A struggling Prime Minister and a looming state election can mean only one thing: a deluge of opinion polls.

To their credit, polls tell us a lot about ourselves. They reveal the limits of our loyalties, the depths of our hatreds, and just how many of us have still never heard of a bloke called Luke Foley.

What do polls reveal about Australians? Credit:2UE

But over the two years I spent doing telephone surveys for major political pollsters, I learnt a whole lot more about what polls reveal.

Here are 10 results you won't ever find in a pie chart on the front page of the paper.