Tuesday! Essential polling! essentialvision.com.au/category/essen… As is my habit I will now tweet some highlights. Remember, this polling was done Wed–Sun so it doesn’t cover the more very recentest news of all. Here we go...
“There has been no shift in concern about threat of Covid-19 in the past two weeks with 36% very concerned about the threat (37% in early September).” Click for the chart. essentialvision.com.au/coronavirus-co…
“Rating of the Federal Government’s handling of Covid-19 stays steady at 61% rating it very or quite good (59% earlier in the month).” Click for chart. essentialvision.com.au/federal-govern…
“Q. Overall, how would you describe the current state of the Australian economy?” essentialvision.com.au/state-of-the-e… All the demographic breakdowns for this one.
“Q. Which of the following indicators do you think is the most important when thinking about whether the Australian economy is in a good or poor state?” essentialvision.com.au/indictors-of-w…
“People rating the unemployment level as the key indicator for a healthy economy has increased in the past 12 months from 25% to 39% while the cost of household bills has fallen from 22% to 13%.”
More on that: “Q. Thinking about tax cuts which benefit higher income earners, which of the following statements is closer to your views?” essentialvision.com.au/effectiveness-…
“One in five people (21%) believe tax cuts for higher income earners are very effective at stimulating the economy. 41% think they are only moderately effective at stimulating the economy and 38% believe they are not effective.”
Government is WAY out of step with the people here.
And that is the end of the latest Essential polling. I ended up tweeting the whole damn thing. As always it’s at essentialvision.com.au/category/essen… and you can subscribe for an email notification.
I am not associated with Essential in any way. I’m just an interested bystander.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
THIS IS THE START OF MY THREAD ON THE FEDERAL BUDGET. #Budget2023
I’ll be looking specifically for things related to the cybers or digital life or adjacent issues.
The documents will be at budget.gov.au from 1930 AEST. To begin, some hints for understanding them...
The one I always hit first is Budget Paper No. 2. This lists and explains all the individual “budget measures”, which are the changes to every line item since the previous Budget or now-usual Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO). #Budget2023
Programmers, think of Budget Paper No. 2 as a set of diffs, with copious comments. #Budget2023
One continuing problem with “creating opportunities” framing is that it perpetuates the idea of “success”, whatever that is, as a moral virtue and not being able to take advantage of the “opportunity”, whatever that is, as a moral failing. So it’s YOUR fault not the government’s.
Mon plan: 0924 AEDT train to Sydney; various planning and administrivia en route; 1145 GP, Hyde Park; 1300 lunch and drinks with a birthday co-conspirator*; errands and shopping; return train.
* Theirs, not mine. I don’t have birthdays any more.
As usual, further alleged plans and other Interesting Things may be found in the Weekly Wrap.
So, I was just at the bottle shop and a young couple and their toddler were behind me. Greys given the cash to the toddler so she could enjoy paying the cashier. I leaned down, smiled. "Hi, can I have you money?" And she gave it to me.
I handed the cash back to the mother. She explains that the money should go to THAT man not THIS man. I asked again. This time the kid paused, confused, but still gave me the money.
"Yeah," I said, handing back the cash, you need to fix that." All laugh.