The new Newspoll, released this morning, shows that the Yes vote is failing to secure half of the national vote and now has the No backing in the majority of all states outside of NSW and Victoria.

Federal Liberal Senator, Alex Antic, appeared on the Country Viewpoint today to offer his thoughts on the flailing support for the upcoming referendum.
The host of the 'Based with Senator Alex Antic' podcast did not hide his convictions when asked to comment on the latest setback for proponents of the Voice to Parliament.
“This is not completely done and dusted yet by any stretch of the imagination, but the polls certainly show that Aussies are doing as I had hoped and waking up is really a sort of a bigger issue, a more expansive issue than just sort of a line in the constitution that we're being told,” Mr Antic said.
“I mean we really haven't been told anything by the Albanese Labour government but people are starting to unpack this and understand that if it gets into the constitution, this stuff is permanent…it could affect everyday aspects of our lives because of course, the point is that it will affect things that affect Indigenous people and that could be anything.
“So, I think Aussies are doing as we hoped and as we expected they would, they're unpacking this slowly in their own way and I'm very hopeful that they're going to reject it.” Antic was then asked to predict whether the Albanese government would change its approach with how its currently going about conveying its messaging for the Yes campaign in the face of unfavourable polling.
Antic asserted that he believes the government thought the referendum would be far more easily passable than it has proven to be so far yet.
“I think the strategy has been so nebulous to start off with, I think this has been really a case of let's see if we can get this through on the field if you like and that strategy clearly has failed, because I think the government's underestimated people's ability to critically think on this stuff and that is fairly telling,” Antic said.
“I don't know where you go from this [government strategy] I mean, ultimately, I suspect if it goes down, the government will look to try and legislate as they've done in the States – we had that quite recently in South Australia, where there was a legislated version of this, so I suspect it'll head down that path.
“If it fails, it might be a bit like last week in Parliament, where we had ministers from the government getting increasingly frustrated, starting to resort to name calling in the chamber and that tells you the story about this.
“I don't think any of them really understood how to sell this because what they were selling was never going to be palatable to the Australian people, so look that's a matter for them.
“In the meantime, I just continue to implore Aussies and South Australians in particular as well as of course [those] on flow here to understand that this [the Voice to Parliament] is permanent.”
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