Morgan: 55.5-44.5 to Labor

A softening in Labor’s lead from the most favourable poll series for the party, plus the latest on election timing.

Two other new posts to note before we proceed: a summary of the South Australian election result, and an Adrian Beaumont guest post covering Ukraine, France, Hungary and the United Kingdom.

In what’s otherwise likely to be a barren week for polling, with most of the players having held their fire ahead of the budget, Roy Morgan published a result on Tuesday showing a narrowing in Labor’s two-party lead to 55.5-44.5 from 58-42 a week previously. The primary votes were Coalition 33% (up two), Labor 35.5% (down two), Greens 12.5% (up half), One Nation 3.5% (up half) and United Australia Party 1% (steady).

The state two-party breakdowns had Labor leading 53-47 in New South Wales (in from 57.5-42.5, a swing of around 5%), 60-40 in Victoria (in from 64-36, a swing of around 7%), 57-43 in Western Australia (in from 59-41, a swing of around 12.5%), 63.5-36.5 in South Australia (out from 60.5-39.5, a swing of around 13%) and 53-47 from the small sample in Tasmania (a swing to the Liberals of 3%). The Coalition leads 51-49 in Queensland, in from 54.5-45.5 for a swing of around 7.5%. The poll was conducted last Monday to Sunday from a sample of 1404.

UPDATE: Now Morgan has an SMS poll of 1067 respondents conducted Wednesday and Thursday showing Josh Frydenberg leading Scott Morrison 46% to 28.5% as preferred Liberal leader, out from 38.5% to 31% in mid-February.

In further polling news, Ipsos has announced it will be conducting polling for the Financial Review during the federal election campaign using a mix of phone and online polling. Ipsos conducted polling for the full gamut of the Fairfax/Nine newspaper stable in the previous term, which includes the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, which now bring us monthly polling from Resolve Strategic. Unlike Resolve Strategic, it is a member of the Australian Polling Council and observes the body’s transparency standards. Ipsos was the one pollster that had an accurate read on the Labor primary vote before the last election, but this did not flow into superior performance on two-party preferred since it was balanced by exaggerated results for the Greens.

On the election timing front, the Financial Review has a headline that reads “Why the federal election will likely be May 21”, whereas news.com.au has one that says “May 14 most likely date”. The reasoning behind the former is that the Coalition’s standing in the polls means Scott Morrison will take every week he can get; the latter invokes the opinion of Labor strategists along with the fact that the Electoral Commission has booked out halls for that date, though I personally wouldn’t read much into the latter.

Scott Morrison said on Wednesday he will not be visiting the Governor-General this weekend as he has “a lot to do”, which just about rules out May 7 unless he calls it on Monday. Laura Tingle suggested this wouldn’t happen on the ABC’s 7:30 last night, as the government wants to get “some advertising out in the ether” and the Liberal Party still lacks candidates in key seats due to its legal tangles in New South Wales. Tingle concluded that “most people think that it will now be May 14”, with the announcement to be made late next week.

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.

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  1. Far from offering encouragement, this Morgan poll should add to Morrison’s worries.
    It followed a blistering campaign attacking some of Labor’s most respected women, led by Murdoch media, aided & abetted by ABC, Stokes & Costello media., plus a little Guardian. The Full House of MSM.
    Result was a shift barely more than the MoE.
    Bodes ill for Scotty

  3. One thing Albo needs to do is quell the very real fears that home mortgage holders have about increasing interest rates on their home loans.
    Especially now we have serious cost of living increases to worry them.
    How to do it?
    Simple.
    Offer all owner-occupiers with mortgages the chance to convert the loan to fixed interest for the remaining life of the loan, at current rates.
    This may mean the government would need to take over the loan, maybe leaving the bank as loan manager ( for a small fee).
    The idea’s not that radical; the US has this system of fixed rates for life of loan
    https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fixed-rate_mortgage.asp

    Another thing he could do is legislate to limit the mortgagor’s liability to be the (insured) property. That is, if the borrower defaults then they can’t be pursued for more money if the property value is less than the outstanding liability. Again, not radical.

    Doing both these things would relieve a lot of stress in a lot of people in voter land

    Edit: what if the property is no longer insurable ( eg now in a flood or fire zone)? Not the fault of the borrower so it should still be the lender’s worry.

