Roy Morgan has released polling surrounding the federal Liberal leadership, with Treasurer Josh Frydenberg strongly preferred to lead the Coalition into the upcoming federal election:
Now 46% of Australians (up 7.5% points since mid-February) prefer Treasurer Josh Frydenberg to lead the L-NP Government, clearly ahead of current Prime Minister Scott Morrison 28.5% (down 2.5% points) and Defence Minister Peter Dutton 14% (up 1.5% points) while 1% (down 1% point) named someone else and 10.5% (down 5.5% points) had no preference.
Importantly, among L-NP supporters it is now a virtual tie between the two with Frydenberg on 37.5% (up 5% points) just behind Morrison on 38% (down 2% points) according to a special Roy Morgan SMS Poll of 1,067 Australian electors conducted over the last two days this week, March 30-31, 2022.
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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.
