Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the job Bill Shorten is doing as Opposition Leader?
|
Total |
|
Vote ALP |
Vote Lib/ |
Vote Green |
Vote Other |
|
Nov 2013 |
Mar 2014 |
June 2014 |
Sep 2014 |
Dec 2014 |
Jan 2015 |
Feb 2015 |
|
| Total approve |
34% |
61% |
20% |
26% |
22% |
31% |
32% |
38% |
35% |
35% |
39% |
33% |
||
| Total dis-approve |
39% |
18% |
65% |
35% |
50% |
27% |
39% |
40% |
36% |
39% |
33% |
38% |
||
| Strongly approve |
5% |
14% |
* |
1% |
1% |
5% |
4% |
7% |
5% |
7% |
7% |
8% |
||
| Approve |
29% |
47% |
20% |
25% |
21% |
26% |
28% |
31% |
30% |
28% |
32% |
25% |
||
| Dis-approve |
21% |
14% |
29% |
25% |
27% |
17% |
24% |
22% |
22% |
23% |
19% |
21% |
||
| Strongly dis-approve |
18% |
4% |
36% |
10% |
23% |
10% |
15% |
18% |
14% |
16% |
14% |
17% |
||
| Don’t know |
27% |
22% |
15% |
38% |
28% |
43% |
29% |
22% |
29% |
26% |
28% |
29% |
34% (up 1% since February) of respondents approve of the job Bill Shorten is doing as opposition leader and 39% (up 1%) disapprove – for a net rating of -5 (no change).
61% (down 3%) of Labor voters approve of the job Bill Shorten is doing and 18% (up 6%) disapprove.
36% of men and 31% of women approve of Bill Shorten. 44% of men and 35% of women disapprove.
Q. Who do you think would make the better Prime Minister out of Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/ |
Vote Green |
Vote Other |
|
Oct 2013 |
Mar 2014 |
June 2014 |
Sep 2014 |
Dec 2104 |
Jan 2015 |
Feb 2015 |
|
| Tony Abbott |
33% |
4% |
77% |
4% |
22% |
41% |
39% |
36% |
35% |
31% |
35% |
31% |
||
| Bill Shorten |
37% |
77% |
8% |
56% |
26% |
22% |
33% |
40% |
36% |
36% |
37% |
39% |
||
| Don’t know |
30% |
19% |
15% |
41% |
52% |
37% |
28% |
24% |
30% |
33% |
28% |
30% |
33% (up 2% since February) of respondents think Tony Abbott would make the better Prime Minister and 37% (down 2%) think Bill Shorten would make the better Prime Minister.
36% of men prefer Tony Abbott and 37% prefer Bill Shorten – and women prefer Bill Shorten 38% to 29%.
Q. Do you think the following pay too much tax, not enough tax or about the right amount?
*DPN = Don’t pay enough
|
Total |
Labor voters |
Lib/Nat voters |
||||||||||
|
Pay too much |
DPN |
Pay about right |
Don’t know |
Pay too much |
DPN |
Pay about right |
Don’t know |
Pay too much |
DPN |
Pay about right |
Don’t know |
|
| Large business |
3% |
64% |
14% |
19% |
3% |
72% |
8% |
17% |
3% |
60% |
21% |
16% |
| Small business |
41% |
6% |
34% |
19% |
39% |
8% |
40% |
14% |
43% |
6% |
36% |
15% |
| People on low incomes |
47% |
5% |
36% |
13% |
57% |
4% |
30% |
9% |
34% |
6% |
48% |
12% |
| People on average incomes |
43% |
5% |
41% |
11% |
52% |
4% |
36% |
8% |
33% |
7% |
50% |
10% |
| People on high incomes |
10% |
59% |
19% |
12% |
9% |
66% |
17% |
8% |
9% |
56% |
25% |
11% |
| You personally |
36% |
4% |
47% |
13% |
40% |
4% |
45% |
11% |
29% |
5% |
53% |
13% |
| Mining companies |
4% |
67% |
12% |
17% |
3% |
75% |
9% |
13% |
4% |
63% |
18% |
15% |
| Retirees on large incomes |
15% |
29% |
30% |
26% |
15% |
33% |
29% |
22% |
14% |
26% |
38% |
23% |
| Large intl companies (such as Google & Apple) |
2% |
73% |
8% |
18% |
2% |
74% |
8% |
16% |
2% |
73% |
10% |
15% |
| Religious organisation |
5% |
53% |
16% |
26% |
4% |
54% |
15% |
27% |
5% |
53% |
21% |
21% |
From the groups listed, people on low income (47%), small businesses (41%) and people on average incomes (43%) were the groups respondents were most likely to think pay too much tax.
More than half of respondents believe that ‘large international companies’ (73%), ‘large businesses’ (64%), ‘mining companies’ (67%), and ‘religious organisations’ (53%) do not pay enough tax.
