PETER TUCKER
The latest EMRS poll is out and it shows a statistically significant shift in support against the Labor government and to the Liberal opposition. On the primaries, Labor is down seven points from 33 to 26, the Liberals up six from 27 to 33.
It’s a stunning result for Liberal leader Will Hodgman and caps his best week ever in over three years in the job, after pulling of a major coup by seeing Vanessa Goodwin elected in the Pembroke by-election. In fact, its the best week the Liberals have had since they were last in government in 1998.
This poll has wiped out all the “honeymoon” gains made by David Bartlett since he took over from Paul Lennon in May last year. Lennon, you will recall, resigned (was pushed?) just a few days after an almost identical EMRS poll had the Liberals in the lead for the first time since Labor’s 1998 ascendancy to government. So today’s poll marks only the second time in eleven years that the Liberals have had a poll lead. The graph below is illustrative (click on the images for clearer view): Read more here
