Two-thirds polled in Dunkley back the stage-three tax cut changes despite cost-of-living attack ads

Anthony Albanese at Frankston hospital last week. Labor is slightly ahead in a poll conducted before the Dunkley byelection 52%-48%, though the result is within the margin of error. Photograph: Getty Images

Voters in Dunkley have backed Labor’s tax cut package by more than two-to-one, despite the party facing a barrage of negative cost of living ads from Advance Australia.

According to a uComms poll for the leftwing thinktank the Australia Institute, Labor has its nose in front in the byelection seat 52% to 48% – although that result is within the poll’s 3.9% margin of error.