Labor has surged further ahead in the latest pre-election poll as United States President Donald Trump sparks concern among voters.
The latest Redbridge-Accent poll shows the Albanese government now has a 53 to 47 per cent two-party-preferred lead over the Coalition ahead of Saturday’s election, putting Labor in prime position to retain government.
The result is a dramatic change from February, when the Coalition had a two-party-preferred lead of 51.5 to 48.5 per cent.
The drop in support for the Peter Dutton-led Opposition is even more dramatically reflected in the Coalition’s primary vote, which has fallen from 42 to 34 per cent since November last year and is now 1.7 per cent lower than it was at the 2022 federal election.
Over the same period, Labor has seen its own primary vote increase from 32 to 34 per cent – 1.4 per cent higher than the 2022 federal election.
The Redbridge-Accent poll, conducted for the News Corp tabloids, found that 25 per cent of Millennial and Gen Z voters had changed their vote since the start of the election campaign.
The poll asked Australians about the most important factors in deciding their votes.
Among the Labor policies cited were the promise to make nine out of 10 GP visits bulk billed by the end of the decade and their proposed ban on price gouging by supermarkets.
These were followed by the Coalition’s policies to halve fuel excise for 12 months and to introduce a temporary $1,200 tax cut for low and middle income earners.
Concerns the Coalition’s nuclear plan would cost $600 billion and require cuts to pay for it and concerns a Liberal government would cut Medicare were also both cited among the most important factors by voters.
However, by far the biggest factor cited by those polled was concern about the global uncertainty caused by the US President.
The finding comes just one day after Canada’s centre-left Liberal government – now led by former central bank chief Mark Carney – was re-elected in a result widely seen as a response to President Trump’s policies and rhetoric targeting Canada.
Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre had built up a massive lead over the Liberal government, leading then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to announce his resignation.
However, that lead dramatically collapsed in late January as the US President attacked Canada and imposed draconian tariffs on the country, leading to Mr Carney – who ran on a platform of standing up to President Trump – being elected as Liberal leader despite not having a seat in parliament.
