Labor losing in the Polls

[Bobby]

Dutton has the election in the bag.

Albo is a one term PM.


https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal ... 5ledc.html

Dutton leads, Labor on course for election defeat according to shock poll

By David Crowe

February 23, 2025 — 6.00pm

Voters have lifted Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to a significant new lead in the race for power at the federal election, backing him as a strong leader while slashing their core support for Labor to a new low of 25 per cent.

The shift has taken the Coalition to a lead of 55 per cent
in two-party terms when Australians are asked how they would allocate their preferences on their ballot papers,
driving Labor to just 45 per cent and putting it on course for defeat.

In a warning sign for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, an exclusive survey also shows that 59 per cent of voters say the good news for the government last week – when the Reserve Bank cut interest rates – will not change their vote.


The survey, conducted for this masthead by research company Resolve Strategic, finds that 43 per cent of voters consider Albanese and Labor to be weak, while 22 per cent say the same for Dutton and the Coalition.

Asked which side offered strong leadership, 37 per cent name Dutton and the Coalition while 24 per cent name Albanese and Labor, a turnaround from when the prime minister led on this question one year ago.

The Opposition Leader also has a significant lead when voters are asked to name the party and leader who was best able to deal with United States President Donald Trump, with 34 per cent preferring Dutton and the Coalition compared to 18 per cent who favour Albanese and Labor.


Dutton leads as preferred prime minister for the second consecutive month, ahead by 39 per cent to 35 per cent against Albanese, although 26 per cent of voters are undecided on this question.

Resolve director Jim Reed said the two-party result suggested the Coalition was in a stronger position to win the election in its own right, or by gaining support in a hung parliament.

“I think the swing is on, with both the declining primary vote and preference flows for Labor reflecting where people are at right now,” he said.

“The public mood has lifted after the rate cut, but it has not led to any increase in support for the government.”

The Resolve Political Monitor surveyed 1506 eligible voters from Tuesday to Sunday, a period that included the Reserve Bank decision and Labor’s rescue package for steelworkers in Whyalla, although most of the survey was completed before the government announced $8.5 billion for Medicare on Sunday – a move quickly matched by the Coalition.

Core support for the Greens was unchanged at 13 per cent, while support for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation rose from 7 to 9 per cent and the independents slipped from 10 to 9 per cent. The results have a margin of error of 2.5 percentage points.

Most of the survey was conducted after mining magnate Clive Palmer announced last Wednesday he would support a small party, Trumpet of Patriots, after he spent $117 million on his United Australia Party at the last election.

Reed said the results suggested the independents are down and Palmer has not gained traction, while the Greens risk defeat in some city seats.

[Bobby]

Labor is done - Labor is no more -

get ready for Mr Spud.

[Black Orchid]

I'd like to see what Dutton intends to do about 'immigration' and foreign investment in real estate. Long term. Not just for a few months.

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[Bobby]

I watched Q&A tonight and Albanese was the only guest on the show.
He was asked about immigration but I got lost with all the numbers he mentioned.
Then he somehow put Dutton into the argument and
claimed there were more immigrants under the Liberals.
I think I'll need to wait until it's on YouTube and try to make a transcript?

He never really addressed his uncontrolled mass immigration.

Albo showed no remorse -
he accepted no responsibility.
He didn't apologise.

[Bobby]

https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/help-and ... tan-update



Humanitarian Visa Program

The Australian Government has allocated 26,500 dedicated visa places for Afghans
to migrate to Australia under the offshore Humanitarian Program through to 2026.

A critical aim of Australia’s Humanitarian Program is to reunite refugees and people who are in refugee-like situations overseas with their immediate family in Australia. This is through ‘split family’ provisions and the Special Humanitarian Program (SHP).

Visa applications for family reunion are more likely to be successful if the proposer is an immediate or close family member because they are afforded a higher priority.

Under the Migration Regulations 1994, people who arrived in Australia as an Unauthorised Maritime Arrival (UMA) on or after 13 August 2012 are unable to propose family members under the Humanitarian Program.

[Black Orchid]

Sorry but Australia is full.

[Bobby]

Sorry but Australia is full.

Here it is:

24th Feb 2025.

Q+A with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese



Question
8:52

Why is Australia continuing to maintain record high immigration levels
during the worst housing crisis in the nation’s history?
Hard working Australians are being pushed into homelessness.

Albo-
11:42
On immigration – particularly when it comes to housing – 3 quick points.
One –
is that the biggest thing that you could do –
area where you could reduce the amount is in students because some of that frankly was being abused –
we tried to do that through legislation –
Peter Dutton opposed that so it wouldn’t go through –
it didn’t go through the Senate so we’ve done it another way.

The second area of immigration is in skills we prioritized construction skills
uh – the viewer spoke about housing –
We want people to come here arr who are involved in construction
And that is an important point and

the third point –
that we won’t do that Peter Dutton will do is the $5 million golden ticket visas uh for people who are very wealthy to come here who obviously they’re not going to start up businesses straight away they they buy houses and we don’t think people should buy their way to the front of the queue and it opens up as the independent advice to government why we got it abolished it opens up to money laundering and a whole range of problems as well.

Patricia Karvelas –
PM we got a lot of questions – more than we can ask about immigration –
people expressing that they feel like immigration levels were too high –
Do you concede they got a bit too high?

Albo,
When the borders were lifted there was always going to be a spike –
Australians coming home, visitors coming here for the first time –
uh students whereas they would begin in a 4-year degree coming
one year 2025, 2026, 7,8 –
they all came at once – who’d been doing their courses online as well so it was always going to be a spike and indeed the population figures now are lower
than what was projected to be the case in 2019 –
I’ll make this point –
There’s only two times that more than 9 million visas have been
issued in any one year in Australia –
both times Peter Dutton was the minister.

[Bobby]

Notice how Albo wants to blame everyone else but himself? -

it is Peter Dutton or it's the Covid pandemic, it's the students finishing degrees.

He never accepts responsibility.