Guardian Essential poll: election warning signs for Labor as voters flunk government on housing costs and wages

Prime minister Anthony Albanese and housing minister Clare O’Neil. A Guardian Essential poll found 53% of respondents marked Labor’s performance as ‘poor’ on increasing the amount of affordable housing. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

Voters have given the Albanese government an F on containing housing costs and surprisingly little credit for increasing wages in two troubling signs for Labor heading into a cost-of-living election.

Those are the results of the latest Guardian Essential poll of 1,123 voters, which found strong support for social media regulation, including two-thirds in favour of the under-16 age ban.