A ReachTEL poll for Sky News finds Labor maintaining its 54-46 lead from the last such poll a month ago. However, the primary votes are not quite as strong for Labor as last time, when Labor’s two-party lead was subdued by a strong flow of respondent-allocated preferences to the Coalition. This time the Coalition is up one on the primary vote to 34%, while both Labor and the Greens are down a point, to 36% and 10% respectively, and One Nation are steady on 7%.
The poll also finds 56% of respondents opposed to company tax cuts, with only 29% supportive, and only 26% thinking it likely the cuts will be passed on to workers, compared with 68% for unlikely. Not surprisingly, a question on whether Tony Abbott should return as Liberal leader after the next election finds little support, with 25% for yea and 64% for nay.
Together with the Newspoll and Essential Research, the ReachTEL results have been included in the lastest BludgerTrack update, which once again records essentially no change on voting intention, with ReachTEL’s strong result for Labor cancelling out a weak one from Essential Research. However, Labor is up two on the seat projection for Queensland, mostly because Galaxy’s 52-48 lead for the Coalition in that state in a Courier-Mail poll a month ago is no longer exerting its pull. Also included are the latest leadership ratings from Newspoll, which take a small bite out of Malcolm Turnbull’s net approval and preferred prime minister lead. We should have Newspoll’s quarterly state breakdowns next week, which will make the BludgerTrack state breakdowns a little more robust.
If you’re a Crikey subscriber, you can enjoy my piece today on how the recent halt to the rise of minor parties might play out in the Senate over the coming years. Below is a chart I knocked up to illustrate it, which I decided not to use. It combines federal and state election results, so that the reading at any point in time uses results from the most recent elections federally in each state, with each election weighted by its voting population.
Zoidlord @ #1598 Monday, April 2nd, 2018 – 1:21 am
Zoid
The point is the guy who first made the stuff lives in the USA, works for the US government and published a book with the formula in it so that a high school kid worth a lab could make it.
In other words there are hundreds of possible manufacturers/holders, of which Russia is one of the least likely, given the stuff did not work very well. if it was military grade nerve gas then clearly the Russian military has the skill set of Mr Bean.
Pseudo Cud Chewer @ #1600 Monday, April 2nd, 2018 – 4:00 am
Pseudo
The Russians are still in denial over M17 and the authorities have gone pretty quiet on it. The Russians say that it was a Ukranian attack on an aircraft mistaken for that of Putin.
Again until there is a proper law trial with evidence scrutinized by all sides etc we cannot know.
steve davis @ #1597 Monday, April 2nd, 2018 – 1:09 am
Gaining in SA will not compensate for Qld.
I suspect that the imputation stuff will go down badly too in Qld, the retirement capital.
I wonder if Shorten faces a particular “Rudd” factor in Qld, which Adani has reawakened.
New thread.
daretotread. (AnonBlock)
Monday, April 2nd, 2018 – 4:10 am
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Again until there is a proper law trial with evidence scrutinized by all sides etc we cannot know.
Your got your head in the sand pretty hard if you believe that one. Russia is ruled by the Russian mafia; that is where the poor county is at.
Observer, Sunday, April 1, 2018 at 7:45 pm
“South Africa have once again bought the game into disrepute”
you think Australian cricketers play tough but fair. That has gone out of the window. Which players are banned for breaching the laws & spirit of cricket & who banned them. It is ICC & CA.
Please read the article I posted on Sunday, April 1, 2018 at 7:35 pm
Ven
When you have a South African twice found guilty of ball tampering and has not been suspended your argument goes out of the window
The ICC penalties and the CA penalties in regards these 3 align how exactly?
So Australians are judged on a different criteria than others because they are Australian?
Why?
The Indians and South Africa are the 2 Nations who have bought the game into disrepute over years
All Series which attract the wrong type of attention involve either India or South Africa