Back To The Future? Newspoll voting intention survey 6-12 February 2022, published 13 February

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/newspoll

The graph displayed above contains the results of 37 Newspoll surveys published between 4 February 2018 and 13 February 2022.

Two days after Scott Morrison became Australia's 30th prime minister the Newspoll survey of 26 September 2018 showed the 'two party preferred' vote stood at Labor 56 (unchanged) to Coalition 44 (-5).

 

The day before the 18 May 2019 federal general election Newspoll showed the 'two party preferred' vote stood at Labor 51.5 to Coalition 48.5. The Coalition went on to win the 2019 election 77 seats to 68 seats, with a 9 seat majority in the House of Representatives - since reduced to an 8 seat majority.

Six times between 10 November 2019 and 6 June 2021 the 'two party preferred' vote stood at 50-50.

On 13 February 2022 - just 66 days out from the last possible date for the constitutionally required federal general election - Newspoll showed the 'two party preferred' vote stood at Labor 55 to Coalition 45.

 

The Australian, Newspoll published on 13 February 2022 revealed:

FIRST PREFERENCE VOTE:

Coalition 34% (unchanged)

Labor 41% (unchanged)

TWO PARTY PREFERRED VOTE:

Coalition 45% (+1)

Labor 55% (-1)

The Greens 8% (-3)

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation 3% (unchanged)

Others 14% (+3)

LEADER’S PERFORMANCE:

Scott Morrison

Approval 40% (+1) Disapproval 56% (-2)

Anthony Albanese

Approval 37% (-3) Disapproval 46% (+3)

BETTER PRIME MINISTER:

Scott Morrison 43% (unchanged)

Anthony Albanese 38% (-3)

Unsure 19%

Newspoll survey was conducted on Wednesday 9 February to Saturday 13 February 2022 from a sample of 1,526 respondents.

In 2018 the Liberal MP for Cook & aspiring prime minister Scott John Morrison gave himself a nickname. In mid-February 2022 he now has another 252 nicknames & politically descriptive terms by which the voters of Australia know him

Liberal MP Scott John Morrison
Australian Prime Minister 24 August 2018 to ?

To mark the long and lingering death of democracy under the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Government - an update of the terms of 'endearment' applied to Scott John Morrison.

Self-proclaimed Scott ‘Scomo’ Morrison’s other nicknames and the descriptive political terms applied to him by the general public - in no particular order

