A recently published survey indicates a significant shift in voter allegiance away from the federal opposition, with support for the beleaguered Liberal leader, Sussan Ley, plummeting.

The Coalition’s primary vote has dropped to 24 percent, while the Labor party maintains a lead at 36 percent, as reported by a Newspoll in The Australian.

This decline for the major parties aligns with a notable rise in support for the populist One Nation party, which has achieved 15 percent in the primary vote.

The poll also shows Labor holding a steady advantage with a 57 to 43 percent margin in the two-party-preferred vote.

Ley’s approval ratings have taken a nosedive to minus 33 percent, marking one of the most unfavorable standings for an opposition leader in recent times.

In 2015, the then Labor leader recorded minus 38 per cent, while the Liberal leader in 1990, Andrew Peacock slumped to minus 44.

The dire results for the Coalition follow weeks of infighting within opposition ranks over energy policy and the departure of shadow ministers Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Andrew Hastie.

Pressure on Ley intensified last weekend when the Coalition’s junior partner, the Nationals, formally ditched a pledge to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

The move, on the eve of the penultimate sitting week in Parliament this year, heaps more pressure on Ley to keep the opposition united.

Last month she was accused of lacking policy initiatives with her criticism of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for wearing a T-shirt of one of his favourite bands, Joy Division, when he flew back from a US visit.

She claimed it showed a “profound failure of judgement” to support a band that got its name from “a wing of a Nazi concentration camp where Jewish women were forced into sexual slavery”, particularly “at a time when Jewish Australians are facing a rise in antisemitism”.

The origins of Joy Division’s name have been well-known for some time now.

The band discovered the name from House of Dolls, a novella written by Holocaust survivor Yehiel De-Nur.

Joy Division split in 1980 before the band reformed as New Order.