The latest Roy Morgan Most Trusted & Distrusted Leaders research has bad news for Anthony Albanese but worse news for Peter Dutton.

… and the political class as a whole also has deep problems with Michelle Levine, Roy Morgan CEO, saying that overall trust is down and deep and toxic distrust has increased.

Albanese recorded more distrust than trust in the Morgan findings but is far closer to a neutral level than Dutton who has a deeply negative net distrust rating. Albanese’s trust level is also almost double that of Dutton.

Peter Dutton is also ranked – by far according to the Roy Morgan research – Australia’s most distrusted politician. He was second most distrusted in 2022 and was beaten comfortably by Scott Morrison back then. But Dutton’s net distrust rating is now better than Morrison’s then – 14% compared with Morrison’s 19%.

Albanese nevertheless is the third most distrusted and Scott Morrison lingers on in second place suggesting the quicker he gets out of politics the better for the Liberals. Clive Palmer is actually the third........

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