  4. Oliver Sutton
    “ It also followed the latest dramatic development in the Hillschlong saga.”

    Yes, many things were happening, so impossible to attribute changes to one cause

  5. Thank you as always William

    Uni of Queensland is talking up a big game on election advertising data, worth a follow..

    Could Clive Palmer’s fall off the spending cliff equate to his Covid bout?

    In the next few days, myself @eglu81 and a big team from UQ, including under-grads and post-grads are going to release details of our data dashboard analysing campaign ads. Here is a sneak peek of some of our data. @POLSISEngage

  11. Let me do a Wayne and say, after last night’s Budget-In-Reply speech, Labor will go to 60-40 in Newspoll this week! 😀

  13. Michael Janda calls out Frydenberg’s budget obfuscation

    There’s been a long history of, like, the same dam being announced 10 times, and this sort of thing,” explains John Hawkins, a former Treasury official who is now a senior lecturer at the Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society and NATSEM within the University of Canberra.

    “But, yeah, there seems to have been even more sort of trickery.”

    The phrases “funding for this measure has already been provided for” and “partial funding for this measure has already been provided for” are central to this “trickery”.

    With these phrases Frydo cleverly sidesteps any need to explain “where the money’s coming from”

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-01/budget-transparency-takes-a-dive/100954074

  14. Nursing homes could end up being the ‘genius policy’ for Labor, could be federal Labors ‘level crossings’ moment.
    Its a simple message, nurse in a nursing home, and the demographic it appeals to Labors biggest weakness, 65+
    And its not just the people in nursing homes that the policy reaches, its their children, which are probably still in a slightly unfavorable demographic, mostly 50+, who want to be assured their parents are being looked after.
    The significant pay rises also reach traditional labor voters, workers and their families.

  15. Statistically, what sample size do you need to be able to accurately detect a party with 1% of the vote? I can’t imagine detecting 1% to the UAP is anything like as easy as detecting that the Coalition is only roughly 33% of the vote.

  16. Let’s hope this sort of bastardry stops after the election:

    National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) staff reviewed the social media accounts of a disabled woman applying for the scheme and sent a report to a doctor engaged to provide an expert opinion, a tribunal decision reveals.

    … Confirmation of the practice, labelled “outrageous” by one federal senator, comes from a recent judgment in a long-running Administrative Appeals Tribunal’s (AAT) case seen by Guardian Australia.

    Crucially, the tribunal found the applicant, a woman in her 30s diagnosed with hypermobility spectrum disorder and a number of other conditions, was eligible for the scheme. This overturned the agency’s previous decision.

    The woman battled the NDIA for support for 21 months in the case, in which the AAT was tasked with reviewing the agency’s decision to knock back her national disability insurance scheme (NDIS) application.

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/01/ndia-scrutinised-disabled-womans-social-media-posts-to-challenge-her-eligibility-tribunal-decision-reveals

  17. Confessions says:
    Friday, April 1, 2022 at 6:41 am
    Should CFW be using her Senate resources in such a way?
    ———-
    I guess at this stage, who’s going to stop her?

  20. Maude Lynne @ #1 Friday, April 1st, 2022 – 5:20 am

    Far from offering encouragement, this Morgan poll should add to Morrison’s worries.
    It followed a blistering campaign attacking some of Labor’s most respected women, led by Murdoch media, aided & abetted by ABC, Stokes & Costello media., plus a little Guardian. The Full House of MSM.
    Result was a shift barely more than the MoE.
    Bodes ill for Scotty

    Yes, I was quite pleased to see that as well. A 2% turnaround from Labor to Liberal. Which should now be stopped in its tracks by the Connie F-W accusations and Labor’s top quality B-I-R.

  21. The LNP corrupted NDIS is very nasty, and is designed to make life hard for the applicants and pour money into selected private businesses.

    If I click through to Dave Sharma’s ad does it cosr the bastard money every time?

    Fantastic day of batting by Bancroft!

  22. C@t

    A 2% turnaround from Labor to Liberal. Which should now be stopped in its tracks by the Connie F-W accusations and Labor’s top quality B-I-R.

    Newspoll should be very interesting on Sunday night

  23. WWP
    Everything the LNP does is designed to “pour money into selected private businesses.”
    It’s a design feature.
    A portion of the funds are always earmarked as LNP donations, which is why the amounts are so high they make the eyes water

  25. Maude Lynne

    Yep, tightening is certainly expected but of course on balance that lovely trend continues.

    Confessions

    Normally no IMHO however I’m willing to overlook it for the blue-on-blue collateral damage.

