The latest Newspoll shows a further tightening on two-party preferred, but was making some strange assumptions about the slow of preferences.
With the election season now under way, Labor has retained its lead over the Coalition in the latest Newspoll, though Bill Shorten’s approval rating has not improved.
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As Morrison readies to call the election, with speculation he will announce next weekend for May 18, he has also increased his lead over Shorten as better prime minister in Newspoll.
The Coalition government has had another rocky fortnight, and the polls show it is behind on a two-party preferred basis.
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Weak economic data and sluggish wages have contributed to the Coalition’s poor showing in the latest Newspoll, which gives Labor a 54-46 lead on two-party preferred.
The latest Newspoll comes as the Liberals in Curtin on Sunday selected.
Celia Hammond as the candidate for Julie Bishop’s safe
Western Australian seat.
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The worsening Coalition performance comes after last week’s sluggish economic figures and amid
more bickering on the conservative side of politics, including pot shots from Malcolm Turnbull.
A fierce battle over the medevac legislation has not affected the polls, which continue to show Labor with an election-winning lead.
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The latest Fairfax-Ipsos and Essential polls give a strong lead to Labor, with some interesting – and variable - detail on the attributes voters see in the leaders of the two major parties.
Victorian Reason Party MP Fiona Patten and supporters react as she’s re-elected to the Victorian upper house.
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And for the first time since the 1999 republic referendum, those opposed to a republic outnumber those in favour of it.
Scott Morrison’s personal ratings have also worsened, in a poll that.
comes in the wake of his intensive week of campaigning in the key
state of Queensland.
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The Newspolls have been consistently worse for the Coalition since the
leadership change – before that Labor had been cut back to a narrow 51-49% lead.
It took six months for Malcolm Turnbull to receive his first negative Newspoll net approval as PM; it has taken Scott Morrison just two months.
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The latest polls are a mixed bag for the Morrison government: there were gains in primary and two-party preferred vote, but the polls still have Labor in an election-winning position.
Whether Morrison would be at his strongest in March or May is a moot point.
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The Morrison and Berejiklian governments might be of the same stripe but, with both facing elections in the first half of 2019, their interests rub up against each other uncomfortably.
Malcolm Turnbull’s days were numbered as the Newspoll losses continued to mount.
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Policymaking is no longer based solely on what a party stands for. Now, it also matters how a decision is going to play in the opinion polls – and that’s a problem for our political system.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison appears to be enjoying a honeymoon period, with the Coalition up two points on two-party preferred in the latest Newspoll.
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The Coalition’s recent hit in the polls seems to be subsiding, while Kerryn Phelps may have made a damaging error by announcing she’ll preference the Liberals in the Wentworth byelection.
The poll comes after Morrison’s burst of intense activity to get on.
the front foot.
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Another poor showing in the polls for the government, with analysis showing the Coalition most likely to lose support at the next election among the well-educated, the young and in Victoria.