By Kim on September 12, 2011
I’ve got big doubts that polls which are based on counterfactuals have the meaning they’re purported to bear, but something must be going on when Nielsen has Labor’s primary vote at 27% but at 42% if Kevin Rudd were leader. [...]
Posted in Featured, Immigration, Polls | Tagged ALP, asylum seekers, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Labor leadership, Nielsen, poll, primary vote, roundtable |
By Kim on August 9, 2011
Peter Lewis, of Essential Media Communications, has a good take on the latest Essential poll, which found that the number of respondents concerned about asylum seeker arrivals on boats dropped significantly when informed that total numbers of arrivals were actually [...]
Posted in Featured, Immigration | Tagged asylum seekers, boats, Christmas Island, Essential Media, Essential Research, poll |
By Kim on April 12, 2010
Via Crikey, some tables from a recent Morgan poll on how asylum seekers should be treated: <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/files/2010/04/asylum21.jpg" <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/files/2010/04/asylum11.jpg" In the latest Overland, Mungo MacCallum laments the turn to the right in the Rudd government’s border protection policy over [...]
Posted in Immigration, Polls, Race | Tagged asylum seekers, border protection, fear, Immigration, irrationality, Morgan poll, Mungo MacCallum, overland, poll, public opinion, Rudd government |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 8, 2010
As an addendum to Robert’s post on the Rudd government’s announcement of the appointment of Tony Burke as Population Minister, and the call for a national debate on population policy, I wanted to pick up on another aspect of Bernard [...]
Posted in Australiana, Culture, History, Howardia, Immigration, Media, Politics, Race | Tagged ALP, asylum seekers, bernard keane, Big Australia, boat people, border policing, border security, Culture, discourses, History, Immigration, immigration debate, insularity, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Andrews, labor party, Lowy Institute, One Nation, political communication, political culture, poll, population policy, Race, racism, rhetoric, Rudd government, Scott Morrison, survey, Tony Burke |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 15, 2010
I’ve previously highlighted Dennis Shanahan and Malcolm Colless as barometers of the new new political narrative (‘Rudd in trouble! Gloss comes off! Action Man Tony Off To Vigorous Start!’). Michelle Grattan provided another twist on the mechanics of constructing such [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Media, Polls | Tagged Alexander Downer, Anna Bligh, commentariat, Courier-Mail, Dennis Shanahan, Federal Election 2010, Galaxy poll, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Colless, Media, Michelle Grattan, political narrative, poll, polling, possum, public opinion, Queensland, Rudd government, stephanie balogh, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 15, 2010
The ACTU has released polling which finds that 53% of respondents believe that Tony Abbott would reintroduce WorkChoices under another name. Abbott’s been addressing some business functions of late, no doubt because he has to build some bridges and mend [...]
Posted in Industrial Relations | Tagged ACTU, business, Industrial Relations, poll, polling, Tony Abbott, WorkChoices |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 28, 2009
[Via Labor Outsider in comments] The Australian is reporting that an analysis of Newspoll data collected in September suggests that 63% of urban Coalition voters want the government’s CPRS passed, with only 28% against, and that the Liberals could lose [...]
Posted in Climate change, Polls | Tagged Alan Jones, andrew bolt, Climate change, climate change denialism, cprs, ets, Liberal base, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, Liberal Party, Liberal party membership, Malcolm Turnbull, Media, Newspoll, political sociology, poll, possum, public opinion, urban seats |
Do the polls support the political narrative? Or; how to build a commentariat-bot
By Mark Bahnisch on February 15, 2010
I’ve previously highlighted Dennis Shanahan and Malcolm Colless as barometers of the new new political narrative (‘Rudd in trouble! Gloss comes off! Action Man Tony Off To Vigorous Start!’). Michelle Grattan provided another twist on the mechanics of constructing such [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Media, Polls | Tagged Alexander Downer, Anna Bligh, commentariat, Courier-Mail, Dennis Shanahan, Federal Election 2010, Galaxy poll, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Colless, Media, Michelle Grattan, political narrative, poll, polling, possum, public opinion, Queensland, Rudd government, stephanie balogh, Tony Abbott | 69 Responses