It seems the media are really the ones driven by poll results.
Recently Galaxy, in conjunction with News Ltd, stated that “58% of Australians opposed the carbon price, 28% were in favour of the measure and the rest were undecided”.
All forms of media were happy to sprout these poll results and on further investigation it was found that the poll conducted by Galaxy/News Ltd had been taken of a selected group of 500 people around the country (out of how many Million?) and that’s what the figures were representative of.
Come on News Ltd, and other media, stop misleading, sensationalising and trying to trash this government with the LNP. You are all continually not being honest and balanced about the situation.
We even see that Tony Abbott in an interview in 2009 was in favour of a carbon price/tax, despite him now saying that it was only IF, IF. What a load of rubbish.
The LNP are just so angry at not winning the last election, so angry that the Independents and Greens sided with Labor and not themselves (even after trying to sell their soul to them) and of course Labor putting forward very hard reforms for the betterment of our country.
This just leaves the LNP to remove the compensation to low and middle income earners once the carbon tax comes in…….but they won’t because they will suffer at the hands of the people. The LNP bag the mining tax but will love the money they get from it IF they win the next election and will not repeal as they continually claim.
Just look at the massive backflip by the NSW Liberal Government when they kept the solar rebate in NSW. Even the LNP backflip.
Labor is definitely finding it difficult to put their message across; they have made mistakes, who hasn’t. The LNP certainly have in their time and they themselves lie, mislead. Joe Hockey saying this next Labor surplus is based on China well hello…….what do you think the LNP surplus was before Labor won office…..it was from China and the mining boom!
The LNP and media are so bent on using the benefit of ‘hindsight’ to ridicule and bag the Government but don’t have any answers themselves. They just resort to sexist remarks and slagging and bagging the Prime Minister and Labor Government.
The Liberal National Party, News Ltd and other media are just all about ‘destroy, destroy, destroy’. The LNP are very spiteful and it shows in their rhetoric and how rude they are, particularly Christopher Pyne in Question Time in the House of Representatives. It’s a big game for the LNP and notice how Abbott continually checks himself out by looking at the monitors in Parliament House. Tell me that’s not being on himself.
The LNP have nothing to put forward themselves with detail as can be shown by the Budget reply drivel by Tony Abbott AND Joe Hockey. Of course Joe Hockey would say “we won’t do the heavy lifting for the government”, which is a nonsense, Joe Hockey just doesn’t really want to show what CUTS they would make in fear of the polls and people talking and finally realising what the LNP would do.
Our family are low income and we are strongly in favour of making big polluters pay with a carbon price. We are being hit by price rises for everything but this will happen even if the LNP are in power….god help us.
At least we will be compensated under Labor.
Carl is a dual trade Electrician/Fitter and Turner with many passions, one of these is for the Japanese culture, a collector of Japanese antiques and a player of Taiko drums, another is politics and wanting accountability and truth in media. He has a wife and two children of both sexes. Loves rainforests, sustainability and Science Fiction.
• Dennis Shanahan, The Australian: Julia Gillard’s support hits record low: Newspoll
JULIA Gillard’s personal support has crashed to a new low, putting Tony Abbott within reach of her as the preferred prime minister for the first time.
Only one in three voters is now satisfied with the way the Prime Minister is doing her job and more than half remain dissatisfied.
While Ms Gillard has tried desperately to promote her carbon tax and settle an asylum-seeker deal with Malaysia during the past two weeks, voter satisfaction with the way she is doing her job has slumped five percentage points to a new low for her of 30 per cent. Voter dissatisfaction with Ms Gillard was virtually unchanged on 55 per cent.
Voters also turned off Ms Gillard when asked who would make the better prime minister, her support falling from 44 per cent to 41 per cent – also a new low for the Labor leader.
Personal support for Ms Gillard is now similar to that of former Labor prime minister Paul Keating before he lost the 1996 election and that of former Liberal prime minister John Howard in 1998 after he announced he would introduce a GST. It is also lower than Kevin Rudd’s approval rating when Ms Gillard replaced him as Prime Minister a year ago.
Although satisfaction with the Opposition Leader also remains low – down from 37 per cent two weeks ago to 35 per cent last weekend, with dissatisfaction almost unchanged on 52 per cent – Mr Abbott is now within three points of Ms Gillard as preferred prime minister, on 38 per cent.
According to the latest Newspoll survey, conducted exclusively for The Australian last weekend, Labor’s primary voted has dropped back to its second-lowest on record at 31 per cent while the Coalition’s rose two points to 46 per cent.
Primary vote support for the Greens dropped from 14 per cent two weeks ago back to its election level of 11 per cent and support for others rose four points to 12 per cent.
Based on preference flows at the August 2010 election, the Coalition widened its two-party-preferred lead in the past two weeks from four points to 10 – 55 per cent to Labor’s 45 per cent.
Labor’s primary vote has now been in the low- to mid-30s since Ms Gillard announced in February that she would implement a carbon tax from July 1 next year.
The Coalition’s two-party-preferred support in Newspoll surveys has put it continuously in a clear election-winning lead since the beginning of April. Its primary vote has averaged 45 per cent during that time.
The latest survey was taken during continuing negotiations to seal a deal with Malaysia – under which Australia would swap 800 asylum-seekers picked up in Australian waters for 4000 proven refugees now in camps in Malaysia – and after the release of the Productivity Commission’s report on international carbon-reduction schemes. It found the biggest changes were with Ms Gillard’s personal support. Satisfaction with Ms Gillard has now dropped …
