Scott Morrison has fortified his leadership in a time of crisis, with his personal approval rating soaring as coronavirus infection rates remain low, prompting optimism the nation is winning the battle to contain it.
However, the strong personal support for Mr Morrison has failed to improve the Coalition’s political fortunes. The contest between the Coalition and Labor is tightening, bringing the parties back to a deadlock of 50-50 on a two-party-preferred basis.
As we know, preferred PM is irrelevant to voting intentions.
It looks to me like post-virus we’ll be straight back to tribal politics with a bullet.
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.
