A national Newspoll, conducted October 30 to November 3 from a sample of 1,220 people, gave Labor a 52–48% lead over the Coalition, a two-point gain for the Coalition since the final Newspoll before the October 14 Voice referendum. This is Labor’s narrowest lead in Newspoll since the 2022 federal election.
Maybe the real issue is the inevitable neoliberal malaise? Maybe constant bureaucratic tinkering with capitalist liberal democracy has failed to deliver a fair and just society?
Being a weak government without the backbone to make meaningful changes for fear of astroturfed backlash will disenchant one side, and not being the coalition will disenchant the other side…
Eh, it’s 10 points down on PM approval, with a net approval decline of 40 (!) in 3 months. I think the descriptions are pretty fair when applied to the combination of polls, especially since “worst” is objective in this context.
the hit was inevitable after the voice, but that will blow over. even as someone who is generally pretty happy with the government, they are dropping the ball on cost of living and arent even talking about it, i’d expect no less from the coalition but labor are better than this
The predictable labor strategy is to shoot themselves in the foot with a leadership spill and then just manage to squeeze over the line for a second term.
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