Malcolm Turnbull once looked the part but now he's just the man with a feather in his cap.
And Bill Shorten's an out-of-his-depth "puppet".
That's how western Sydney voters perceive the two leaders vying for the nation's top job in new focus group research.
The data from consultancy Visibility, published by Fairfax Media, provides a less-than-stellar report card for the prime minister and opposition leader.
Voters in the key marginal seat of Lindsay who switched from Labor to Liberal at the last election were asked last week for their views.
Some of them rated Mr Turnbull when he took over the Liberal leadership last year as "confident, successful businessman, articulate, successful, intelligent and looking the part".
But now they describe the prime minister as "dithering, no action, just an ego trip, though he was going to be good and feather in his cap".
Mr Shorten was described as: "out of his depth", "not a leader", "weak and puppet".
Cabinet minister Josh Frydenberg came out to bat for his leader pointing to polls showing Mr Turnbull leading as preferred prime minister.
But he conceded some people were switching off thanks to the long election campaign.
"I feel voters aren't as engaged as they normally would be over a 33-day campaign," he told ABC TV.
