FILE PHOTO - Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison arrives for APEC CEO Summit 2018 at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 17 November 2018. Fazry Ismail/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Support for Australia's conservative government has risen to its highest levels in more than six months, a widely watched poll showed on Monday, boosting Prime Minister Scott Morrison's re-election prospects ahead of a national poll due by May.
Morrison's coalition government now trails the opposition Labor Party by 49 percent to 51 percent on a two-party preferred basis under Australia's preferential voting system, where votes from minor parties are redistributed, a Fairfax-Ipsos poll showed.
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