FEDERAL POLITICS:

Has Australia’s far-right-wing mediocre finally dumped the Coorey-Uhlmann method for determining election results?

This is the question The Bug is asking after the interpretation given to the latest Newspoll by Newscorpse LNP publicity outfits, The Australian (above) and Sky News Australia (below).

Sorry, what’s that? Not familiar with the Coorey-Uhlmann method?

While both men are/were not in the Newscorpse stable (they work for Nine Entertainment Co.), both The Australian Financial Review’s inhouse chief LNP publicist Phillip Coorey and the now departed Channel 9 News inhouse chief LNP publicist Chris Uhlmann, who was also the network’s national political editor, loved to bang on with their Coorey-Uhlmann method.

And it was really quite simple: if Labor ever dropped behind the LNP on primaries, the Greens vote was totally ignored and these two politics experts would scream that a hung parliament was the likely outcome and therefore it was absolutely crucial that voters avoided that by voting for the country’s – and God’s – natural parties of choice and the only ones capable of good, strong stable, economic management! 

They shouted the Coorey-Uhlmann method from their newsroom ceiling tops, especially during election campaigns. Should have been sacked the very first time they thought such silliness up but that’s not important right now.

It was a total nonsense of course – the LNP in both Coorey’s and Uhlmann’s right-sided brains were entitled to add together their primary votes but Labor could never add to its cause the Greens vote, often above 10 per cent. And the 2022 federal vote proved that nonsense, with Labor securing majority government with 32.58 per cent of the primary vote, compared with 35.6 per cent to the various iterations of the LNP.

It’s why the latest Newspoll released Sunday night – with Labor on a disappointing 32 per cent primary – still has Labor on 51-49 2PP, which makes perfect sense, seeing the 2PP in 2022 was Labor 52.13/LNP 47.87.

But let’s get back to the basis of this article. For The Australian and Sky LNP-News Australia to both be grudgingly admitting to a minority Labor government on 32 per cent primary, the Coorey-Uhlmann Method is well and truly dead, buried and created.

Which we at The Bug suppose is a good thing, except that The Australian and Sky LNP-News Australia are more than likley to breathe fresh life into the method come the next election.

Wise heads across Newscorpse will no doubt see the danger of the Australian electorate – who surprisingly aren’t as dumb as Newscorpse thinks – deciding during the next campaign that if a minority Labor government is likely but the LNP’s chances of achieving that are none and Buckley’s under the Duddster, then voters will move towards Labor for stability.

That’s why we at The Bug suspect the Coorey-Uhlmann method will rise again, sooner than later. It’s bound to!