NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has overtaken Labor leader Chris Minns as preferred premier in a dramatic reversal of fortunes a month from polling day, as cost of living and housing fears displace climate concerns in voters’ minds.
At the same time, a separate measure testing electorate appeal or a “brand” – counting the primary vote plus those “considering” or who “could be persuaded” to vote for that party – showed the Liberals lifting 7 points, Labor steady and a stark collapse inWhile Labor still leads in the two-party preferred stakes, its vote has slipped by one point to the Coalition.
Any successive slips – even just one point – in its two-party preferred vote could see the Coalition return to minority government. Voters are also feeling less optimistic about their own finances, with 59 per cent of respondents feeling financially worse now than they did a year ago, up 7 points. At the same time, the number of voters who believe their personal finances will be worse off in one year rose 4 points.had struggled to secure a foothold in the state political debate given that voters were less concerned about environmental issues and political branding issues than they had been at the federal election.
“The bar was set pretty low for Dom and my instinct is that when he first came in, they thought he was going to be some sort of religious zealot. And then he actually just turned out to be a nice guy,” he said.“The one thing that keeps coming back is that no one really wants a beer with Perrottet, but if they were going to sell their house, they’d take the advice of Perrottet over Minns.
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