Newspoll: Do-nothing Malcolm’s polling collapses

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Hoooodanode? From Newspoll:

The Coalition has taken a battering from voters amid deepening tensions between Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott, with the government trailing Labor by 45 to 55 per cent in two-party terms as the Prime Minister suffers another blow to his personal standing.

The latest Newspoll, taken exclusivel­y for The Australian, revea­ls ­a slump in the Coalition’s primary vote to 34 per cent, five points lower than in the weeks before­ Mr Turnbull toppled Mr Abbott as prime minister.

Disaffected voters have driven Pauline Hanson’s One Nation to 10 per cent of the primary vote, more than doubling that party’s support since November, as its leader seeks to echo Donald Trump’s appeal to conservatives.

All so very predictable. Either the Coalition outflanks One Nation by cutting immigration before the election or it loses power and is forced to do so by its new Coalition partner after it. Try QLD:

Outspoken Nationals member George Christensen would struggle to keep his Queensland seat if an election were held today, with voter support for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and the Liberal/National party now neck and neck, according to new polling.

One Nation and the LNP now have 30 per cent each of the primary vote, according to polling last week by ReachTEL and commissioned by the Australia Institute.

Mr Christensen, who has threatened to quit the Coalition and defect to One Nation over issues such the sugar cane farmers’ dispute, the backpackers’ tax, a banking royal commission and same-sex marriage, is one of the government’s most vulnerable MPs with a margin of only 3.3 per cent after last year’s election.

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And Tony Abbott just pushed the Do-nothing Team as far from the policies they need to save the government as they can get.

Abbott 100 vs Do-nothing 0.

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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.