Albanese Labor Govt Watch

[mal]

Albo double faulted on the weekend

Did he have tennis Albo ?

[mighty_tiger_79]

Albo double faulted on the weekend

Did he have tennis Albo ?

Some of your best work there

[mighty_tiger_79]

Jim Chalmers, you couldn't trust him with your kids pocket money

[Jase]

Jim Chalmers, you couldn't trust him with your kids pocket money

Can’t afford to give the kids pocket money at the moment….


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[wenchbarwer]

Jim Chalmers, you couldn't trust him with your kids pocket money

Labor and financial mismanagement, name a more iconic pairing...

[Brodlach]

As a leading professor in finance said this morning, this is a storm in a teacup.

People “We need a government handout to help with the cost of living/buying a new TV”

Also people “Government are spending too much money to help keep us in a job”

[tigerpie]

Jim Chalmers, you couldn't trust him with your kids pocket money

Labor and financial mismanagement, name a more iconic pairing...

Liberal and union bashing political corruption?

[dedja]

Seems like Chalmers can count just as well as Dutton, who keeps saying that his nuclear reactors will only generate nuclear waste to fill one coke can each year, when apparently it will probably be thousands upon thousands.

[mighty_tiger_79]

All the pollies should be on that Smarter than a 5th grader show

[Booney]

Peter Dutton has put the Australia Day debate firmly on the agenda ahead of the upcoming federal election. He is promising to make all local councils hold January 26 citizenship ceremonies if he becomes PM.

Oh good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdw1Pw4nIv0

[am Bays]

Peter Dutton has put the Australia Day debate firmly on the agenda ahead of the upcoming federal election. He is promising to make all local councils hold January 26 citizenship ceremonies if he becomes PM.

Oh good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdw1Pw4nIv0

Probably wont win him Government but will no doubt ensure a minority Labor government

Even the ABC saying it: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-10/albanese-federal-election-kicking-against-wind-room-error/104791980 (I trust ABC news not Sky (sorry Alex))

"Analysis by pollsters RedBridge after an end-of-year redrawing of electorate boundaries suggests the chance that Labor can maintain a majority is near nil."

[mighty_tiger_79]

Peter Dutton has put the Australia Day debate firmly on the agenda ahead of the upcoming federal election. He is promising to make all local councils hold January 26 citizenship ceremonies if he becomes PM.

Oh good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdw1Pw4nIv0

Probably wont win him Government but will no doubt ensure a minority Labor government

Even the ABC saying it: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-10/albanese-federal-election-kicking-against-wind-room-error/104791980 (I trust ABC news not Sky (sorry Alex))

"Analysis by pollsters RedBridge after an end-of-year redrawing of electorate boundaries suggests the chance that Labor can maintain a majority is near nil."

trust the ABC they're just as bad as Sky

[wenchbarwer]

Peter Dutton has put the Australia Day debate firmly on the agenda ahead of the upcoming federal election. He is promising to make all local councils hold January 26 citizenship ceremonies if he becomes PM.

Oh good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdw1Pw4nIv0

Probably wont win him Government but will no doubt ensure a minority Labor government

Even the ABC saying it: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-10/albanese-federal-election-kicking-against-wind-room-error/104791980 (I trust ABC news not Sky (sorry Alex))

"Analysis by pollsters RedBridge after an end-of-year redrawing of electorate boundaries suggests the chance that Labor can maintain a majority is near nil."

trust the ABC they're just as bad as Sky

It's getting to the stage where you watch/read both, and then draw a line in the middle...

[mighty_tiger_79]

Peter Dutton has put the Australia Day debate firmly on the agenda ahead of the upcoming federal election. He is promising to make all local councils hold January 26 citizenship ceremonies if he becomes PM.

Oh good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdw1Pw4nIv0

Probably wont win him Government but will no doubt ensure a minority Labor government

Even the ABC saying it: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-10/albanese-federal-election-kicking-against-wind-room-error/104791980 (I trust ABC news not Sky (sorry Alex))

"Analysis by pollsters RedBridge after an end-of-year redrawing of electorate boundaries suggests the chance that Labor can maintain a majority is near nil."

trust the ABC they're just as bad as Sky

It's getting to the stage where you watch/read both, and then draw a line in the middle...

