Albo’s honeymoon rolls on

Sunday 4 September 2022

Anthony Albanese is enjoying a Rudd-style honeymoon, with the latest Newspoll survey showing Labor enjoying a stomping two-party preferred lead of 57% to 43%:

As shown below, this is the largest lead in more than four years:

The only fly in the ointment is that Labor’s primary vote remains poor at just 37%. But spare a though for the Coalition, whose primary support has plunged to just 31%:

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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.