Labor ahead in Newspoll and Ipsos, as Keating comments stir security issue
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Labor has remained in an election-winning position in Newspoll and the Ipsos poll, although they show widely different movements in Bill Shorten’s ratings.
But Labor faced fresh pressure after Paul Keating gave the government an opening to shift the debate onto security, when he declared Australia’s security chiefs should be sacked...