No Honeymoon for Julia!

The latest Newspoll has the Gillard Labor Party already trailing the Coalition 48% to 52% two party preferred. This will give Labor pause for thought over some of the more controversial policies especially water use! They definitely cannot afford an election.

ANGER about the Gillard government's handling of proposed cuts in water use appears to have helped the Coalition overtake Labor in the latest Newspoll.

The weekend survey, conducted exclusively for The Australian, found the opposition ahead of Labor for the first time since before the August 21 election, by a margin of 52 per cent to 48 per cent in two-party-preferred terms.

The increase followed two dead-even results in previous post-election Newspolls. On election day, Labor won 50.1 per cent of the two-party-preferred vote to the Coalition's 49.9 per cent.

Although the poll shows only small movements in the primary vote since the previous survey, which was taken between October 8 and 10, Newspoll chief executive Martin O'Shannessy said tonight that Labor had suffered a six-point plunge in primary support outside cities.