Another day, another Do-Labor Malcolm poll failure

Essential now:

Last week’s budget has failed to deliver an instant political breakthrough for the Turnbull government, or woo disaffected voters, although individual measures have rated a clear thumbs up, according to the latest Guardian Essential poll.

Consistent with polling undertaken by Newspoll, ReachTel and Ipsos, voting intentions post-budget have remained fixed, and Labor remains well ahead of the government on the two-party-preferred measure, 54% to 46%.

The two-party-preferred result in the Guardian Essential survey is the same as the week before the budget.

Only cutting immigration can shake things up.

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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.