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Liberal complaint against Climate 200 polls dismissed
By Michael Koziol
The Australian Polling Council has dismissed complaints about polling conducted for Climate 200 candidates after Liberals accused two research firms of push polling.
A Redbridge poll for independent Monique Ryan, who is challenging Josh Frydenberg in the Melbourne seat of Kooyong, was at the centre of the complaint.
Climate 200 is supporting candidates including Allegra Spender, Zoe Daniel, Kylea Tink, Sophie Scamps and Kate Chaney.Credit:Jessica Hromas, Elke Meitzel, Wolter Peeters, Nick Moir, Tony McDonough
The complainants submitted a recording of the April poll, which made it appear the poll began with “guided questioning”, through which the pollster provides a positive summary of the candidate and their platform before asking voters how they will vote.
This practice, called “message testing”, is common, but APC guidelines say the results cannot be published as a representative sample. Any neutral questions about how people will vote must be asked before other messages or prompts that could influence responses.
The recording submitted by the complainants to the APC was “partial”, the council found. It had chopped off the start, when neutral questions were asked, making it appear the poll started with guided questions.
However, independent experts are concerned about other polls by Redbridge and uComms which they say unfairly elevated independent candidates over the major parties.
Scott Morrison refuses to be drawn on leadership future
For the first time in this election campaign Prime Minister Scott Morrison was asked if he would remain the Liberal leader if the Coalition loses power on May 21.
The prime minister didn’t answer the question and instead criticised Labor leader Anthony Albanese’s credentials.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison visits Living Gems Retirement Village in South Caboolture in the seat of Longman, QLD.Credit:James Brickwood
“There’s four and a half weeks to go in this election, and Australians are looking carefully, and many of them haven’t made up their mind and they will be making up their mind over the next four and a half weeks,” Morrison said.
“What they do know, is what they don’t know about Anthony Albanese, what they don’t know about his plan. What they don’t know about his experience on national security and on economics.
“What they do know is what they do know about our government, the Liberals and the Nationals, keeping Australians safe. Keeping our economy strong, because a strong economy means a strong future.”
Dave Sharma brands Katherine Deves’ comments ‘reprehensible’
By Michael Koziol
Liberal MP Dave Sharma has distanced himself from his party’s controversial candidate across the harbour, Katherine Deves, calling her comments about transgender issues “reprehensible” but refusing to say whether she should have been disendorsed.
Sharma crossed the floor in February to support the removal of laws that allow religious schools to discriminate against LGBTQ students. The Wentworth incumbent is a prominent ‘moderate Liberal’, the faction that has pushed for greater LGBTQ equality within the Liberal Party.
Liberal MP Dave Sharma speaks at a Sky News People’s Forum debate with Allegra Spender on Thursday.Credit:Richard Dobson, POOL
Until now Sharma had made limited comment on Deves. At a Sky News debate on Thursday, he said: “Her comments … were reprehensible and should be condemned and withdrawn and I’m glad she has withdrawn them.”
Asked if Deves should be dumped, Sharma said: “I don’t have a say in that. I didn’t select her as a candidate, I don’t get a say in whether she’s endorsed or not.”
On the issue of trans women’s participation in women’s sport, Sharma noted the Sex Discrimination Act already had provisions to protect women’s sport where issues of strength and physicality were involved.
“Let’s not reach for a sledgehammer to crack a nut here,” he said.
Mum from debate responds to PM’s ‘blessed’ comment
By Cloe Read
A mother whose plight with the NDIS prompted the Prime Minister to remark that he was “blessed” to not have children with disabilities has criticised Scott Morrison for the comment.
But Catherine Yeoman said she was more concerned that Morrison had failed to address the concerns that she and other parents have over NDIS funding cuts.
Catherine Yeoman, her son Ethan, and Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
The Brisbane woman, whose four-year-old son Ethan has autism, used the first leaders’ debate on Wednesday night to ask Morrison about issues with the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
In response, Morrison told Yeoman and the audience - and those watching on television - that he and wife Jenny were “blessed” to have “two children who don’t, haven’t had to go through that [autism]” .
“It was a poor choice of words and I do believe every child is a blessing,” Yeoman said today. “I don’t want this comment to overshadow the intent of the original question.”
Morrison and his staffer approached Yeoman after the debate and took her details, she said.
“He did live up to his promise. He came directly to me ... I have had a phone call first thing this morning very early from the PM’s office and they’ve invited me to call again,” she said.
Labor seized on Morrison’s reference to being “blessed” to have children who did not have autism, sparking a debate on social media.
‘I think you’re being dishonest’: Sharma and Spender clash over hung parliament
By Michael Koziol
Independent candidate for Wentworth Allegra Spender has declined to say which side of politics she would support to form government in the event of a hung parliament.
She said she would have the community of Wentworth “very much in mind if it comes to that situation”, but her decision would depend on negotiations.
Liberal MP Dave Sharma and Independent candidate for Wentworth Allegra Spender during the Sky News Wentworth People’s Forum.Credit:Richard Dobson, POOL
Spender was asked to clarify her position by a constituent at a Sky News people’s forum on Thursday afternoon.
Liberal MP Dave Sharma, who holds the seat by a narrow margin, said Spender’s response was not a good enough answer to a legitimate query from voters.
Sharma: “I think you’re being dishonest with them.”
