Popular support for the Abbott government has fallen dramatically across Australia over the past year, with Opposition Leader Bill Shorten now considered preferred prime minister in most states, a Newspoll analysis shows.
The News Corp Australia poll out on Saturday shows the coalition's primary vote has tumbled 10 points in Victoria and South Australia, nine points in NSW, eight points in Queensland and seven points in WA.
In two-party-preferred terms based on preference flows in the 2013 election, Labor leads the coalition by 60 per cent to 40 per cent in Victoria, by 54 to 46 per cent in both NSW and South Australia, and by 52 to 48 per cent in Queensland.
Only in WA does the coalition have a two-party preferred lead - of 53 to 47 per cent.
Responding to the poll, opposition education spokesman Senator Kim Carr said voters were angry because the government came to office on the back of a lie.
"A lie that they would not change the way we funded our education system, a lie that said they wouldn't cut education, they wouldn't cut health, they wouldn't cut the ABC, they wouldn't cut pensions," Senator Carr said in Melbourne on Saturday.
"All of those things have now happened."
Mr Abbott's office did not reply to calls from AAP regarding the poll.
According to Newspoll, Bill Shorten is also preferred prime minister in most states.
Mr Shorten, who's currently away on leave, is ahead in NSW by 40 to 39 per cent, in Victoria by 45 to 33 per cent and in South Australia by 43 to 34 per cent.
Tony Abbott is considered the better prime minister in WA, with a nine-point lead of 43 to 34 per cent and in Queensland with 41 to 39 per cent.
Meanwhile, Australian Development Strategies data published by News Corp Australia shows unemployment is up in many federal coalition seats, but down in Labor-held seats.
It found 24 of the 28 electorates with the largest rises in unemployment rates are controlled by the Coalition.
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