Relatively high purchase of ADHD medicine in rural WA. 🧐Is it a good party drug?

Federal Newspoll table of the quarterly summary of previously released aggregate polling data including voting figures, leader performance, and preferred PM, broken down by various states and demographics, as it appears on page 4 of the hard copy of The Australian, 6 March 2026. Online polling voter sample of 4927 voters taken between 12 January to 26 March 2026.

The #Newspoll quarterly aggregate federal polling summary (not a new poll) of data from 12 January to 26 March 2026.
article: www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit... ($)
pdf of table: origin.theaustralian.com.au/wp-content/u... #auspol

I spend most of my time at the old (evil) place. :-(

Who wants to produce a report on Maintaining Confidence in Elections? $30k funding is available.
www.electoral-regulation.org/annual-thema...

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Yet more freely available in those countries.

Previous peak was under Howard?

Farrer by-election coming soon Sussan Ley has announced that she will be retiring from politics following her loss of the Liberal leadership this morning. That means there will be a by-election for her seat of Farrer. I have con…

I’ve taken my 2028 guide to Farrer and updated it for the upcoming by-election which will likely pit Liberal against National and One Nation. Check it out #auspol

Will Angus Taylor stop the One Nation rot? • Inside Story It’s possible, but will that impress the rest of the electorate?

Me on the new Liberal leader. insidestory.org.au/will-angus-t...

For sure, it would be excellent.

The equivalent of PM Abbott dumping Credders (which never happened).

Very agree with Ben, but Langer types ostentatiously breaking law number 3 might be problematic. OTOH neither South Australia's House of Assembly's secret ticket system, nor the Senate since 2016 yet seems to have attracted glibertarian silliness, so ... it's at least worth a try.

It has been the norm in Australia for about 115 years

Interesting point.

She did celebrate Oct 7 with the parachute picture, and has written horrible other shit. From her words I've read (not many) she seems facile and narcissistic.

I don't know why she'd be invited in the first place. Of course, once she's invited, disinviting her provokes all this shit ...🤷‍♀️

Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org

religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

Everyone is convinced that London is an extremely unsafe place to live - with the sole exception of Londoners.

EU countries increased availability of Electronic Health Records. Still, only 28% of EU citizens access them. Rich people are much more likely to access these records. Also, Germany sits exactly at the position that I would’ve guessed. Source: brnw.ch/21wYPPk

Kevin, this being “bad” is a value judgement. Please explain?

The ABC's election-night computer graphics in 1972, via this recent YouTube upload (full coverage, almost four hours): www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSIh... Most results were shown by pointing a camera at an analogue board.

So many more were in the negative, and by much more, in 2024. Very odd.

A beautiful thread

Continued… a thread with the messages of goodwill towards Ahmed outside his closed shop in Sutherland in #Sydney’s south. I was struck by how many kids have done drawings for the man who ran towards danger to save others. Seasons greetings #Australia! Look after one another!

When lowering the temperature isn’t enough • Peter Brent From amid the welter of criticisms emerge important actions the government can pursue to counter antisemitism

Me yesterday ....
"Some political leaders appear able to draw on a deep moral well, at least in public. Kim Beazley, who never became prime minister, was one. Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull as well. Not so Anthony Albanese"
insidestory.org.au/when-lowerin...

The latest Electoral Regulation Research Network newsletter, edited by me. Lots of good stuff, including on October's ERRN’s 2-day course on The Regulation of Australian Elections.
electoral-regulation.org/s/December-2...

There's a queue of people down two flights of stairs to the front door of the building for the Parramatta blood donation centre. They are booking people in for later appointments one by one, so still worth doing.

Ach, this includes the preceding par, left out due to incompetence.
(Point taken also.)

This, for no particular reason, from a 2011? draft of something that wasn't published about blogs a decade earlier.
True enough @johnquiggin.bsky.social ?

Exit, stage right • Peter Brent Can One Nation continue to capitalise on the Coalition’s internal divisions?

Barnaby Joyce's 'repertoire over two decades in parliament hasn’t included “dog-whistling” of the kind favoured by John Howard in his time and enthusiastically embraced by Peter Dutton.'
Fairy nuff statement?

insidestory.org.au/exit-stage-r...

Very true. :-)
(Mr @nickbryantoz.bsky.social otoh (whose work I love, in particular interviews on Saturday Extra) has gone native on "Oz punching above its weight".)