Newspoll has Labor on 55% 2PP (up 1 point, within the MOE). Kevin Rudd is on 62% (up 3) on the PPM to Malcolm Turnbull’s 22% (down 3).
Brendan Nelson peaked at 16%.
The Opposition Organ says:
But it remains substantially higher than his predecessor Brendan Nelson.
How substantial is substantial, I wonder?
The way Turnbull is being treated by the press must have poor old Emo Man feeling rather out of sorts, even if he’s no longer kept up nights sitting around in the gutter at Kings Cross at 3am. I wonder how long it will take for the punditariat to realise that the honeymoon is over – Turnbull’s, that is. Not that it was every all that impressive. We might get some leadership stories during the silly season, I suppose. But the contrast between Turnbull and Nelson’s press really should tell us something.
Elsewhere: The Poll Bludger.
hahahooooo!! Another damning public verdict on Talcum’s reality-challenged yabbering.
He seems to think if you just say “Swan out of depth/ Rudd a phoney” enough times in public it might become true. He’s really messed this up, I think. He just seems a nagging, contradictory, self-important nay-sayer while the government acts.
Hey Talcum: you know those interest rate cuts, and how you claimde credit for the banks passing em on? Well, thing is, they *wouldnt have* without the bank guarantee you’ve been bagging from sunup till dusk.
Its really v simple, let me explain: banks can get loans from other banks now they have the guarantee. The cost of getting that money has gone down with the risk – thanks to the government’s guarantee. This in turn made it easier to pass the cuts on.
Perhaps Julie Bishop could explain to you, in her chapter length essay by someone else.
Back to the drawing board, Libs!
Ok, this is freaky!!!
Go to google, pick Australian results only, enter “government gazette” and check p.2, 3rd last entry.
it’s this: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24632961-601,00.html
Does google like the GG meme, or what??? Neither the story nor the page contain the words “government gazette”.
HAHAHAHOOO!! Google is onboard!!
*slaps on Victory Tunes of the Culture War RSL*
If News Ltd were desperate before Obama’s victory to save neocon politics they will be doubly so now. They will be fearful of the Obama/Rudd combination as they were adoring of the Bush Howard pairing.
The don’t want Rudd getting the same reflected light that Howard got from his association with Bush (when it was a positive) and we have already seen Turnbull and News Ltd trying to suggest that Obama is all presentation and style but no substance (sound familiar). I would expect the Murdoch media to keep trying to trash Obama, promote Turnbull and keep Government news out of their news.
Turnbull is a total loss, that is why he has needed so much help from the OO and other Murdoch Liberal party remoras. Turnbull is the back-stop for the neo conservatives. He is it, there is nothing else, just sinister Malcolm stands between them and oblivion.
Wonder how they will handle Obama and Hu Jian Tao’s joint visit to Australia 6 months before the election?
Rudd has had some long puff pieces on the commercial channels recently – I missed the 30 minute Sunrise forum talk to Kevvie – but managed to catch A Current Affair tonight’s “let’s follow the PM for a whole day with a inconsequential reporter in tow.”
Much gritting of teeth at Point Piper I would think.
All the Liberals need to break through is to make a big policy announcement about Industrial Relations. WorkChoices, the name, may be dead, but their commitment to IR extremism is healthier than ever. Level with the voters, Liberals. Announce this.
Well, Lefty E, do a search on “opposition organ”, australian results only, and the top hit is an article in the Australian, whicn doesn’t contain the word “organ”! So there…
If state tabloids’ “Mean nasty Kevvie and Therese aren’t nice to poor widdle me” whine had run Saturday, before most Newspoll polling, rather than Sunday, would that have had a positive, negative or neutral impact on Poor Widdle MalTee’s rating?
Excellent Drew: further evidence supporting thesis that google likes the meme.
And if Google thinks you’re called the GG/OO – you ARE called the GG/OO.
Hmmm, it seems the Opposition Organ attacks Rudd, the stronger he becomes.
In their own polling. Which only they own. And understand. etc.
Question:
Is OO endorsement the kiss of death in these post-Howard times?
Are they too tied to a failed deregulationist agenda to have any popular cred?
And finally: Why am I even asking these questions when no-one reads the OZ except a circle-jerk of “insiders”?
Before I saw the picture I thought this post was going to be about Obama.
Malcolm has become a bit like political wallpaper. You don’t even know he’s there. If that’s the effect he has on a political junkie like me, what sort of impact is he having on the ordinary Aussie who couldn’t care less about politics?
At least with Nelson one sat up and took notice even if one ended up in a state of stunned shock with one’s mouth open for minutes afterwards.
From Lefty E’s link at #2
“Rudd capitalises on crisis: Samantha Maiden, Online political editor November 10, 2008
The Australian
KEVIN Rudd’s ability to handle the financial crisis has secured another tick from voters, according to Newspoll, with nearly two in every three voters backing him as Prime Minister.”
I find this headline…”"Rudd capitalises on crisis:” offensive.
Implying Rudd is making personal gain out of the misery of the crisis.
Am I alone in rewading it thus?
Yep, I find it offensive.
