Labor is on track to be reduced to a parliamentary rump at Victoria’s election in 17 days as voters abandon Premier Ben Carroll and look set to install the Liberals’ Jess Wilson to lead a majority government.
The latest The Australian Financial Review /Redbridge/Accent Research poll shows Labor’s primary vote has slid further under Carroll, who has failed to arrest the party’s decline since taking the leadership and publicly rebuking his predecessors while declaring the government had a new direction.
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