Election on a knife-edge: Newspoll

2 Aug 2010, 7:10 am   -   Source: AAP
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The poll found Labor and the coalition are split 50-50, The Australian reports. (AAP)

The poll found Labor and the coalition are split 50-50, The Australian reports. (AAP)

Labor has lost its substantial two-party preferred lead over the coalition, the latest Newspoll has found.

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Labor has lost its substantial two-party preferred lead against the coalition in just two weeks, the latest Newspoll has found.

The poll, taken between Friday and Sunday, found Labor and the coalition are split 50-50, The Australian reports.

Only two weeks ago, Newspoll had Labor under Prime Minister Julia Gillard on a 55-45 lead over the coalition following her ascension to the top job.

The latest poll result comes after a bad week for Labor in the federal election campaign, with Ms Gillard distracted by a series of damaging cabinet leaks.

Ms Gillard still leads Opposition Leader Tony Abbott as preferred prime minister, with 50 per cent report, unchanged from the last Newspoll a week ago, to Mr Abbott's 35 per cent, also unchanged.

But in the past two weeks, Ms Gillard has lost seven points as preferred prime minister, while Mr Abbott's rating has risen eight points.

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Paul Taylor - from Woombye,QLD, 3 years ago

If someone says to you that Australia has not suffered from the Global Financial Crisis because of the good economic management of the coalition, then throw your mind back to the latter part of 2008 early 2009---I bet these same people were saying back then that Australia was heading for recession with falling house prices, growing unemployment, slowing economic growth, a collapse in Super..share dividends and share values and a loss of well over $100B in national income.Look at TELSTRA sale!

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