  26. 64 dollar question – I guess (assuming that anyone takes Morgan seriously, ever) – is whether 55.5 – 44.5 is the start of the anticipated “the narrowing”, or simply a correction from the previous 58-42 outlier.

    I guess we will need to examine the other likely polls over the weekend and early next week to grasp where we are at right now.

  27. You can tell if Albanese & labor budget reply was spot on, the corrupt lib/nats propaganda media units are giving it little air as possible

  29. Jackie Lambie , what an enigma. Here I am ready to write her off again as a conservative nut job and then she goes and wins a deal to get those people off Naura and over to New Zealand. Her Q+A smack down of Scommochio was brilliant. Good for you Jackie. Tasmanian’s can be useful sometimes.

  30. The corrupt lib/nats and their propaganda media units, will also start to get nightmares of a independent federal anti-corruption like commission being set up

  31. “ Should CFW be using her Senate resources in such a way?”

    Of course she should fess! She is correcting the lies that the presstitutes and stenographers have been feed by Morrison and the PMO. On a matter of public interest.

    A simple one page statement, correcting the record & emailed around is not much of a use of senate resources anyway, is it? Compare THAT with A-G Cash using the vast resources of her Department to intervene in the Liberal Party (ScoMo cunning plan stunt) High Court application yesterday: That’s like $0 versus $100K+.

  32. “Morgan: 55.5-44.5 to Labor”…. Whether you trust Morgan’s 2PP or not, keep watching the same results across all pollsters until the very end (i.e. usually the last poll published just before election day by Newspoll). If the 2PP stubbornly remains at 54/55% for the ALP, then you can bet your house that Scomo and his gang will be:
    a) Gone!
    b) In a memorable election loss, courtesy of ALP, the Teals, and the preferences distributed by Greens supporters and others.

    Albo’s Budget Reply was exactly what you would expect from a winner: Offering solutions to those who need urgent Government help, offering a vision for the country, offering a long-term path forward for our People….

    Vision vs Marketing…. I mean, even some traditional Liberals must be thinking that their party truly needs a massive shake up, and will probably be voting for Teal Independents this time around. The failure of empty Marketeering, grounded on the assumption that there is a substantial proportion of Australians who are Voting Morons (= they can be led to vote against their own interests), can only be good for our Country and our Future…

    Change is coming…..

  33. Sandman @ #29 Friday, April 1st, 2022 – 4:51 am

    Jackie Lambie , what an enigma. Here I am ready to write her off again as a conservative nut job and then she goes and wins a deal to get those people off Naura and over to New Zealand. Her Q+A smack down of Scommochio was brilliant. Good for you Jackie. Tasmanian’s can be useful sometimes.

    Such a good deal that nobody knew about it and nothing happened relating to it for nearly 3 years.

  34. “Scottsays:
    Friday, April 1, 2022 at 7:52 am
    The corrupt lib/nats and their propaganda media units, will also start to get nightmares of a independent federal anti-corruption like commission being set up”…

    The silly ones will just have nightmares, the smart ones will run for cover and start to organise their defence strategy already….. This is going to be big…. and real.

  35. How is that ‘zero target’ theory looking at the moment. Without thinking much about it (hence placing myself in the position of the largely disengaged voter group out there that actually decide elections in shitsville) I can count the following major announcements by Albo in “the fourth quarter” as Albo ‘kicks with the wind’, as promised back in 2019:

    – Massive NBN upgrade;
    – Fully costed and achievable policy for a 43% reductions in carbon emissions by 2030 and a clear pathway to net zero 2050;
    – Free childcare;
    – Substantial Aged care reform; and
    – a series of substantial and practical measures to lift wages and incomes.

    So, five banner policies, plus more to come in the campaign (hopefully not too many, so as too confuse folk who typically take their news and information from MAFS).

    Governments lose elections, oppositions simply need to look credible, a safe pair of hands and project a vague sense of hope in an alternative to the current government. So, from where I’m sitting that looks like a tick, tick and tick to me.

  36. “You can tell if Albanese & labor budget reply was spot on, the corrupt lib/nats propaganda media units are giving it little air as possible”

    Is Labor getting it out through the socials and the fm stations? Or hoping people watched?

  37. Oil price – WTI now down to US$100 (down $20 in last 2 weeks) – AUD up to around 0.7500. Retail petrol prices will be starting to ease in the weeks ahead. With the 22 excise cut should be sown to $1.50 in 2 weeks.

