Helen Kroger (Victoria, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Support for the Gillard Labor government is unquestionably at an all-time low, with a dramatic slump in their primary support. We see that every week when we open the papers and see the latest Newspoll. The latest Newspoll released in the Australian shows that their primary support base has slumped to 26 per cent. I have to suggest that this might have something to do with—to put it in the words of the Leader of the Australian Greens, Senator Bob Brown—the 'consensual alliance' between the Greens and the Gillard Labor government. At this time of all-time low support for the Gillard Labor government, we now hear that the Treasurer, Mr Wayne Swan, has been awarded—well done, Wayne—the title of treasurer of the year by the London based magazine Euromoney.