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 Jun |
13 Aug |
26 Aug |
2 Sep |
Tony Abbott as Prime Minister 24 |
|
| 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.