Abbott Govt Still Heading for Electoral Annihilation
Despite media reports that the Abbott Government is supposedly enjoying a post Budget “poll bounce,” the actual facts paint a different story.
According to Newspoll, the Abbott Government has lost further ground to Labor in the wake of Joe Hockey’s second Federal Budget, slumping by 1 percentage point to 47 per cent while Labor gained 1 point to 53 per cent in the crucial election-deciding two party preferred stakes.
Curiously, the Newspoll survey methodology was to only ring landlines, not mobiles which tend to be favoured by younger voters, and then “adjusted the sample to reflect population distribution.”
Nevertheless, Newspoll still shows that the Abbott Government is on the nose with voters and Tony Abbott would still lose an election if it were held today.
However you’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise with headlines like this.
theguttertrash.com 
I love the smell of the oz ditching newspoll for ipsos in the morning 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
Whatever works for ’em I guess 😉
Ah, the gifts that keep on grifting
Treasurer Joe Hockey has suggested the wives of senior government ministers may have kept their husbands in the dark about whether or not they “double-dipped” with their paid parental leave entitlements.
And in an extraordinary interview, Mr Hockey has suggested his own wife doesn’t always tell him about their household finances but did not say why.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/maybe-their-wives-didnt-tell-them-joe-hockey-defends-ministers-doubledipping-on-paid-parental-leave-payments-20150518-gh3wdc
So the lefties now prefer Newspoll?
Whatever works for ’em I guess 🙂
So the lefties now prefer Newspoll?
You got a link for that 😉
But I do find it interesting that, up until this point, the oz has basically ignored the existence of ipsos, now they rate it over their own
And on a day when their rants against abc bias (as opposed to a general lack of ethics and/or talent) has reached fever pitch
Photo –
*Hockey – beige shirt, beige tie, rolling eyes
*Abbott – dyed hair, faux interest in Hockey
Regardless of where you sit on the political spectrum I think we can all fairly unanimously agree that Hockey’s gastric band surgery was not exactly a success.
But that’s not unusual, apparently…
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/lap-band-surgery-half-patients-complications/story?id=13187452
Yes I agree he has been leaking shit for some time now..
Blame Shorten for the Libs bounce.
He really is a hopeless dud. As a union official he was devious rather than intelligent. He hasn’t changed.
“”He really is a hopeless dud””
AGREED!
Especially when he has a go at “feigned sincerity” with that mealy-mouthed raspy gasping intonation in his voice usually when attempting to express his apparent exasperation over some perceived sense of injustice about Abbott Govt policy.
Come on Blib, it’s time for you to fuck off and give Bowen or Albanese a go.
“But I do find it interesting that, up until this point, the oz has basically ignored the existence of ipsos, now they rate it over their own”
Indeed!
Witness Bolt’s late (last) night wankery over the most favourable result.
“Regardless of where you sit on the political spectrum I think we can all fairly unanimously agree that Hockey’s gastric band surgery was not exactly a success.”
Cruel…but fair & true!
“Blame Shorten for the Libs bounce.
He really is a hopeless dud. As a union official he was devious rather than intelligent. He hasn’t changed.”
Yes, that is a rather inescapable conclusion, is it not.
It’s hard to imagine him rising to where he now finds himself if two poor bastards hadn’t been trapped down a mine at Beaconsfield, in fact.
Watch AbbottCorp spruik this shit loud & proud…but keep silent about potential deleterious impacts upon us, mere mortals…
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/18/tpp-pacific-trade-deal-could-be-two-weeks-away-if-us-fast-track-measure-passes
He really is a hopeless dud
Just a reminder to self, how was Labor sitting just after the last election?
It’s hard to imagine him rising to where he now finds himself if two poor bastards hadn’t been trapped down a mine at Beaconsfield, in fact.
That really is quite pathetic toilet. He found himself there helping workers because he was in a job where the aim is to …. help workers.
Attacking him for being the person on the spot to help them out is fucken low. Where the fuck was abbott? Getting sponsorships for his lycra no doubt.
