Whenever you read a piece on polling by honest commentators like our own Charles Pier, you’ll find a line in there somewhere saying that polls shouldn’t be treated on their own but compared with others — as illustrated very well by a polling shop itself this week.
On Monday, a YouGov poll commissioned for the Australian Conservation Foundation was splashed across the front pages of both the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age, accompanied by the headline “Australia’s biggest climate poll shows support for action in every seat“.
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