Scott Morrison has emerged as the favoured prime minister over Bill Shorten and a more popular leader than Malcolm Turnbull after just two weeks in the job but he leads a decimated Coalition that faces an election wipeout with the potential loss of up to 30 seats.
An exclusive Newspoll conducted for The Australian shows that Mr Morrison appears to have been quickly embraced by voters with a majority believing he is already presenting as a more decisive leader than Mr Turnbull.
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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.
