TURNBULL'S POLLS WORSE THAN ABBOTT'S
Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun
July 5, 2017 6:29am
Former Treasury secretary John Stone says Malcolm Turnbull is actually doing far worse in the polls than did Tony Abbott as Prime Minister on two critical measures: The Coalition under Turnbull has now been consistently behind in Newspoll by four or more percentage points (that is, 48 Coalition, 52 Labor, or worse) for 14 polls in a row. Under Abbott as PM the Coalition was never consecutively behind by this big a margin for more than eight polls.
Note also that the main period when Abbott was behind by that much for eight straight Newspolls was directly after the tough 2014-15 budget — when his government was at least fighting for difficult decisions designed to address our longer-term debt and deficit problem, rather than, as recently, showering voters with tens of billions in extra debt-fuelled spending to try to buy a Newspoll bounce.
