Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on Peter Dutton losing ground with women and younger voters

Women and younger voters have turned their backs on the opposition party ahead of the upcoming Australian election, according to new polls.

The Coalition is trailing Labor 52-48 on a two-party preferred basis - and those figures get wider when broken down by demographic.

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says the Coalition is also losing ground in key battleground areas - including Western Sydney and Western Melbourne.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International correspondence with ends and eye Insurance, peace of mind
for New Zealand business. Murray Olds is with us out
of Australia. Hammers afternoon to your Heather. So how's Australia
reacting to this news? Well, it was grief and a
national scale, and and spiritual leaders of just about every
faith you can imagine, joining our political leaders and ordinary
Aussies I suspect mainly Catholic Australians and acknowledging the passing

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of Francis has been a mass said and scores of
churches across the country many opened early. Many churches opened
early to let people come in to pray and reflect
on the life of a fellow who, in so many
ways was a very humble man. One young woman vox
popped in Western Sydney. She said, the fact that he
shunned any flash car and took the bus, She said,

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That's what I loved about him, Just the fact he
was so ordinary. Given the fact that you had such
an important and important role, political leaders suspended campaigning today, Heather,
the first day for early voting for our election, and
on Saturday week and when the I mean it shouldn't
have come as a shock right, because he's been very unwell.
But you saw him in Saint Peter Square over the

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Easter weekend. You thought, you wizh okay, maybe he's going
to rally here. But I thought of that speech, that
famous line from Julius Caesar, when beggars die, there are
no comets scene. The heavens themselves blaze forth the death
of the princes. And he was certainly a prince of
the church, no doubt about him. Fair enough, Hey, so
Duston is losing ground with women, a big time, big time.

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I mean, in fact, you'd have to say, and you know,
you know my politics. I'm a Labor guy and I'm
not just bagging Dutton. But boy boy, and this is
a news pole right. It's conducted by the Murdock Organization,
and the latest poll has found women voters have dropped
the opposition like hot spuds. Female voters have swung in
the last three weeks five points to Labor two party preferred.

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The coalitions lost ground and key battlegrounds in Western Sydney
and western Melbourne, some very important electorates there. The mortgage
belts swinging back to Labour, according to news poll by
age listening to this thirty five to forty nine, fifty
six percent to forty four in favor of labor, and
younger voters two to one. Even more that these are

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voters from thirty four down to eighteen. And of course
many of these Heather as you know, are first time voters,
very sharply moving towards labor. The Green's outpolling a coalition
and second spot with the young voters. Yeah, well that's
not really a surprise, as the young people love the Greens.
What's the story with the Sydney woman who is king? Wow,

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this is like something you see in a movie, but
it's not. Its real life. Her name was Kim Tran,
kidnapped and murdered, then set on fire in the back
of a stolen car late last Saturday night. Now police
say the forty five year old was killed because of
her husband's activities with a criminal organization thought to be
based in Victoria. Her husband was up in Queensland on

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business and the night that his wife was abducted in
Mr didn't by the way, these rat bags bashed a
bat over the head of his eight year old son.
The son will never be the same again. He's in
hospital and induced coma. So they say that she was
murdered because of the husband's involvement with they think an
Asian crime gang. And December last year, I've forgotten about
this until I heard it on the news at midday

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the bodies of an Asian couple, her husband and wife
were found wrapped in plastic and dumped in a waterway
just out near the back of the airport in Sydney.
And they owed drug money. So it's extra I mean
it's as police say that this crime is just off
this off the scale. They haven't seen stuff like this
for a very long time. Miss thanks for that look

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after yourself. That's Murray Older, Australia correspondent. For more from
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