Two months after she shut down parliament while an inquiry into her government's electricity sell-off was getting under way, NSW Premier Kristina Keneally's popularity is in freefall.
Ahead of the March 26 state election, Ms Keneally now has a net voter satisfaction of negative 27 per cent, a Newspoll compiled for The Australian newspaper on Wednesday shows.
On a two-party-preferred basis, the poll finds, the Coalition leads Labor by 62 per cent to 38 per cent
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The figure compares to a net satisfaction of positive 16 per cent she enjoyed a year ago, when she was the most popular leader in Australia.
In more bad news for Labor, the government has sunk to a low of 23 per cent primary support - the lowest support for a Labor administration since Newspoll began taking state polls in 1984.
Support for the coalition, at 46 per cent, is double that for Labor.
Compared with figures compiled in November and December, Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell's satisfaction rating is up one percentage point to 43, while Ms Keneally's is down five percentage points to 30 per cent.
The sobering numbers come on the same day an upper house committee will release a report following an inquiry into the NSW government's $5.3 billion power assets sale.
The report recommends if the sale is not stopped before the March 26 election, an incoming government should tear up the contracts, Fairfax Media and News Limited have reported.
Findings also maintain the premier misled the public when she told a media conference in December she had not dissolved parliament to stymie the inquiry.
