Newspoll, published 5 May 2019
Sunday 5 May 2019
Thirteen days out from the 2019 Australian federal election and the polls look like this
Newspoll, published 5 May 2019
Primary Vote – Coalition 38 (unchanged) Labor 36 (down 1 point)
Voter Net Satisfaction with Leaders – Morrison -1 (unchanged) Shorten -18
(down 6 points)
This is the 54th consecutive Newspoll in which Labor leads on a Two Party Preferred (TPP) basis.
The last time the Coaltion scored a higher TPP than Labor was on election day in 2016.
Between the 19 June 2017 and the 5 May 2019 Newspoll the Coalition only bested Labor on a Primary Vote basis 11 times out of a total of 42 polls. Only 3 of those higher primary vote scores occurred after Scott Morrison ousted Malcolm Turnbull as prime minister.
IPSOS poll, published 5 May 2019
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These days it is hard to tell the Liberal Party and One Nation apart
In its frantic pursuit of every right wing vote it can muster, the Liberal Party of Australia has chosen candidates from among the type of anti-science, chauvinistic, racist, homophobic bigots usually found swimming in One Nation's pool.....
@vanbadham
Anti-feminist former law professor and current Liberal candidate in the Curtain electorate Celia Hammond believes anthropomorphic global warming is minimal at best.
Liberal candidate in Chisholm electorate Lucy Liu stated Chinese
people come to Australia because they want ... good things for their next
generation, not to be destroyed – they used the word destroyed – by these sort
of concepts, of same-sex, transgender and inter-gender, cross gender, and all
of this rubbish as well as conducting a WeChat campaign against Victoria’s Safe Schools policy ahead of the 2016 election, when she was the head of the Liberal Party’s Victorian community engagement committee.
Then there is the Liberal candidate for the Lyons electorate Jessica Whelan came out of the gates fighting and who apparently intended to refer the anti-Muslim tweet she allegedly posted on her own account to the Australian Federal Police in the hope of neutralising any further questions from the media - claiming her account was 'hacked'. However, further tweets emerged and the Liberal Party is no longer fielding her as their candidate. So the count is now four Liberal Party candidates disendorsed just thirteen days out from the federal election.
NOTE: In April 2019 the Liberal Party also had to acknowledge three of their preselected candidates in Victoria pulled out of the election because of section 44, the constitutional career killer the Australian Electoral Commission has specifically warned candidates about this year.
UPDATE By 9 May 2019 the Liberal candidate in Scullin electorate Gurpal Singh was asked to resign by party due to homophobic and sexist social media comments. |
Are ineligible candidates standing at the 18 May 2019 federal election?
Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) Disclaimer: The AEC has
no power under the Electoral Act to make any determination in relation to the
qualification checklist in a person’s nomination, except as to whether the
person has answered every mandatory question, and provided additional
documentation where required. The candidate must be satisfied that the
additional documents support their contentions in the Qualification Checklist
and that they are qualified under the Constitution and the laws of the
Commonwealth to be elected as a Senator or a member of the House of
Representatives.
The
Guardian, 26
April 2019:
At least 19 United
Australia party candidates have submitted incomplete or inconsistent
information to the Australian Electoral Commission, failing to provide evidence
they are eligible to run for parliament.
The candidates for Clive
Palmer’s party have asserted they are not dual citizens disqualified by section
44 of the constitution, but have mostly failed to provide birth details of
their parents or grandparents, even in cases where candidates admit parents or
grandparents were born overseas.
In one case the UAP
candidate for Blaxland, Nadeem Ashraf, claimed in a statutory declaration that
he lost dual Pakistani citizenship automatically when he became Australian in
1986. Even when taking up another citizenship Pakistani law requires
a declaration of renunciation, which Ashraf failed to provide.
A spokesman for the
United Australia party told Guardian Australia “all [candidates] are eligible
and compliant under s44”, but failed to explain why they had not completed the
checklist.
A spokesman for the AEC
said it had no “power to reject a fully completed candidate nomination for the
Senate or the House of Representatives, regardless of whether any answer to a
question of the qualification checklist is incorrect, false or inadequate”.
At least 16 UAP
candidates stated that they were born in Australia, declared they had parents
or grandparents born in another country but then failed to provide details.
These include Matthew Sirianni-Duffy in Aston, Wayne
Connolly in Goldstein, Lisa Bentley in Gellibrand, Ron Jean in Dunkley, George
Zoraya in Chisholm, Adam Veitch in Bendigo, Neil Harvey in Corangamite, Lynda
Abdo in Hume, Colin Thompson in Dawson, Christian Julius in Griffith, Kenneth
Law in Groom, Jatinder Singh in Holt, Shane Wheatland in Indi, Tony Seals in
Isaacs, Md Sarwar Hasan in Maribyrnong, Tony Pecora in Melbourne, Adam Holt in
Sydney and Yohan Batzke, a Queensland Senate candidate.
