Oliver Peterson: Australian correspondent on Anthony Albanese underperforming in latest polls

Over in Australia, new polls paint a grim picture for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

A national Newspoll reveals Albanese's approval rating had dropped to 44 percent, with Peter Dutton's rating surging to 60 percent.

Australian correspondent Oliver Peterson says these results make a hung parliament seem more and more likely ahead of the election.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We were going to our Perth Live presenter six PR Perth
Live presenter Australia correspondent Oliver Peterson. Oliver, welcome to the show.
The latest polls are bad news. For more bad news,
I should say for Elbow.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah, they are get a Ryan. There are two poles
out today which would certainly have the Prime Minister quite concerned.
He's actually in the news poll now labeled the weakest
leader that Australia has had in decades. He's rating has
now fallen to forty four percent. Peter Dutton on that
same question about leadership, he's at sixty percent now. Dutton

(00:32):
is certainly a leader of conviction. He's not backward in
coming forward. Anthony Albanezi has always had the tag ryin
of being each way Albow and at the moments he
probably well exam a good example for you from over
the weekends when we had the fire bombing in Melbourne
on Friday at the synagogue. The Prime Minister was over
here in Perth and what has just gone up online

(00:54):
in the last twenty minutes is he was playing tennis
in Cotterslow, which is one of the most wealthy suburbs
here in Western Australia. So he's on a grass tennis
court while he's being asked to maybe go on attend
the synagogue in Melbourne and show some leadership and said
he was playing a bit of tennis, not.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
A great thing for albow.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
And then on the other hand, he's got another pole
that shows that they don't even believe you. He used
to say I have you back, and that's now coming
back with only twenty seven percent of support of voters
believing that they have his back. What this all points
tother if though, Ryan is probably a hunk Parliament when
we go to the pole sometime next year.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Right, interesting, it's crunch time now, really, isn't it. And
I mean he hasn't been in there long, has he.
You think he'd get a bit more leeway. But there
have been a few mistakes. A huge number of boats
have been stopped trying to enter Australian waters illegally. Yeah
they are.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
And look, this is good to be able to get
this sort of information because Border Force now really clamped
down on the information. One hundred and fifty six vessels
have been stopped and eighty three pirates have been prosecuted
in the past six months. I don't think Johnny Depp
was one of those, but this was confirmed by the
ABF come out of Maritime Border Command, Rear Admiral Brent

(02:03):
Sotna speaking to Channel seven US. So certainly the boats
have started up in Australian borders. That's what we can
read from this. And as I said, the government isn't
so forthcoming with providing that information to the public. But
they're sort of being found even getting as close to
the top parts of Australia, not even Naru or some
of those islands which are off to the north of
the coast. They're actually finding their way all the way

(02:24):
to the mainland Australia. So no doubt this will be
forming part of the current political discussion Ryan about whether
or not we are up to scratch with our border security.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Interesting, let's talk about the police blitz on dozens of
drug dealers. What's that about.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, so in Sydney it's called dial a dealer and
over the last three weekends police have arrested one hundred
and eighty people, sorry, one hundred and eight people. They've
see six hundred and fifty bags of coke, MDMA, cannabis edibles, THCHC,
ketamine ice, So they're really going for the street dealer,
if you like. But they're trying to send that message
ahead of really the summer part season that there are

(03:01):
going to be dozens of people now who are going
to be prosecuted as a result of being found to
allegedly selling drugs. One hundred and eight people arrested. So
that's quite a sting operation.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Certainly sounds like it. Oliver, thank you very much for
being with us, Oliver Peterson, the six PR Perth Live presenter.
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