Voters in the crunch Northcote byelection are unmoved by the Greens' campaign on Victoria's forests, according to a poll paid for by the main logging union.
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According to the CFMEU-commissioned survey, Labor is in winning position as the last day of campaigning gets underway on Friday.
The same polling company, when hired by conservation groups last month, said the forests issue was important to 60 per cent of Northcote voters who supported the establishment of the Great Forest National Park.
The ReachTel robo-polls have been consistent in putting Labor ahead on primary votes in Northcote though, giving the Greens a tough assignment as they try to wrest control of the seat Labor has held since 1927.
Accurate telephone polling in inner-Melbourne seats is notoriously difficult because of the low prevalence of landline phones.
But ReachTel's latest effort, taken on November 9, has Labor on nearly 39 per cent of the primary vote, easily enough to get its candidate Clare Burns over the line if the result is borne out in Saturday's poll, with the help of minor party preferences.
The Greens' Lidia Thorpe is on 34.4 per cent of the primary, not enough to take the seat.
The polling from last month, taken around October 25, was commissioned by six environmental groups, and showed that four out of five voters in Northcote supported the creation of Great Forest National Park in the Central Highlands.
That October poll had Labor on 37.7 per cent and The Greens on 35 per cent.
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