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NSW could be headed for a hung parliament

9News.com.au logo 9News.com.au 19/03/2019 9News Staff
New polling shows the NSW Coalition government and Labor are split 50-50 on a two-party preferred basis, just days out from the state election. © AAP Images New polling shows the NSW Coalition government and Labor are split 50-50 on a two-party preferred basis, just days out from the state election.

New polling shows the NSW Coalition government and Labor are split 50-50 on a two-party preferred basis, just days out from the state election.

The latest YouGov-Galaxy survey, published by the Daily Telegraph last night, suggests the major parties are split 50-50 per cent on a two-party preferred basis.

It indicates Premier Gladys Berejiklian has a narrow lead over state Labor leader Michael Daley for preferred premier with 38-36 per cent.

a close up of a sign: State could be headed towards a hung parliament. © Provided by Nine Digital Pty Ltd State could be headed towards a hung parliament.

The poll suggests some 26 per cent of voters are still undecided, the Daily Telegraph reports.

It indicates the government's primary vote is at 41 per cent with Labor at 38 per cent.

It further indicates Pauline Hanson's One Nation and the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers have a primary vote of one per cent each, with nine per cent to the Greens.

The poll comes after Mr Daley's comments on skilled Asian migrants taking local jobs were widely condemned.

Gladys Berejiklian walking down the street talking on a cell phone: NSW could be headed for a hung parliament. © AAP NSW could be headed for a hung parliament. Mike Daley wearing a suit and tie: Michael Daley has apologised for his comments on Asian migration. © AAP Michael Daley has apologised for his comments on Asian migration.

Ms Berejiklian yesterday hit out Mr Daley's "rank hypocrisy" after a video emerged of him telling a Blue Mountains pub forum in September that highly-skilled Asian migrants were forcing Australian-born workers to "flee" Sydney.

"Our young children will flee and who are they being replaced with? They are being replaced by young people from typically Asia with PhDs," he said.

"So there's a transformation happening in Sydney now where our kids are moving out and foreigners are moving in and taking their jobs."

Two months later, he held a press conference in Parliament House exclusively for Chinese media in which he reportedly said the Chinese have "a great sense of energy, enetrepreneurship, great business people ... you've lifted the spirit of this nation."

Ms Berejiklian highlighted the contradictions in Mr Daley's comments.

"What the issue is at hand today is the two-faced hypocrisy of the leader of the opposition, that's the issue," Ms Berejiklian told reporters.

and foreigners are moving in and taking their jobs."

Mr Daley apologised yesterday and said the problem wasn't people coming from Asia but housing affordability in Sydney, which he says has already forced his daughter to move to Melbourne.

"I have conceded that my language could have been better, I've readily acknowledged that and if anyone has taken offence to what I've said, I do apologise," he told reporters.

"But I did make the point, and I make the point again today, that Sydney is becoming an increasingly difficult place to live in.

"Commutes are longer, people are having to move further away from the CBD, a fifth of Sydney families are suffering rental stress."

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