While the latest Newspoll, published exclusively in The Australian, extended the government’s losing streak against Labor to 564 days, the Coalition moved within striking distance of Bill Shorten’s opposition for only the second time in the past 12 months, improving its two-party-preferred position by one point to trail by 48 per cent to 52 per cent.
The latest Newspoll reveals that 55 per cent of voters nationally believe the benchmark Mr Turnbull set as one of the pretexts for seizing the leadership from Mr Abbott would demonstrate a failure in the Prime Minister’s own leadership.
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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.
