{"id":18899,"date":"2019-04-08T11:51:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T03:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=18899"},"modified":"2019-04-08T12:38:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T04:38:07","slug":"australias-opposition-labour-on-track-to-win-election-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=18899","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s opposition Labour on track to win election: Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/wikiepdia-australia-opp.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18918\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/wikiepdia-australia-opp.jpg 600w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/wikiepdia-australia-opp-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption> <br>Australian Labor Party opposition leader Shorten. Photo courtesy of Wikepedia <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MELBOURNE, April 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Australia&#8217;s opposition Labour is the favourite to win a national election expected in May, two polls showed on Monday, but its lead has narrowed over the conservative coalition government which announced income tax cuts in its budget last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A closely-watched Newspoll done for The Australian newspaper showed Labour ahead of the Coalition 52-48 on a two-party preferred basis, but that was down from 54-46 in the last poll in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A separate Ipsos poll, published by the Sydney Morning Herald, showed Labour ahead 53-47.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Scott Morrison is expected to call an election this week, most likely for May 11 or May 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The election will be called in April and the election will be held in May. We&#8217;re not doing this with any haste and we&#8217;re not doing it with any delay,&#8221; Morrison told reporters on Sunday, amid speculation he was delaying to give the government more time to promote its budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite Labour&#8217;s consistent lead in the polls over the past year, Morrison remains the preferred prime minister over Labour leader Shorten. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, April 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Australia&#8217;s opposition Labour is the favourite to win a national election expected in May, two polls showed on Monday, but its lead has narrowed over the conservative coalition government which announced income tax cuts in its budget last week. A closely-watched Newspoll done for The Australian newspaper showed Labour ahead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":18918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18899"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}