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Approval of Bill Shorten

11 Feb 2014

Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the job Bill Shorten is doing as Opposition Leader?

 

Total

 

Vote Labor

Vote Lib/Nat

Vote Greens

Vote other/ Indep-endent

 

12 Nov 2013

10 Dec

14 jan 2014

Total approve

30%

 

54%

15%

48%

16%

31%

39%

35%

Total disapprove

34%

 

16%

53%

20%

47%

27%

31%

32%

Strongly approve

4%

10%

1%

4%

2%

5%

7%

5%

Approve

26%

44%

14%

44%

14%

26%

32%

30%

Disapprove

21%

13%

27%

16%

31%

17%

19%

20%

Strongly disapprove

13%

3%

26%

4%

16%

10%

12%

12%

Don’t know

35%

30%

31%

33%

37%

43%

31%

32%

30% (down 5%) approve of the job Bill Shorten is doing as Opposition Leader and 34% (up 2%) disapprove. 35% could not give an opinion. This represents a decline in his rating as Opposition Leader over the last four weeks from net +3 to net -4.

By gender – 33% (down 3%) of men approve and 42% (up 3%) disapprove; 28% (down 6%) of women approve and 28% (up 1%) disapprove.

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