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The survey also shows the Greens have held their support steady at12 per cent while voters have swung toward independent candidates – from 5 to 8 per cent – after the “teal” candidates and other independents stormed into parliament.
Voters who backed Pauline Hanson’s One Nation held their support,giving the party a primary vote of 5 per cent,but they marked down mining billionaire Clive Palmer and his United Australia Party by cutting its primary vote from 4 to 2 per cent.
The Resolve Political Monitor surveyed 2011 eligible voters from Wednesday to Sunday,a period when political debate was dominated by revelations thatMorrison took on five ministerial portfolios without telling parliament or most of his colleagues.
The margin of error for the national results was 2.2 percentage points.
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The results show that Albanese leads Dutton as preferred prime minister by 55 to 17 per cent in a dramatic turnaround from the survey before polling day,when Albanese lagged slightly behind Morrison by 36 to 40 per cent.
Asked about Albanese,61 per cent of voters said he was doing a good job and 22 per cent said he was doing a poor job,resulting in a net performance rating of 39 points. This was a significant improvement on his net rating of minus 8 points in the Resolve survey in the week before polling day.
Asked about Dutton,30 per cent said he was doing a good job and 38 per cent said he was doing a poor job,producing a net rating of minus 8 points. This was in line with the net rating for Morrison just before the election,which was minus 7 points,but voters held stronger views on the former prime minister because of the prominence of his position. While only 7 per cent of voters were undecided about Morrison,32 per cent are undecided about Dutton.
Because the Resolve Political Monitor asks voters to nominate their primary votes in the same way they would write “1” on the ballot papers for the lower house at the election,there is no undecided category in the results,a key difference from some other surveys.
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