What else could be expected ? A Fairfax biased Lefty "Poll" opens Shorten's coffin to try to breathe life back into the Shorten cadaver.




Support for Turnbull government plummets in new poll
Source: AAP 27 MAR 2017 - 4:44 AM  UPDATED 1 HOUR AGO


Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (AAP)

A new opinion poll has shown the Turnbull government is trailing Labor by 10 points, just one week after another poll showed a bounce for the coalition.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will be under renewed leadership pressure with a new opinion poll showing the coalition's support crashing.

Labor has taken a 10-point lead over the coalition, with 55-45 on a two-party preferred basis, according to the Fairfax-Ipsos poll published on Monday

If an election were held last weekend, the government would have lost 24 seats.

The poll shows Mr Turnbull's personal approval rating has also dived to 40 per cent, but he still narrowly leads against opposition leader Bill Shorten as preferred prime minister.

The nationwide poll of 1400 people, conducted from Wednesday to Saturday last week, follows the West Australian Liberal party's disastrous state election result a fortnight ago.

A Newspoll in The Australian last Monday showed Labor leading the coalition 52-48 per cent on a two-party basis, with the coalition's primary vote rising three points to 37 per cent over the previous three weeks.

The Fairfax-Ipsos poll comes as there's talk of a reshuffle in the Turnbull government.

Deputy Liberal leader Julie Bishop on Sunday fully backed Mr Turnbull as a "can-do" prime minister who would take the coalition to the next election.

She said Mr Turnbull had her support and that of the "vast majority" of the party room to stay on as prime minister.

Mr Turnbull used poor opinion polls as his reasoning to challenge then prime minister Tony Abbott for the leadership.

Parliament resumes this week before breaking until the May 9 budget.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/03/27/support-turnbull-government-plumme...

And reality suggests the Fairfax "Poll" is as rigged as Shorty's permanent scowl.


Every, slurp slosh slop, dog has his day. Goddamn that dog with the squashed in head is Goddamn ugly.



Company tax support good news for Malcolm Turnbull and no slam dunk for Labor
by The Australian Financial Review Mar 27 2017 at 12:30 AM  Updated Mar 27 2017 at 12:30 AM


Something to work with: Malcolm Turnbull's political fortunes may have brightened. Brendon Thorne

After days of apparent equivocation, Malcolm Turnbull told AFR Weekend on Saturday that his government would not retreat on its central growth and job plan – cutting the 30 per cent corporate tax cut to 25 per cent over a decade – even if rebuffed by the Senate over the next fortnight.

This morning The Australian Financial Review can report some encouraging news. Despite months of Labor's populists attacks, the latest Fairfax Ipsos poll shows that the Prime Minister and his Treasurer at least have something to work with.

According to the poll, 44 per cent of Australians support a long-term company tax cut, while 39 per cent oppose it and 17 per cent aren't sure. It's not majority support. But it's not the slam dunk for Labor that conventional political wisdom suggests.

In fact, for all of Labor's scare campaign about a $50 billion tax cut to big business and the Prime Minister handing out money to his rich mates, foreign multi-nationals and the dastardly banks, voters are willing to listen to the argument that Australia will struggle to compete for global capital while it taxes company profits more highly than key competitor economies.

For all the complaints about the corporate sector not pulling its tax weight, Australia's tax collection relies much more on company taxation than any other OECD economy other than oil rich Norway, as outlined in the the first paper from Tony Shepherd's budget and economic review supported by the Menzies Research Center.

That matters for a medium-sized capital importing country such as Australia which has always relied on foreign investment to build its economy. A decade ago, Australia's 30 per cent rate was middle of the pack.

Now it is well above the global average of less than 24 per cent. And both the US and the UK are headed toward further cutting their headline rates.

Opposition leader Bill Shorten and his Treasury spokesman Chris Bowen know all this: they've actually argued it before. Now they've changed their tune, they have no economic growth strategy at all, apart from empty platitudes of the benefits of spending more on education and health.

While Mr Turnbull's political fortunes have brightened in the past few weeks, the Fairfax Ipsos poll is a reminder of the challenge posed by Mr Shorten's mix of potent mixture of big government ideology and scare-the masses populism. The government lags Labor 55:45 on a two-party preferred basis and the Prime Minister's personal support has ebbed.

Labor's plan for fixing the budget mess it left behind relies heavily on increasing taxes, mostly on the nation's wealth creators. Yet the Fairfax Ipsos poll shows that, despite the publicity, Australia's remain cool on Labor's calls to increase the tax burden on property investors, such as through negative gearing and capital gains tax rules. Only 35 per cent of voters support tightening the tax concessions for property investors.

For both company and housing taxes, the political challenge that neither side will tackle is to come up with a larger tax reform package that sharpens the incentives to work, save, invest and employ.

