Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the job Malcolm Turnbull is doing as Prime Minister?
Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Dec 2015 | Mar 2016 | Jun 2016 | Dec 2016 | Jan 2017 | Feb 2017 | Mar 2017 | |||
Total approve | 35% | 20% | 74% | 15% | 19% | 56% | 45% | 38% | 34% | 37% | 34% | 33% | ||
Total disapprove | 47% | 65% | 18% | 75% | 68% | 23% | 35% | 40% | 46% | 48% | 49% | 50% | ||
Strongly approve | 5% | 4% | 11% | – | 1% | 13% | 6% | 6% | 5% | 6% | 5% | 5% | ||
Approve | 30% | 16% | 63% | 15% | 18% | 43% | 39% | 32% | 29% | 31% | 29% | 28% | ||
Disapprove | 29% | 36% | 16% | 41% | 41% | 16% | 24% | 24% | 30% | 30% | 28% | 30% | ||
Strongly disapprove | 18% | 29% | 2% | 34% | 27% | 7% | 11% | 16% | 16% | 18% | 21% | 20% | ||
Don’t know | 17% | 15% | 7% | 9% | 13% | 21% | 21% | 21% | 20% | 16% | 16% | 18% |
35% (up 2% from 4 weeks ago) of respondents approve of the job Malcolm Turnbull is doing as Prime Minister and 47% (down 3%) disapprove – a change in net approval rating from -17 to -12.
74% (up 7%) of Liberal/National voters approve of Malcolm Turnbull’s performance with 18% (down 3%) disapproving. 20% (down 4%) of Labor voters and 15% (down 2%) of Greens voters approve of Malcolm Turnbull’s performance.
By gender, men were 40% approve/51% disapprove and women 32% approve/44% disapprove.