Women are holding the Morrison baseball bats

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Roy Morgan polling has identified the precise time when female voters began to switch away from Prime Minister Scott Morrison, with Roy Morgan tracking male and female two-party-preferred outcomes. The switch happened in February 2021, when Brittany Higgins went public about her ordeal and treatment by the Coalition government.

While there has been a slight narrowing in the gap during the election campaign, Roy Morgan’s polling is still showing a 16% lead for Labor on a two-party-preferred basis among women, compared to just 2% for men.

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About the author
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.