Newpoll: Labor up, Kingslayer down

From The Australian:

Bill Shorten’s support has hit a record low 27 per cent as voters mark the Labor leader’s performance as worse than Tony Abbott’s, despite backing for the ALP rising to a four-month high.

The latest Newspoll, conducted exclusively for The Australian, also shows Mr Abbott is back in front as preferred prime minister but support for the Coalition remained flat since its post-budget rise, as the opposition improved its lead in two-party terms by 53 per cent to 47 per cent.

That’s a pretty good judgement by the polity. Abbott is intolerably inept but the Kingslayer is not the answer.

It will be fun watching two hated leaders fight out an election.

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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.