Latest Newspoll shows Yes support slumped further ahead of October 14

The Yes camp have suffered another blow with just weeks to go until the Voice to Parliament referendum, with a new poll showing support has slumped to its lowest level yet.

The latest Newspoll shows the “Yes” vote plummeting another two points to just 36 per cent, suggesting the Yes campaign have failed to generate the momentum they expected ahead of October 14.

Meanwhile, with just under three weeks to go until Australians vote in the first referendum since 1999, opposition to the referendum has risen a further three points to 56 per cent

The swing to the No vote has occurred across all demographic indicators – but most concerningly for the Yes campaign was the fall among younger voters, who have been the strongest supporters to date.

Support has fallen five points to 50 per cent among the 18-to-34 age group, with a four point rise to 41 per cent for the no vote. At the start of the year, support for the Voice among this group was almost 70 per cent.

The latest poll shows a decline in support among Labor voters – falling from 61 per cent in the last poll three weeks ago – to 56 per cent.

Support among women has fallen from 41 per cent to 36 per cent, while the proportion of people saying they would vote no has risen nine points to 57 per cent.

In good news for the Yes campaign, support among men has improved three points to 36 per cent.

Support among university-educated voters also rose five points, to 54 per cent.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he was hopeful that people would “have a look at what the actual question is” before they voted, and recognise “the opportunity to advance reconciliation”.

“We need to do better than just having more of the same, and the No vote closes the gate on doing things differently and getting better outcomes through that listening process,” he told ABC Radio.

“We need to do better than just having more of the same and the No vote closes the gate on doing things differently and getting better outcomes through that listening process.”

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In a head-to-head battle on Channel 7, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek pushed back against LNP senator Matt Canavan who chastised the government for treating Australians like mugs.

“There is a rightly high bar for change, and I don’t think the government has met that because they haven’t been able to expand these issues. They haven’t provided the detail, and it seems like Australians as usual with constitutional change are cynical about the government putting changes on this,” Senator Canavan said.

Senator Canavan said they could have a Voice without changing the constitution.

In response, Ms Plibersek said Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders had “asked for constitutional recognition”.

“And a Voice that would give advice so we can listen to them,” she said.

The slump in support for the referendum coincides with a decline in support for Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, who has taken a leading role in the No campaign.

The poll recorded a six point fall in Mr Dutton’s approval rating, down now to just 32 per cent – the lowest approval level since he took the job last May. His net approval rating is now at minus 20.

Meanwhile, Mr Albanese’s approval rating has improved slightly to 47 per cent – but remains at historically low levels with a net approval rating of plus three.

The primary vote for both Labor and the Coalition is 36 per cent, while the Greens suffered a two point fall to 11 per cent.