The latest Newspoll has bad news for the Labor government, but it is out of step with other recent polls.
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The Democratic nominee has received a sizeable bounce following her strong performance in the presidential debate.
Asked whether government should prioritise tackling sports betting or pokies, 47% also said both in the new Resolve poll.
Voter concerns about inflation and cost of living continue to keep the government’s polling numbers down.
Labor edges ahead in Newspoll, but other polls have worse news for the government.
Labor’s. fortunes continue to slide in the wake of the failed Voice to Parliament referendum.
Queensland Premier Steven Miles is falling behind his Liberal counterpart as preferred premier. Federally, Labor and the Coalition remain tied, according to Freshwater polling.
Tracking young people who are accused of serious crimes will not actually reduce youth crime - in fact, it may well entrench it.
The Coalition lead Labor 53–47, excluding undecided, in a federal Essential poll.
Inflation and the cost of living continue to eat away at Labor’s polling advantage.
The summer break hasn’t changed the Freshwater polling figures for the two major parties federally. Overseas, the former US President is in a strong position ahead of the Iowa caucus.
Latest polling suggests Labor’s position might be improving slightly, perhaps due to increased optimism about the state of the economy.
A proposed Senate election reform would be little to fix the unequal representation of the states and territories in the upper house - in fact, it would make it worse.
The Labor Party continues the poll slide it has experienced since the failed Voice referendum in October.
The new premier has a great deal of experience in politics, but inherits the premiership with the state facing a series of major economic problems.
An activist premier, a gifted political communicator and a hard man of politics, Dan Andrews has been an enormously consequential leader and one of national significance.
If the “yes” case is to win the October referendum, there will need to be sharp turn around in the polling trends to date.
By the October 2024 state election, Labor will have governed for almost ten years, so there could be an ‘it’s time’ factor for voters.
For the first time since becoming premier in 2014, more voters disapprove of Dan Andrews than approve of him in the Morgan poll.
Victoria’s new renewable plan is welcome - but it relies on building unsexy and challenging new transmission lines across the state.
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
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Swinburne University of Technology
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