More Australian voters "dissatisfied" with PM Turnbull than ever before: poll

More Australian voters are dissatisfied with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's performance than ever before, results of a new poll showed on Monday.

For the first time since taking power in September last year, the level of voter dissatisfaction with Turnbull has eclipsed that of the satisfaction, though he is still comfortably the preferred prime minister.

The Newspoll, taken for News Corp, polled 2049 voters and showed that only 39 percent of Australians were happy with Turnbull's performance, down five points since the last poll and down 21 points since posting a six-year high for a prime minister of 60 percent in November last year.

Simultaneously, the dissatisfaction level jumped three points to 44 percent, a figure double that of what it was back in November. It is the first time Turnbull has been in negative territory, and a far cry from November levels, when his satisfaction rating was 38 points above his dissatisfaction rating.

Despite the bad news for the prime minister, he is still overwhelmingly preferred as the right person to lead the country, after the poll showed 52 percent of Australians prefer him as prime minister compared to just 21 percent of voters who prefer Opposition Leader Bill Shorten.

Turnbull's coalition also nudged ahead in the two-party preferred poll after being deadlocked for the past two surveys. The government is preferred over Labor by 51 percent to 49 percent.

The 2016 Australian federal election has yet to be confirmed by Turnbull, but recent indications suggested Australians could be heading to the polls in early July. Endit