An exclusive Newspoll conducted for The Australian with three weeks to polling day shows the Coalition improving its position by a point to now trail Labor 49-51 on a two-party-preferred vote.
It is the best result for the government under Scott Morrison’s leadership, but would still result in defeat and a loss of between six and 10 seats after taking into account last year’s electoral boundary changes.
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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.
