The first Guardian Essential poll since the election shows 59% of voters approve of the job Albanese is doing as Prime Minister compared with 18% who do not.
Of those that approved, 19% said they “strongly approve”, while about one in four respondents said they didn’t know.
That marks a 40-point improvement in his net approval rating from the final poll before the election, when just 42% of voters approved of Albanese’s performance and 41% disapproved.
Almost half of respondents said the country was on a positive trajectory, an eight-point increase since before the election.
From the Guardian [my emphasis]:
Such a large post-election bounce in net approval was not achieved by the past four prime ministers. Scott Morrison and Tony Abbott both recorded a jump of between 10 and 15 percentage points while Malcolm Turnbull went backwards by 11 points. Julia Gillard recorded a slight bounce in her net approval rating after she was able to form a minority government in 2010.
The Essential poll dates back only to 2009. But Albanese’s improvement most closely resembles the honeymoon enjoyed by Kevin Rudd after the 2007 election, when Newspoll found the newly elected leader had a net positive approval rating of 57%…
The rising cost of living remains the No 1 issue of concern for voters, with 77% of people ranking it in their top three priorities, and almost half (44%) nominating it as their number one concern.
Anthony Albanese won’t stay popular for long if he does not find a solution to Australia’s energy crisis.
The way it is heading, Australian households and businesses will soon face soaring electricity and gas costs. This will add massively to cost-of-living pressures, will drive business closures, will send inflation soaring, and will force the Reserve Bank to respond with higher interest rates, in turn lifting mortgage repayments even higher.
It is a lethal cocktail that could deliver social unrest and a widespread backlash against the incumbent Albanese Government.
Anthony Albanese has a simple political choice: side with 20 million Australian voters and drop the hammer on the energy cartel with gas reservation and a super profits tax, or side with the energy cartel and suffer the backlash from 20 million voters. The choice should be obvious.
Get on it, Albo. Your political survival is at stake. And Australians will reward you if you do the right thing.
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also Chief Economist and co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.
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