Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's government could lose the federal election to be held on May 21, initial polls suggest
Australia's unemployment rate dipped to 4.0 percent in February, several months ahead of central bank forecasts as the economy rebounds.
On Monday, a Newspoll survey conducted for The Australian newspaper showed Morrison gaining a point to 44 percent, while opposition leader Anthony Albanese falling 3 points to 39 percent.But the poll also said Morrison's conservative Liberal-National Party coalition, with a one-seat majority in the lower house of parliament, could lose 10 seats to Albanese's centre-left Labor.
This included some previously deemed safe in resource-rich Queensland and Western Australia states. A win for Labor would see it back in power for the first time since 2013.
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