Australia’s most hated opposition leaders

First up, the obligatory Opposition leadership speculation chart.

Next up, a few people have asked whether anyone runs a “Country heading in the Right/Wrong Direction?” question in the polls and how it stacks up. Well, Morgan does and it pretty much walks hand in hand with PM satisfaction ratings.

Finally, the ABS released some analytical cost of living indices on Monday that they measure quarterly. What they do is attempt to estimate how the cost of living has changed over any given period, for various types of households. If we look at the annual percentage change in the estimated cost of living, we get:

What’s interesting here is that in the 12 months to September this year, the cost of living for employees has actually reduced by 1%, compared to increases experienced by Age Pensioners (2.4%), other government transfer recipients like disability support pensioners and unemployment benefit recipients (1.6%) and self funded retirees (1.6%)