The first bi-monthly NSW state Newspoll since Nathan Rees replaced Morris Iemma as Premier shows Labor support plunging to new lows, down four points on both the primary vote (to a record low of 29 per cent) and two-party preferred (to 44 per cent). The Coalition primary vote is up two points to 42 per [...]
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Green growths
Monday, October 20, 2008 – 2:23 pm
Here’s a little something I wrote for today’s Crikey email but failed to get finished in time for the deadline …
The main lessons from Saturday’s ACT election and NSW by-elections can be heard loud and clear from the news headlines, and could indeed have been ascertained even before the figures came in. After suffering the [...]
Iemma out
Friday, September 5, 2008 – 11:57 am
ABC Radio reports Morris Iemma has told a meeting of his faction that he will resign. He will be succeeded by Nathan Rees, who entered parliament barely 18 months ago as member for Toongabbie.
Newspoll: 52-48 to Coalition in NSW
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 – 10:43 am
The latest bi-monthly New South Wales state Newspoll shows the Coalition maintaining its 52-48 lead, although Labor has recovered a point on the primary vote. Barry O’Farrell’s lead over Morris Iemma as preferred Premier is steady at 39-32, and his satisfaction rating is up three points to 40 per cent. Morris Iemma’s approval rating remains [...]
Taverner: 56-44 to Coalition in NSW
Sunday, June 29, 2008 – 1:13 am
Hot on the heels of a New South Wales state Newspoll headlined 52-48 in the Coalition’s favour (but which Antony Green says should have been 54-46), the Sun-Herald today carries an even worse result for Labor from Taverner. This has the Coalition surging to a 56-44 lead after trailing 51-49 in February. No sample size [...]
Newspoll: 52-48 to Coalition in NSW
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 – 1:56 am
Vote
Swing
2PP
Marlene Kairouz (Labor)
1,100 44.9
-18.9
56.3
Les Twentyman (Independent)
500 20.4
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43.7
Jenny Matic (Liberal)
400 16.3
1.1
Tania Walters (Independent)
250 10.2
-1.1
Andre Kozlowski (CEC)
50 2.0
-0.4
The latest bi-monthly Newspoll survey of New South Wales state voting intention has the Coalition pulling ahead to a 52-48 lead on two-party preferred, after they trailed 51-49 in March-April. Morris Iemma’s ratings have worsened still further since the sobering results last time: his satisfaction [...]
Newspoll: 51-49 to Labor in NSW
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 – 2:27 pm
Newspoll has released a survey of New South Wales state voting intention, showing Labor pulling ahead to a narrow two-party lead in March-April after the parties were locked together on 50-50 in January-March. However, the headline figure is Morris Iemma’s satisfaction rating of 28 per cent, which is the lowest recorded for a Premier of [...]
Newspoll: 50-50 in NSW
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 – 4:02 am
Newspoll has released its first New South Wales state poll since the March 2007 election. The poll was half conducted before the Wollongong City Council scandal broke, and half after. It shows the two parties locked together at 50-50 on two-party preferred, with the Coalition on 39 per cent of the primary vote and Labor [...]
ACNielsen: 51-49 to Labor in NSW
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 – 1:10 am
ACNielsen has followed yesterday’s Victorian state poll with the one we’ve all been waiting for: the first New South Wales poll to follow the series of disasters that befell Morris Iemma’s 12-year-old Labor government last week. Unfortunately, the poll was conducted “from February 15 to 19 – significantly, before the worst of the Wollongong corruption [...]
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