No signs of any particular damage to Anthony Albanese or the government headed into Saturday’s debacle from Essential Research or Roy Morgan. Essential Research has not published voting intention numbers with its latest fortnightly poll, which hopefully doesn’t portend anything. A monthly “national mood” question has 34% rating that Australia is heading in the right direction, up one, which wrong direction steady at 48%. The poll was conducted Wednesday to Saturday from a sample of 1125. The latest voting intention numbers for Roy Morgan have Labor’s two-party lead out from 53-47 to 54-46, from primary votes of Labor 35% (up two), Coalition 34% (steady) and Greens 14% (up half).

Source: Washington Post October 17, 2023 23:39 UTC