Newspoll: 52-48 to Labor

The Prime Minister’s personal ratings take a tumble after a problematic fortnight, but with no significant change on voting intention.

The Australian has come good with a Newspoll just a fortnight after the last, quickening its usual three-weekly schedule. This actually has very slightly better numbers for the Coalition on the primary vote, up one to 40% with Labor down one to 38%, the Greens up one to 11% and One Nation down one to 2%, but with Labor’s two-party lead unchanged on 52-48.

However, Scott Morrison’s personal ratings have taken a hit: he’s down seven points on approval to 55% and up six on disapproval to 40%, comfortably his worst numbers since the onset of COVID-19. Anthony Albanese is up a point on approval to 43% and steady on disapproval at 41%, and his deficit on preferred prime minister has been cut from 56-30 to 52-32.

The poll was conducted Wednesday to Saturday from a sample of 1517.

Author: William Bowe

William Bowe is a Perth-based election analyst and occasional teacher of political science. His blog, The Poll Bludger, has existed in one form or another since 2004, and is one of the most heavily trafficked websites on Australian politics.

1,355 comments on “Newspoll: 52-48 to Labor”

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  3. Boerwar has it in one. The big money (below mega-money offshore/transfer pricing) has moved from family trusts into charities. The less scrutiny the better. Indigenous charities are winners.

    While both are large bleeds to the individual tax take, they are small bikkies in comparison to corporate tax mitigation efforts.

  6. And reading through the recent comments; Greens are good at marketing? Say what? That is why the Green primary vote is declining? That is why the Adani convey was so successful in achieving its aims or indeed loosening the Coalition grip on power in 2019? If the Greens can sell that they are good at marketing provided these facts, then the Greens are good at marketing 🙂

  7. Theo Andelini @ #960 Tuesday, March 30th, 2021 – 12:21 pm

    How the Labor Party Sold Australia’s Public Assets for a Song

    By Max Chandler-Mather [Greens candidate for the federal electorate of Griffith]

    Many people think of privatization as a policy of conservative parties. In Australia, however, it was Paul Keating’s Labor that initiated a gigantic fire sale of public assets, setting in motion a process that made billions for private companies at the expense of everyone else.

    n the 1990s, Paul Keating’s Labor government kicked off one of the most aggressive waves of privatization seen in the developed world. The resulting fire sale transferred a vast amount of public wealth to the private sector while alienating Labor from millions of working-class voters.

    Keating’s sale of Qantas, the national airline, and the Commonwealth Bank are the two most notorious examples. However, the damage cut deeper and wider than many people realize. Keating’s sweeping reforms laid the groundwork for two decades of privatization, outsourcing, and corporatization at both federal and state levels.

    Privatization in Australia was a bipartisan affair. Keating’s neoliberalization of the Australian economy paved the way for his Liberal successor John Howard, who went on to accelerate the transformation Labor had initiated after taking office in 1996. More than two decades after the great sale of public assets began, we can now draw up a damning balance sheet of the whole experiment.

    https://jacobinmag.com/2021/03/australian-labor-party-paul-keating-privatization-neoliberalism

    I don’t often agree with anything the greens post/say/do but on this one he has it right. The rot started with a Labor government and I say that as a rusted on Labor voter and unionist

  8. OC I think we are living through the end times – the HSU disaffiating from the ALP.

    What other biblical plagues will befall Sussex street?

    Where is the whore of Babylon ?

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  15. Typical Labor partisans responses to my points about marketing.

    Totally ignoring the point marketing is exactly what the LNP was better at doing.

    Anything to keep up the division on the left by blaming the Greens.

    With the notable exception of Bert able to look at an issue not the party position of the person posting it.

    It’s a very simple concept. India and Australia and Japan and the USA can work together towards common goals. So cal Labor and the Greens.

    The truth is that Labor and the Greens are the major parties of the left.

    Like India and Australia they have their differences. The strategic aim of defeating the LNP is the same.
    Those telling you the Greens are working to elect the LZnP are flat out lying to you.

