If Morrison is riding so high on his virus response then why this?
An exclusive Newspoll conducted for The Australian shows the Coalition maintaining its election-winning lead despite a narrowing of the two-party-preferred vote to 51-49 per cent.
If it were not for Labor’s China problem, I’d be tempted to install them as favourites for the next election:
the Depressionberg Unstimulus is an unfolding economic disaster;
a majority of Labor state leaders killed the virus not federal;
the Biden Administration will shift climate change to the forefront of policy globally;
Labor has better policy than the Coalition on just about every front bar China;
Morrison himself is vulnerable owing to a missing empathy gene.
Who knows? If a Biden America triggers a little China thaw then there might be a brief window for the empty chair to clamber through.
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.
