It’s official — or as official as it can be. The emperor — the Prime Minister, actually — has no clothes.
The fortnightly Essential Poll out today shows a pretty similar trend in voting figures to yesterday’s Newspoll, but then asks some fascinating other questions.

Essential Research
That “play politics” finding hits the PM right on his weakest spot.
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