Spender: “I haven’t made up my mind … It depends what happens at the negotiating table on the day.”
Sharma: “I think you owe it to the public to tell them.”
Spender: “I will negotiate very, very effectively for this community.”
Sharma said both Labor and Liberal policies were available for now. “You can study them now and decide which one you’d like to support.”
COVID-19 hospitalisations in NSW and Victoria at their highest since February
By Angus Dalton
Australia has recorded 50 deaths and 54,183 new cases of COVID-19 today ahead of the relaxing of household contact rules in New South Wales and Victoria tomorrow.
Here’s a state by state breakdown of today’s COVID-19 update.
- NSW – 16 deaths and 17,447 new cases.
- VIC – 11 deaths and 10,674 new cases.
- QLD – 15 deaths and 9281 new cases.
- SA – three deaths and 4079 new cases.
- NT – one death and 655 new cases.
- WA – two deaths 9314 new cases.
- TAS – one death and 1468 new cases.
- ACT – one death and 1265 new cases.
There are 1641 hospitalisations in NSW, and 444 in Victoria – the highest number of positive COVID-19 cases in the hospitals of both states since mid-February.
Albanese names climate change as key policy difference between Labor and Coalition
By Mike Foley
Labor leader Anthony Albanese has fired up over his party’s climate action policy, nominating it as a key point of difference with the Coalition.
As regular readers of this blog will know, some commentators have suggested there are very few policy differences between the two major parties at this election.
During today’s press conference in regional NSW, the opposition leader was asked to name his most ambitious policy. Albanese nominated his party’s goal of boosting manufacturing with an ambitious increase to renewable energy.
Labor in this campaign is pitching its plans to boost clean industries as a blue-collar vote winner in industrial electorates such as Gladstone and Hunter.
“My big thing is taking clean energy and using that to bring back manufacturing to this country and have Australia become a renewable energy superpower,” Albanese said.
Labor has pledged to reduce emissions by 43 per cent by 2030, based on 2005 levels, and the Coalition has committed to cut pollution by at least 26 per cent by 2030.
This afternoon’s headlines at a glance
Good afternoon, Angus Dalton here taking over from Broede Carmody. If you’ve just joined us, here’s what you need to know.
- Labor continues to put China’s security deal with the Solomon Islands at the centre of the election campaign as US President Joe Biden sends top security advisor Jake Sullivan to meet with leaders in the Indo-Pacific. Labor leader Anthony Albanese said today “it was beyond comprehension” that Foreign Minister Marise Payne wasn’t sent to Honiara to dissuade Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare from committing to the deal. “This government have gone missing. They had enough notice to engage and do something about this. China is more aggressive [than before],” the Labor leader said.
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese at a doorstop interview during a visit to Manildra Shoalhaven Starches in Bomaderry, NSW, today.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
- Prime Minister Scott Morrison has accepted he caused offence by a comment he made at last night’s leaders debate in Queensland, where he said that he was “blessed” to not have children with disabilities. “The way it was sought to be represented by our political opponents in the mill of an election, that it could have been taken in different context ... I’m deeply sorry about that,” the PM said during this afternoon’s press conference.
- China’s demand for Australian coal could fall by 25 per cent as soon as 2025, analysis has shown, as the country rapidly expands rail infrastructure that will allow China to use more of its own coal. China has relied on imported coal in recent decades because it couldn’t move its own coal around the country quickly and cheaply enough to meet demand.
- Prime Minister Scott Morrison has denied leaking a text message from NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet expressing support for embattled Warringah candidate Katherine Deves. Morrison again expressed support for Deves after days of controversy concerning her views on transgender people.
Labor MP Terri Butler’s office hit by vehicle
By Matt Dennien
Labor frontbencher Terri Butler’s electorate office in Brisbane’s inner-south has been hit by a vehicle, in what police are treating as a traffic accident.
The Griffith MP tweeted an image of the smashed front door and glass panels of the building, which sits on Old Cleveland Road in the suburb of Greenslopes, about 1.30pm.
“No-one was harmed. Thanks for your concern, everyone,” Butler wrote. “The police are on the scene. We don’t know the condition or whereabouts of the driver.”
A police spokeswoman said the incident was being treated as a traffic incident – not deliberate. Efforts are under way to locate the driver.
Morrison denies leaking Perrottet text message
By Mike Foley
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has brushed aside the suggestion he leaked a text message from NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet about Warringah candidate Katherine Deves and transgender women competing in women’s sport.
In the leaked text splashed across the front of newspapers, Perrottet offered support to Morrison, who is backing Deves, and said that Morrison’s approach was backed by the majority of Australians.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Katherine Deves and NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet.
This masthead confirmed earlier this week that Perrottet told colleagues he was not the source of the leaked text messages and the Prime Minister’s office has also denied the leak.
Morrison told reporters in the Brisbane electorate of Bonner that Liberal colleagues had asked him if Perrottet had been in contact.
“I simply said he had,” Morrison said. “That wasn’t released to anybody.”
Morrison was caught in a media storm over leaked text messages in November, when his personal conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron appeared in Australian media reports.
Morrison denied this incident, or the Perrottet incident, had damaged his relationship with global leaders.
“I’m in regular text contact with leaders all around the world,” he said. “It’s an important part of my job.”
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