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 | Nov 2013 | Dec 2014 | Dec 2015 | Mar 2016 | Jun 2016 | Sep 2016 | Dec 2016 | Jan 2017 | |||
Total approve | 30% | 63% | 18% | 37% | 12% | 31% | 35% | 27% | 27% | 34% | 36% | 35% | 37% | ||
Total disapprove | 47% | 16% | 66% | 47% | 72% | 27% | 39% | 47% | 47% | 40% | 41% | 38% | 44% | ||
Strongly approve | 5% | 16% | 1% | 4% | <1% | 5% | 7% | 4% | 3% | 7% | 6% | 6% | 7% | ||
Approve | 25% | 47% | 17% | 33% | 12% | 26% | 28% | 23% | 24% | 27% | 30% | 29% | 30% | ||
Disapprove | 27% | 13% | 32% | 38% | 36% | 17% | 23% | 26% | 29% | 22% | 24% | 21% | 25% | ||
Strongly disapprove | 20% | 3% | 34% | 9% | 36% | 10% | 16% | 21% | 18% | 18% | 17% | 17% | 19% | ||
Don’t know | 22% | 21% | 15% | 15% | 16% | 43% | 26% | 25% | 26% | 25% | 22% | 25% | 20% |
30% (down 7% in last 4 weeks) of respondents approve of the job Bill Shorten is doing as opposition leader and 47% (up 3%) disapprove – a change in his net rating from -7 to -17. This is Bill Shorten’s worst net rating since March 2016.
63% (down 3%) of Labor voters approve of the job Bill Shorten is doing and 16% (down 3%) disapprove.
36% of men and 26% of women approve of Bill Shorten. 51% of men and 44% of women disapprove.