Poll: Coalition cash splash leaves voters cold as just a quarter say budget will be good for them

Josh Frydenberg delivers his post budget National Press Club address. Only 25% of poll respondents say the budget has made them more likely to vote for the Coalition, and a further 19% say it has made them less likely. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Only a quarter of Guardian Essential respondents think the Morrison government’s cash splash budget is good for them personally, and just over half (56%) think the budget’s primary purpose is to help the Coalition win the coming election.

The new poll findings come as shadow treasurer, Jim Chalmers, sharpens Labor’s criticism of last week’s budget as “self-obsessed, short-term, and out-of-touch with reality”, warning that sticking to the status quo will entrench a “wasted decade” of lost economic opportunities.