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Andrew Brown and Kat Wong

Hard times turn voters off Labor in election lead-up

A YouGov poll shows the coalition increasing its lead on Labor on a two-party preferred basis. (Aap Image/AAP PHOTOS)

Australians want a government to support them through hard times and the prime minister insists his party can deliver, but new polling suggests Labor is facing its own tough spell in the lead up to a federal election.

Anthony Albanese has spent the first weeks of the year courting voters across Queensland, the Northern Territory, Western Australia, New South Wales and Tasmania, and he can feel their sentiment.

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