Approval of Environment Minister, Peter Garrett
Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the job Peter Garrett is doing as Environment Minister?
| % | |
| Strongly approve | 4% |
| Approve | 24% |
| Disapprove | 26% |
| Strongly disapprove | 30% |
| Don’t know | 16% |
| Total approve | 28% |
| Total disapprove | 56% |
Just over half (56%) of those surveyed disapprove of the job Peter Garrett is doing as Environment Minister, 28% approve and 16% don’t know.
This gives Peter Garrett an approval rating of -28%.
Results followed party lines – Labor voters were more likely to approve (47%), while Coalition voters were more likely to disapprove (84%). 37% of Labor voters disapprove of the job Garrett is doing as Environment Minister.
Green voters were reasonably split in terms of their level of approval of the Environment Minister – 42% approve and 46% disapprove of the job Garrett is doing.
People aged 65 years and over were more likely to disapprove (82%) while those aged 35 – 44 were more likely to approve (35%).
We asked a similar question in June 2008 asking people to rate the performance of Peter Garrett – 32% rated his performance as very good/good and 47% rated it as very poor/poor. Comments »
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