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PHOTO FILE: Prime Minister Julia Gillard (centre) and Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury arrive to help launch the Penrith Digital Economy Strategy at the Penrith City Library in western Sydney on Wednesday, March 7, 2013. The Prime Minister is into her final day of a five-day stint in western Sydney today to reconnect with voters. (AAP Image/Paul Miller)

PHOTO FILE: Prime Minister Julia Gillard (centre) and Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury arrive to help launch the Penrith Digital Economy Strategy at the Penrith City Library in western Sydney on Wednesday, March 7, 2013. The Prime Minister is into her final day of a five-day stint in western Sydney today to reconnect with voters. (AAP Image/Paul Miller)

FED:Labor going nowhere in latest Newspoll

Monday, 20 May, 2013.

MELBOURNE, May 20 AAP - The opinions of Australian voters are now entrenched and not even a federal budget promising help for the disabled and education reforms will change their minds, the latest Newspoll suggests.

The Newspoll in The Australian newspaper, taken over the weekend, shows that not much has changed in previous polling going back three months except that Prime Minister Julia Gillard has narrowed the gap on Opposition Leader Tony Abbott on who would make the better leader.

On that question Mr Abbott was five points ahead of Ms Gillard in early May (42-37) and that gap has been narrowed to just one point (40-39).

According to the poll, Labor's primary vote was stationary on 31 per cent while the coalition's eased one point to 46 per cent.

The Australian says that based on preference flows at the last election, the coalition maintains its election-winning lead of 56 to 44 per cent on a two-party-preferred basis.

And following the budget, voters were asked who would make the better treasurer. The coalition's Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey trumped Wayne Swan for the first time by 39 per cent to 35 per cent.

The poll also showed that it was high-income earners who thought better of Mr Swan's sixth budget than the traditional Labor base of low income earners who were turned off.

The paper said the split in reaction neutralised any benefit for the Gillard government out of the budget and the national disability insurance scheme, DisabilityCare Australia, leaving political support unchanged over the last three months.


SOURCE: AAP Newswire