Correct

[am Bays]

It's getting to the stage where you watch/read both, and then draw a line in the middle...

Agree not saying I hold the ABC up as the doyen of truth as it but I trust it slightly more than I trust other sources but you have to triangulate to get the truth especially where then there are errors by omission.

[wenchbarwer]

It's getting to the stage where you watch/read both, and then draw a line in the middle...

Agree not saying I hold the ABC up as the doyen of truth as it but I trust it slightly more than I trust other sources but you have to triangulate to get the truth especially where then there are errors by omission.

Yeah, I'm with you there

[Booney]

It's getting to the stage where you watch/read both, and then draw a line in the middle...

Centrist.

[Jimmy_041]

Dutton is unelectable
They said the same thing about Abbott

Environment now down to 6th at 18%. (Probably overs due to Melbourne luvvies influence.)
The Top 4 Voter Priorities should be Labor strengths - but they're not.

Nowhere in this universe should the Coalition be getting back into power after one term.
You can see what's going to happen from here. Labor will do a Steven Miles and throw $billions at everyone

Dutton catches Albanese as preferred PM as law and order worries grow

Ronald Mizen
Political correspondent
Jan 20, 2025 – 5.00am

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has drawn level with Anthony Albanese as preferred prime minister for the first time, according to the latest Australian Financial Review/Freshwater Strategy poll which shows voters are increasingly worried about law and order issues.

As communities in Sydney and Melbourne reel from a spate of antisemitic attacks, including cars being torched and vandalised and places of worship hit by arson attacks, the poll showed law and order overtaking climate change as one of voters’ top three concerns.

According to the poll of 1063 people taken from Friday to Sunday, 43 per cent prefer Mr Albanese as prime minister, down from 46 per cent in December – the same proportion as prefer Mr Dutton. The opposition leader also kept his superior net approval rating of minus-4, compared with Mr Albanese’s minus-18, though both recorded a one percentage point drop from the last poll.

The survey results suggest the Coalition’s long-running attack on the prime minister painting him as “weak” is cutting through, while Labor’s attempt to portray Mr Dutton as reckless, arrogant and nasty is not yet hitting home.

On a two-party preferred basis, the Coalition continues to lead Labor 51 per cent to 49 per cent. Those figures have been unchanged for four consecutive months, and it is the seventh month the opposition has led the government.

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If this result were replicated on election day, which must be held by May 17, and the swing was uniform, Labor would be reduced from a notional 78 seats to 71, and the Coalition would jump from 57 seats to 67. The Greens would lose one seat, leaving them with three, and the independents would lose two seats, leaving them with seven.

Freshwater Strategy director Michael Turner said with 58 per cent of respondents saying they believed the country was headed in the wrong direction, the poll illustrated a growing mood of discontent that would work against the Albanese government.

“The national outlook from voters remains pretty dire,” Dr Turner said.

Tax-free lunches
While the early weeks of the year have traditionally been seen as downtime by politicians, Mr Albanese has been in full campaign mode since January 6, crisscrossing the country and splashing $11.2 billion on major infrastructure and dozens of small grants in housing, sports clubs and community projects, including $500 million for western Sydney road projects announced on Sunday.

On Monday, he will visit Tomago Aluminium in the Hunter where he will announce that a re-elected Labor government will create a $2 billion production incentive for “green” or low-emissions aluminium.

Mr Dutton has also been on the campaign trail. On Sunday, he announced his first election policy for the year at a campaign rally in Brisbane, unveiling a capped tax deduction of $20,000 for business-related meal and entertainment expenses for firms with turnover less than $10 million a year. The policy did not come with an official costing.

The last time Labor led the Coalition in the polls was September 2023 when the current two-party preferred numbers were reversed.

