Essential: Labor’s lead narrows

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Via The Guardian:

A substantial majority of voters want an inquiry into power prices and anti-competitive conduct by Australia’s energy retailers, and there is also community support for returning energy assets to public ownership, according to the latest Guardian Essential poll.

The survey of 1,014 respondents also suggests the contest between the major parties could be tightening as Australians prepare to cast their votes in the super Saturday byelections on 28 July – with Labor ahead on 51% of the two-party preferred vote to the Coalition’s 49%.

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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.