Labor has narrowly extended its lead after their campaign trail’s first week

Labor has increased its lead over the Coalition heading into the second week of election campaign.

Anthony Albanese has crept into majority government territory based on the latest polling.

The Newspoll, conducted for The Australian, shows Labor has picked up one point for a 52-48 per cent lead on a two-party preferred basis.

Labor won a single-seat, majority government at the last election with 52 per cent of the vote once preferences had been dished out.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on the campaign trail in Queensland. Picture: Jason Edwards / NewsWire

Jim Chalmers in also pictured in Queensland on the campaign trail. Picture: Jason Edwards / NewsWire

However, Labor’s underlying support sits at 33 per cent of the primary vote, trailing the Coalition’s 36 per cent forecast primary vote, the Newspoll shows.

Newspolls also ask voters to rank the respective party leaders.

The perception of Mr Albanese as arrogant has fallen a couple of points to 45 per cent. But 63 per cent of voters see Peter Dutton as arrogant, up from 58 per cent in December.

The leaders are neck-and-neck on the question of whether they ‘understand’ the big issues, with the Prime Minister ahead by one point having made a small gain and overtaking Mr Dutton in recent months.

The perception that each leader is experienced and “has a vision for Australia” follows a similar trend. Mr Dutton is still seen as much more “decisive and strong”.