The fortnightly Essential Poll is out today, eclipsed (as it all too often is) by the Monday Newspoll, despite showing a great red warning light Coalition strategists should see as an even bigger threat than their soft primary vote in Newspoll yesterday.

Fourteen per cent of Coalition voters — Coalition voters, not all voters — think it’s “time to give someone else a go” while 16 per cent are unsure.

Essential Research