#Newspoll 57-43 is the biggest 2PP lead for either side since the Labor opposition led the Abbott government by the same amount in Feb 2015 after the Prince Philip knighthood announcement and Queensland election loss. L-NP had larger leads vs Gillard Labor in 2013.
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#Newspoll Albanese net +32 (61-29)
Dutton net -8 (35-43)
Better PM (skews to incumbents but not that much) Albanese leads 61-22
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#Newspoll TPP ALP 57 (+1) L/NP 43 (-1)
Primaries ALP 37 (0) L/NP 31 (-2) GRN 13 (+1) ON 7 (+1) UAP 2 (0) OTH 10 (0) theaustralian.com.au/nation/newspol ($) #auspol
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astrotealing (v) campaigning as if one is a teal independent while either supporting few if any teal policies or belonging to an anti-teal party
astroteal (n) a candidate who campaigns by astrotealing
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I've had to explain to incredulous foreign unionists and labour law types that we can only strike to get a agreement, but only with permission of a Gov tribunal (where the employer gets a say) & a voting process not controlled by workers & then after giving multiple days notice.
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💯. The window for a legal strike is very, very narrow, fiendishly hard to access and absurdly easily injuncted. All sympathy strikes / boycotts are unlawful. All strikes about a political issues - eg re a Gov trying to abolish medicare - likewise.
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Incredible how many educated Australians think we have a ‘right to strike’
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I call it the 'Bono-fication' of political figures
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Interesting in the way that both Gorbachev and Mandela have become empty signifiers unto which centrist commentators project their political fantasies, with little correlation of what both figures did or stood for.
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Once the world had Gorbachev and Mandela. Now we have Trump, Johnson and Truss | Jonathan Freedland theguardian.com/commentisfree/
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However, if you or I were to come across national security information & release it publicly in a Wikileaks type manner we'd likely be treated like Julian Assange. #auspol
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More broadly, I'd say this is why we don't see a lot of political scandals going any further than the front pages. #auspol
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Looks like Simon Benson & Geoff Chambers & thereby News Corp had inside knowledge of the Morrison govt all along. Dr Keiran Hardy said apparent leaks would not be prosecuted in practice as they were “part and parcel of politics and journalism”. #auspol
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Senior UK Government figures are considering introducing legislation which would require more than half of the Scottish electorate to vote for independence, rather than just a majority, according to reports.
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Greens think by framing the housing crisis as anti developer, they are talking to renters. No, they are talking to the asset class who they have been protecting for years. No density or development in the inner suburbs is music to the ears of boomers and gen X who own homes here
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Housing policy is like superannuation,left accurately points out debacle of existing neoliberalism but short on solutions-red Vienna won’t be built in suburbs,rent control is a stunt?
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Greens, like others in our parliaments have spent so much time contributing to the housing crisis, they have no idea what renters want
Here is some news. Young professionals don’t want social housing. They want to buy within their community, affordable, well sized apartments 1/
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Please. Restaurants. Just give me a physical menu. I shouldn't have to create an account on some random app to buy some garlic bread.
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Back in 1990, Algis Budrys while reviewing a book about the 100 best fantasy novels made the observation that fantasy is essentially conservative, while science fiction is essentially liberal. The bit about Alf of Swineherd stuck with me ever since. google.com.au/books/edition/
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he was lefty until he got called out for his poor record of gender stuff and became right-wing on everything
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you gotta be fuckin kidding me lol
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Thread. Some nuance. These areas have the greatest number of occupants who own their homes outright. We do know that asset wealth, does skew people towards voting Liberal. This may occur as they get older or the time it takes to pay off the home.
So what’s going here? 1/
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What happened to CNN?
I worked there for 18 years.
This is what happened.
Everyone wants to know why CNN is shifting.
Let me explain why.
What Fox News gets that MSNBC and CNN don’t get…
Each quarter, the Cable Operators release their subscriber base.
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Berlin’s new fleet of electric buses can’t come fast enough. As the German capital struggles to meet its climate goals and deal with an energy crunch, it’s quickly expanding a battery-powered overhaul of its public transit fleet.
For , I wrote about the woefully misplaced media conversation as to whether Biden's democracy speech last night was "political," which was a bit like seeing your house catch fire and shouting, "Wait a minute! This is a house!" /1
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We all knew Dali was a nasty piece of work, yeah? Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali, by George Orwell in 1944
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Listen to Greg Williams, Associate Director - Health and Biosecurity CSIRO Futures, speak about our recent Strengthening Australia’s Pandemic Preparedness report. 😷
More about the report: csiro.au/pandemic
#TeamCSIRO
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Here it is!
johnganz.substack.com/p/the-plotters
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a while back @lionel_trolling made the argument that claremont is an outright seditious organization and i think that's right twitter.com/SIfill_/status…
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Update: Cloudflare, the hosting provider for KiwiFarms, has dropped them from accessing their services.
This will make it extremely hard for them to stay online.
Cloudflare had put out a statement standing by hosting the site earlier this week.
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Here’s the statement from Cloudflare about KiwiFarms.
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BREAKING: Cloudflare has blocked Kiwi Farms.
"We believe there is an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life." blog.cloudflare.com/kiwifarms-bloc
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This week’s column: The system is broken. At least everyone agreed on that at this week's jobs summit
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what's the longest time series of house prices available? seems weird all these stories about house price decline which miss the context of the huge rises in the 2000s?
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If you had told me back in 2016 that Trump would sell top secret spy and nuclear intel to foreign adversaries, I’d be like “yeah I know, that’s what we keep saying”
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NEW: How a Twitter plan to counter extremism fell apart.
A research team was midway through a project to help troubled users. Then Elon Musk bought the company
and me:
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Nice demo work in the age today. Compare today’s age groups to the 2018 state result. You can see why Labor has started to do a lot better in Ringwood. Federal result is similar.
Always pay close attention to the voters roll.
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Republicans, eager for a new “basket of deplorables” moment, disregarded Biden’s conciliatory remarks and instead have been throwing a temper tantrum for 18 hours.
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The good news is that anti-choice policies are unpopular & lose at the ballot box. The bad news is that the anti-choice people achieve a lot of their goals without winning elections.
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Let's say you are a big corporate head. You know given 2-party system & negative partisanship, it's only a matter of time before Trumpized GOP is back in power. You want to signal to that party you are not someone who will be in opposition, won't make waves. It makes sense.
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