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Swing to Labor continues: poll

Former Federal Speaker Bronwyn Bishop’s travel expenses scandal is continuing to cause a swing of popularity away from the Coalition, a new poll shows.

A Roy Morgan poll released on Monday revealed that if an election was held today the Labor Party would easily succeed over the Liberal-National Party.

Support for the Coalition has slumped by three per cent to 43 per cent, while Labor has risen by three per cent to 57 per cent on a two-party-preferred basis.

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“This is the Abbott government’s worst two-party preferred result since Tony Abbott survived an ‘almost challenge’ in early February as Parliament resumed sitting for the year,” said pollster Gary Morgan.

On Monday, Liberal backbencher Tony Smith was elected as the new Speaker to replace Mrs Bishop, after she resigned a fortnight ago amid allegations of extravagant expense claims.

The poll showed that primary support for the ALP increased to 37 per cent, up by 1.5 per cent since last week.

Meanwhile, support for the Coalition was down 2.5 per cent to 36.5 per cent.

But support for the Greens continued to rise with the party gaining 15.5 per cent of the votes, up by 0.5 per cent – the highest Greens vote for five years since August 2010.

The Palmer United Party (PUP) remained unchanged at one per cent and Katter’s Australian Party stayed at 1.5 per cent.

Votes for the independents/others was at 8.5 per cent – up by 0.5 per cent.

The Roy Morgan Government Confidence Rating dropped five points to a record low of 86 points this week.

A total of 48.5 per cent of Australians said Australia was ‘heading in the wrong direction’, while 34.5 per cent said the nation was ‘heading in the right direction’.

Sate-by-state, the ALP now has a two-party-preferred lead in all six Australian states.

The Morgan Poll on federal voting intention was conducted over the last two weekends, with an Australia-wide cross-section of 2930 Australian voters.

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