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It is still ahead of its opposition, with the Coalition’s primary vote rising by two points to 28 per cent, and One Nation’s rising to 18 per cent.
A Newspoll conducted for The Australian put One Nation’s primary vote even higher, at 22 per cent – above the Coalition for the first time at 21 per cent, and behind Labor at 32 per cent.
The Resolve poll showed Albanese’s personal approval rating had dropped from plus-6 to minus-22 since December 6, as voters delivered their verdict on the government’s response to the Bondi terror attack.
Albanese was criticised by respondents as being muddled, unclear, and out of step with the community.
However, he remains preferred prime minister ahead of opposition leader Sussan Ley, at 33 per cent to 29 per cent – though that constitutes an 11-point drop for Albanese.
And on a two-party preferred basis, Labor remains in the lead at 52 per cent to 48 per cent, narrowed from 55 per cent to 45 per cent in December.
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles on Today said the government was focused on delivering legislation responding to the Bondi attack, after Albanese announced the government would split its hate speech and gun reform proposals.
“What we’re focused on is implementing the antisemitism report in full, which is what we committed to doing,” he said.
“We said we would bring the parliament back early, which is what we are doing, in order to put that legislation through.”
Marles also defended Albanese’s hesitation in calling for a federal royal commission into the attack.
”We had anxieties at the start about a royal commission at the time it might take and how it might play out,” he said.
“But but we have worked with the Jewish community in respect of that, and we are really confident about the royal commission that we have now called.”
Despite the poor polling, the largest proportion of voters believed Labor would retain government, at 41 per cent compared to 23 per cent for the Coalition.
But 42 per cent of voters said they would cast their next vote for a party other than Labor or the Coalition, as One Nation’s primary vote support surges to about three times the 6.4 per cent they gained in the 2025 election.
“One Nation have taken a big chunk of the Coalition’s base since the election, but since the Bondi massacre they’re also hoovering up votes from Labor too,” Resolve political analyst Jim Reed told Nine newspaers.
“If this trend continues, we may have to stop referring to them as a minor party.”
