Yet another shocking opinion poll for Geoff Gallop’s Labor government, this time from Roy Morgan, which can always be relied upon to paint a rosier picture for Labor than its rivals. Today’s results show a 3.5 per cent shift to the Coalition since the poll taken two months ago, reducing Labor to 49.5 per cent of the two-party preferred vote. On the primary vote, Labor are down 3 per cent to 39.5 per cent and the Coalition are up 2 per cent to 43.5 per cent. Family First have been given a separate entry for the first time, although their 1 per cent support may not justify it. The trend from all three polling organisations is hard to miss:
| Westpoll | Morgan | Newspoll | ||||||||||
| ALP | LNP | GRN | ALP | LNP | GRN | ALP | LNP | GRN | ||||
| December | 40 | 51 | 5 | 39.5 | 43.5 | 8 | 34 | 49 | 7 | |||
| Oct/Nov | 41 | 50 | 6 | 42.5 | 41.5 | 9 | – | – | – | |||
| Aug/Sept | 46 | 47 | 5 | 47.5 | 38 | 7 | 38 | 41 | 9 | |||
| Election 10/2/01 | 37.2 | 34.4 | 7.3 | 37.2 | 34.4 | 7.3 | 37.2 | 34.4 | 7.3 | |||
