Turnbull gov rated worse than Abbott's; GST talk and living costs - Poll

Well this is rather a surprise. Perhaps Malcolm the messiah has limits to his ability to hypnotise the public? I mean a turd is after all a turd, no matter how much calmness you assuage the voters with.

Cited from the focus groups is talk about increasing the backwards GST tax and therefore worries about the cost of living as being the central issue.

This is at a time too that the gov is trying to keep secret how little tax large corporations pay in Australia, and revelations of shonky tax dodging financial portfolios of the prime minister himself. No amount of calm-speak and "all-is-roses" will change the poor being unfairly shafted over the bonnet of Malcolms GST increase.

Maybe Malcolm isn't the messiah after all, and he's just a very naughty boy. 

Or perhaps this all just confirms that Malcolm's popularity at the moment is simply because he's not Tony Abbott. You could probably stick a talking parrot in his place and still get the same poll numbers. Preferably a calm parrot that was very loving and hypnotising. Nicely groomed with a soft lulling voice.....

The fragility of the Turnbull government's lead in the opinion polls has been exposed by new research which shows voters marking down the government's performance in every policy issue of concern since Tony Abbott was replaced. 

And fears about border security and immigration are back on the rise. 

The work, carried out by JWS Research, warns that cost of living concerns, driven by talk of an increased GST, are acting like a sea-anchor in terms of stoking voter anxiety and pessimism. 

"While the published polls show the new Prime Minister has greater support among voters in his role than his predecessor, and has turned around support for his party in the polls, this has yet to translate into improved performance scores on the issues that matter the most to Australians," the research says. Australian Financial Review