Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the job Tony Abbott is doing as Prime Minister?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other/ indep-endent |
|
Tony Abbott as Opposition Leader 2 Sep |
Tony Abbott as Prime Minister 24 Sep |
22 |
12 |
|
| Total approve |
45% |
|
10% |
89% |
9% |
33% |
|
40% |
41% |
46% |
45% |
| Total disapprove |
46% |
|
84% |
5% |
85% |
47% |
|
49% |
36% |
35% |
40% |
| Strongly approve |
12% |
3% |
27% |
– |
3% |
13% |
14% |
16% |
14% |
||
| Approve |
33% |
7% |
62% |
9% |
30% |
27% |
27% |
30% |
31% |
||
| Disapprove |
20% |
34% |
5% |
19% |
23% |
19% |
13% |
15% |
19% |
||
| Strongly disapprove |
26% |
50% |
* |
66% |
24% |
30% |
23% |
20% |
21% |
||
| Don’t know |
9% |
6% |
6% |
5% |
15% |
10% |
23% |
19% |
16% |
45% (no change) approve of the job Tony Abbott is doing as Prime Minister and 46% (up 6%) disapprove. This represents a decline on his rating as Prime Minister over the last four weeks from net +5 to net -1.
By gender – 50% (no change) of men approve and 43% (up 5%) disapprove; 41% (up 2%) of women approve and 49% (up 7%) disapprove.