When Bill Shorten tried to make Question Time hay of Malcolm Turnbull’s political demise, to gales of backbench laughter Prime Minister Scott Morrison riposted, ‘I know who people don’t want as Prime Minister: the leader of the Labor party!’
This week’s Newspoll result has Mr Morrison with a commanding preferred PM lead over Mr Shorten, 45 to 34; the Coalition coming back from a two-party preferred brink to a bad but better 53-47 split; and its primary vote back into the high 30s.
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