#LiarFromTheShire #ScottyFromMarketing #ScumMo #SloMo #SmoKo #StuntMo #ScamMo #ScoMoFo #ScoMocchio #ProMo #FauxMo #CoalMo #GunnaDoMorrison #CrimeMinister #PrimeSinister #MorriScum #SloganBogan #ScoMoses #KoalaKiller #SmirkyMcSmirkface #TyphoidScotty #Bullshitboy #NotMyPM #ScottyFromSportsRorts #GrottyScotty #SideshowScott #TheJerkWithTheSmirk #TheEngadineShitter #HappyClappySloganBogan #ScottyNoMates #ScottyBornToShill #SnollygosterInChief #TrumpsBitch #ScoMoron #SmirkingSnake #SignificuntScotty #DeathMaker #ScottyTheAnnouncer #TheSmugThug #ScuntMo #JobShirker #JobDodger #ShirknSmirk #ScottyTheSaviour #MissionCreepMorrison #ScottyTheSimp #ScottyFromGilead #MaliciousMorrison #TrumpLite #ScottyTheBully #ScoFuckingMo #ScottyGanda #FoghornLiehorn #MansplainerInChief #Scooter #ScottyForPhotoShoots #ScottyThePoser #PerformativeShitclown #BunningsBoy #ScoVid #ScottyTheSkiver #PinchfartMorrison #ScottyWotty #ScottyNeverHelped #SnottyTheGrifter #RoboScomo #ScumNut #ScottyFromGasMarketing #ScottAllMouthNoTrousersMorrison #KimJongScottyUn #Scrotum #Fullofshiticus #ScottyGaveMeShingles #CaptainSmirk #McFuckface #SideshowScott #ScottyFromPhotoOps #DoughMo #ScottyTheUninvited #ScottyStoppedTheExports #ScottyThePutz #scottyfkntrump #SmirkAndMirrorsMorrison #ScottyNeverHelped #ScottyMIA #Slomoaf #InactionMan #SnakeOilScumo #NoShowMo #WhatsInItForScotty #ScottyTheFukwit #ScottyTheCharlatan #ScottyThe [insert swear or hands over mouth emoji here] #ScottyDoNothing #SnottieTheSpiv #ScottyTheVile #ShonkyFromTheStartScotty #ScottyKnew #ScottyFromCoverUps #ScottyTheRapistProtector #ScottyTheUnsavoury #ScottyTheQueueJumper #ScottyTheMisogynist #ScottyDoesNothing #PastorBumblefuck #ScottyIPromiseNotToShootWimmensMorrison #Squirmo #Scrotum #ScottyTheUnhinged #ScottyUnfitForOffice #LordSmirkington #ScottyTheGaslighter #ScottyFromDamageControl #SpinMeisterMorrison #ScottyTheLiar #ClotMorrison #Scoflake #ScareMo #MilkshakeMorrison #MealeyMouthMorriscum #ScottyBlahBlah #CanDooDooMorrison #MorrisonTheSpiritualAbuser #ScottyTheChosenOne #ScottyFromHillsong #ScottAlmighty #ScottyTheIntern #SquattyFromMarketing #MilkshakeTwerkinJerkinMotormouth #PariahFromTheShire #scroto #ElSmirko #ScottTheArseholePrick #ClottyTheEagleOfGod #TheLastKingofCookland #ScottyFromBlathering #Scomozzle #ScottyFromCarpeting #Scoff #Scovid #ScottyFromQanon #ScottyTheTosser #FakeScott #Moronson #ScottytheChildAbuser #ScottytheMonster #ScottyTheSerialUnderachiever #QanonPM #RoboSco #ScottyNoFriends #sQomo #Sqotty #QanonPM #ScottyFromStuffUps #LunaticInTheLodge #ScottyTheSuperSpreader #CrookFromCook #ClotMo #Smuggo #ScottyTheFaker #ScottyInHiding #ScottyTheProtocolCreep #ScottyTheObserver #ScottyTheAntichrist #SCOalMOle #ScottyTheDictator #ScottyFromHairPlugs #MorrisonTheOneManBand #WallpaperGuy #ScottyTheMaliciousAdvisor #ScottyFromMuppeting #ScottyTheBlameShifter #ScottyTheCoward #HuffMuffMorrison #SirMoron #MassMurdererMorrison #GotOffScottFreeMorrison #EvilBully #Clotty #Morrisogynist #AlohaScotty #IonlyHoldAPoseMorrison #JesusMorrison #ShoutyMcDickhead #ShoutyMcShoutface #ScottyFromGlasgow #PrimeMinisterForNSW #ScottyTheClimateFake #ComboverMorrison #LordOfTheLies #MorrisonTheDestroyer #TheAustralianWayPrimeFailure #PrimeFailureMorrison #ScottyHasAPamphlet #ScottyHasAPlan #ScottyThePariah #ScottyTheTraitor #ScottyTheLeaker #MorrisonPantsOnFire #DimwitDipshitDropkickClown #MorrisonNoShow #ScottyThePalterer #ScottyTheCoalFondler #LooseLipsMorrison #PrimeArsonist #ScottyThePathologicalLiar #TickTockScuntMo #ScottyTheSmugBastard #HawaiiScoMo #ScottyDontHoldAHose #ScottytheDogWhistler #ScottyTheNasty #TickTockScotty #CanDoCapitalismAndWontDoGovernmentMorrison #PrimeMemeMinister #ShanghaiScott #SnotMorrison #ScottytheLiarbyOmission #BooooScottyBoooo #BooHooScotty #ArrogantScott#SmirkingLumpOfSentientPizzaDough #Scomicron #ScottyCouldntGiveaRats #ScottyFromEugenics #RATPM #RestingSmugFace #PapaSmirk #ScottytheFailure #RentaGospelScottMorrison #MotormouthMorrison #PrimeMonsterMorrison #ScottyTheMediaWhore #GoSlowScomo #ScottTheUnlikeable #CantCountMorrison #ScottNoIdea #ScottyTheCreep #AbsoluteArseholeMorrison #ScottyFromHairdressing #ScottyNoEmpathy #ScottyTheWanker #PrimeIncompetent #ScottyTheIdiotInCharge #SensitiveScotty #ScottyTheTool #ScottyTheFraud #MorrisonTheCallousHypocrite #MorrisonFail #ShitshowMorrison #ScottyTheDickhead #ScottyTheShitMagnet #ScottyThePsycho #PsychoMo 252 Total as of 3pm 13 February 2022. This does not claim to be an exhaustive list.

By the time Australia goes to the polls in the forthcoming 2022 federal general election it might just be that the Morrison count will have reached 300.

NSW coastline becoming thick with shark nets and drumlines

 

"The RSPCA does not support killing sharks as a response to shark incidents involving humans. This approach causes unnecessary animal suffering to both target and non-target species. In addition, culling disturbs marine ecosystems and affects protected and vulnerable species including the targeted great white shark and non-target species such as the grey nurse shark. The available scientific evidence does not convincingly support the claim that killing sharks will reduce the risk to public safety. The RSPCA only accepts the management of wild animals where it is justified, effective and humane; the killing of sharks does not meet these criteria......

Drumlines 

A drumline consists of a floating drum (a rubber buoy) with one line attached to an anchor on the sea floor, while a second line features a large, baited hook to lure, catch and ultimately kill sharks.....

SMART drumline is designed to be a non-lethal method which, via a satellite link, sends an alert when the baited hook has been ‘taken’, with the aim that the shark or other species will be retrieved within a short period of time to enable live release. " [RSPCA,"What is the RSPCA’s view on killing sharks to reduce shark incidents?"]

