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Approval of Tony Abbott

22 Oct 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

 

Tony Abbott as Opposition Leader
11
Mar
13

11 Jun

13 Aug

26 Aug

2 Sep

Tony Abbott as Prime Minister

24
Sep

Total approve

46%

 

18%

85%

10%

 

37%

40%

37%

37%

40%

41%

Total disapprove

35%

 

65%

4%

75%

 

51%

49%

51%

52%

49%

36%

Strongly approve

16%

1%

38%

1%

7%

10%

9%

10%

13%

14%

Approve

30%

17%

47%

9%

30%

30%

28%

27%

29%

27%

Disapprove

15%

26%

4%

23%

22%

17%

21%

23%

19%

13%

Strongly disapprove

20%

39%

*

52%

29%

32%

30%

29%

30%

23%

Don’t know

19%

18%

10%

16%

12%

11%

11%

10%

10%

23%

46% (up 5%) approve of the job Tony Abbott is doing as Prime Minister and 35% (down 1%) disapprove. This represents an improvement on his first rating as Prime Minister three weeks ago from net +5 to net +11.

By gender – 52% (up 8%) of men approve and 32% (down 2%) disapprove; 39% (up 1%) of women approve and 39% (no change) disapprove.

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