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Approval of Tony Abbott

12 Nov 2013

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 Opp Leader

11
Mar
13

11 Jun

2 Sep

Tony Abbott as
PM

24 Sep

22
Oct

Total approve

45%

 

14%

88%

9%

23%

 

37%

40%

40%

41%

46%

Total disapprove

40%

 

72%

4%

79%

56%

 

51%

49%

49%

36%

35%

Strongly approve

14%

4%

31%

2%

1%

7%

10%

13%

14%

16%

Approve

31%

10%

57%

7%

22%

30%

30%

29%

27%

30%

Disapprove

19%

30%

3%

28%

40%

22%

17%

19%

13%

15%

Strongly disapprove

21%

42%

1%

51%

16%

29%

32%

30%

23%

20%

Don’t know

16%

15%

8%

12%

21%

12%

11%

10%

23%

19%

45% (down 1%) approve of the job Tony Abbott is doing as Prime Minister and 40% (up 5%) disapprove. This represents a decline on his rating as Prime Minister over the last three weeks from net +11 to net +5.

By gender – 50% (down 2%) of men approve and 38% (up 6%) disapprove; 39% (no change) of women approve and 42% (up 3%) disapprove.

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