{"id":2646,"date":"2026-04-20T08:39:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2026-04-20T08:39:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:39:51","slug":"the-conversation-demosau-gives-labor-one-of-its-worst-poll-results-this-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/the-conversation-demosau-gives-labor-one-of-its-worst-poll-results-this-term\/","title":{"rendered":"The conversation &#8211; DemosAU gives Labor one of its worst poll results this\u00a0term"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/demosau-gives-labor-one-of-its-worst-poll-results-this-term-280270\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/demosau-gives-labor-one-of-its-worst-poll-results-this-term-280270<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are some quotes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pollbludger.net\/2026\/04\/17\/federal-polls-demosau-roy-morgan-freshwater-strategy-open-thread\/\">Poll Bludger reported<\/a>\u00a0a national DemosAU poll for Capital Brief that was conducted April 8\u201314 from a sample of 1,439. Primary votes were 26% Labor (down three since the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/two-new-federal-polls-have-one-nation-gaining-on-labor-276595\">February DemosAU poll<\/a>), 26% One Nation (down two), 23% Coalition (up two), 13% Greens (up one) and 12% for all Others (up two).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthony Albanese\u2019s net approval slumped six points to -20, with 46% giving him a negative rating and 26% a positive rating. Angus Taylor\u2019s initial net approval was -3 (28% negative, 25% positive). Pauline Hanson\u2019s net approval was steady at -5 (39% negative, 34% positive).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These polls represent a complete vacuum of leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No matter what any one says &#8211; Albanese is not doing his job, and he has negative political capital. Albanese is not just running on empty, he is close to bankrupting the Labor Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If he doesn&#8217;t want a leadership role &#8211; IT&#8217;S TIME for Albanese to move aside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The alternative is for Australia to drift towards a populist right wing government that will continue to trash our people. (That is not to say that the ALP under Albanese has already shifted too far to the authoritarian and anti-democratic right.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/theconversation.com\/demosau-gives-labor-one-of-its-worst-poll-results-this-term-280270 Here are some quotes The\u00a0Poll Bludger reported\u00a0a national DemosAU poll for Capital Brief that was conducted April 8\u201314 from a sample of 1,439. Primary votes were 26% Labor (down three since the\u00a0February DemosAU poll), 26% One Nation (down two), 23% Coalition (up two), 13% Greens (up one) and 12% for all Others (up two). &#8230; <a title=\"The conversation &#8211; DemosAU gives Labor one of its worst poll results this\u00a0term\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/the-conversation-demosau-gives-labor-one-of-its-worst-poll-results-this-term\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The conversation &#8211; DemosAU gives Labor one of its worst poll results this\u00a0term\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2647,"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}