Berejiklian sinks

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Leith noted earlier today another new poll showing the collapse of community support for mass immigration. Also today we get the bell tolling for the NSW government, at Domainfax:

Just weeks after an embarrassing loss for the Liberals in the Wagga Wagga byelection, and as ministers engage in open warfare over a bitter preselection battle, the Coalition’s primary vote has plunged to “disastrous levels”.

The exclusive ReachTel poll for The Sun-Herald of 1627 NSW voters taken on Thursday night shows the Coalition is locked at 50:50 with Labor on a two-party preferred basis using preference flows from the 2015 election.

It also reveals that Mr Foley has pushed past Ms Berejiklian as the more popular leader, with 50.2 per cent of voters polled believing Mr Foley would make a better premier. But despite Mr Foley’s personal standing, only 41.1 per cent of voters think Labor is ready to govern again.

But govern they may because Foley has tapped the number one issue confronting the polity while Berejiklian has no idea what to do about it.

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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.