Labor has maintained its 53-47 two-party-preferred lead over the Coalition, re-enforcing its dominance and confirming the erosion in the small gains the government made at the beginning of the year.
A one-point drop in the primary vote for the Greens was reflected in a poor result in the Tasmanian election at the weekend. This translated into a one-point gain for Labor federally to a primary vote of 38 per cent in the latest Newspoll.
One Nation has also dropped back a point to 7 per cent — down significantly on its November 2017 high of 10 per cent — which has transferred to the Coalition primary vote, which gained a point to 37 per cent.
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.