Live release from drumlines is not always successful and over time many more non-target marine species than sharks are hooked on these lines, including protected & vulnerable species. 

The jury is also out on whether SMART drumlines are actually an effective shark mitigation strategy.

There are now 15 potentially lethal SMART drum lines approx. 500m offshore along an est. 52km long stretch of coastal waters between Woody Head and Wooli on the Clarence Coast.

These drumlines have been in place since late last year and will be deployed until mid-2022, allegedly being placed in ocean waters at dawn and retrieved at dusk.

SATURDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2022: Four state by-elections are being held today in the NSW electorates of Bega, Monaro, Strathfield & Willoughby. Polling booths close at 6pm & results will be online

The four Saturday, 12 February 2022 NSW by-elections for Bega, Monaro, Strathfield and Willoughby are being conducted under rules where every voter is automatically being sent ballot papers in a postal vote pack. 

As of 11 February the rates of pre-poll & postal voting were:

Bega – 29.4% of enrolled voters have cast a pre-poll and 21.3% returned a postal vote 

Monaro – 23.1% of enrolled voters have cast a pre-poll and 15.3% returned a postal vote 

Strathfield – 16.3% of enrolled voters have cast a pre-poll and 26.4% returned a postal vote 

Willoughby – 9.6% of enrolled voters have cast a pre-poll and 28.1% returned a postal vote.

Postal votes envelopes will be processed in the week after the election, but there will be no counting of postal votes until Saturday 19 February. This will make it harder to call results at the end of election night counting as so many votes are postal.

It is currently planned that the final results will be announced by the Electoral Commissioner by Friday, 11 March.

ABC 24 Hour News Channel will air ABC News NSW Byelections Special between 6pm-9pm tonight AEDST.

Watch live at https://www.abc.net.au/news/newschannel/ or catchup

highlights at https://iview.abc.net.au/

Antony Green's NSW by-elections 2022 Results live at https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/nsw-byelection-2022-results?filter=all&sort=az

 

Bega State by-election

Electing a Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly

Voting results at

https://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/Elections/State-government-elections/Bega-By-election/Bega-results

Retiring MLA Liberal Party backbencher Andrew Constance

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Monaro State by-election

Electing a Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly

Voting results at https://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/Elections/State-government-elections/Monaro-By-election/Monaro-results

Retiring MLA 'under a cloud' National Party backbencher John Barllaro

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Strathfield State by-election

Electing a Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly

Voting results at

https://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/Elections/State-government-elections/Strathfield-By-election/Strathfield-results

Retiring MLA Labor Party backbencher Jodi McKay

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Willoughby State by-election

Electing a Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly

Voting results at

https://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/Elections/State-government-elections/Willoughby-By-election/Willoughby-results

Retiring MLA 'disgraced' Liberal Party backbencher Gladys Berejiklian

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"Plotting world domination"
by @OzGouldian

Cartoon of the Week

Cathy Wilcox

Will Richmond Valley be sending a local farmer and environmental lawyer to the NSW Legislative Council to replace The Greens outgoing David Shoebridge?

Sue Higginson is an environmental lawyer and dryland rice farmer on the Richmond Valley floodplain. As part of farming practice she protects core koala habitat in the area through regenerating habitat and biodiversity and planting thousands of trees.

Echo, 9 February 2022:

Dryland rice farmer Sue Higginson on her farm. Photo Julian Meehan.

A casual vacancy has arisen for the Greens in the NSW upper house, and Sue Higginson is hoping to take the place of the vacating David Shoebridge.

Shoebridge is the Greens’ lead Senate candidate in the upcoming Federal election – as soon as the election is announced, he says he will resign his seat in the NSW Legislative Council…..

Ms Higginson is an environmental lawyer, activist, and a tireless advocate for justice. For many years, she was the CEO and principal solicitor of the Environmental Defender’s Office (EDO), running the highest-profile environmental litigation in the country.

‘I’ve taken coal and mining giants to court – like Rio Tinto and Santos, Whitehaven, Adani – and I’ve won. I’ve taken governments to court for wrong decisions, and I’ve advised many MPs in NSW Parliament’, Ms Higginson says.

Planning experience

‘As a public interest planning lawyer, I have an intimate understanding of the planning system. Planning law impacts our lives in every way. It determines what can and can’t happen in your local environment. Our planning laws need a significant shake up to address climate change, and put the protection of the environment and the health of our communities first’.

‘I know what that planning law system looks like and I would love to be in a position to advocate for it.’

For over a decade, Ms Higginson says ‘the Liberals have run a destructive economic agenda, serving the elite, and leaving so many behind, while the Nationals have plundered, and continue to plunder, our environment – like there’s no tomorrow’.

‘I’ve seen firsthand how they set the rules to serve their corporate masters and their mining mates, their time’s coming to an end.’ …..

‘I will pick up where David left off. I’m an experienced lawyer with forensic skill and an insatiable appetite for justice. I have expertise across all of David’s portfolios.’

The ballot opens on February 9.