  38. Good morning Dawn Patrollers

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    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-01/albanese-morrison-budget-election-battle-lines/100956988
    David Crowe writes that Labor leader Anthony Albanese has made a $2.5 billion pledge to improve the treatment of older Australians with an aged care package that opens a wider election fight on “fairness and decency” by holding out the promise of higher wages for millions of workers.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/labor-pledges-2-5-billion-for-aged-care-in-budget-reply-20220331-p5a9tu.html
    Phil Coorey reckons Morrison is putting all his chips on the budget roulette wheel.
    https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/morrison-puts-all-his-chips-on-the-budget-roulette-wheel-20220331-p5a9m5
    Budget 2022 is a bit like that last lolly bag at the party. The one with the bottom falling out of it. The one that’s therefore not only joyless, but useless, because it promises everything and contains next to nothing, writes John Falzon.
    https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7680665/one-off-fixes-like-the-ones-in-this-budget-are-no-fixes-at-all/?cs=9676
    There are big differences in rhetoric between Labor and the Coalition, but on the economic fundamentals there is little – other than aged care reform – to separate the two, explains economics professor, Stephen Bartos.
    https://theconversation.com/labors-budget-reply-goes-big-on-aged-care-similar-on-much-else-180098
    David Crowe tells us why Concetta Fiervanti-Wells’ character assassination of Morrison is so powerful. He says the Labor attack ads won’t be hard to make; they can leave it to the intern.
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    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/don-t-take-chances-employers-argue-for-modest-rise-in-minimum-wage-20220331-p5a9s2.html
    For a government professing concern about home ownership, new supply and affordability, the measures in this week’s budget fell flat – benefitting few, largely ignoring renters, and extending underperforming existing policy, argue these three academics.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/dream-on-australia-budget-exposes-fantasy-of-our-home-owning-democracy-20220331-p5a9nj.html
    Australia’s recovery is leading the world? Biggest economic shock since the Depression? There used to be a rule against misleading Parliament. No longer, it seems, writes Alan Austin about the budget.
    https://www.michaelwest.com.au/blinded-by-dodgy-stats-frydenbergs-sermon-relies-on-rusty-tablets/
    The Morrison government’s $50 million gas handout undermines climate targets and does nothing to improve energy security, laments Samantha Hepburn.
    https://theconversation.com/the-morrison-governments-50-million-gas-handout-undermines-climate-targets-and-does-nothing-to-improve-energy-security-180247
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    https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/bosses-say-budget-cash-should-discount-wage-claim-20220331-p5a9oh
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    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/01/hospitality-industry-calls-for-pay-freeze-for-australias-lowest-paid-workers
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  39. “– Fully costed and achievable policy for a 43% reductions in carbon emissions by 2030 and a clear pathway to net zero 2050;”

    43%! Wow about half of what is needed with most of it left to the last part of the last quarter, the science is very clear this is very very bad policy.

  40. ABC AM:

    Sabra Lane first question about age care 24/7 nurses, how will you pay for it and where will you get the staff. Questions that were absent from LNP announcements. PK’s first question to KG “How are you going to pay for it.” then were will the extra nurses come from.”

    The MSM tactics for biased interviews are wave through for LNP announcements but drill down into the detail of labor to create doubt.

    The ABC has spent years waving through LNP spending by accepting that interest rates will not rise for their debt. Now, with interest rates set to rise, it begs the question are the LNP the better economy managers.

  41. “ Jackie Lambie , what an enigma. Here I am ready to write her off again as a conservative nut job and then she goes and wins a deal to get those people off Naura and over to New Zealand. Her Q+A smack down of Scommochio was brilliant. Good for you Jackie. Tasmanian’s can be useful sometimes.”

    Or, that’s a bit of post facto rationalisation and self halo polishing by Jackie.

    It seems … odd … that Morrison would do the pivot 3 years later, as opposed to say … 6-12 months later. … all a bit too convenient to Jackie. Besides, why didnt she simply make it clear to ScoMo that if he didn’t start keeping up his end of the bargain by ‘date X’ (ie. within 6-12 months) she’d tell the public (via a senate speech, which attracts immunity from morrison’s alleged threats of prosecution) all about the deal and how he’d welshed on it? As I said: all a bit too convenient for Jackie, IMO.

