The latest Newspoll, conducted exclusively for The Australian, shows Labor has a 52 per cent to 48 per cent lead over the Liberal-Nationals alliance on a two-party-preferred basis.
WA is the next state due to hold an election, in March 2017, when Premier Colin Barnett will be seeking a third term after 8½ years in the job.
If the sandgropers are turning already then Comrade Colin is doomed. Within two years the WA economy will be a smoking crater and Barnett’s budget bungling will be exposed for all to see in giant deficits.
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.