Somehow, I don’t think they’ll be able to bring the same sort of firepower as the mining industry did against Labor, but every voice is worth it
Australia’s solar industry has warned it will campaign against the Coalition in the lead up to the next federal election after an agreement was finally reached to cut the renewable energy target to 33,000 gigawatt hours.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/may/18/solar-industry-attacks-coalition-after-bipartisan-deal-struck-on-ret-scheme?CMP=share_btn_tw
Meanwhile, the Greens remian stamping their useless feet in the background. All or nothing, and they were quite happy with nothing while it lasted. I don’t think the renewables Industry are quite so accommodating.
That really is quite pathetic toilet.
I must confess, TR, that the same thought has crossed my mind from time to time … although I’ve noticed that Toylet and I often raid the same biscuit barrel … 😉
Photo –
*Hockey – beige shirt, beige tie, rolling eyes
*Abbott – dyed hair, faux interest in Hockey
yes, the most excruciatingly awkward piece of posing, why would anyone do it? What was abbott’s hand on hockey’s arm for? it just looked so sickly and fake.
I’m not fond of shorten either, I don’t know how long we’ll have to wait until labor give the executive and the membership an equal vote. That godbotherer union meister debruyn won’t be going anywhere either, he’ll hand over the shoppies union to another fanatic like himself as if the members are an ongoing power inheritance for catholics. No party unity on gay marriage either.
I think labor could get rid of jenny macklin, brendan o’connor, kate ellis, kim carr, david feeney and stephen conroy.
Liberals should get rid of the lot, start again with some fresh blood not the zombie rabble that they have now.
Over 1000 Japanese Citizens Band Together To Sue Their Government Over Participation In TPP:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150515/07555231015/over-1000-japanese-citizens-band-together-to-sue-their-government-over-participation-tpp.shtml
…A total of 1,063 plaintiffs, including eight lawmakers, claimed in the case brought to the Tokyo District Court that the Trans-Pacific Partnership pact would undermine their basic human rights such as the right to live and know that are guaranteed under the Constitution.
The envisaged pact would not only benefit big corporations but jeopardize the country’s food safety and medical systems and destroy the domestic farm sector, according to their written complaint.
As well as oft-voiced concerns that Japan’s key agricultural sector would be harmed, the plaintiffs are also worried that TPP will push up drug prices — something that is a big issue for other nations participating in the negotiations. The new group rightly points out that corporate sovereignty jeopardizes the independence of Japan’s judicial system, and said that the secrecy surrounding the talks:
violates the people’s right to know as the document is confidential and the negotiating process will be kept undisclosed for four years after the agreement takes effect…</i.
The TPP is looking like a giant turd to everyone BUT the multi nationals AO. When even the Americans are voicing concerns, you know it isn’t like a normal Trade Deal we enter into where Australia loses and the other country wins, in this, ALL countries lose. And that cannot be good for anyone except ………..the multi nationals.
As she warned in her book Hard Choices, we shouldn’t be giving special rights to corporations at the expense of workers and consumers.”
On this count, the current TPP doesn’t measure up. And nothing being considered by Congress right now would ensure that the TPP meets the goal of promoting domestic production and job creation.
The text of the TPP, like all trade deals, is a closely guarded secret. That fact makes a genuine public debate impossible and should make robust debate behind closed doors all the more essential. But the ability of TPP critics like me to point out the deal’s many failings is limited by the government’s surprising and unprecedented refusal to make revisions to the language in the TPP fully available to cleared advisors.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/05/tpp-elizabeth-warren-labor-118068.html#ixzz3acqlCWM5
Mind you, Clinton is making nice noises now, but Obama has shown that the POTUS is still ruled by the beneficiaries of the TPP, so watch her tune change as she gets in.
Interesting what Labor would do/ have done. They had held held out against the inclusion of Investor-State Dispute Settlements, but, when the rubber meets the road, just what would they do?
A former cardigan wearer rips apart hockeys/murdochs demonisation of families. That’ll make yomm happy (not). It also highlights just how much of a political document this budget is rather than any sort of plan for the future.
Don’t buy the budget spin – families receiving government payments have a much lower standard of living than single people on average incomes, and are a very long way from being “welfare rich”, writes Greg Jericho.
…………
The spin is now even within the budget papers themselves, with the inclusion of tables purporting to show the amount different households pay in tax and receive in benefits. The tables, however, provide a very distorted picture, and fail to show a fair comparison of different households’ standards of living.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-20/jericho-budget-2015-unfair-comparisons-of-income-and-welfare/6480576
New survey puts Abbott government’s post-budget poll bounce in doubt..