Australia will not grow its way out of Labor's budget mess by penalising capital formation more heavily than relevant competitor economies. Some tightening of generous tax concessions for property investment would help direct Australia's scarce savings toward its most productive end and away from speculation, even if the best response to worsening housing affordability is to remove barriers to the supply of housing.

Yet Labor will still sniff a political advantage in the Fairfax Ipsos poll findings that 66 per cent of Australians don't think that reducing ultra-high penalty rates for working on Sundays and public holidays will encourage more business to open on those days – even if the Fair Work Commission and the objective evidence suggests they will.

This is the sort of popular preference that populism thrives upon and which Mr Turnbull and Mr Morrison must turn around.



Read more: http://www.afr.com/opinion/editorials/company-tax-support-good-news-for-malcolm-...

And the MM comes out for a stir - to Hell with the FACTS.

The facts are your gone next election

only an idiot would be amazed by it.

For everyone else it's more of what they've been hearing for ages.

Poor roach, his beloved libs are riding for a fall and deservedly so!

This should cause the uninformed of the FACTS Lefties to flameout. Especially after the Lefty rigged "Poll" has just been blown out of the water.

Mal is so far ahead of the stagnating Socialists that it is not even a race.

Clean coal is our goal with some hydro added to taste.




Libs looking to Asia to build new coal-fired power station in north
The Australian David Crowe Political correspondent  Canberra  12:00AM March 27, 2017

 
Resources Minister Matt Canavan.
   
The Turnbull government has opened talks with Asian investors to build a coal-fired power station backed by its $5 billion northern Australia fund, as half the nation’s voters endorse the use of taxpayer funds to develop the project and improve energy security.

Resources Minister Matt Canavan is fast-tracking the plan amid a growing fight with Labor and the Greens over support for coal power, as cabinet ministers prepare to decide how to encourage big investors into the market.

Senator Canavan told The Australian there was a “high ­degree of interest” from Asia helping to develop the new power station in northern Queensland, arguing that finance from the Northern Australia Infrastructure Fund would be needed to give the project long-term certainty.

A special Newspoll, conducted exclusively for The Australian, ­reveals that 47 per cent of voters favour the use of federal government funds to help construct a new coal-fired power station to improve energy security, while 40 per cent are opposed and 13 per cent undecided.

Amid a push by environmental groups to block new coalmines and coal-fired power stations, the national survey finds that 35 per cent of Labor voters and 15 per cent of Greens voters support using public funds to ­develop more coal-fired power.

It also shows that 59 per cent of Coalition voters favour public ­financial support for the new power station, lending weight to Malcolm Turnbull’s declaration that coal must be one of the options in a “technology neutral” approach to fixing energy ­security.



The findings come as the Prime Minister and Scott Morrison crack down on electricity ­retailers in a new move to act on fears about rising prices, ordering the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission to review the sector in order to get a better deal for consumers.

The Prime Minister and Treasurer will announce today that their response to the ACCC’s ­review will consider new measures to improve “reliability, security and pricing” across the sector.

As the imminent close of the ageing Hazelwood power station reignites debate about electricity shortages and price spikes, Labor climate change spokesman Mark Butler has declared there is no support from industry to build new coal-fired power stations in Australia.

The Australian Energy ­Council, which represents companies supplying electricity to 10 million homes, warns it has become “very difficult” to finance coal-fired power stations when investors are ramping up wind and solar projects as well as gas generators that provide baseload power with lower greenhouse gas emissions than coal.

But the government is determined to keep the coal proposal on the agenda by raising the prospect of funding from the northern Australia fund, which is also a potential source of support for the controversial coalmine planned for central Queensland by Indian company Adani.

Senator Canavan said there was “no doubt” of the rudimentary economic and commercial case for a coal-fired power station in northern Queensland but that the government’s challenge was to set the energy market rules to offer certainty.

“There’s clearly a risk of government policy changes in this area, and I think that’s a risk that’s been created by the Labor-Green(s) movement,” he said.

“Until last year there was bipartisan support for the future of coal in Australia but it was last year when Labor supported the Senate inquiry that said we should shut down all coal-fired power stations in Australia. That wasn’t the position of Kevin Rudd or Julia Gillard.

“The decision by Labor and the Greens to move to the radical fringes of our energy debate and turn their back completely on coal, on our second-biggest export, has introduced an element of risk to potential new coal-fired power stations.

“It’s now a sovereign risk and the only people who can get rid of sovereign risks are the sovereigns.”

A Senate inquiry led by a Labor and Greens majority last year argued for an “orderly retirement” of the nation’s coal-fired power stations but the government believes there is strong support in northern Queensland for a new coal project at a time of rising electricity prices.

Senator Canavan is examining options for a new power station near the Adani coalmine in the Galilee Basin, in Collinsville, to add to an existing power station or in Gladstone near an existing power station and taking advantage of transmission lines that are already in place.

The Resources Minister, who is also the Minister for Northern Australia and oversees the infrastructure fund, rejected suggestions that the help for a coal-fired power station would be a “subsidy” that meddled with the market.

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