The coalition and Labor are even in two-party preferred terms for the first time since the May election, the latest Newspoll shows.<\/p>\n
The turnaround in the ALP\u2019s fortunes comes as Prime Minister Scott Morrison battles the drought and a faltering economy.<\/p>\n
The government\u2019s billion-dollar drought relief package has not tracked through to the voters interviewed for the latest Newspoll in\u00a0The Australian\u00a0on Monday.<\/p>\n
Labor\u2019s primary vote has risen two points to 35 per cent despite a damning review into its loss in the May election while the Coalition\u2019s dropped to 40 per cent, down two points.<\/p>\n
Mr Morrison remains the preferred prime minister. Net satisfaction with his leadership was at 46 per cent despite a slight dip while Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese\u2019s rating rose to 42 per cent.<\/p>\n
The Newspoll, based on 1682 voters across the country in urban and regional areas, was carried out between Thursday and Sunday.<\/p>\n
The slide in support for the Coalition puts the warring sides at almost equal footing.<\/p>\n
The Australian\u00a0reports\u00a0Pauline Hanson\u2019s One Nation continued to gain traction, lifting its primary vote to 7 per cent after posting an election result of 3.1 per cent.<\/p>\n
Albanese looks to 2022 election<\/strong><\/p>\n Meanwhile Anthony Albanese is confident he will still be leading the Labor party at the 2022 election, but insists it is not about being popular now.<\/p>\n On Thursday, Labor party elders Craig Emerson and Jay Weatherill released their long-awaited review of what turned out to be a disastrous 2019 election campaign.<\/p>\n It criticised the campaign for scaring voters with enormous and complex policies while lacking a strategy and failing to address then-leader Bill Shorten\u2019s unpopularity.<\/p>\n Asked on ABC television\u2019s\u00a0Insiders\u00a0program on Sunday whether the leadership of the Labor party will now be judged through the prism of unpopularity and whether he is prepared to be cast aside by his colleagues, Mr Albanese said: \u201cI will lead Labor to the next election.\u201d<\/p>\n He said he has already outlined a clear strategy for the future of the party, but has yet to rule out controversial policies like ditching franking credits, which proved a concern for some pensioners, even when they didn\u2019t own shares.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll make our announcement under our terms with proper processes,\u201d Mr Albanese said.<\/p>\n He said as the next election is not until 2022, the party will outline in an \u201corderly and strategic way\u201d the policies it will and won\u2019t do in plenty of time before then.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the things that we should have learnt from the last term was that elections aren\u2019t decided two years out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were ahead in every Newspoll, in every published poll in the two years leading up to the election, except for when it counted \u2013 on the Saturday in the polling booth.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMy task isn\u2019t to be ahead now, it\u2019s to be ahead when people go to the polling booths in 2022, or the end of 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The coalition and Labor are even in two-party preferred terms for the first time since the May election, the latest Newspoll shows. The turnaround in the ALP\u2019s fortunes comes as Prime Minister Scott Morrison battles the drought and a faltering economy. The government\u2019s billion-dollar drought relief package has not tracked through to the voters interviewed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news"],"views":23,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2555,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions\/2555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}