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/may/19/new-poll-puts-abbott-governments-post-budget-bounce-in-doubt
post-budget-bounce
Hilarious, one rogue poll, and the grubmint is saved.
But the media do love their “colour and movement” As long as the colours blue, and the movements their way 😉
From Grogs link I mentioned above. It appears this budget is almost as nasty as last years, it’s just that they got a hell of a lot more sneaky about it
Information withheld from the budget shows high income couples may suffer scarcely at all while low income families on benefits could lose as much as 10 per cent of their incomes.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/missing-figures-show-poor-are-hit-20140518-38i05.html
Something about Leopards?
And that cannot be good for anyone except ………..the multi nationals.
Let’s call ’em what they are, TR … The Robber Barons …!
Seems my gut feeling was right about the budget … 😎
From sreb’s link above….
“That really is quite pathetic toilet. He found himself there helping workers because he was in a job where the aim is to …. help workers”
No, TomR.
I stand by my comments, which I think you may have over-egged your retort towards.
That tragic episode, during which he did his job…and adequately fulfilled his role…allowed him a public profile to milk. If you don’t believe he’s milked that since, then we are in dispute.And by that, I mean the ‘public profile’, not the event. Probably should have qualified that earlier…?
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/may/28/madness-for-labor-to-back-senate-voting-reform-says-sam-dastyari
YomR?
That’s what I thought…in hindsight, my comment mustn’t have been ” quite pathetic”.
Reblogged this on The Grovely Gazette.
Both teams are scared shitless of changing donkey`s mid-race after the last 6-years. Bow-wow is a dud, near the level of blib. Even if they had the nads to switch to albo (or-other) it is probably getting too late to do the ground-work required to get the team across the line for an out-right `win` for them. Whether it would be a `win` for us, the voters, not sure.
l reckon both teams will run their current donkey. There will not be heavy betting on blib for a win performance, tho he might place by a nose, in a watermelon quinella.
#quinella=1st and 2nd
`how was Labor sitting just after the last election?””’
#the same as now, in opposition
#and before that.?
#barely in power
“”Professor Triggs has done her job, she is doing her job, she should remain in her job, and quite frankly, as the former prime minister of the Liberal party, the late honourable Malcolm Fraser, suggested, perhaps the prime minister and some of the ministers criticising her should consider stepping down or consider their position rather than constantly running this orchestrated campaign against her.”
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jun/09/coalition-accused-of-orchestrated-campaign-to-destroy-gillian-triggs?CMP=share_btn_tw
Professor Triggs has done her job, she is doing her job, she should remain in her job
She should resign. She is a partisan deadbeat.
There are less than 100 kids in detention. Why didn’t she have her inquiry when there were 2,000???
I think Triggs is ignorant of Indonesian politics if she connects their commitment to the death sentence to the government’s policy on asylum seekers.
or she is being deliberately mischievous.
Gillian Triggs is obeying the law in advocating against the government’s attacks on human rights, while the government seeks ways to avoid judicial oversight of its powers.
http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=498852
I wouldn’t be throwing around the “ignorant” word too much is I were you yomm 😉
.. or she is being deliberately mischievous.
Link?
I think Triggs is ignorant of Indonesian politics if she connects their commitment to the death sentence to the government’s policy on asylum seekers.
And you are more qualified to “think” this because?
Gillian Triggs is obeying the law in advocating against the government’s attacks on human rights
I have no problem with this. But if she is going to link Indonesia’s policy on the death penalty to Australia’s policy on asylum seekers, she’ll have to figure out some evidence that isn’t simply “the vibe”
she’ll have to figure out some evidence that isn’t simply “the vibe”
You don’t consider Indonesia’s vociferous opposition to boat turn backs as some sort of evidence then yomm?
I think there was a little vociferous opposition about spying on their president and his wife too, and (in my experience) this was far more of a sore point with the Indonesians that the asylum seeker policy.
Interesting that Triggs didn’t refer to spying as a reason they aren’t engaging.
