BRISBANE: The state Labor government of Annastacia Palaszczuk has soared in overnight polling, providing a fillip for her ministry despite the next election still being some 18 months away.
Government insiders have put a substantial surge in support – matched by the party’s own internal polling – down to the fact that Channel 9 politics reporter Tim Arvier is currently over in the US covering the Masters at Augusta, Georgia.
A government insider who asked not to be named told The Bug: “That assignment has meant Tim has been unable to present his nightly reports for 9 News Brisbane on the state government’s latest financial bunglings, abject policy failures in so many areas and not just hospital ramping and Olympics preparation, all-round incompetence the more you think about it, and all centred around a tired government awash with lazy and arrogant ministers and one that’s been in power too long but the worst thing of all is that it’s being led by a Premier who has clocked off, one who has completely lost interest in running the state and is more interested in tarting herself up to go partying with her boyfriend.
“We’ll all be delighted if it turns out Tim is now Nine’s permanent sports reporter.”
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SYDNEY: A former Prime Minister has expressed his concern over polls showing the apparent weakening of support for the First Nations Voice to Parliament.
“I’ve got no idea why that’s happening,” Malcolm “It would be a third chamber!” Turnbull (pictured left) said in a statement handed out by an under-butler at the gates of his Point Piper mansion.
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SYDNEY: Audible titters were heard throughout The Shire yesterday when former Prime Minister Scott Morrison played down rumours of an imminent resignation and said he was entirely focused on continuing to work hard representing the good folk of his electorate of Cook.
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