This week’s Newspoll, conducted June 23-26 from a sample of 1,513, gave Labor a 51-49 lead, a one-point gain for Labor since the previous Newspoll, three weeks ago. Primary votes were 41% Coalition (steady), 37% Labor (up one), 11% Greens (steady) and 3% One Nation (steady). Figures are from The Poll Bludger.
55% were satisfied with Scott Morrison’s performance (up one), and 41% were dissatisfied (down two), for a net approval of +14, up three points. Anthony Albanese’s net approval increased four points to -5. Morrison led Albanese as better prime minister by 53-33 (53-32 previously).
While Morrison’s net approval was up slightly, this followed a fall of nine points in the previous Newspoll. Analyst Kevin Bonham said Morrison’s current net approval is his second lowest since the COVID situation started last year.
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Influential Tasmanian Liberal powerbroker Eric Abetz has been demoted to third place on the party s Senate ticket in a shock preselection vote.
It could signal the end of Senator Abetz s almost three-decade Senate career, given that third place on the ticket is difficult to win.
Senator Abetz lost votes to outer ministry senate colleague Jonno Duniam in first place, and Senator Wendy Askew in second.
It was widely speculated that Senators Abetz and Duniam would take the top two positions at the next federal election, with Senator Askew in third.
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Tasmanian electoral analyst Kevin Bonham said Senator Abetz s senate seat was not unwinnable at the next poll, but he was in a risky position.
The Tasmanian electoral analyst Kevin Bonham said Abetzâs Senate seat was not unwinnable at the next poll, but he was in a risky position.
âEver since he got into the Senate heâs been top of the ticket,â Bonham said. âThereâs never been any direct test of his popularity and now he has to actually fight for votes for the party as well as himself.â
Bonham said the considerations that could have swayed the 67 rank-and-file members who cast votes in the preselection were that Abetz has long been a politically controversial figure, that he is close to retirement age and that it would not have looked good to demote a woman to third place.
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