The government has increased its standing from one month ago, when it trailed Labor by 55 per cent to 45 per cent, after Mr Morrison’s bus tour of Queensland and other campaign measures to raise his personal profile with voters.
An idiotic assessment of course. The movement was within the margin of error and Labor remains on track for a big win.
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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.
