Australians open to GST hike: poll
There is widespread support for increasing the GST if the poor are compensated and other taxes tweaked, a Fairfax Ipsos poll suggests.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has taken an "everything on the table" approach to tax reform in recent weeks.
The poll, published on Tuesday, shows a higher GST is backed by just 28 per cent of voters.
However, that figure jumps to more than half when lower income tax rates and changes to stop exploitation of superannuation tax breaks by the wealthy are suggested.
Pollster Jessica Elgood told Fairfax that 52 per cent of people would support the change if compensation was offered for households on less than $100,000 and other tax cuts implemented.
Meanwhile, the Coalition has jumped ahead of Labor in two party preferred terms 56 per cent to 44 per cent.
On the primary vote, the Coalition sits on 48 per cent, Labor 29 per cent, the Greens 13 per cent and others 8 per cent.
But it is Mr Turnbull's preferred PM rating which has sky-rocketed, with 69 per cent support compared to just 18 per cent for Opposition Leader Bill Shorten.
Ms Elgood said it's "the lowest approval rating Bill Shorten has ever received since becoming leader of the opposition and matches the low figures Tony Abbott achieved in January 2015 before the first leadership spill motion".
I don't get to hear him speak much but he always has good things to say when he does, like on that QandA episode.
