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Australian voters are flooding back to Labor, as Albanese records a record-breaking pre-election lead of 53.5 per cent in two-party terms.
Peter Dutton is learning that a campaign that focuses on him is not as easy to win as one that focuses on Indigenous people.
This comes after a a string of gaffes and unhelpful news stories bog down the Coalition’s ‘Get Australia Back On Track’ campaign.
The Liberal Party had hoped to emulate the success of the Vote No To An Indigenous Voice campaign, which crushed the hopes and dreams of a generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who had spent two decades working on a plan to finally achieve constitutional recognition.
However, Peter Dutton pulled his support for the Voice at the last minute, and instead opted to spend several months demonising Indigenous people as privileged elites who need to be knocked down a few pegs.
The No Vote was unsuccessful, and Peter Dutton was treated to months of flattering media coverage about his impressive ability to turn every single political issue into a culture war.
However, the last few months have seen the Coalition come off the boil, as Dutton provides Australian voters with daily reminders that he is actually the same bloke who spent half a billion dollars as Immigration Minister in an unsuccessful effort to deport those poor Tamil girls from Biloela.
And now 35 per cent of undecided voters say they are less likely to back the Opposition Leader out of concern that he is a bit too much like US President Trump.
After initially beginning his pre-election tilt with a number of policies straight out of the Trump playbook, Dutton has had to backflip on several major policies.
His $600 billion nuclear power proposal continues to bleed votes in Queensland and the regional NSW electorates that were earmarked to host reactors.
Queensland voters are also now starting to get the ick from how much Peter Dutton wants to become Prime Minister, and are willing to frustrate his political ambitions in response to his big noter behaviour over the last few months.
The shift has cut support for the Coalition to just 46.5 per cent in two-party terms – down from 50 per cent less than one month ago.
Labor is now tipped to win majority in the lower house, because the Federal Government is a bit harder to campaign against than defenceless Indigenous elders that Duton humiliated in 2023.
Plans are now in place to blame a potential election loss on that loudmouthed black sheilah who went off script in Alice Springs last week.
