Fed: Pyne says it's unfair to focus on polls so early on

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: March 9, 2008 | Copyright information

AAP General News (Australia)
03-09-2008
Fed: Pyne says it's unfair to focus on polls so early on

CANBERRA, March 9 AAP - It's unfair to focus on Brendan Nelson's continued disastrous
showing in opinion polls, a federal opposition frontbencher says.

A new Galaxy Poll in News Ltd newspapers today shows Opposition Leader Dr Nelson on
just nine per cent.

Three of his opposition colleagues are ahead of him in preferred leader stakes including
treasury spokesman and leadership rival Malcolm Turnbull and former treasurer Peter Costello,
who is now a backbencher.

But opposition justice ...

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