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 2013 | June 2014 | Dec 2014 | Jun 2015 | Dec 2015 | Jan 2016 | Feb 2016 | |||
| Total approve | 27% | 51% | 17% | 28% | 20% | 31% | 38% | 35% | 32% | 27% | 27% | 27% | ||
| Total disapprove | 47% | 24% | 67% | 52% | 62% | 27% | 40% | 39% | 45% | 47% | 47% | 48% | ||
| Strongly approve | 3% | 9% | 1% | 3% | 2% | 5% | 7% | 7% | 6% | 4% | 4% | 5% | ||
| Approve | 24% | 42% | 16% | 25% | 18% | 26% | 31% | 28% | 26% | 23% | 23% | 22% | ||
| Disapprove | 29% | 21% | 36% | 39% | 30% | 17% | 22% | 23% | 27% | 26% | 28% | 26% | ||
| Strongly disapprove | 18% | 3% | 31% | 13% | 32% | 10% | 18% | 16% | 18% | 21% | 19% | 22% | ||
| Don’t know | 26% | 25% | 16% | 20% | 18% | 43% | 22% | 26% | 22% | 25% | 26% | 25% |
27% (no change) of respondents approve of the job Bill Shorten is doing as opposition leader and 47% (down 1%) disapprove – a change in his net rating from -21 to -20.
51% (up 3%) of Labor voters approve of the job Bill Shorten is doing and 24% (down 2%) disapprove.
28% of men and 27% of women approve of Bill Shorten. 52% of men and 42% of women disapprove.
Who do you think would make the better Prime Minister out of Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Sep 2015 | Oct 2015 | Nov 2015 | Dec 2015 | Jan 2016 | Feb 2016 | |||
| Malcolm Turnbull | 48% | 19% | 86% | 29% | 47% | 53% | 48% | 55% | 54% | 51% | 52% | ||
| Bill Shorten | 19% | 45% | 3% | 25% | 10% | 17% | 19% | 14% | 15% | 18% | 15% | ||
| Don’t know | 33% | 36% | 11% | 46% | 43% | 30% | 33% | 31% | 31% | 31% | 33% |
48% (down 4%) of respondents think Malcolm Turnbull would make the better Prime Minister and 19% (up 4%) think Bill Shorten would make the better Prime Minister.
52% of men prefer Malcolm Turnbull and 21% prefer Bill Shorten.
44% of women prefer Malcolm Turnbull and 17% prefer Bill Shorten.
Thinking about house prices, which of the following best describes what you would like to see happen to house prices in the future?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Own home | Own with mort
gage |
Rent | Property investor | ||||
| Total go up | 32% | 36% | 35% | 24% | 25% | 34% | 42% | 21% | 43% | |||
| Total go down | 34% | 35% | 32% | 44% | 42% | 28% | 21% | 56% | 25% | |||
| Go up a lot | 10% | 11% | 9% | 10% | 11% | 11% | 11% | 9% | 10% | |||
| Go up a little | 22% | 25% | 26% | 14% | 14% | 23% | 31% | 12% | 33% | |||
| Stay much the same | 26% | 24% | 30% | 26% | 29% | 34% | 31% | 15% | 29% | |||
| Go down a little | 19% | 19% | 21% | 23% | 20% | 18% | 15% | 25% | 15% | |||
| Go down a lot | 15% | 16% | 11% | 21% | 22% | 10% | 6% | 31% | 10% | |||
| Don’t know | 7% | 5% | 3% | 7% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 9% | 4% |
34% would like to see house prices go down and 32% would like them to go up (10% a lot). 26% would like house prices to stay much the same.
Those more likely to want house prices to go down were Greens voters (44%), renters (56%) and aged 18-24 (51%),
Do you approve or disapprove of property investors receiving tax deductions if the cost of buying and maintaining their investment properties is more than the revenue they receive from them (called negative gearing)?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Own home | Own with mort gage | Rent | Property investor | ||||
| Total approve | 41% | 34% | 55% | 27% | 41% | 47% | 47% | 30% | 65% | |||
| Total disapprove | 37% | 47% | 29% | 46% | 43% | 38% | 34% | 44% | 27% | |||
| Strongly approve | 13% | 8% | 21% | 3% | 16% | 19% | 15% | 5% | 33% | |||
| Approve | 28% | 26% | 34% | 24% | 25% | 28% | 32% | 25% | 32% | |||
| Disapprove | 23% | 27% | 22% | 21% | 25% | 23% | 23% | 26% | 19% | |||
| Strongly disapprove | 14% | 20% | 7% | 25% | 18% | 15% | 11% | 18% | 8% | |||
| Don’t know | 22% | 18% | 16% | 28% | 16% | 15% | 20% | 27% | 9% |
41% approve of negative gearing and 37% disapprove.
