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Issues for PM's approval with voters: poll

Malcolm Turnbull is losing support as preferred prime minister but Opposition Leader Bill Shorten still lags 17 points behind.

A Fairfax-Ipsos poll of 1497 voters published on Saturday shows Mr Turnbull 47-30 in the head-to-head contest over Mr Shorten but he had been as high as 67-21 in October.

Malcolm Turnbull's poll numbers are in a bit of a slump. Source: AAP

His personal approval rate of plus 10 (the number of voters who approve minus those who disapprove of his performance) is now lower than Julia Gillard's was in the deadlocked 2010 election when she nearly lost to Tony Abbott.

Mr Shorten is also struggling on minus six.

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Mt Turnbull leads Bill Shorten on Facebook likes but his social media presence is still dwarfed by his predecessor.

Malcolm Turnbull's page has more than 285,000 likes, well over double the opposition leader's Facebook admirers, according to Facebook statistics.

Bill Shorten still trails Turnbull. Source: AAP

But both Mr Turnbull and Mr Shorten trail their predecessors on page likes.

Tony Abbott boasts over 460,000 likes on the platform but also claims a pretty popular protest page, with "Tony Abbott - Worst PM in Australian History" receiving more than 200,000 likes.

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