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April 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Labor frontbenchers are playing down the latest Newspoll which shows voter support has neared rock bottom.
The poll in The Australian newspaper reveals support for the ALP is just one point off its all-time low, while support for the coalition is now at the same level it was for John Howard after the terror attacks in the US on September 11, 2001.
The latest survey was conducted over the weekend and involved 1148 interviews as the scandals surrounding banished Labor MP Craig Thomson and sidelined Speaker Peter Slipper developed.
It found that Labor has a primary vote of 27 per cent compared to the coalition’s 51 per cent.
That coalition advantage turns into a whopping two-party preferred support of 59 per cent compared to Labor’s 41.
The poll says Labor’s lost votes are no longer going to the Greens and independents but to the Liberals.
Minister for Indigenous affairs Jenny Macklin admitted the government had “a lot of work to do”.
She said the government was focused on important reforms such as the national disability insurance scheme.
“It’s a Labor government that will deliver it,” she told ABC Radio on Tuesday.
“Yes, we’ve got a lot to do but we’re getting on with it.”
Ms Macklin said it was important to concentrate on the things that made a difference to people’s lives.
Voter satisfaction with Prime Minister Julia Gillard was unchanged from the last poll two weeks ago at 28 per cent, while dissatisfaction firmed one point to 63 per cent, with nine per cent uncommitted.
Coalition leader Tony Abbott’s voter satisfaction count fell two points to 33 per cent, with his dissatisfaction rating edging a point higher to 55 per cent, with 12 per cent uncommitted.
Despite the speculation surrounding Ms Gillard’s leadership, she declared on Monday she would take the party to the next election, due in 18 months.
Independent MP Tony Windsor said people were looking at the Gillard minority government through the prisms of a majority parliament.
“With hung parliaments, nature of the beast is they live on the edge of a cliff,” Mr Windsor told ABC Radio.
Mr Windsor dismissed the poll because “the election is not next week.”
“I’ve always worked on the theory if you work hard in a parliament on legitimate issues the people might give you another go,” he said.
“The preoccupation with the next parliament means we miss enormous opportunities, particularly for regional Australia.”
He said there was voter support for aged care reform, the national broadband network, renewable energy, action on the Murray Darling basin.
Mr Windsor said Opposition Leader Tony Abbott was too scared to put up a no-confidence motion in the government because support from WA Nationals MP Tony Crook and independent MP Bob Katter was not guaranteed.
“It would then be seen as Tony Abbott losing support in the parliament,” he said.
“We haven’t had a no-confidence motion. If you talk to people in the street they would think there had been a myriad of no-confidence motions.”
Opposition legal affairs spokesman George Brandis insists the coalition isn’t getting carried away with the poll results.
“We are not getting ahead of ourselves,” he told Sky News on Tuesday.
“What the opinion poll reflects is a complete collapse of public confidence in Julia Gillard’s government.”
Senator Brandis said the Australian people had given up on Ms Gillard and her position was “irretrievable”.
“Increasingly Labor politicians are coming to the same view.”
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