An exclusive Newspoll conducted for The Australian shows the Coalition’s primary vote dropping four points to 33 per cent following the week-long chaos that ended Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership.
It is now tied with the second-worst result, recorded in 2008 under Brendan Nelson as opposition leader, with Bill Shorten now elevated as preferred prime minister.
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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.
