Labor in decline...

[Rorschach]

Labor back where they started a year ago: latest Newspoll
* by: Phillip Hudson
* From: Herald Sun

LABOR has suffered a fall in support and ends the year exactly where it started - facing a massive defeat if a federal election were held today. Fingers crossed...

The latest Newspoll, published in The Australian, shows recent gains for the ALP have been wiped out with its primary vote down 4 points in the past fortnight to a five-month low of 32 per cent. It is just above the 31 per cent posted this time last year.

The Coalition's core vote rose 3 points to 46 per cent and is ahead of the 44 per cent it had this time last year.

The Greens were unchanged in the latest poll at 11 per cent but that's down from 13 per cent a year ago.

In two-party terms the Coalition leads Labor by 54 to 46 per cent - the identical figures in the Newspoll taken last December.

The election is not due until the second half of 2013 but if these figures were repeated Tony Abbott would comfortably replace Julia Gillard as Prime Minister.

Despite a 3 point fall in support, Ms Gillard remains preferred PM on 43 per cent - also the same figure as a year ago.

Mr Abbott's support rose 1 point to 34 per cent but was down on the 36 per cent from a year ago.

It is the first Newspoll that includes the dramatic final week of Parliament where Ms Gillard's past dominated debate amid claims by the Coalition that she was a dodgy lawyer and committed a crime and the PM's counter attack that the Opposition was on a witch hunt and running a smear campaign because it had no policies.

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Political observers whose anticipation of the 2013 election result seems to depend on the latest Newspoll can now return to a 1996-sized landslide.

The yarn about the razor’s edge result, of the election “being decided in [insert favourite region]”, with gains in Queensland offsetting losses in western Sydney, doesn’t work anymore.

Henceforth “leaked” Labor polling will exclusively reveal the party is on track to lose seats in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania as well as Sydney, and that national two-party-preferred support sits on around 46 or 47.

We’re back to a thumping Coalition win in 2013. We know how this story ends.

Yes, even with Abbott still leading the Liberal Party.

Monkey Boy and Arsie will be spewing over that one.

[Rorschach]

Unfortunately for labor the quality of their MPs is a big handicap.

Take Emerson for an example.



This man is an absolute Goose... how anyone could elect him to represent them is beyond me.

[Rorschach]

Then you have Billy "Boy" Shorten who has no mind of his own apparently...

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Wayne Swan...



But don't worry he has an MBA...

[Rorschach]

Mark "The Moron" Dreyfus..



Gee thanks Mark, ya moron.
Just how dumb do Labor think the rest of us are?

[wog_girl]

This man is an absolute Goose... how anyone could elect him to represent them is beyond me.

The sad consequence of having Peter Garrett as your colleague.

[Rorschach]

I doubt it... Emerson has always been a moron.
At least as long as I've known of him.

[IQS.RLOW]

Yet another feather in the ALP cap...look what they are doing to this country

The ALP have presided over increasing Aussies reliance to over 1% of the population on homeless services while their national president rorted those lowest paid workers, a backbencher used their money to fuck whores and the Obeids stole from the state with the assistance of the ALP.

Party of compassion? Like fuck
Party of labor values? Since when did labor values = theft
Chiefly would be rolling in his grave

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EACH night more than 19,000 Australians sleep in crisis accommodation.
And one in 98 of us needed the help of homeless services during the last financial year.
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report shows that 230,000 people accessed specialist homeless services.

[Jovial Monk]

There is no proof Craig Thomson MP visited brothels, whether on the HSU credit card or not.

This is slander and the post by IQ, who seems to have stocked up on codeine, should be removed.