Via The Poll Bludger, the same old same old from Newspoll. I think what Rod Cameron had to say on Lateline had a lot of merit – voters will give Kevin Rudd at least another year before making a final judgement. In the meantime, the Liberals probably are wasting their and all of our time with their constant shenanigans. Their best bet would be to lie low and stop making themselves the story. They’re unlikely to, of course. Too much a bunch of prima donnas, plotters and media tarts. And now we’ve got this to look forward to:
But you can be sure that from the end of the next week until at least the end of the following week, it will be all-Costello-all-the-time in the Australian media.
Lord save us.
This question from Essential Research (which incidentally has Labor sitting on a 59/41 2PP split) is a hypothetical, but it’s still an interesting result:
Kevin Rudd is preferred to Peter Costello head-to-head 53 per cent to 27 per cent.
Elsewhere: Possum shows why the Costello dithering is doing a lot of damage to the Libs.





They’re both on the nose. The question is, which one do you expect to pull out of the dive? I’d back Labor, and not just because they’re the incumbents.
THis is the Federal newspoll not the WA election thread Andrew, but on that note the WA Nationals leader is revealing his choice for Premier next Sunday, its like an episode of Australian Idol.
He can wait until Sunday so as long as it looks like Labor can’t form a govt without the NATS.
Rudd should have a DD just to see who is right – Newspoll or Essential Research. Either way the LNP stand to lose more HOR seats.
Can we leave the WA discussion to the relevant threads, please?
Elsewhere: Possum shows why the Costello dithering is doing a lot of damage to the Libs.
Afternoon of the faun. Power without glory – ALP is Tory – end-of-story-looking-gory.
The Adelaide Advertiser this morning reports in an “exclusive”, probably of truth, that Costello’s book is going to be a vicious tabloid dump cum romance ( and Murdochs have first pickof the rubbish tin lid, a la Sylvester).
To think that- thing- was going to be fobbed off on an unsuspecting nation as its next PM.
Goes to show the significance of the Mayo by-election, doesn’t it?
Can it mean that Australians are not Americans?