Q. Who do you think would make the better Prime Minister out of Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | June 2017 | May 2017 | Apr 2017 | Mar 2017 | Feb 2017 | Jan 2017 | Jun 2016 | Dec 2015 | |||
| Malcolm Turnbull | 41% | 15% | 83% | 18% | 38% | 39% | 39% | 39% | 38% | 39% | 39% | 40% | 54% | ||
| Bill Shorten | 27% | 58% | 5% | 40% | 12% | 26% | 31% | 28% | 26% | 25% | 28% | 29% | 15% | ||
| Don’t know | 31% | 27% | 12% | 42% | 50% | 34% | 30% | 32% | 36% | 36% | 33% | 32% | 31% |
41% thought that Malcolm Turnbull would make a better Prime Minister (up 2% from last month), and 27% thought Bill Shorten would be better (up 1%). 31% did not know who would make a better Prime Minister (down 3%).
The results were split by party, with 83% of Liberal/National voters saying that Malcolm Turnbull would be a better Prime Minister, and 58% of ALP voters saying the Bill Shorten would.
Greens voters preferred Bill Shorten (40% preferred) to Turnbull (18%), although the largest proportion did not know who would make a better Prime Minister (42%).