Deputy Opposition leader rubbishes suggestion of party infighting
The Coalition has suffered its lowest primary vote in polling history, fuelling talks of a rebrand.
But Deputy Opposition leader, Jane Hume insists that does not mean Angus Taylor is on his way out.
Jane Hume assured the Opposition is still a strong party. Today
“This is a story that the media love, that One Nation love talking about, that Labor love talking about, but it simply isn’t a conversation Liberals are having,” she told Today.
“We’re concentrating on the job, we’re concentrating on the job of making sure that we keep the government to account, particularly after this terrible budget.”
Today host, Sarah Abo, asked if the alarm bells aren’t yet ringing over the dismal polling figures for the Coalition, then when will they start to worry?
“It’s a very long time before the next election, our job now is to hold this terrible government to account, a government that’s seeing standards of living go backwards, further and faster than in any other developed nation,” Hume said.
“But more importantly, we need to rebuild trust, the Coalition split twice, I think that people want to see that we are a strong and united team with a credible plan to reduce their taxes, to reduce migration, to increase the supply of housing and to bring prosperity to future generations of Australians.
“That’s what we’re doing and that’s exactly what Angus Taylor and I are going to be talking about for the next few weeks on this winter break.”
The Coalition isn’t the only party to take a blow, with The Australian Financial Review’s latest monthly AFR/Redbridge Group/Accent Research poll showing a dip in popularity for One Nation as well.
Pauline Hanson’s net favorability rating has plunged 10 percentage points and her right-wing populist party also shed supporters.
Labor jumped two percentage points to claim 30 per cent of the primary vote as One Nation fell two points back to 29 per cent and the Coalition dropped another two points to 18 per cent.
But, while the Coalition may be losing votes to One Nation, Hume said Pauline Hanson is not the enemy.
“One Nation will say whatever slogan they want to say, but the government is the ones that’s making Australians poorer, they’re the people that we are focusing on,” she said.
“It’s their policies that are causing Australian standard of living to go backwards.”
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