At 39 per cent, Labor’s primary support is higher than the government’s for the first time since July…In two-party-preferred terms, based on preference flows from last year’s election, Labor leads by 55 per cent to 45 per cent.
Mr Abbott recorded the third successive dip in his satisfaction rating, which fell one point to a two-month low of 36 per cent while his dissatisfaction rose three points to 55 per cent…Mr Abbott’s three-month run as the nation’s preferred prime minister also came to an end…The Labor leader saw his stocks leap five points to 43 per cent while Mr Abbott’s rating slid two points to 37 per cent, giving Mr Shorten a six-point lead.
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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
