Wednesday 10 February 2016

Solid movement away from Lieberals - Morgan polling


Too early to tell yet, but Morgan has just posted a poll being the first time such a solid movement away from the Lieberals has been recorded since Turnbull took over from Abbott. 

Has the euphoria of Turnbull not being Abbott started to subside? Are people starting to realise that Turnbull has all the same stupid Abbott policies, and is captive to the extreme right of the Canberra Lieberals who gave him power?

I mean seriously, what has changed in policy since Abbott was turfed? All we have is a shiny new PM who says what a wonderful time it is to innovate, with "every sinew" of his gov innovating, whilst the prospect of the CSIRO not being able to monitor the weather looms large. Now he wants to give  control of parts of Medicare to the corporations, having the gall to call that innovative.

All Turnbull has had going for him since he took office was that he wasn't Abbott and he rode the hoopla of that. The disappointment in such a case will be felt even more keenly by the electorate. He's taking us for another Lieberal ride.
The Coalition Government’s lead has been cut to its smallest since Malcolm Turnbull became Prime Minister just under five months ago – L-NP 52.5% (down 2.5% since late January) cf. ALP 47.5% on a two-party preferred basis. The drop in support for the L-NP follows considerable discussion in the past week about changes to Australia’s taxation system – including an increase of the GST to 15%. 

In recent weeks Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Treasurer Scott Morrison have spent a substantial amount of time debating the merits of an increase to the GST through various media outlets; however, in recent days Turnbull has appeared to abandon any thought of an increase to the tax introduced by his predecessor Liberal Prime Minister John Howard. 

The idea of increasing the GST has not impressed some Coalition backbenchers who would face a tough sell in convincing the electorate that increasing the taxation burden on goods and services – whilst lowering tax in other areas – is the right idea to get the Australian economy moving again following the end of the mining boom. These Coalition backbenchers are right. Morgan  

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