Monday, September 21, 2009 – 10:25 pm
The Australian reports the latest fortnightly Newspoll has Labor’s two-party lead steady at 55-45. This is “despite recent revelations of the Prime Minister’s expletive-laden tirade against factional bosses” which emerged after the poll was conducted. Both Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull have lost two points to “uncommitted” on preferred prime minister, Rudd now leading 65-17. [...]
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 – 12:02 am
The latest fortnightly Newspoll has the two-party vote steady at 55-45, with Labor’s primary vote steady on 44 per cent and the Coalition’s up one to 39 per cent. Kevin Rudd’s approval rating is up three to 64 per cent, and his disapproval down three to 26 per cent. UPDATE: graphic here.
Essential Research has Labor’s [...]
Monday, August 31, 2009 – 6:09 pm
The latest weekly Essential Research survey has Labor’s lead up from 58-42 to 60-40. The survey also shows opinion is evenly divided on whether the Liberal and National parties should stay in coalition (39 per cent each way); that most believe Malcolm Turnbull doesn’t have enough control of the Liberal Party; that perceptions of job [...]
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Also tagged Camden, Chris Patterson, Jai Rowell, Macarthur, Margaret Fitzherbert, Murray Thompson, Pat Farmer, primaries, Reuters Poll Trend, Sandringham, Wollondilly
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Monday, August 3, 2009 – 4:49 pm
The latest weekly Essential Research survey shows Labor’s two-party lead at a commanding 59-41, up from 57-43 last week and 56-44 the week before. Also featured are questions on whether the Liberals should support (51 per cent) or oppose (20 per cent) the government’s plans for an emissions trading scheme, whether the federal government should [...]
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Posted in Electoral reform, Federal Politics, SA politics
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Monday, July 27, 2009 – 10:26 pm
From Peter Brent at Mumble comes news that the latest fortnightly Newspoll has Labor’s two-party lead at 57-43 – up from 55-45 last time – with Labor’s primary vote on 46 per cent (up three), the Coalition on 38 per cent (down one) and the Greens on 9 per cent (down two). More to follow. [...]
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Monday, July 20, 2009 – 6:23 pm
The latest weekly Essential Research survey has Labor’s two-party lead down from 57-43 to 56-44. Also featured are questions on carbon emission targets (evenly divided between 80 per cent by 2050 and 60 per cent), the state of the economy in face of the global slowdown (worst believed to be over), whether Australian companies “should [...]
By William Bowe
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Posted in Federal Politics, SA politics, Victorian politics
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Also tagged AMWU, Andy Richards, Calwell, Darren Cheeseman, Dennis Jensen, Footscray, Glenn Piggott, Les Twentyman, Libby Lyons, Margaret Fitzherbert, Maria Vamvakinou, Murray Thompson, Sandringham, Tangney, upper house reform
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 – 8:31 am
The latest Newspoll survey has Labor’s two-party lead down from 56-44 to 55-45, with Malcolm Turnbull enjoying a dead cat bounce on his personal ratings after the disaster of a fortnight ago. Turnbull’s approval rating is up six points to 31 per cent, while his disapproval is down three to 55 per cent. However, Turnbull [...]
Friday, July 10, 2009 – 5:29 pm
The first Roy Morgan face-to-face poll to catch the full force of the OzCar aftermath shows Labor’s two-party lead up from 55-45 to 58-42. Conducted over the past two weekends from a sample of 1190 (smaller than usual from a poll covering two weeks), it has Labor up 0.5 per cent on the primary vote [...]
Monday, June 29, 2009 – 1:35 am
An unprecedented triple whammy of opinion polls is disastrous enough for the Coalition to lend force to Dennis Shanahan’s assertion that “Malcolm Turnbull’s political career has been smashed in just one week”. In turn:
• Arriving a day earlier than usual, Newspoll shows that the Coalition recovery detected a fortnight ago has come to a sudden [...]
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 – 2:45 am
The latest Essential Research survey was conducted during the worst period for Labor of the “utegate” saga, from June 17 to 21, but it shows Labor’s two-party lead steady on 57-43. Further questions: would respondents support tax increases to improve spending on services and infrastructure (mostly not); which taxes would you most and least care [...]
