Gillard Rating Drops to 18-Month Low After Labor’s Ructions
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s personal rating slumped to an 18-month low in an opinion poll conducted after she won last week’s leadership contest as her ruling Labor party faces defeat in elections.
Gillard’s satisfaction level fell 6 points to 26 percent, the weakest result since September 2011, while opposition leader Tony Abbott rose 3 points to 39 percent, according to a Newspoll published in the Australian newspaper today. Labor slipped 6 points to 42 percent on a two-party preferred basis, while Abbott’s Liberal-National coalition rose 6 to 58 percent, the biggest gap in almost a year, the survey showed.