There is little point in persisting with opposition leader Peter Dutton. The man is completely out of step with the community on everything he touches:
Labor kicks off the parliamentary year with a commanding electoral lead over the Liberal and Nationals parties, despite a fall in approval for Anthony Albanese and a lift in support over summer for fringe independents.
An exclusive Newspoll conducted for The Australian shows Labor maintaining a 10-point margin over the Coalition on a two-party-preferred basis, giving it political momentum ahead of an expected economic downturn this year.
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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.
