The Only Deniers are the Members of the Gillard Government

August 4, 2011

The Only Deniers are the Members of the Gillard Government

Support for federal Labor has collapsed in metropolitan Sydney and is so low in Queensland that former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd would be the only government MP to hold his seat in the state if elections had been held last weekend.

It found opposition to the carbon tax was highest in Queensland electorates (62 per cent) and key Sydney metropolitan electorates (61 per cent) and that 67 per cent of voters believed the Prime Minister should wait to introduce the tax until after an election.

The Galaxy poll shows the majority of people believe they will be left worse off by the tax despite the government's bid to sell its compensation package.

Labor's primary vote has collapsed to just 29 per cent in the Sydney metropolitan area compared with 54 per cent for the Coalition and 9 per cent for the Greens. This gave Tony Abbott's Coalition a commanding 60-40 per cent two party preferred lead in the nation's biggest city and put it on track to pick up a swing of 13 per cent.

Via the Australian

Andy Semple

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