The budget is the government's Plan B, but what's Plan C if polls stay bad?
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Australia's Treasurer Scott Morrison addresses the media in Melbourne, Sunday, May 14, 2017. Julian Smith/AAPThe government inoculated itself against the post budget polls. Budgets don’t produce bounces, people said.
True for the most part – though there were Newspoll bounces (3 points or better) in 1996, 1999, 2000, 2009, and 2012.
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