Polls show Australian Government heading for election defeat

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is on course for defeat at this weekend’s national election.

An Ipsos poll for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers shows Australia’s Labor ahead of Morrison’s coalition government by a margin of 51-49 on a two-party preferred basis where votes are distributed until a winner is declared.

The Ipsos findings echo similar polls as Morrison fails to woo voters with a campaign centred on his government’s projection to deliver Australia’s first budget surplus in more than 10 years.

Labor, which lost the last two elections in 2013 and 2016, has promised to match the government’s 2019-20 surplus and then deliver a bigger surplus in 2020-21.

Should the opposition Labor party win, Australia will likely have its seventh prime minister since 2010.

 

Via Reuters