Labor & Disastrous Nielsen poll dip.

[windrake]

Rather than the nasty "Game on" from Miss Gillard it looks like "Game over".

Even in Victoria it looks bad & could see the loss of 5 or more seats including so called "safe seats" are in jeopardy under Miss Gillards catastrophic leadership.

I wonder if there will be dancing in the streets after we see the demise of her & her ilk like the disgraceful antics & comment we are seeing from the left at the moment.

I know there will be great celebration in our street after the Sept. election. but there won't be singing of "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" our street has more class than that.

Nielsen poll dip.

Today's Nielsen poll, published in Fairfax papers, shows support for Labor slipping below 30 per cent for the first time in 10 months.

The poll puts Labor's primary vote down two points at 29 per cent, while support for the Coalition has risen two points to 49 per cent.

On a two party-preferred basis, the Coalition is ahead on 57 per cent, while Labor sits at 43 per cent.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott leads Ms Gillard in the preferred prime minister stakes 50 per cent to 42 per cent.

It is the first time Labor's primary vote has slipped below 30 per cent since June 2012, before the carbon tax was introduced.

The poll follows a big week for Ms Gillard, who has also announced a strategic partnership deal with China and an overhaul of Australia's superannuation system.

Fifty-two per cent of those polled opposed the superannuation changes, despite the Government saying they would only affect about 16,000 of Australia's top earners.

[lakeland27]

 Talk about hypocritical &  your confected outrage at nero for the same thing & here you are using the flag to drape yourself in. Will it cover your true colours?

you mean the genuine article ? with the right spirit ? it doesn't belong to national front types or racist groups .

[windrake]

If there was a reason to get rid of the failed Gillard experiment this is it. The Labor party must be so dejected & demoralised it's no wonder they have given up trying to run the country. It's all about hanging on now, at any cost & let the country fend for itself.

Julia Gillard's government is now trapped in a vortex of miserable morale, low expectations and sullied credibility - almost all of its own making and all neatly reflected in another shocker Fairfax/Nielsen poll.

After the coup that collapsed, Labor's 29 per cent primary vote has a two in front of it for the first time since June last year, and Julia Gillard's dismal approval ratings are back where they were before last year's grinding comeback.

The numbers are so bad that they undermine any confidence that Labor will be around to implement the big picture policies it hopes will restore voter confidence and leave a lasting legacy - school funding reform and a National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Polling woes confirmed

Nielsen director John Stirton says Labor's previous period of gradual polling improvement is over and unlikely to return, with the PM's leadership style out of favour with respondents.

The promise of an extra $14.5 billion in public investment in schools over the next six years would resonate much more if there seemed a reasonable prospect of Labor still being in power in six months. As things stand, there isn't.

The plan unveiled on Sunday is bold and visionary, but invites its own tough set of questions: whether conservative states will come on board; whether it will be undermined by funding cuts to universities and the removal of the incentive for university students and parents to pay their fees up front; whether Gillard, Treasurer Wayne Swan and School Education Minister Peter Garrett can sell it.

The biggest question, however, is whether the voters have already written off this government and stopped listening - especially when it comes to plans that will be implemented years after the September 14 poll.

Source: April Fairfax/Nielsen poll.

Having executed one successful comeback in which Labor's and Gillard's ratings returned to competitive levels in the months after the carbon price was introduced, there seems little prospect of this happening twice - not least because of the internal doubts and divisions that propelled last month's fiasco of a leadership challenge without a challenger.

This is the third consecutive month when the Prime Minister's net approval rating - approval minus disapproval - is worse than minus-20. In the first half of last year, there were six such months before Gillard squared the ledger and pulled well clear of Tony Abbott.

Abbott leads an utterly ascendant opposition and enjoys an 8-percentage-point edge as preferred prime minister, but his own ratings provide a faint ray of light for Labor, perhaps its only ray of light.

While the Coalition leads Labor, 49 to 29, on the primary vote, Abbott leads Gillard by 43 to 37.