A new poll shows that NSW Premier Nathan Rees has not gained any benefit from sacking Joe Tripodi and deciding to ban donations from developers.
A Nielsen poll, published in The Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday, shows Labor's primary vote remains at 31 per cent to the Coalition's 43 per cent. On a two-party preferred basis, the Coalition leads 55-45.
The poll shows the government's electoral standing has not budged even one percentage point since Mr Rees tried to lift Labor out of the mire a fortnight ago at the state Labor conference when he made a series of announcements to show he was going to clean up his government.
He told a caucus meeting on Tuesday he'd changed his cabinet to improve Labor's standing in the polls. But despite axing Mr Tripodi and Ian Macdonald, Labor's primary vote and the two-party preferred figures remain the same as in the last Newspoll, according to the poll of 1,000 voters taken from November 20-23, the weekend after the state conference.
Mr Rees's disapproval rating is 49 per cent, four per cent better than in the Newspoll but the highest for a premier in a Nielsen poll since Bob Carr recorded the same result in 1998.
As preferred premier, Mr Rees shades Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell by 43 per cent to 40, with 17 per cent uncommitted. Mr O'Farrell has a higher approval rating than the Premier, with 44 per cent approving and 36 per cent disapproving. Mr Rees's approval rating is 39 per cent.
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