Natalie Barr has clashed with Albanian government minister Tanya Plibersek over the government’s alleged lack of action to address the cost of living crisis.
A new poll published on Monday found that primary support for the Labor Party has plummeted to a new low of just 30 per cent, below the party’s historically low vote in the 2022 election.
Meanwhile, the Resolve Strategic poll found support for the Coalition rose to 36 per cent over the same period.
However, Albanese was still seen as the preferred prime minister by 41 per cent of the public, compared to opposition leader Peter Dutton on 32 per cent.
The change in public sentiment was largely due to concerns about the rising cost of living and how it is affecting household budgets.
For example, 55 percent of the 1,610 people surveyed between April 17 and 21 said they would have difficulty coming up with the cash to pay for a major household expense of a few thousand dollars, such as a refrigerator or kitchen repair. A car.
Mr Barr confronted Environment Minister Ms Plibersek on Monday and said: “They are voting to bring down his government because of it.” What is your answer?’
Ms Plibersek then mentioned a list of Labor policies designed to help people make ends meet, including “electricity bill relief, lower childcare rates, cheaper medicines, making making it cheaper and easier to see a doctor, additional paid parental leave, free TAFE, more “affordable housing support” and lower taxes.
But the Sunrise host responded: “They (voters) don’t believe you, do they?”
Tanya Plibersek (pictured left) acknowledged that “people are doing it hard” before changing tack and criticizing the previous coalition government and former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce, who she appeared alongside.
Plibersek acknowledged that “people are doing it hard” before changing tack and criticizing the previous coalition government and former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce, with whom he appeared.
‘The Barnaby mob said they want to keep wages lower. “They said low wages are a deliberate design feature of our economic architecture,” Ms Plibersek said.
“We’re changing that with higher wages, with people earning more and keeping more of what they earn, and other cost-of-living measures to help, with electricity, with childcare fees, with all those things I mentioned “.
Joyce argued that people were “better off” under the previous government than under the Labor Party and that Anthony Albanese had “lost popularity”.
‘There are people who say: “I’m over it, I don’t want to hear it anymore,” because when you talk about intermittent energy, scammed factories and solar factories and every narrative about climate change and you lost people when you started talking about the voice, about social change from Australia.
‘People just say “you’re not focused on me.”‘
Albanese has promised more support for households in next month’s federal budget.