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Bill Shorten

5 Jun 2018

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 May 2018 Apr 2018 Mar 2018
Total Approve 33% 63% 19% 33% 16% 37% 35% 37%
Total Disapprove 46% 20% 71% 44% 69% 41% 43% 44%
Strongly approve 6% 16% 3% 3% 8% 6% 8%
Approve 27% 47% 16% 33% 13% 29% 29% 29%
Disapprove 23% 17% 29% 34% 27% 21% 22% 23%
Strongly disapprove 23% 3% 42% 10% 42% 20% 21% 21%
Don’t know 21% 17% 10% 22% 15% 23% 23% 19%

 

33% approved of the job Bill Shorten is doing as Opposition Leader (down 4% from last month), and 46% disapproved (up 5%) – a change in net approval rating from -4 to -13.

62% (down 2%) of ALP voters approved of the job Bill Shorten is doing, compared to 33% of Greens voters and 19% of Liberal/National voters.

By gender, men were 36% approve/51% disapprove and women 32% approve/40% disapprove.

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