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VIC:Premier's unpopularity could amplify leadership chatter

Dire polling showing an increasingly on-the-nose state government would be smashed at an upcoming election could reignite party rumblings to remove its deeply unpopular premier.

Victorian Labor's primary vote has slumped to 23 per cent, compared to the coalition's 27 per cent, while a surging One Nation shot to 25 per cent, according to a Freshwater Strategy poll conducted for the Herald Sun.

If replicated at the November state election, the 12-year-old Labor government would be turfed from elected office, as it trails the coalition 47 to 53 on a two-party-preferred basis.

Respondents believe it is time for Premier Jacinta Allan to move on, according to the pollster, but the coalition would still need to pick up 16 seats required to form majority government.

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