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Approval of Tony Abbott

11 Mar 2014

Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the job Tony Abbott is doing as Prime Minister?

 

Total

Vote Labor

Vote Lib/Nat

Vote Greens

Vote other/

indep-endent

Tony Abbott as Opposition Leader

2 Sep 13

Tony Abbott as Prime Minister

24 Sep

10 Dec

14 Jan 2014

11 Feb

Total approve

40%

11%

83%

13%

30%

40%

41%

45%

47%

41%

Total disapprove

47%

84%

6%

81%

54%

49%

36%

46%

43%

47%

Strongly approve

11%

2%

27%

2%

2%

13%

14%

12%

13%

12%

Approve

29%

9%

56%

11%

28%

27%

27%

33%

34%

29%

Disapprove

20%

31%

6%

17%

29%

19%

13%

20%

18%

19%

Strongly disapprove

27%

53%

*

64%

25%

30%

23%

26%

25%

28%

Don’t know

12%

6%

11%

6%

16%

10%

23%

9%

11%

12%

40% (down 1%) approve of the job Tony Abbott is doing as Prime Minister and 47% (no change) disapprove. This represents little change in his rating as Prime Minister over the last four weeks – from net -6 to net -7.

By gender – 44% (down 1%) of men approve and 46% (down 1%) disapprove; 37% (down 1%) of women approve and 49% (up 2%) disapprove.

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