Support for Labor, Albanese slumps after budget; Ebola outbreak in DRC, Uganda declared public health emergency
The federal government’s lead vote fell 3 percentage points to 29 per cent after Labor broke a series of promises on tax policy, but support flowed to One Nation rather than the Coalition following the release of a major “tough decisions” budget last Tuesday.
The government took note of voters for not fulfilling its election promises for negative guidance or for not touching tax deductions for capital gains; 36 per cent of people said their views of Labor had suffered, 31 per cent said their views had not changed, only 14 per cent said they had improved and 18 per cent were undecided.
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor will be buoyed by the news that he is now voters’ preferred prime minister, in a poll conducted exclusively for this imprint by Resolve Political Monitor after the budget; While Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was ahead 33-30, 37 percent of the public remained undecided.
The poll found that 36 per cent of voters support scrapping the 50 per cent CGT discount, 21 per cent are against it and 42 per cent are undecided, while 35 per cent support restricting negative gearing and 21 per cent are opposed and 44 per cent are undecided.
