Newspoll joins Abbottslide

It’s official now. With Newspoll joining Nielsen and Roy Morgan in exposing a short honeymoon for the Coalition:

After the first two parliamentary sitting weeks of the Abbott government and amid the spying crisis with Indonesia primary support for the Coalition has dropped almost three percentage points below its September election result of 45.6 per cent to 43 per cent. During the same period, Labor’s primary vote has risen three points, to 35 per cent the first time it has been above the election-day result of 33.3 per cent.

On a two-party preferred basis it was a four point swing from 56-44 to 52 per cent to Coalition versus Labor’s 48 per cent.

As well, I’m quite sure that the following is irrelevant but it’s interesting nonetheless. From the SMH:

Tony Abbott was not the best student at Oxford university when he was enrolled there as a Rhodes Scholar in the 1980s, but he did finish. And that is more than can be said for other future world leaders of that time.

Mr Abbott’s contemporary, the Conservative British Prime Minister, David Cameron, emerged with a first-class degree. But former US president Bill Clinton, one of the most intellectually gifted leaders the modern world has seen, who also received a Rhodes scholarship, did not complete the course.

Mr Abbott of course was busy doing other things as well while at Oxford, not least, obtaining a boxing “blue” for his efforts in the ring.

In the interest of fairness I will disclose that I scored 12% in English and 8% in history in Year Ten high school yet went on to get First Class Honors at uni in similar. Sometimes school marks are indicative of factors other than intellect.