But a spying reference may have
reflected poorly on her friendsreminded people of issues they’d prefer not to be reminded of.What exactly has Professor Triggs done to deserve the thundering denunciations of this government? She has criticised its policies on human rights. She has denounced its treatment of asylum seekers. She has warned of executive overreach, of the dangers of investing ministers with more powers but without proper checks and balances and without the explicit authority of the people. And she has queried if the policy of unilaterally turning back boats carrying asylum seekers may be a reason why Indonesia and other neighbouring countries “will not engage with us on other issues that we care about, like the death penalty”.
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-age-editorial/barrage-against-triggs-is-contemptible-20150608-ghitk4.html
I think there was a little vociferous opposition about spying on their president and his wife too
Are we currently spying (well, caught out)? But we are currently still sending boats back, against their stated opposition to it.
Have the Indonesians been so offended by the asylum seeker policy that they recalled their ambassador?
In terms of offence which issue did an Indonesian President take most personally?
Coalition accused of orchestrated campaign to ‘destroy’ Gillian Triggs:
http://gu.com/p/49tqt?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy to clipboard
Even the articles published in The Jakarta Post don’t support Triggs and that paper mainly published material friendly to the government line.
Even the articles published in The Jakarta Post don’t support Triggs
Is this “doesn’t support Triggs” in the same way that your guy on the radio this morning didn’t yomm? ROFL
The guy Bryan Burdekin said plenty in condemnation of the government, that’s fair enough.
But his comment that Indonesia didn’t pay attention to him 24 years ago didn’t really help him make the point that Indonesia wasn’t listening now because of a policy that is about 18 months old.
The Jakarta Post simply pointed out that Jokowi (or any other official) had never made a comment or inference that Indonesia’s position on the death penalty had anything to to with the Australian government’s policy on asylum seekers.
Given the denial by both Indonesia and Australia, what exactly is the reason that Triggs can link the issues?
Joke Break
Just in …
A man is driving down a deserted
stretch of highway when he notices
a sign out of the corner of his eye…
It reads:
SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS
HOUSE OF PROSTITUTION
10 MILES
He thinks this is a figment
of his imagination and drives
on without second thought.
Soon he sees another sign
which reads:
SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS
HOUSE OF PROSTITUTION
5 MILES
Suddenly he begins to realise
that these signs are for real
and drives past a third sign saying:
SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS
HOUSE OF PROSTITUTION
NEXT RIGHT
His curiosity gets the best
of him and he pulls into the drive.
On the far side of the parking
lot is a stone building with
a small sign next to the door
reading:
SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS
He climbs the steps and
rings the bell.
The door is answered by a
nun in a long black habit who asks,
‘What may we do for you! my son?’
He answers, ‘I saw your signs
along the highway and was
interested in possibly doing business….’
‘Very well my son. Please follow me.’
He is led through many winding
passages and is soon
quite disoriented.
The nun stops at a closed door
and tells the man,
‘Please knock on this door.’
He does so and another nun
in a long habit, holding a tin cup
answers the door.
This nun instructs,
‘Please place $100 in the cup
then go through the large
wooden door at the end of the hallway.’
He puts $100 in the cup,
eagerly trots down the hall
and slips through the door
pulling it shut behind him.
The door locks, and he finds
himself back in the parking
lot facing another sign:
GO IN PEACE.
YOU HAVE JUST BEEN SCREWED BY
THE SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
~ Never take a sleeping pill and a laxative at the same time ~
~ Never take a sleeping pill and a laxative at the same time ~
Sounds sensible.
if triggs is really as `bias` as the teabag fear-squirts claim,
wouldn`t blib and team be making a gold-class defense of triggs, which they don`t seem to be doing
But his comment that Indonesia didn’t pay attention to him 24 years ago didn’t really help him make the point that Indonesia wasn’t listening now because of a policy that is about 18 months old.
But that isn’t an accurate representation of what he said, is it yomm, and you know it.
Even the UN can see what is happening from half a world away. But our local wingnuts think it’s all above board.
The United Nations formally urged the Abbott government to stop attacking Gillian Triggs before Immigration Minister Peter Dutton branded her a “disgrace” and urged her to consider stepping down as president of the Human Rights Commission.
http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/revealed-how-the-un-told-abbott-government-to-back-off-on-gillian-triggs-20150609-ghk224.html
Hitler used a steamroller to control Germany …
Just sayin’ …
Seems crass stupidity runs in the Abetz family …
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/transgender-girls-mum-told-take-her-in-the-bush-and-shoot-her/story-fnq2o7dd-1227389801227