Policy bombshell has backfired
Thursday, 19 August 2010 11:05 | by Administrator



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Parental leave was the issue that was going to show he [Abbott] had moved with the times and was going to appeal to as broad a cross-section of women as possible, right up into the professional ranks, where much of the soft-Left and Greens vote hides.

Our polling says that not only has this strategy failed, it has rebounded on Abbott.

He's taken Labor on in welfare, a field in which it is seen as being strong, left it unscathed, and in the process damaged himself on the economy, an area in which the Liberals have credibility.

When we asked our 2151 respondents earlier this week to choose between the government's parental leave scheme and the opposition's, most went for the government's.

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