With data from six of the major pollsters now under our belt, we can begin to assess how the budget was received through the lens of where Australians are dedicating their primary votes.
Looking at the available data so far, the news for the Albanese government is not fantastic.
On an average basis across polling from Roy Morgan, Newspoll, Resolve, Freshwater, YouGov and DemosAU (which is what is available at the time of this article being written), Labor’s primary vote is down by an average of 1.5 percentage points.
