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8 September 2018

9:00 AM

8 September 2018

9:00 AM

Does Morrison cut the mustard?

The first quality Napoleon Bonaparte sought in his generals was that they were lucky. Scott Morrison would have qualified.

Two days after his swearing in, Newspoll recorded the worst Coalition result for a decade. Its primary vote tumbled to 33 per cent, nine percentage points below its 2016 election showing; the two-party preferred metric was  Coalition 44:Labor 56.

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