The first Newspoll for 2019, conducted exclusively for The Australian, shows a five-point turnaround in popular support for the two major parties since December, with the Coalition’s primary vote lifting two points to 37 per cent and Labor falling three points to 38 per cent.
It is the best result for the Morrison government since its post-coup peak in October and marks a four-point reversal in the two-party vote since December, when it was behind 55 to 45 per cent on a two-party-preferred basis, sparking predictions of an electoral wipe-out.
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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.