Overall, Labor voters were more likely than Liberal voters to think the following groups pay too much tax – low incomes (Labor 57%/LNP34%), average incomes (52%/33%) and ‘you personally’ (40%/29%). Labor voters were also more likely to think the following don’t pay enough tax – large businesses (72%/60%), people on high incomes (66%/56%) and mining companies (75%/63%).
Multinational Corporations, tax
Q. Do you think that making big multinational corporations pay more tax would be good for the economy because it would increase Government revenue or bad for the economy because these companies would stop investing in Australia?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote Other |
|
| Good for the economy |
60% |
65% |
61% |
66% |
62% |
|
| Bad for the economy |
13% |
12% |
14% |
8% |
12% |
|
| Don’t know |
27% |
23% |
25% |
26% |
26% |
60% think that making big multinational corporations pay more tax would be good for the economy because it would increase Government revenue and 13% think it would be bad for the economy because these companies would stop investing in Australia.
More than 60% of all voter groups believe it would be good for the economy. 66% of men and 72% of respondents aged 55+ think it would be good for the economy.
Q. Do you approve or disapprove of sending more Australian troops to Iraq to help train Iraqi forces fighting Islamic State militants?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote Other |
|
| Total approve |
36% |
28% |
54% |
15% |
35% |
|
| Total disapprove |
50% |
60% |
35% |
72% |
56% |
|
| Strongly approve |
7% |
5% |
10% |
2% |
6% |
|
| Approve |
29% |
23% |
44% |
13% |
29% |
|
| Disapprove |
29% |
31% |
25% |
36% |
31% |
|
| Strongly disapprove |
21% |
29% |
10% |
36% |
25% |
|
| Don’t know |
14% |
12% |
11% |
13% |
10% |
36% approve of sending more Australian troops to Iraq to help train Iraqi forces fighting Islamic State militants and 50% disapprove.
A majority of Liberal/National voters (54%) approve but other voter groups strongly disapprove – 60% of Labor voters and 72% of Greens voters.
Men are divided (45% approve/45% disapprove) while women strongly disapprove (27% approve/55% disapprove).
Q. Do you think sending troops to Iraq will make Australia more safe or less safe from terrorism?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote Other |
|
| More safe |
12% |
8% |
20% |
5% |
8% |
|
| Less safe |
30% |
33% |
22% |
44% |
34% |
|
| Make no difference |
47% |
51% |
47% |
37% |
53% |
|
| Don’t know |
10% |
7% |
10% |
13% |
5% |
30% think sending more troops to Iraq will make Australia less safe from terrorism and 12% think it will make Australia more safe. 47% think it will make no difference.
Q. Thinking about Government welfare and services, do you think the following groups of people receive enough support, too much support or about the right support from the Government?
|
Too much support |
Not enough support |
About the right support |
Don’t know |
|
| Children |
11% |
38% |
38% |
13% |
| Young adults |
15% |
41% |
32% |
11% |
| Families with school-aged children |
14% |
36% |
38% |
11% |
| Middle aged |
8% |
33% |
44% |
15% |
| Retirees |
6% |
56% |
27% |
11% |
A majority (56%) think that retirees don’t get enough Government support and 41% don’t think young adults get enough support. 44% think middle aged people get about the right support.
By age group, those most likely to think each group does not get enough support were –
Children – aged 35-54 43%
Young adults – aged 18-24 54%
Families with school-aged children – aged 25-44 41%
Middle aged – aged 45-54 45%
Retirees – aged 45-64 66%
federal politics voting intention
Q. If a Federal Election was held today to which party will you probably give your first preference vote? If not sure, which party are you currently leaning toward?
Q. If don’t know -Well which party are you currently leaning to?
Sample size = 1,820 respondents
| First preference/leaning to |
Election 7 Sep 13 |
|
4 weeks ago 3/2/15 |
2 weeks ago 17/2/15 |
Last week 24/2/15 |
This week 3/3/15 |
| Liberal |
|
35% |
36% |
38% |
37% |
|
| National |
3% |
3% |
3% |
3% |
||
| Total Liberal/National |
45.6% |
38% |
39% |
40% |
40% |
|
| Labor |
33.4% |
41% |
41% |
41% |
41% |
|
| Greens |
8.6% |
9% |
10% |
9% |
9% |
|
| Palmer United Party |
5.5% |
3% |
2% |
2% |
2% |
|
| Other/Independent |
6.9% |
9% |
8% |
8% |
9% |
| 2 Party Preferred |
Election 7 Sep 13 |
|
4 weeks ago 3/2/15 |
2 weeks ago 17/2/15 |
Last week 24/2/15 |
This week 3/3/15 |
| Liberal National |
53.5% |
46% |
46% |
47% |
47% |
|
| Labor |
46.5% |
54% |
54% |
53% |
53% |
NB. The data in the above tables comprise 2-week averages derived from the first preference/leaning to voting questions. Respondents who select ‘don’t know’ are not included in the results. The two-party preferred estimate is calculated by distributing the votes of the other parties according to their preferences at the 2013 election.