Support for Aust'n PM Turnbull continues to fall: latest poll

Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has lost support in all eight states since taking power, with country voters and the elderly among those most fed up, the latest Newspoll revealed on Monday.

A demographic analysis of the latest Newspoll, taken for News Corp, showed the Labor opposition has made gains in all of Australia's states since the July 2 election, with support for Turnbull lowest in his home state of New South Wales.

The analysis took in the responses of more than 5,000 Australians who responded to the polls throughout August and September, and found that voters living outside capital cities were the most unimpressed by Turnbull's performance.

A 14-percent lead over Labor in rural areas has been reduced to just four points in the 12 weeks since the election, with the coalition with 40 percent of the support to Labor's now 36 percent.

Meanwhile, those over 50 years of age are similarly fed up with the Turnbull government, support has fallen from the election high of 50 percent to 46 percent, while Labor's support grew from 30 percent to 33 percent in the same demographic.

The latest Newspoll tops off a poor week for the coalition, after it was revealed that Australians disapprove with the government's approach to same-sex marriage legislation.

The coalition has maintained its election promise of holding a plebiscite, or public vote, to determine the future of same-sex marriage in Australia, at a cost of 120 million U.S. dollars. While support for a public vote was at a high of 70 percent pre-election, and before the cost of holding a plebiscite was revealed, it has since fallen to just 39 percent. Endit