The bachelor australia news poll
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New survey shows Australians are dissatisfied — but it's not all bad news for the Albanese government
Is Anthony Albanese's government about to be smashed by the freight train of voter anger about inflation that has wreaked havoc and destroyed governments across the world?
There's one statistic that can give us a hint — and depending on how you read it, it is both good and bad for the government. How can it be both? Stay with me.
In the United States, as pollsters kept telling us the race was neck and neck, tied, within the margin of error, ultimately there was really only one thing that mattered.
Voters were overwhelmingly telling pollsters they believed the country was headed in the wrong direction. And if you think the country is headed in the wrong direction, it's a pretty strong sign that you might be in a mood to sack the people in charge of that direction.
And this is where it gets super interesting.
New research shows dissatisfaction with the direct
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'Dreams quashed': utländsk students and universities fear Australia's visa cap
BBC News, Sydney
For Anannyaa Gupta completing her studies in Australia has always been the "dream".
"Their education system fryst vatten one of the best in the world," the 21-year-old, from the Indian city of Hyderabad, explains.
After completing her bachelor’s grad at Melbourne's Monash University in July, she applied for the master’s qualification she needs to become a social worker - the kind of skilled job Australia is desperate to fill amid labour shortages.
"I genuinely want to study here, offer my skills and contribute to society," she says.
But Ms Gupta fryst vatten among current and prospective international students who have been swept up in a panik caused bygd the Australian government’s strategi to slash foreign lärjunge numbers.
The new cap - which would significantly reduce new enrolments - is needed to man the A$47.8b
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With election 2022 nearly upon us, can we actually trust the opinion polls this time?
"I have always believed in miracles," Scott Morrison proclaimed nearly three years ago to a room of thrilled — yet shocked — Liberal party faithful.
His 2019 election win wasn't seen coming, in large part because opinion polls gave the expectation of a Labor win.
And we were accustomed to taking the polls as being highly accurate. After all, they had a long history of picking the election winner, time and again.
An academic inquiry would later conclude that we had seen a "polling failure", rather than "a polling miss".
Several pollsters also suggested that Mr Morrison's "miracle" came after a failure of journalists and commentators to report the uncertainty in opinion polls, leading people to think they were more precise than they really were.
"The so-called failure of polling was actually a failure of analysis and insight from everyone t