But in a positive sign for Labor, its primary vote lifted 2 percentage points to 32 per cent, just shy of the 32.6 per cent it achieved at the 2022 election. The Coalition’s primary vote held steady at 40 per cent, up from the 35.7 per cent the Liberal and National parties achieved in 2022.

The shift to Labor came at the expense of the Greens and minor parties and independents, which each fell 1 percentage point to 13 per cent and 15 per cent respectively. The poll’s margin of error is 3.1 per cent.

However, the poll shows Mr Dutton is successfully tapping into community angst over law and order, or at least bringing the issue to the fore.

When asked to select up to three priority areas that respondents wanted the federal government to focus on, crime and social order ranked fifth of the 16 options, with 26 per cent of voters ranking it a top-three issue, up 3 percentage points from last month and 11 percentage points from late 2022.

It overtook environment and climate change, which was nominated by 18 per cent of respondents, down six percentage points from December. In late 2022, 31 per cent of respondents nominated the environment and climate change as a key concern.

Housing woes
Despite law and order traditionally being a state and territory issue, the opposition leader has worked hard to put it on the federal agenda.

Hitting the campaign trail last week, Mr Dutton talked up his nine years as a Queensland police officer and attended a round table with victims of crime in the marginal Melbourne seat of Aston. On the same day, he announced a $7.5 million pledge to Crime Stoppers.

Later that day he was in the eastern Melbourne seat of Kooyong – which the Liberals lost to the teals in 2022 – to announce $400,000 for floodlights at a local stadium to boost community safety. The next day he was in Ipswich in Queensland, where a Coles worker had been stabbed the day before, spruiking his policy of introducing uniform knife laws.

Cost of living continues to dominate voter concerns, according to the poll, with 73 per cent of respondents saying it was a worry; no change from December. Among those concerned, 29 per cent said the cost of groceries was the main issue and 22 per cent said it was the cost of housing or rent.

After the highest inflation in decades and the fastest interest rate hiking cycle in a generation over the past two-and-a-half years, Labor’s standing with voters on cost of living has been pummelled.

The party held a commanding lead over the Coalition in late 2022 as being the best managers of the economy, but has suffered a major deterioration over past two years, with just 26 per cent of voters believing it to be the case today compared with 42 per cent for the Coalition.

At the same time, worries over housing and accommodation increased, with 42 per cent of respondents saying it was a top-three issue, up 4 percentage points on December’s poll.

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With a hung parliament looking like the most likely election outcome, Mr Dutton on Sunday warned of the risks of Labor being forced to deal with minor parties and independents in both houses of Parliament.

“The only prospect with Mr Albanese as prime minister after the election is if he is in concert with, if he is in partnership with Greens, teals, or extreme greens that hole the balance of power in a Labor minority,” he told a room full of party faithful in Brisbane.

Ronald Mizen is the Financial Review’s political correspondent, reporting from the press gallery at Parliament House, Canberra. Connect with Ronald on Twitter. Email Ronald at ronald.mizen@afr.com

[am Bays]

Based on those figures (71 ALP 3 greens) that isnt even enough for a Lab/Green majority, however I believe that will change come election day and the it will be a Lab/green coalition in the end.

I wonder if he would've done his if there wasnt an election around the corner....

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-15/mark-butler-rejects-private-health-insurers-proposed-premiums/104820310

[Jimmy_041]

Interesting what is happening here

The Labor online work is all about Robodebt, Gina Reinhart owning Dutton, $1trillion debt, Dutton is a c***, Angus Taylor is a c***, Michaelia Cash is a c***, Albo is a great bloke (did you know he was brought up as a houso?), Chalmers is 2nd best treasurer in the world blah, blah, blah.......

All of which is probably true.

But the Coalition is polling 51:49 and Dutton now has a more favourable / better non favourable rating and spread than Albanese.

Unbelievable if Dutton was to pull this off - even more extroadinary than Abbott.
But, in both cases, Labor are losing it more than the Coalition are winning it

Melbourne will be the main battleground this time