Scott Morrison now leads Anthony Albanese as preferred prime minister by 38 to 30 per cent after the Labor leader held the advantage two weeks ago.
Labor leader Anthony Albanese has paid the price for a damaging opening week in the election campaign after voters cut their support for the opposition from 38 to 34 per cent while swinging back to Scott Morrison as preferred prime minister.
“Every trend has gone the Coalition’s way in this latest poll – vote, leadership, policy, performance – so the electorate is judging that the government won the first week of the campaign,” said Resolve director Jim Reed. Asked about Albanese, 35 per cent said he was doing a good job and 44 per cent said he was doing a poor job, producing a net rating of minus 9 points. This was a slump from his rating of minus 4 points two weeks ago.
The Resolve Political Monitor surveyed 1404 eligible voters from Monday to Saturday over a period that included Morrison declining to commit to setting up a national integrity commission in the next term of Parliament while Albanese promised to pass laws to set up the watchdog this year. Voters increased their support for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation from 2 to 4 per cent, although the change was less than 2 percentage points because the results are rounded to the nearest whole number. Support for Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party rose from 3 to 4 per cent.
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