Malcolm Turnbull’s popularity has leapt to its highest levels since the 2016 election on the back of one of the most well-received budgets in a decade and a $140 billion personal income tax cut plan that has been endorsed by a majority of Australians.
The Coalition consolidated gains made over the past month to remain in election contention, trailing Labor on a two-party-preferred vote of 51 to 49 for the second successive Newspoll, conducted exclusively for The Australian.
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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.