Howard would have got something like “Nation backs Howards Strong Leadership”.
This is the game, it’s like Chinese water torture.
Me too hannah’s dad. As I noted on another thread, a variation on the themec is Micahael Brissenden’s “Rudd must be doing something right, as though what that something is has totally eluded him.
Chinese water torture indeed, which I could happily ignore if the ABC wasn’t one of the prime torturers.
Kim, please get your alliteration right.
OO stands for Opposition Orifice. I coined the term on November 25 2007. This can be google checked.
The Viscount has poor poll results, yet we don’t see weekly worries about that dire position from the OO. The Libs won’t go back to Admiral Nelson. After they (and voters and the OO) tire of Vicount Turnbull, they’ll turn to Tone.
Young, handsome, Catholic, pugilist, and a bit of a ladies man: the Australian JFK. Only thing is, he appears to lack a shining military service record. Also quite possibly not as intelligent as JFK – but the OO doesn’t mind that.
Go Tone.
Then after Tone flounders around, wounding all and sundry with scornful barbs, it’ll be time to pull the next Rabbit out of the Hat. Yes, Smirker Bunny. $weetie. Come back over here into the spotlight, Smirker: stop loitering wistfully around those remainder bins.
It’s time to take on the Mantle of Leadership. Your time has arrived; the election is 5 weeks from now. No, it’s OK: Tone and Archbishop Pell and the Viscount have done all the hard policy development. You just go on TV. You’ll be fine. The electors will be very happy to have you back. No, we’ll just airbrush Mr Howard out of some of the old photos. You’ll be…..
Delightful,Ambi.
But what about that nice Mr. Hockey?
Well,…..
maybe that nice Mr Hockey’ll have to pick up the pieces after Smirk Bunny loses. (He’ll not lack excuses, old Smirker. Drafted too late. Howard still spoiling everything, the horrible little man! And Tone was somewhat less than gracious, muttering away on “Lateline” about Guy Fawkes and the English Protestants persecuting Good Catholic Men, etc.)
Ooops!!, my mistake – by 2010 “Lateline” and Red Kerry’ll be mere memories.
I imagine that you are all looking forward to The Howard Years, without doubt the televisual highlight of the year.
Half of the gigantic intellects interviewed on behalf of the greatest political party ever known will no doubt express their undying love for Dear Leader, the remaining will damn him with faint praise. Yawn!
Hmmm, the snippets already revealed in the promos will probably be the sum total of the gossip.
Well he’s tanned and rested anyway.
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The ALP should deploy some covert operations and get Jeff Kennett into Fed Parliament. With Kennett there, Turnbull too, maybe Nick Greiner if he’s still alive, and Costello all vying for the leadership…
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Well Kevvie could be PM until the 22nd century.
Ambigulous @ 15 -the same thought occurred to me, though I missed out the Abott step and went straight to Smirk. But having read your post, it all makes sense. After all, the OO’s chief entrail-reader Dennis Shanahan is Catholic (judging by his wife’s adherence to Vatican policy in her own barely readable column) so the whole Opus Dei/Exclusive Bretheren/Australia Club conspiracy draws together…
The Sunrise “Team” might have a chance if Smirk declines to pursue the top job (again). Hockey might get the gig eventually, but he’ll have to toughen up considerably to convince whatever base the Liberals still have that he can do the job. He does have the baggage of having once pulled Rudd out of a New Guinea highland stream; that will take a lot of forgiving.
Would the Fibs punt on Julie Bishop? She’s shown fantastic form at stealing ideas… And I’m sure she could forge new ties with the US Repugs under Palin.
Ozymandias, I apologise profusely. I had no intention of making sense.:-)
Also looking forward to the Howard Years on ABC 1. But it will probably be far less revealing than the similar doco on the ALP broadscast not long after Howard got in. That was quite enjoyable. The difference this time is (and this is only half in jest) the Libs still think the electorate got it wrong. Wintness the Smirk’s prediction today of the drestruction of all state Labor Governments as part of a world wide phenomenon which we apparently started.
The Federal Opposition at the moment are like tennis players who keep trying to ace you on the first serve. They get a few in, but most of them go into the net. And they can’t seem to just play a point and have a rally.
They look like a group suffering collective Attention Deficit Disorder. I used to think this was the chaotic consequence of having Nelson at the helm, but it appears endemic. Turnbull has, if anything, made it worse.
Indeed, Terry. These guys (and Julie Bishop) are just so demented people turn off the moment they see them. Ut may have taken years for Howard and his mates to register on the National Bull-Shit Detector but now that they have they be there for centuries, (hopefully).
This prize quote from Tony Abbott on the ABC midday news….”John Howard never ran away from public scrutiny”.
Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,haHa,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha.
Tones, please.
Lets be honest: The Libs suspect someone’s been pressuring senior public servants, becuase thats how they played the game.
Only problem is: they look like half-arsed, but dementedly over-confident recent law graduates – asking repetitive questions without a shred of ‘gotcha’ evidence to spring a trap with. Then asking the same question again, when they get an answer they dont like.
A judge would have booted them for wasting the court’s time if this process was a legal one.