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 | Nov 2018 | Oct 2018 | Sep 2018 | Jun 2018 | Mar 2018 | Dec 2017 | Sep 2017 | June 2017 | Mar 2017 | |||
| Total approve | 35% | 62% | 18% | 46% | 15% | 38% | 33% | 35% | 33% | 37% | 36% | 36% | 34% | 30% | ||
| Total disapprove | 43% | 15% | 73% | 31% | 75% | 44% | 45% | 43% | 46% | 44% | 45% | 47% | 43% | 49% | ||
| Strongly approve | 8% | 19% | 2% | 5% | 2% | 8% | 8% | 8% | 6% | 8% | 7% | 7% | 5% | 4% | ||
| Approve | 27% | 43% | 16% | 41% | 13% | 30% | 25% | 27% | 27% | 29% | 29% | 29% | 29% | 26% | ||
| Disapprove | 21% | 11% | 30% | 25% | 35% | 24% | 23% | 21% | 23% | 23% | 23% | 25% | 28% | 26% | ||
| Strongly disapprove | 22% | 3% | 43% | 6% | 40% | 20% | 22% | 22% | 23% | 21% | 22% | 22% | 15% | 23% | ||
| Don’t know | 22% | 24% | 9% | 23% | 10% | 18% | 23% | 22% | 21% | 19% | 19% | 17% | 23% | 22% |
35% approved of the job Bill Shorten is doing as Opposition Leader (down 3%pts from last month), and 43% disapproved (down 1%).
62% of ALP voters approved of the job Bill Shorten is doing, compared to 46% of Greens voters and 18% of Liberal/National voters.
By gender, men were 41% approve/44% disapprove and women 28% approve/43% disapprove. 15% of men and 29% of women didn’t give a rating of Bill Shorten’s performance.