  42. “Scottsays:
    Friday, April 1, 2022 at 7:47 am
    You can tell if Albanese & labor budget reply was spot on, the corrupt lib/nats propaganda media units are giving it little air as possible”…

    Unfortunately for the Murdochracy-Costellocracy, hiding a party in the hope that voters won’t even realise that they exist, only works against minor parties (e.g. the Greens). For the alternative party of government (i.e. the ALP) it doesn’t. Voters consciously or subconsciously swing from Coalition to ALP without any need of media propaganda in favour of the ALP, once they realise that the Coalition has become toxic. Hence the media spending so much time and resources desperately trying to hide the Coalition toxicity. Will it work this time around, for the fourth consecutive time? I truly doubt it!….

  43. Morrison has been called ‘menacing’, ‘controlling’, ‘autocrat’, ‘bully’, ‘fraud’, ‘complete psycho’, ruthless’, ‘not fit to be prime minister’, and a ‘horrible, horrible person’ by female Liberal colleagues.
    He has also been described as ‘lacking a moral compass’ and has been called out for using ‘offensive’ words by Liberal women.
    Another former Liberal female minister was head of the organization that sacked him. Why? Well, the relevant documents seem to have disappeared. Conjecture around the words ‘lie’ and ‘probity’ and industry complaints about the ‘process’ in relation to an $184 million contract have never been tested. So, all we know for sure is that he was sacked. But we for 100% certain don’t know why. It might even have been an unjust dismissal.
    But is all this this some sort of weird woman thing?
    Well, not entirely.
    What does a former (male) Liberal Prime Minister say? ‘He is a liar. He lies all the time.’
    What does the current (male) Deputy Prime Minister say about Morrison? ‘He is a hypocrite and a liar.’
    Well, what about an independent female senator who held negotiations with Mr Morrison? ‘bullying’ and ‘intimidating’.
    Well, what about an independent female MP? ‘disrespectful’.
    Well, what about the thoughts of Ventner, the editor of the Dominion Post? ‘like a cross between Rasputin and Crocodile Dundee’
    What about other reports from New Zealand? They allege ‘like a rottweiler’ and ‘arrogance’.

  47. So Coorey got it wrong when telling Adelaide radio listeners that Morrison saved CF-W in 2016?

    I wonder where he got that misinformation from in the first place? I wonder if he or the ABC presenter who invited him on will correct their error. I wonder if he will question other information he is handed like, you know, a journalist would rather than run advertising for the PM. I wonder if the ABC presenter will rethink getting in a Morrison cheerleader every week to Libsplain the news and instead invite a real journo.

    Fwiw, Coorey reckons the budget is a good one because it has blown over without much rumbling in the press. Fwit.

  48. ALBO’S ELECTION PITCH

    The Labor leader said last night his election pitch would be anchored by commitments to increase wages, protect Medicare, superannuation and NDIS funding, fix the aged-care crisis, build affordable housing, invest in clean energy, manufacturing, skills and jobs and push for a significant pay rise for low income workers at the Fair Work Commission. .

    Albanese said Labor will pay for its spending measures by cracking down on multinational tax loopholes and more targeted spending of grants programs.

    This is what the conservatives laugingly call a “small target election pitch”. The aged care policy is the stand-out policy to contrast against the Coalition. It is getting widespread MSM coverage too, even with the Murdoch Press. Go get em Albo

  49. Cricketer Glen Maxwell married a Melbourne Girl of Indian heritage in Chennai in traditional Indian wedding.

    https://www-hindustantimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/watch-glenn-maxwell-ties-knot-with-vini-raman-in-traditional-indian-wedding-video-goes-viral-101648535468026-amp.html?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16487612175895&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hindustantimes.com%2Fcricket%2Fwatch-glenn-maxwell-ties-knot-with-vini-raman-in-traditional-indian-wedding-video-goes-viral-101648535468026.html

  50. “WeWantPaulsays:
    Friday, April 1, 2022 at 8:01 am
    “You can tell if Albanese & labor budget reply was spot on, the corrupt lib/nats propaganda media units are giving it little air as possible”

    Is Labor getting it out through the socials and the fm stations? Or hoping people watched?”…

    Albo just reflected what the majority of the People already think and want.

    Scomo is hoping for more media brainwashing of the voters to transform them into Voting Morons (= people who vote against their own interests). Keep watching the opinion polls until the last one is published just before election day, to see how many Voting Morons are still left in this country…..

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