Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the job Bill Shorten is doing as Opposition Leader?
| Total | Vote Lab | Vote Lib/ Nat |
Vote Grns | Vote Other | Nov 2013 | June 2014 | Dec 2014 | Mar 2015 | Jun 2015 | Jul 2015 | Aug 2015 | |||
| Total approve | 29% | 58% | 15% | 25% | 8% | 31% | 38% | 35% | 34% | 32% | 27% | 29% | ||
| Total disapprove | 50% | 21% | 72% | 50% | 71% | 27% | 40% | 39% | 39% | 45% | 52% | 52% | ||
| Strongly approve | 5% | 10% | 3% | 5% | – | 5% | 7% | 7% | 5% | 6% | 5% | 4% | ||
| Approve | 24% | 48% | 12% | 20% | 8% | 26% | 31% | 28% | 29% | 26% | 22% | 25% | ||
| Disapprove | 27% | 17% | 27% | 37% | 49% | 17% | 22% | 23% | 21% | 27% | 28% | 31% | ||
| Strongly disapprove | 23% | 4% | 45% | 13% | 22% | 10% | 18% | 16% | 18% | 18% | 24% | 21% | ||
| Don’t know | 21% | 21% | 12% | 26% | 21% | 43% | 22% | 26% | 27% | 22% | 21% | 19% |
29% (no change) of respondents approve of the job Bill Shorten is doing as opposition leader and 50% (down 2%) disapprove – a change in his net rating from -23 to -21.
58% (up 2%) of Labor voters approve of the job Bill Shorten is doing and 21% (down 5%) disapprove.
30% of men and 28% of women approve of Bill Shorten. 57% of men and 43% of women disapprove.
Out of the three largest states, VIC gave Bill Shorten the lowest approval rating (25% approve and 50% disapprove). There were no significant differences between the two other largest states with 49% disapproving in NSW (29% approve) and 48% disapproving in QLD (28% approve).