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Approval of Julia Gillard

15 Apr 2013

Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the job Julia Gillard is doing as Prime Minister?

 

19
Jul
10

20
Dec

14 June

12 Dec

12
Mar
12

12
Jun

10
Sep

10
Dec

14
Jan
13

11
Feb

11
Mar

15
Apr

Total approve

52%

43%

34%

34%

32%

32%

35%

37%

41%

36%

36%

34%

Total disapprove

30%

40%

54%

54%

61%

56%

54%

53%

49%

55%

56%

56%

Strongly approve

11%

10%

6%

6%

8%

6%

7%

10%

9%

7%

8%

8%

Approve

41%

33%

28%

28%

24%

26%

28%

27%

32%

29%

28%

26%

Disapprove

17%

24%

29%

25%

29%

22%

27%

25%

23%

25%

24%

23%

Strongly disapprove

13%

16%

25%

29%

32%

34%

27%

28%

26%

30%

32%

33%

Don’t know

18%

17%

13%

11%

7%

12%

11%

11%

10%

9%

9%

9%

34% (down 2%) approve of the job Julia Gillard is doing as Prime Minister and 56% (no change) disapprove – a 2-point change in net rating from -20 to -22 over the last 5 weeks.

74% of Labor voters approve (down 1%) and 18% disapprove (up 2%).

By gender – men 36% approve/57% disapprove, women 32% approve/57% disapprove.  In net terms this represents an improvement with men from -27 to -21 and a decline with women (from -14 to -25).

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