Voters trust Bowen over Frydenberg on Hayne

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Via AFR:

Many more voters trust Labor than the Coalition to implement the recommendations of the banking royal commission, according to a poll that also shows Josh Frydenberg and his rival Chris Bowen level-pegging as the nation’s preferred treasurer.

The latest The Australian Financial Review-Ipsos poll, the first for this political year, shows almost half of voters, or 49 per cent, trust Labor to respond to the royal commission. By contrast, about one third, or 34 per cent, trust the Coalition government which fought establishing the commission for over a year before its hand was forced.

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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.