Just mention lockdown and a certain type of Australian starts salivating — Victorians and Western Australians. That’s one of the key take-outs of this week’s Essential Poll.

Essential asked about the speed of the New South Wales lockdown. Fascinatingly, a solid 56 per cent of New South Welshfolk believed the Berejiklian government had either moved at “about the right speech” or “too quickly”:

Essential Research