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Between the growing leaks from within the Liberal Party on how Opposition Leader Sussan Ley’s leadership is terminal and the odds of bookies now showing Andrew Hastie as the odds-on favourite to be the next leader of the Coalition, Hastie’s ascension to the top job on the Australian right is increasingly seen to be a foregone conclusion.
But looking at the latest Newspoll, Hastie’s support currently stems from a relatively limited base of voters and not from the cohort the Coalition needs to win back to form government.
Among voters aged 18 to 34, just 9% back Hastie as the preferred leader of the Coalition, with Ley holding 24% of the support.
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Tarric is an Australian freelance journalist and independent analyst who covers economics, finance, and geopolitics. Tarric is the author of the Avid Commentator Report. His works have appeared in The Washington DC Examiner, The Spectator, The Sydney Morning Herald, News.com.au, among other places.
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