Tag: survey

Russia

Why Much of the Global South Isn’t Automatically Supporting the West in Ukraine – scheerpost.com

+ For the 6.3 billion people who live outside of the West, 66 percent feel positively towards Russia and 70 percent feel positively towards China, and,

+ Among the 66 percent who feel positively about Russia the breakdown is 75 percent in South Asia, 68 percent in Francophone Africa, and 62 percent in Southeast Asia.

+ Public opinion of Russia remains positive in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, and Vietnam.

By Krishen Mehta / CounterPunch In October 2022, about eight months after the war in Ukraine started, the University of Cambridge in the UK harmonized surveys conducted in 137 countries about their attitudes towards the West and towards Russia and China. The findings in the study, while not free of a margin of error, are robust […]

Source: Why Much of the Global South Isn’t Automatically Supporting the West in Ukraine – scheerpost.com

LNP Government

Scott Morrison and Barnaby Joyce were most unpopular leaders at election since 1987, study shows | Scott Morrison | The Guardian

Every Picture tells the story Barnaby believes it Morrison doesn’t.

Scott Morrison and Barnaby Joyce, at the time the Coalition lost the May election, were the most unpopular party leaders since the Australian Election Study began in 1987.

Scott Morrison and Barnaby Joyce were most unpopular leaders at election since 1987, study shows | Scott Morrison | The Guardian
WAR

Grey Expectations: where Coalition, Labor, cross-bench stand on war powers reform – Michael West Media

#warpowers

in November 2020 found over 83% of Australians want Parliament to vote on this issue. Michael West Media decided to flip the same question back to our politicians to see what they had to say. We’ve contacted over 50 so far, with an aim to eventually seek out responses from all Senators and Members of Parliament. Some have been outspoken on the issue, some prosaic, and some so timid so as not to even venture a “no comment.” For this latter group we had to create a new category for politicians “in hiding, refusing to answer us”. Some responses have surprised us, but others, as one of our Twitter followers put it, “responded exactly how you would have expected them to respond.” Politics, like fashion, sees trends emerge.

Source: Grey Expectations: where Coalition, Labor, cross-bench stand on war powers reform – Michael West Media

Enviroment

‘The Time Is Now’: Survey Finds Overwhelming International Support for Greater Environmental Protection Ahead of UN Climate Conference | Common Dreams News
Activists hold a demonstration marking the delayed COP26 U.N. climate negotiations on November 13, 2020 in Glasgow, Scotland, (Photo: Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images)

An international survey conducted by the University of Cambridge and YouGov ahead of this November’s COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference, and published on Monday, found overwhelming support around the world for governments taking more robust action to protect the environment amid the worsening climate crisis.

‘The Time Is Now’: Survey Finds Overwhelming International Support for Greater Environmental Protection Ahead of UN Climate Conference | Common Dreams News
Coronavirus, Uncategorized

Economists back social distancing 34-9 in new Economic Society-Conversation survey

Australian economists overwhelmingly back social distancing measures that slow the spread of coronavirus over the alternative of easing restrictions and allowing the spread of the disease to pick up.

But a significant minority, 9 of the 47 leading economists polled in the first of a series of monthly surveys, say they would support an easing of restrictions even if it did allow the spread to accelerate.

via Economists back social distancing 34-9 in new Economic Society-Conversation survey

Informed Comment, Uncategorized

2020 survey: no lift in wage growth, no lift in economic growth and no progress on unemployment in year of low expectations

2020 survey: no lift in wage growth, no lift in economic growth and no progress on unemployment in year of low expectations

Coal

Even People In Coal Towns Have A Problem With Coal

But there are three reasons the Federal Government keeps pushing it.

Source: Even People In Coal Towns Have A Problem With Coal

Bernie Sanders

New Survey Finds That 85 Percent of Bernie Sanders Supporters Now Plan to Vote for Hillary Clinton – Truthdig

The survey, conducted by the Pew Research Center and released last week, also shows that 9 percent of Sanders supporters intend to vote for Donald Trump.

Source: New Survey Finds That 85 Percent of Bernie Sanders Supporters Now Plan to Vote for Hillary Clinton – Truthdig

Abbott

Abbott is losing the competence contest – The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Tony Abbott

Abbott is losing the competence contest – The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).