Labor’s primary vote has returned to levels not seen since Malcolm Turnbull rolled Tony Abbott for the Liberal leadership, despite Bill Shorten’s plan to axe tax-credit refunds for more than one million retirees.
…the Newspoll of 1597 voters conducted over the weekend reveals that the only change to people’s voting intentions was in fact a slight swing to Labor, which improved its primary vote one point to 39 per cent, with the Coalition unchanged on 37 per cent.
It is the first time since September 2015, when Mr Turnbull challenged Mr Abbott for the leadership, that Labor’s first-preference vote has been as high and leaves the Coalition still trailing Labor on a two-party-preferred vote of 47-53.
Hoocoodanode that:
crush-loading living standards;
forcing wages lower;
pricing kids out of houses;
supporting a blood-sucking energy cartel;
wrecking decarbonisation;
cutting corporate taxes as households can’t make ends meet;
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.
