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 | Sep 2017 | June 2017 | Mar 2017 | Dec 2016 | Dec 2015 | Dec 2014 | |||
| Total Approve | 37% | 64% | 25% | 38% | 17% | 36% | 34% | 30% | 35% | 27% | 35% | ||
| Total Disapprove | 44% | 20% | 62% | 40% | 75% | 47% | 43% | 49% | 38% | 47% | 39% | ||
| Strongly approve | 8% | 16% | 4% | 8% | 2% | 7% | 5% | 4% | 6% | 4% | 7% | ||
| Approve | 29% | 48% | 21% | 30% | 15% | 29% | 29% | 26% | 29% | 23% | 28% | ||
| Disapprove | 27% | 18% | 33% | 33% | 39% | 25% | 28% | 26% | 21% | 26% | 23% | ||
| Strongly disapprove | 17% | 2% | 29% | 7% | 36% | 22% | 15% | 23% | 17% | 21% | 16% | ||
| Don’t know | 19% | 16% | 13% | 22% | 8% | 17% | 23% | 22% | 25% | 25% | 26% |
37% approved of the job Bill Shorten is doing as Opposition Leader (up 1% from last month), and 44% disapproved (down 3%) – a change in net approval rating from -11 to -7.
64% (down 1%) of ALP voters approved of the job Bill Shorten is doing, compared to 38% of Greens voters and 25% of Liberal/National voters.
By gender, men were 38% approve/49% disapprove and women 36% approve/40% disapprove.