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Labor's primary vote has fallen and the opposition leader Bill Shorten's voter satisfaction rating has slumped since December, the latest Newspoll shows.

The poll, conducted at the weekend, shows primary vote support for the Coalition at 41% compared with Labor's 35%, down from 38% in December.

With the Greens' primary vote up from 9% to 12% since early December, the two-party preferred result favoured Labor, 51% to 49%, based on preference flows at the 2013 election, the Australian reported on Tuesday.

The results showed Shorten's voter satisfaction has slumped nine percentage points to 35%, while his dissatisfaction rating has risen eight points to 35%, between parliament rising in December and last weekend.

Meanwhile, net voter satisfaction with the prime minister, Tony Abbott, has stabilised for the first time, at minus five, the paper said.