  18. If anyone are Jane Fonda fans.

    @CloverMoore tweets

    Our @cityofsydney CityTalk on a green-led recovery will be live in 20 minutes.

    Tune in to watch @JaneFonda, @ZaliSteggall, Ross Garnaut, @Matt_KeanMP and more.

  19. Every time Bore War posts , I laugh inwardly at his ‘passion’. He is one of the most passionate Tories I have ever come across. Why does he bother posing as a progressive, when he is nothing of the sort and at best a slightly confused DLPer?

  20. Guytaur,
    If you are correct that the Greens are very good marketers, but they only get 10% of the vote, then it must follow that what they are marketing is no good.
    Or, just maybe, life, people and politics are all more complicated than that.

    I appreciate that you see yourself as a great wit, skewering your foes with the finest debating points.
    The problem is that you are only half right

  21. “Are they anything like the ‘Siberian Hamster” ?”

    Nah, those things are really rabbits.

    I’m talking about genuine long-ear guinea pigs. Nothing like rabbits, so I’m not sure why I brought them up.

  28. FitzSimons myth making. C/- SMH

    “ Right now, despite being once sent off against the All Blacks for violence, I am writing what I am told to.”

    He was sent off playing for an invitational XV for being annoying.

  29. ‘Dandy Murray says:
    Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 6:38 pm

    “Are they anything like the ‘Siberian Hamster” ?”

    Nah, those things are really rabbits.

    I’m talking about genuine long-ear guinea pigs. Nothing like rabbits, so I’m not sure why I brought them up.’

    So rude. Siberian Hamsters are not rabbits.

  30. DisplayName at 6:51 pm

    What’s your boat people policy like, david?

    Hint. This is their policy for ‘bridge people’ 🙂

  31. We have a plague of Siberian Hamsters in the grounds and gardens of our building. Apparently they moved out of the CBD and shopping centres into the suburbs during Covid.

  32. So rude. Siberian Hamsters are not rabbits.

    Well in that case they are just like Siberian hamsters. And still definitely not rabbits.

    It’s quite difficult to find a vet in Qld that will see them, tho.

  34. Guytaur,

    Once again, an inconvenient truth; I have voted Greens more often than Labor.

    Greens are failing at their efforts at marketing as they move from their core issue – the environment. It is an oft-told story for single-issue parties as they attempt to broaden their appeal.

    That said, as it obviously means so much to you, consider yourself a winner on the internet! I am just not sure how it helps the Greens 🙂

  39. Ah, the ‘local angle’. The NZ + Australian women’s cricket teams just played a one day match which NZ won to level the series. Now here are 2 headlines, one each from a NZ and Aus newspaper. Guess which was which 😆

    Fluke French cut denies Australia on last ball

    .

    Last ball thriller: White Ferns level series against Australia

  44. “ Every time Bore War posts , I laugh inwardly at his ‘passion’. He is one of the most passionate Tories I have ever come across. Why does he bother posing as a progressive, when he is nothing of the sort and at best a slightly confused DLPer?”

    Come on Clem. Just call him a Grouper. You know you want to.

  47. ‘Andrew_Earlwood says:
    Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 7:25 pm

    “ Every time Bore War posts , I laugh inwardly at his ‘passion’. He is one of the most passionate Tories I have ever come across. Why does he bother posing as a progressive, when he is nothing of the sort and at best a slightly confused DLPer?”

    Come on Clem. Just call him a Grouper. You know you want to.’

    haha.

  48. ‘davidwh says:
    Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 7:27 pm

    Silver Ferns are the netball team which also beat us recently. Bloody K1W1’s’

    thanks.

  49. ”A $252 million grants fund handled by the Berejiklian government was deliberately devised to accommodate pork-barrelling, punish councils who objected to forced amalgamations, and win seats ahead of the 2019 state election, an inquiry has found.”

    https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/252-million-fund-designed-to-win-seats-and-punish-councils-inquiry-finds-20210330-p57f8p.html

    Gladys looks very shifty in the accompanying picture, obviously guilty. Even so, this being a Coalition Government, there will be no consequences possibly apart from a scapegoat or two.

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