself
by guytaur on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:58 pm
by victoria on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:59 pm
Scoot booted.
by ruawake on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:59 pm
Scoot scooted.
by This little black duck on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:59 pm
Scoot carded.
by fiona on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:59 pm
Herr Doktor,
read and weep – The Home of the Magnificent BISONs
http://www.thefinnigans.blogspot.com.au/
Every galah in the Labor Caucus now is talking about the BISONs
by The Finnigans on Aug 16, 2012 at 2:59 pm
RU, TLBD,
SNAP
by fiona on Aug 16, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Geoffrey Robertson likes nothing more than being mentioned in the press.
by CTar1 on Aug 16, 2012 at 3:00 pm
@GreenJ: new paradigm. RT @jamesmassola: Not one question on asylum seekers, one hour in to #qt #heylookoverthere
by guytaur on Aug 16, 2012 at 3:01 pm
For the record I did not vote for Andrew Southcott
by Peter of Marino on Aug 16, 2012 at 3:01 pm
@mishaschubert: Can we see this $3500 bill please, @asouthcottmp? #qt
by guytaur on Aug 16, 2012 at 3:02 pm
Puff,
Oh, you are so right about the gene of dullness, though my question was inspired by BK’s reference to Southcott’s “schoolgirlish hissy fit”.
I get the feeling that the Opposition is losing this QT badly.
by fiona on Aug 16, 2012 at 3:02 pm
he Assistant Treasurer is wearing his nipped in the waist jacket, and an aggressive red,black and gold tie that says serious work is being done.
The Nats MP is not showing the same military sipt and polish of Wilke. His blue and white striped shirt needs a serious starching.
by Puff, the Magic Dragon. on Aug 16, 2012 at 3:02 pm
by victoria on Aug 16, 2012 at 3:02 pm
Good one, Anna – Hockey BURKED!
by fiona on Aug 16, 2012 at 3:02 pm
The Puff Adder just bared its fangs.
And Sloppy GORN for an hour.
by BK on Aug 16, 2012 at 3:02 pm
Hockey rooted.
by This little black duck on Aug 16, 2012 at 3:02 pm
How many tossed so far?
by Puff, the Magic Dragon. on Aug 16, 2012 at 3:03 pm
Hockey really is a buffoon isn’t he. One second after a general warning to the Oops front bench.
by Aguirre on Aug 16, 2012 at 3:03 pm
I think that was a general warning to the oops front bench.
by This little black duck on Aug 16, 2012 at 3:03 pm
Was that Morrison and Hockey booted? I need to throw the phone outside today. It keeps interrupting my QT viewing.
by BH on Aug 16, 2012 at 3:03 pm
3 gone.
by This little black duck on Aug 16, 2012 at 3:04 pm
by victoria on Aug 16, 2012 at 3:04 pm
BH,
yes.
by This little black duck on Aug 16, 2012 at 3:04 pm
Oh dear. Now Nicola fronts up to get under their skin.
by BK on Aug 16, 2012 at 3:04 pm