The 45th parliament
was rocked
by 14 MPs or senators resigning or being ruled ineligible due to dual citizenship,
many of them triggered by citizenship by descent from parents or grandparents
born in the United Kingdom or New Zealand…..
The joint
standing committee on electoral matters has warned that the presence
of ineligible candidates on the ballot creates potential that “a successful
candidate could have their election challenged on the basis of preference flows
from an ineligible candidate”.
UAP is not alone in having candidates who did not fully compete their nomination forms. It would appear that a number of candidates from more than one political party have also submitted forms unaccompanied by required documentation.
Voters can check the nomination forms of candidates standing in their electorate at
https://www.aec.gov.au/election/candidates.htm.
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Saturday 4 May 2019
Best Political Meme of the Week
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Best billboard of the 2019 federal election campaign
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Friday 3 May 2019
Can One Nation candidates get any sleazier than this?
One Nation Queensland Leader and former LNP state minister Steve Dickson who is a 2019 federal election candidate has been forced to resign because of this video.
The married One Nation Senate candidate has been filmed groping an exotic dancer in a strip club and asking her to come home with him and saying the dancer "wants to suck my c**k".
Dickson may have resigned from all position he held in the One Nation party, however his name remains on the Senate ballot paper.
Nationals' Barnaby Joyce in deeper water
.@hamishnews uncovers some fresh insights into the water buy back scandal #TheProjectTV pic.twitter.com/jEFeyA6SpO— The Project (@theprojecttv) April 29, 2019
13 reasons why voting for Liberal or Nationals candidates on 18 May 2019 may not be the best choice you could make
The McKell Institute, April 2019, Fork
in the Road: The impact of the two major parties’ penalty rate policies in the
2019 Federal Election:
Key National Findings
Finding 1: Throughout the three year period of the
forthcoming 46th parliament, workers will collectively receive $2.87
billion less in penalty
rate pay under a re-elected Coalition Government than a Labor Government, when
factoring in each party’s policy preferences.
Finding 2: Nationally, workers in the fast food industry
are expected to receive $303.8 million less in penalty rate pay under a re-elected Coalition Government
than under a Labor Government over the life of the forthcoming parliament.
Finding 3: Nationally, workers in the hospitality industry
are expected to receive $837.15 million less in penalty rate pay under a re-elected Coalition Government
than under a Labor Government over the life of the forthcoming parliament.
Finding 4: Nationally, workers in the retail industry
are expected to receive $1.64 billion less in penalty rate pay under a re-elected Coalition Government
than under a Labor Government over the life of the forthcoming parliament.
Finding
5: Nationally, workers in the pharmacy industry are expected to receive $84.86
million less in penalty
rate pay under a re-elected Coalition Government than under a Labor Government
over the life of the forthcoming parliament.
Finding 6: Over the life of the forthcoming parliament,
workers in Queensland are collectively expected to receive $573.7
million less in penalty
rate pay under a re-elected Coalition Government’s than under a Labor
Government.
Finding 7: Over the life of the forthcoming parliament,
workers in New South Wales are expected to receive $899.26 million less in penalty rate pay under a
re-elected Coalition Government than under a Labor Government.
Finding 8: Over the life of the forthcoming parliament,
workers in the ACT are expected to receive $45.69 million less in penalty rate pay under a
re-elected Coalition Government than under a Labor Government.
Finding 9: Over the life of the forthcoming parliament,
workers in Victoria are expected to receive $750.74 million less in penalty rate pay under a
re-elected Coalition Government than under a Labor Government.
Finding 10: Over the life of the forthcoming parliament,
workers in Tasmania are expected to receive $65.02 million less in penalty rate pay under a
re-elected Coalition Government than under a Labor Government.
Finding 11: Over the life of the forthcoming parliament,
workers in South Australia are expected to receive $209.65 million less in penalty rate pay under a
re-elected Coalition Government than under a Labor Government.
Finding 12: Over the life of the
forthcoming parliament, workers in Western Australia are expected to
receive $299.52 million less in
penalty rate pay under a re-elected Coalition Government than under a Labor
Government.
Finding 13: Over the life of the forthcoming parliament, workers in
Northern Territory are expected to receive $23.56 million less in penalty rate pay under a
re-elected Coalition Government than under a Labor Government.
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