Oz Federal Election 2013 - Discussion and Comments

[Mak404matt]

Gotta love Bob Ellis
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Tomorrow’s Newspoll | Table Talk: Bob Ellis on Film and Theatre

Bob Ellis talks a lot of cough...

 

[HarryB]

Gotta love Bob Ellis
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Tomorrow’s Newspoll | Table Talk: Bob Ellis on Film and Theatre

Oh dear. I am a Labor voter and I still pi$$ed myself at this.

 

[Mak404matt]

Oh dear. I am a Labor voter and I still pi$$ed myself at this.

I'll confess to being an ALP MEMBER!, and I did the same

EDIT:

Newspoll Just Out

Primary Vote:

ALP 29 (-1) L/NP 48 (-1) GRN 9 (0)

So has ALP dropping 1PP to below 30, first time this year I believe.

 

[medhead]

I'll confess to being an ALP MEMBER!, and I did the same

EDIT:

Newspoll Just Out

Primary Vote:

ALP 29 (-1) L/NP 48 (-1) GRN 9 (0)

So has ALP dropping 1PP to below 30, first time this year I believe.

LNP has also dropped? So undecided has increased?

 

[Mak404matt]

LNP has also dropped? So undecided has increased?

Have to wait for full details tomorrow, rumor has it that PUP, KAP and One Nation have scooped a bit more of the conservative vote.

 

[Skyring]

LNP has also dropped? So undecided has increased?

Cold comfort.

 

[Skyring]

Do you not see the difference between saying "I think your comments are vile" versus "I think you are vile"?

Everyone is capable of vile behaviour. Maybe without thinking on it, maybe in a desperate emergency.

But our fellow humans are not, in themselves, vile.

Thanks, Pushka - you have revealed an important truth.

 

[Skyring]

Have to wait for full details tomorrow, rumor has it that PUP, KAP and One Nation have scooped a bit more of the conservative vote.

Just like the Greens pick up the crumbs from the Labor fallout.

Speaking of polls, Poll has grim results for Gillard government

 

[Skyring]

Bob Ellis talks a lot of cough...

He's an entertaining old bugger. I went to a Republican function once. It was at O'Malleys in Civic and it was a result of my suggestion we should "Put the 'Pub' into Republic!" and Bob was the guest speaker. Once you discount the bias, he's a funny bloke.

With a certain charm. I watched him pull a sweet young thing with no effort at all.

 

[Skyring]

Newspoll Just Out

Primary Vote:
ALP 29 (-1) L/NP 48 (-1) GRN 9 (0)

So has ALP dropping 1PP to below 30, first time this year I believe.

Well, it's going to be a busy week in Canberra. Hold onto your hats!

Geez. How old is that? Nobody wears hats any more.

Hold onto your wallets!

That's incentive for Rudd to consider a play for the PM job. Someone is going to do an analysis, calculate how many seats Labor will lose - from a minority - work out that this will mean defeat and announce the numbers. Meanwhile, every member of Caucus will open up their Excel or Numbers, plug in the numbers and groan. They are likely - and I mean more likely than not with these figures - to be out of the cushiest job in their lives come 15 September.

My prediction for this morning is that Kevin Rudd is going to get off the plane in Canberra, go out and hunt down a TV crew, smile and say that he's fully committed to a Labor win and then "zip" before answering any questions about his real plans.

Regardless of how you feel about Labor and Rudd, consider his behaviour. He's a backbencher in a safe seat - one of the few Labor fortresses remaining - and what else does he have to do with his time? If he wanted to, he could spend a lazy hour or so with every political journo in Canberra giving him their full attention. That sort of pull doesn't come easily, even to a Prime Minister. Most politicians, hell, they wouldn't be able to stop talking and smiling - you'd have to attach a rope to the bumper of their Comcar Statesman to haul them away.

But all we'll get out of Kevin13 is a smiley soundbite.

Kevin13 - kinda sums the thing up, doesn't it? "Canberra, we have a problem!"

 

[drross]

I'll confess to being an ALP MEMBER!, and I did the same

EDIT:

Newspoll Just Out

Primary Vote:

ALP 29 (-1) L/NP 48 (-1) GRN 9 (0)

So has ALP dropping 1PP to below 30, first time this year I believe.

the 1%drop

probably falls within the 3% tolerance range for the polls

 

[Mak404matt]

But all we'll get out of Kevin13 is a smiley soundbite.

Kevin13 - kinda sums the thing up, doesn't it? "Canberra, we have a problem!"

From some things I have been hearing, Crean13 has a nice ring to it

 

[BrentH]

Or perhaps we'll get a delay, and see Shorten14?

 

[casanovawa]

From some things I have been hearing, Crean13 has a nice ring to it

About the only thing it has going for it is that at least it rhymes... Easier to remember for some of the more challenged types come election day...

Apart from that it just shows how much the whole thing is spinning out of control...

 

[Moody]

About the only thing it has going for it is that at least it rhymes... Easier to remember for some of the more challenged types come election day...

Apart from that it just shows how much the whole thing is spinning out of control...

Yes - and how dumbed-down the whole process has become.

Apart from that is is highly academic, as it will be Tony55 come September.

 

[amaroo]

Or perhaps we'll get a delay, and see Shorten14?

Hah......the dream team of Shorten/Conroy sounds better - ShortCon

 

[medhead]

My local member, the dipstick, has just written to explain how he has succeeded in turning a busy intersection into utter chaos. People who wish to turn right in one direction will actually have to turn left and drive away from where they wish to go. People turning right from the other direction will have to drive 100m past the intersection and then turn right, where the others are turning left. So this will create a queue of cars back to the intersection, which will no doubt be blocked given Adelaide drivers inability to not block intersections. What a winner.

Cold comfort.

No comfort either way, at all. I was just interested in the statistics of it from an academic POV. I thought -1 ALP would mean +1 LNP hence the question and then wondering where the 1 went if not the LNP.

 

[drron]

Now,now Medhead.This time you really are wrong.It is my local member who is the real dipstick.:shock:

 

[medhead]

Now,now Medhead.This time you really are wrong.It is my local member who is the real dipstick.:shock:

I'll have to fight you for it. My local member has also told us that right turning traffic on the other road of the same intersection will now be controlled by lights. If he bothered to actually visit the intersection he'd find those right turning cars are already controlled by lights. So he's going to spend money installing lights that are already installed? It's supposed to be designed to prevent accidents but given south Australian drivers habitually ignore red arrows, it is common for drivers to turn through a red arrow after the other light is green IME, I'd expect driver training to be more effective.

 

[Pushka]

I'll have to fight you for it. My local member has also told us that right turning traffic on the other road of the same intersection will now be controlled by lights. If he bothered to actually visit the intersection he'd find those right turning cars are already controlled by lights. So he's going to spend money installing lights that are already installed? It's supposed to be designed to prevent accidents but given south Australian drivers habitually ignore red arrows, it is common for drivers to turn through a red arrow after the other light is green IME, I'd expect driver training to be more effective.

Which dipstick is this medhead? Hopefully he has nothing to do with Britannia Roundabout.