The Albanese government has plummeted to its lowest level of support since its thumping win at last year’s election, while support for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation continues to rise, two new opinion polls show.
The polls, released on Monday, also show the Coalition’s support is still in the doldrums, despite the change of leadership for both the Liberals and Nationals.
The polls were taken during a week in which the affordability crisis, exacerbated by the uncertainty of the Iran war, surging inflation, and skyrocketing fuel prices, dominated the national conversation.
The Australian’s Newspoll surveyed 1232 voters from Monday to Thursday last week and found Labor’s primary vote dropping to 31 per cent, down from 36 per cent in November last year and 34.6 per cent in May, at the time of the federal election.
One Nation’s primary vote also dropped (26 per cent), while both the Coalition and the Greens lifted to 21 per cent and 12 per cent respectively.
The latest Redbridge poll in the Financial Review surveyed 1003 voters from Monday to Friday last week.
It found One Nation’s primary vote creep forward to 29 per cent, placing it behind Labor whose support remained unchanged at 32 per cent.
The Coalition’s primary vote dropped a further two points since the last poll in February to a record low of 17 per cent.
On a two-party preferred basis, the Redbridge poll found Labor led One Nation by 53 per cent to 47 per cent. Under preferences allocated by how they fell at the May election, Labor led the Coalition by 55 per cent to 45 per cent.
A total of 61 per cent of voters also solely blamed US President Donald Trump for the petrol price crisis – triggered by global energy shocks brought on by the Iran war – while 14 per cent blamed the government.
The poll also found Anthony Albanese’s net approval rating also take a hit. The Prime Minister’s net favourability was minus 17, a drop of 18 percentage points since December last year.
This voter frustration was echoed by the latest Newspoll.
The Newspoll surveyed 1232 voters from Monday to Thursday last week and found Labor’s primary vote dropping to 31 per cent, down from 36 per cent in November last year and 34.6 per cent in May, at the time of the federal election.
One Nation’s primary vote also dropped one point (26 per cent), while both the Coalition and the Greens lifting to 21 per cent and 12 per cent respectively.
Anthony Albanese’s net approval rating also dropped, with 57 per cent dissatisfied with his performance, while 39 per cent were satisfied and 4 per cent uncommitted.
In comparison, 42 per cent were dissatisfied with the Opposition Leader Angus Taylor’s performance, with the remaining 35 per cent of voters satisfied and 23 per cent uncommitted.
The poll also revealed the overwhelming majority of Australians did not back US military action against Iran (72 per cent), with more than half of those against the war expressing strong disapproval.
The remaining 23 per cent approved and 5 per cent said they didn’t know.
When asked if Australia should heed US demands to provide military support in the Strait of Hormuz, the majority of voters (63 per cent) again opposed the move, while 30 per cent supported it, and 7 per cent didn’t know.
The poll found more than 65 per cent of every age group disapproved of the US military action in Iran, while One Nation voters were most likely to support the war, ahead of Liberal, Labor and Greens voters.
Men were twice as likely to approve of the military action (30 per cent) as women (16 per cent).
Australia has denied receiving any requests for military support in the Strait of Hormuz, despite Donald Trump singling out the nation several times for its lack of support of US actions in the Middle East.
