VOTER faith in the federal government has plummeted to levels not seen since the Howard era but Labor can still win the election, top poll firm Roy Morgan says.
Launching the firm's annual State of the Nation report on Tuesday, Gary Morgan said gaffes by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott posed the biggest risk to his bid for the top job.
"It's really up to Abbott to lose the election," he said.
The report found confidence in government had risen only slightly in the past week.
Roy Morgan chief executive Michele Levine said 59.6 per cent of Australians surveyed said they did not trust the government, helping give the coalition a 51-49 two-party preferred lead over Labor.
"Trust, or distrust, in the government is back to the levels that we haven't seen since the Howard government at its most unpopular (before the 2004 election)," she said.
"But remember, the Howard LNP government was re-elected after that."
"This looks pretty dire but it can change."
Voters in the Labor-held bellwether seat of Eden-Monaro, in NSW, had among the lowest confidence in open and honest government, the report found.
Meanwhile four marginal ALP seats were in the bottom 20 per cent of seats ranked by consumer confidence: Rankin and Blair in Queensland and Kingsford-Smith and Page in NSW.
"The wisdom is that if consumer confidence is really low the seat is vulnerable to a change away from the government," Ms Levine said.
Across the country the economy was tipped as the most important issue to voters.
"It's about the cost of living, the cost of electricity, the cost of petrol, the cost of everything - and that includes things like interest rates," Ms Levine said.
The danger seats for the ALP on economic management are Reid in western Sydney, Robertson on the NSW central coast and Corangamite in Victoria.
But two "sleeper" issues, asylum seekers and the environment, could become more prominent election deciders, Ms Levine said.
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