Those most likely to approve were Liberal/National voters (55%) and families with property investments (65%).
47% of Labor voters, 46% of Greens voters and 44% of renters disapproved.
Do you approve or disapprove of changing negative gearing so that, for future purchases, investors can only claim tax deductions for investments in newly built homes?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Own home | Own with mortgage | Rent | Property investor | Feb 2016 | ||||
| Total approve | 35% | 47% | 32% | 37% | 33% | 36% | 32% | 43% | 31% | 37% | |||
| Total disapprove | 39% | 28% | 52% | 31% | 49% | 43% | 44% | 25% | 58% | 32% | |||
| Strongly approve | 10% | 14% | 8% | 7% | 14% | 12% | 7% | 11% | 9% | 19% | |||
| Approve | 25% | 33% | 24% | 30% | 19% | 24% | 25% | 32% | 22% | 18% | |||
| Disapprove | 25% | 19% | 31% | 24% | 33% | 24% | 28% | 19% | 29% | 18% | |||
| Strongly disapprove | 14% | 9% | 21% | 7% | 16% | 19% | 16% | 6% | 29% | 14% | |||
| Don’t know | 26% | 26% | 16% | 33% | 18% | 20% | 24% | 32% | 11% | 31% |
35% approve of changing negative gearing so that, for future purchases, investors can only claim tax deductions for investments in newly built homes and 39% disapprove. This is a 7% increase in disapproval since this question was asked 2 weeks ago.
Those most likely to approve were Labor voters (47%) and renters (43%).
Do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
| Total agree | Total dis-agree | Strong-ly agree | Agree | Dis-agree | Strong-ly dis-agree | Don’t know | Men agree | Men dis-agree | Women agree | Women dis-agree | |||
| Gender equality, meaning that men and women are equal, has come far enough already | 38% | 53% | 10% | 28% | 35% | 18% | 8% | 51% | 39% | 26% | 68% | ||
| Gender equality has already been mostly achieved | 41% | 52% | 8% | 33% | 37% | 15% | 7% | 53% | 39% | 30% | 64% | ||
| Work to achieve gender equality today benefits mostly well-to-do people | 39% | 42% | 7% | 32% | 32% | 10% | 18% | 45% | 38% | 35% | 46% | ||
| There should be laws that require equal salaries for men and women in the same position | 78% | 14% | 37% | 41% | 9% | 5% | 7% | 71% | 21% | 85% | 8% | ||
| Although there has been significant progress on gender equality there is still a long way to go | 71% | 21% | 26% | 45% | 16% | 5% | 8% | 61% | 30% | 80% | 13% |
There was very strong agreement with the statements “there should be laws that require equal salaries for men and women in the same position” (78%) and “Although there has been significant progress on gender equality there is still a long way to go” (71%).
More than half of the men agree that gender equality has mostly been achieved and that gender equality . . . has come far enough but around two thirds of women disagree.
Thinking about men and women holding senior business positions, which of the following statements is closest to your view?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Men | Women | |||
| Men will continue to hold more top business positions than women in the future | 50% | 52% | 55% | 41% | 46% | 46% | 53% | ||
| It’s only a matter of time before women hold as many top business positions as men | 38% | 38% | 37% | 51% | 41% | 39% | 37% | ||
| Don’t know | 13% | 11% | 8% | 8% | 14% | 15% | 11% |
50% think that men will continue to hold more top business positions than women in the future while 38% think that it’s only a matter of time before women hold as many top business positions as men.
53% of women and 46% of men agree that men will continue to hold more top business positions.
If a Federal Election was held today to which party will you probably give your first preference vote? If not sure, which party are you currently leaning toward? If don’t know -Well which party are you currently leaning to?
| Total | Last week
23/2/16 |
2 weeks ago
16/2/16 |
4 weeks ago
2/2/16
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Election 7 Sep 13 | |||
| Liberal | 40% | 41% | 40% | 40% | |||
| National | 3% | 3% | 3% | 4% | |||
| Total Liberal/National | 43% | 44% | 43% | 44% | 45.6% | ||
| Labor | 38% | 35% | 33% | 35% | 33.4% | ||
| Greens | 10% | 10% | 11% | 11% | 8.6% | ||
| Palmer United Party | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 5.5% | ||
| Other/Independent | 8% | 10% | 11% | 9% | 6.9% | ||
| 2 party preferred | |||||||
| Liberal National | 50% | 52% | 52% | 51% | 53.5% | ||
| Labor | 50% | 48% | 48% | 49% | 46.5% |
Sample = 1,751. The data in the above tables comprise 2-week averages derived from the first preference/leaning to voting questions. Respondents who select ‘don’t know’ are not included in the results. The two-party preferred estimate is calculated by distributing the votes of the other parties according to their preferences at the 2013 election.