Albanese doesn’t need to be liked. He needs to be trusted

November 9, 2026 — 4:00am

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Whichever way you slice the data, the latest Resolve Political Monitor is bad news for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

The government’s primary vote is malingering at 28 per cent, still ahead of One Nation’s primary vote of 25 per cent and the Coalition’s even more paltry figure of 22 per cent.

But the voters are marking Albanese down hard on all sorts of metrics, from preferred prime minister to performance to likeability.

The most telling, and potentially the most damaging, long-term number is on trust. The awarding of a $6 million grant to the Marrickville Golf Club, in the prime minister’s electorate of Grayndler, has hurt him badly.

Just one in five voters now say they still trust the prime minister, while 22 per cent said they had lost trust in him over the issue, and 43 per cent of people – climbing 9 percentage points since September – stated they did not trust Albanese........

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