An organic curve on the left, compared with the 'curve' in the recent Channel 9 poll, since deleted by Channel 9 after it was hit with a bot attack of 160,000 'no' votes.
10:40AM A little later than expected, the race is on.
As predicted, like moths to a flame, the call's gone out to 'flip' the poll, 'put things right' etc. They can't resist using their spare time to 'flip' meaningless twitter polls 😄
Sunday 13 Sept 1pm - the 'no' vote is on track to 'flip' the poll. If there's a no-show at Freedom Walk 2.0 today, I apologise, many would-be attendees are too busy passing around my Twitter poll experiment now 🥴
13 Sept 2:45pm - The 'no' vote edges closer to the 50% mark after a whopping 6 hour effort by Freedom Walkers to 'flip' the poll. You have to admire their stubborn resolve; they've spent their day pleading with others to vote in a Twitter poll.
13 Sept 4pm - After an impressive 7.5 hour effort of pleading with people to 'flip' this poll, the 'no' vote reaches 50%. Thank you to everyone who voted, this is an interesting experiment and the data is very helpful. The poll goes for a few more days, will update.
13 Sept 10:15pm - Almost 14 hours after the 'no' vote started hammering away, they're starting to taper off. Technically to flip the poll they'll need to get it to 96% No, 4% Yes before the poll ends - are they up to the challenge?
14 Sept 4PM - The 'no' votes backed off at around the time it was brought to their attention that they'd been unknowing participants in an experiment, to the extent that the 'Yes' vote has now regained the lead. This'll be a conflicting point in time for the hijackers, no doubt.
15 Sept 12AM - The 'no' votes are dropping off. Will they return, or is the cat too far out of the bag on this experiment?
Final results -
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Strong statement — Lithgow community Elders, Indigenous community members and allies respond with facts on visit by Jacinta Price and David Littleproud. 1/3 👇
There's a bunch of trolls and commentators saying they're voting 'No' to get Albo out of the lodge — so here's a great big thread of all the times in the last 100 years a PM has quit over a lost referendum (hint: ZERO): #auspol
4 September 1926
To authorise the creation of authorities to control the terms and conditions of industrial employment.
Result: Not carried (43.50%)
PM: Stanley Bruce — 1923-1929 (didn't quit)
4 September 1926
To allow the Commonwealth to take measures to protect the public against interruption of essential services.
As media figures frantically try to misrepresent two more horror polls for Peter Dutton, here's a brief thread of all the times News Corp and Nine have declared Albo's honeymoon is over. Enjoy. #auspol
Here's how the Liberal Party's plan to sabotage Indigenous Australians will look: Dutton will try to deceptively rebrand their geographically diverse voice to 'The Canberra Voice' — it's a nod to Trump politics, intended to muddy the waters and take Aussies for fools. #auspol
The 'No' campaign will “borrow” Indigenous artwork and feature it in ads to try to disguise the campaign as authentic and create the false impression it's predominantly led by Indigenous Australians. It will go to great effort to hide who is really behind the 'No' push.
It will continue to deceptively claim that detail is “missing” or being “hidden” — despite that being 100% false. The campaign will also use quotes from anonymous First Nations Australians which will be impossible to verify (and could be completely made up).
BREAKING: Moira Deeming has assured an organiser of the rally in Melbourne that she “never condemned” them or “KJ” (Posie Parker) — just hours after John Pesutto claimed she “condemned” comments by anti-trans activists she attended a rally and post-rally meeting with. #auspol
Pesutto today said the condemnations made by Deeming were “the most important part of this”, when justifying his backdown on her expulsion. Before changing his mind, Pesutto had previously said it would be “a great failure of leadership if I didn't take this action”.
Deeming's comments throw a major spanner in the works just before Pesutto is scheduled to appear on #abc730 — it is not yet known if the interview will be live (uh-oh) or pre-recorded.
FACT CHECK: Is the government really doing nothing to slow the spread?
THE CLAIM: Critics say the government has “given up” or “caved to big business” and is “doing nothing” to slow the spread.
VERDICT: False. Read on...
Australia is in the grip of a Winter wave and many people are sick. Hospitals are under pressure and while vaccines have allowed us to get as close to 'normal' as pandemic life allows, there are tragically many dying and, sadly, many deaths could be avoided with vaccines.
Vaccines are available to all Aussies over 5, and it is vanishingly rare to have a genuine medical reason to abstain. Vaccines are the reason we're not seeing death tolls many-fold higher, and unvaccinated people are massively overrepresented in hospitals and morgues.