Newspoll: Labor sinks in a Ruddbath Rudd is falling like a stone: TONY Abbott has overtaken Kevin Rudd as the nation's preferred prime minister for the first time in their four-year rivalry as support for Labor fell to its lowest since Julia Gillard was removed... Labor's primary vote support has slumped to 33 per cent - the lowest ever under Mr Rudd as Prime Minister - after Treasury and Finance repudiated the government's claims on the cost of Coalition promises. On a two-party-preferred basis, Labor ... now trails the Coalition 46 per cent to 54 per cent. Dennis Shanahan: Henry Ergas: Paul Sheehan: Never in the previous 113 years of Australian federation has a Prime Minister created such a gap between soaring rhetoric, sweeping promises and national interventions and meagre or failed results of so many grandiose plans.