Support For Tone As Preferred PM Has Dropped In #ChopperGate Aftermath

Australians’ support for Prime Minister Tony Abbott has waned amidst the aftermath of Bronwyn “Captain’s Pick” Bishop’s expenses scandal, according to polling conducted by Fairfax Media this week, released today.

Overall, the Coalition has suffered – as support for Labor sat at 53% to the LNP and Nationals‘ 47% in Fairfax’s two party preferred poll. The new figures were obtained on Thursday this week – five days after Tony Abbott announced Bronwyn Bishop’s resignation as speaker, following a weeks-long scandal on the former Speaker’s taxpayer-funded expenses.

But while Opposition leader Bill Shorten remained more popular than Tony Abbott as preferred PM (58.5% and 41.5% respectively), Shorten still lags behind his Labor Party colleagues – MVPs Tanya Plibersek and Anthony Albanese out-ranked Shorten as preferred leader of Labor. 

In the LNP, Julie Bishop and Malcolm Turnbull outranked Tony Abbott in the poll; the Prime Minister did, however, secure slightly more support than Social Services Minister Scott Morrison. 

The results from Fairfax’s poll can be explored 

in detail over here

Tony Abbott secured just 18.5% of Australian women’s support as preferred LNP leader—in comparison to Bishop, Turnbull and Morrison—a poor result that the PM is evidently attempting to win back one woman at a freakin’ time at today’s City 2 Surf. 


Via SMH.
Image: Stefan Postles via Getty Images 

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