Pauline Hanson destroying WA Coalition vote?

Tuesday 7 March 2017

The WA Liberal Party’s internal polling shows the state government is in a “far worse” position than that shown by published surveys, which point to a Coalition loss on Saturday, and the preference deal with One Nation is to blame.

A source who has seen polling conducted for the WA Liberal Party one week ago said the government was facing a two-party preferred position of 57-43.

This could lead to the Liberal-Nationals Coalition haemorrhaging as many as 20 seats.

…The Liberal source said the dismal forecast for this weekend’s state election was the result of a major backlash to the Liberal Party’s preference deal with One Nation.

“Liberals want to be able to say we’re for stronger borders but we’re not racists,” the source said.

That would be brilliant. The Barnett Government deserves no less.

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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.