TONY Abbott's Coalition have begun the election campaign slightly ahead of Labor and with the Opposition Leader also the preferred prime minister, according to a poll.
A Seven News/Reachtel poll tonight put the Coalition's two-party preferred vote on 52 per cent compared to 48 per cent for Labor.
In the better PM stakes, Mr Rudd scored 49 per cent and Mr Abbott 51 per cent.
The Coalition were also stronger on the economy 60 per cent to Labor on 40 per cent.
Hope it's OK to start a new thread now that we have an election date.
This is a start:
I don't know anything about the methodology employed by Seven News/Reachtel.
The first Newspoll of the campaign will be interesting.
.................now that we have an election date.
Wrong month in the heading Julia, not on this Wednesday, but in September. I wonder if I can vote at the Birdsville races.
Cheers
Country Lad
So terribly sorry, CL. Utter crassness on my part, of course. Even, perhaps, a deliberate attempt to mislead.Wrong month in the heading Julia, not on this Wednesday, but in September. I wonder if I can vote at the Birdsville races.
Cheers
Country Lad
This is pretty funny, isn't it. They've had six years to get it all right, yet apparently we still need a new way.View attachment 53685
A NEW WAY!!! You have to give Rudd credit. He can think up many new ways to root the country.
This is pretty funny, isn't it. They've had six years to get it all right, yet apparently we still need a new way.
Remember Julia Gillard's "a [good] crap government that has lost its way".
RN this morning announced that the latest Newspoll, out today, gives 2PP 52 - 48 in favour of the Coalition.
Also said there was a change re some of the other questions. I can't find it on the ABC website or via Newspoll itself. Does anyone have this? Expect it will be published in The Australian tomorrow.
Refreshing to see that the Murdoch media has done away with any pretence of impartiality...Today's Sydney Telegraph front page.
Thanks, noco, but that just goes to the ABC's Compass link. What I was looking for was the Newspoll result which comes out early am Monday but is usually only published on Tuesdays in The Australian.
To those who are distraught about the stand taken by the Murdoch media, maybe try to remember that it's a private company which is absolutely entitled to publish whatever it likes..
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2013/s3818711.htmDid anyone see 7.30 this evening, specifically Leigh Sales interviewing together Penny Wong and Mathias Corrman?
Wong was certainly interrupting regularly but I don't think she was completely out of order, and I don't think Sales handled it all too badly. She tried to steer the interview to a productive course rather than let either member continue dribbling spin.I hope this isn't setting the tone for the election campaign. She allowed Wong to continually interrupt Corrman, and failed to give Corrman right of reply to some quite outrageous comments by Wong.
Disappointing, in that my impression of Leigh Sales over the last year or so has been that she has been pretty fair and objective. Certainly wasn't on this occasion.
You forgot about Murdoch's former rag "The News of the World". The Brits took a very dim view of Murdoch publishing "what ever he liked".
It's very disingenuous of you to imply that News Ltd in Australia has ever or would ever engage in anything remotely like what happened with the News of the World.You forgot about Murdoch's former rag "The News of the World". The Brits took a very dim view of Murdoch publishing "what ever he liked".
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