The Australian Financial Review/Redbridge Group/Accent Research poll shows the vast majority of respondents blame US President Donald Trump for the surge in fuel prices.
Overall, 61 per cent of those surveyed put the blame at Trump’s door and just 14 per cent blamed the government.
The view was overwhelming amongst almost every subset of Australian voters, with only One Nation supporters prepared to cut Trump some slack, with 39 per cent blaming him and 38 per cent Labor.
Labor’s primary vote held steady at 32 per cent but it was more bad news for the Coalition, which slid another two percentage points to 17.
One Nation’s vote grew again among those polled, to 29 per cent.
Opposition industry and sovereign capability spokesperson Andrew Hastie, who was widely tipped to take a run at the Liberal leadership before stepping aside for Angus Taylor, addressed both One Nation and Donald Trump head-on on Sunday.
“I think this was a huge miscalculation – Iran has managed to pretty much hold the whole world’s economy to ransom,” he told Insiders about the war in Iran.
On One Nation, he said voters were experiencing a lot of economic pain, arguing “no one’s going to reward us for a final last stand for neoliberal politics.
“I just think we need to overhaul the whole system. We either fix the system, or it’s torn down by people like Pauline Hanson,” Hastie said.
Senator Pauline Hanson’s party’s growing support meant a change for the two-party-preferred vote, with Labor compared to One Nation instead of the Coalition in the Redbridge poll.
Labor’s lead remained solid at 53 per cent to 47 per cent for One Nation.
Parliament will sit again this week before a long break until the budget.
The government is still finalising its financial plan but, in the short term, national cabinet meets tomorrow prioritising a national approach to what comes next with fuel.
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