Re: Tony Abbott's Support Page

vicr3000 · ‎02-03-2015

Icy

I think a full on drenching like I used to do to sheep might be the only thing that works.

tezza2844 · ‎02-03-2015

@vicr3000 wrote:

Soemthing must have changed because the previous poll was 54 - 46 with same margin for error and same numbers polled.

I see you forgot to mention that.

LOSEE's Welfare 1 has gone off on a tangent again.

"Using the same margin for error approx.(+ or -) 2.6%" that figure could be interrupted as Labor 51 - 49.

vicr3000 · ‎02-03-2015

Exactly.

But I couldn't see where in the media article they stated why they showed the poll as 51 - 49 with all criteria the same.

They also listed the 3 or 4 polls before that as well.

Something has changed, I don't know the methodology they use so can't analyse it.

Either way, Labor has lost ground on this one.

And just to jump the gun before the others crow at the next poll, I reckon Labor will bounce back for the next one

for reasons which will become clear in the next day or so.

icyfroth · ‎02-03-2015

@vicr3000 wrote:

Icy

I think a full on drenching like I used to do to sheep might be the only thing that works.

He used to eat cane toads too, poor little Caleb.

He was a cross between a Corgi and Blue Heeler, cutest thing you ever saw on 4 legs! Used to get ticks all them time! Lovely soft fur. We used to threaten him with making a steering wheel cover out of him, lol.

He still loved us.

In the end the Wild Dogs got him.

This is in Mackay.

tezza2844 · ‎02-03-2015

@vicr3000 wrote:

Exactly.

But I couldn't see where in the media article they stated why they showed the poll as 51 - 49 with all criteria the same.

They also listed the 3 or 4 polls before that as well.

Something has changed, I don't know the methodology they use so can't analyse it.

Either way, Labor has lost ground on this one.

And just to jump the gun before the others crow at the next poll, I reckon Labor will bounce back for the next one
for reasons which will become clear in the next day or so.

A lot of these polls are conducted during the day and on land lines. This process rules out a large number of people working and those with mobile phones.

Also a quick look thro the AEC web site at the last election results, will give you which areas of each electorate to conduct your "random" selection to suit what ever result they want. These results are usually sold to the media, so if you have a fair idea what results the media outlet wants you stand a good chance of continuing bussiness

vicr3000 · ‎02-03-2015

Icy

Sorry to hear that. Ticks are a real pain. Considering how much time I have spent "bush" the only time I have got a tick

was in Qld on our first holiday in 1979, Atherton Tablelands. My dad poured petrol on it on the back of my neck.

Wild dogs are a problem, especially up that way because their are so many pig dogs.

BTW, how did your dog eat Cane Toads without getting ill or dying ?

Every damn animal up NT way, bar Dingoes has died out because of them !

icyfroth · ‎02-03-2015

It really depends on who they poll.

icyfroth · ‎02-03-2015

@vicr3000 wrote:
Icy

Sorry to hear that. Wild dogs are a problem, especially up that way because their are so many pig dogs.

BTW, how did your dog eat Cane Toads without getting ill or dying ?

Every damn animal up NT way, bar Dingoes has died out because of them !

Oh they made him very sick. He couldn't walk straight, was half paralysed, but he got away with it a cpl times.

Thing is he used to get really hungry because his big mate Ecco used to eat all his food. Apparently the trick is not to give them water because is makes their throat swell and suffocate them.

Wasn't my dog, was my daughter's.

icyfroth · ‎02-03-2015

anyway, back on topic:

Snakes in the Abbott government last week sold journalists a story they were only too eager to hear.

The story was kicked off by Riley a nobody on Channel 7, quickly jumped on by the ABC and none of their sources were named, clutching at straws they went back to the original moaners who were no longer interested in creating more trouble.

However the media promoted this story for several days without bothering to find out if there was even a party meeting set down for Tuesday....

Alan Jones outed the nameless nobody’s this morning and thus far not one of them has come forward to speak. We had Laming go on the project and big note himself and that little exercise hopefully will cost him his seat next election, make no mistake voters don’t like traitors and the party would be wise to get rid of him at pre-selection.

An elected MP cannot be sacked during their elected term in government, if they do something stupid like get mixed up with the Obeid’s etc, most honest politicians do the right thing and resign.

So here we have five very ordinary MP’s and a senator who can’t be sacked, and they think it’s their God given right to unseat an elected Prime Minister because for whatever reason whether it be SSM, their belief in the Global Warming scam or they just believe they are destined for greatness, they believe they have the right to tell the voters of this country and party members that they want to unseat an elected Prime Minister.

Get ready for a rough ride boys, you don’t upset sixty thousand people on Facebook and expect no ramifications.

cherry*135 · ‎02-03-2015

Wickr: the secret messaging app of the party unfaithful?

Malcolm Turnbull, Scott Morrison and other politicians said to be exchanging encrypted and self-destructing messages about the Liberals’ leadership crisis.

In what may seems like a remarkable display of tech-savviness for the political classes, Turnbull, Scott Morrison and other politicians are using Wickr, the Australian claimed, to exchange encrypted and self-destructing messages about the Liberals’ leadership crisis.

Politicians seeking to protect the privacy of their own communication is a little ironic in light of their bid to pass a data retention package that would leave journalists and their sources exposed.

Wickr’s chief point of difference is its security: “Forgot the phone booth – no conversations can be tracked or monitored,” the site claims. Its founders insist Wickr is as close to a private platform as one can expect in a connected world, saving no information to a server and and no data on its users.

Twitter had good fun with the Wickr story on Monday. As one user put it: “I downloaded this app because Malcolm [Turnbull] uses it. If it’s good enough for the communications minister to hide his metadata from the attorney general then it’s good enough for me.”

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news-blog/2015/mar/02/wickr-the-secret-messaging...

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