Approval of Tony Abbott, Prime Minister, tony abbott
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 Opp. Leader 2 Sep 13 |
Tony Abbott as PM 24 Sep |
12 Nov |
14 |
11 Feb |
11 Mar |
|
| Total approve |
41% |
11% |
84% |
12% |
32% |
40% |
41% |
45% |
47% |
41% |
40% |
| Total disapprove |
47% |
84% |
7% |
76% |
55% |
49% |
36% |
40% |
43% |
47% |
47% |
| Strongly approve |
13% |
3% |
30% |
– |
5% |
13% |
14% |
14% |
13% |
12% |
11% |
| Approve |
28% |
8% |
54% |
12% |
27% |
27% |
27% |
31% |
34% |
29% |
29% |
| Disapprove |
17% |
27% |
5% |
21% |
23% |
19% |
13% |
19% |
18% |
19% |
20% |
| Strongly disapprove |
30% |
57% |
2% |
55% |
32% |
30% |
23% |
21% |
25% |
28% |
27% |
| Don’t know |
12% |
6% |
9% |
12% |
12% |
10% |
23% |
16% |
11% |
12% |
12% |
41% (up 1%) approve of the job Tony Abbott is doing as Prime Minister and 47% (no change) disapprove. This represents little change in his rating as Prime Minister over the last four weeks – from net -7 to net -6.
By gender – 49% (up 5%) of men approve and 43% (down 3%) disapprove; 34% (down 3%) of women approve and 50% (up 1%) disapprove.
approval of bill shorten, Opposition leader
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/ Indep-endent |
|
12 Nov 2013 |
14 Jan 2014 |
11 Feb |
11 Mar |
|
| Total approve |
34% |
|
62% |
16% |
36% |
29% |
31% |
35% |
30% |
32% |
|
| Total disapprove |
38% |
|
15% |
61% |
35% |
44% |
27% |
32% |
34% |
39% |
|
| Strongly approve |
6% |
12% |
3% |
2% |
2% |
5% |
5% |
4% |
4% |
||
| Approve |
28% |
50% |
13% |
34% |
27% |
26% |
30% |
26% |
28% |
||
| Disapprove |
22% |
13% |
29% |
27% |
25% |
17% |
20% |
21% |
24% |
||
| Strongly disapprove |
16% |
2% |
32% |
8% |
19% |
10% |
12% |
13% |
15% |
||
| Don’t know |
28% |
23% |
23% |
30% |
25% |
43% |
32% |
35% |
29% |
34% (up 2%) approve of the job Bill Shorten is doing as Opposition Leader and 38% (down 1%) disapprove. 28% could not give an opinion. This represents an improvement in his rating as Opposition Leader over the last four weeks from net -7 to net -4.
By gender – 36% (no change) of men approve and 44% (up 2%) disapprove; 32% (up 3%) of women approve and 32% (down 4%) disapprove.
Better PM, Bill Shorten, tony abbott
Q. Who do you think would make the better Prime Minister out of Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten?
|
Total |
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other/ indep-endent |
|
22 Oct 2013 |
12 Nov |
14 Jan 2014 |
11 Feb |
11 Mar |
|
| Tony Abbott |
42% |
9% |
88% |
14% |
29% |
41% |
42% |
42% |
40% |
39% |
|
| Bill Shorten |
32% |
67% |
3% |
54% |
23% |
22% |
27% |
31% |
30% |
33% |
|
| Don’t know |
26% |
25% |
8% |
31% |
49% |
37% |
31% |
27% |
31% |
28% |
42% (up 3%) think Tony Abbott would make the better Prime Minister and 32% (down 1%) favour Bill Shorten. 26% could not make a choice.
Tony Abbott is favoured 47%/29% among men and 37%/34% among women.
Q. Do you support or oppose the Government’s plan to privatise Medibank Private?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other |
|
Nov 13 |
|
| Total support |
25% |
12% |
42% |
15% |
27% |
22% |
||
| Total oppose |
46% |
69% |
25% |
52% |
54% |
43% |
||
| Strongly support |
6% |
4% |
11% |
2% |
3% |
5% |
||
| Support |
19% |
8% |
31% |
13% |
24% |
17% |
||
| Oppose |
23% |
27% |
19% |
29% |
28% |
20% |
||
| Strongly oppose |
23% |
42% |
6% |
23% |
26% |
23% |
||
| Don’t know |
28% |
18% |
33% |
34% |
19% |
35% |
46% oppose the privatisation of Medibank Private, 25% support and 28% don’t know. This represents small increases for both support (+3%) and oppose (+3%) since this question was asked in November. Don’t knows have dropped from 35% to 28%.
Those most likely to support the privatisation of Medibank Private were men (32%) and Liberal/National voters (42%).
Those most likely to oppose it were aged 45-64 (54%) and Labor voters (69%).
health insurance fees, medibank private
Q. Do you think the sale of Medibank Private will cause an increase or decrease in health insurance fees or will it make no difference?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other |
|
| Total increase |
61% |
77% |
48% |
68% |
64% |
|
| Total decrease |
3% |
2% |
3% |
5% |
2% |
|
| Fees will increase a lot |
36% |
55% |
21% |
30% |
36% |
|
| Fees will increase a little |
25% |
22% |
27% |
38% |
28% |
|
| Will make no difference to fees |
19% |
7% |
36% |
10% |
21% |
|
| Fees will decrease a little |
2% |
2% |
2% |
4% |
1% |
|
| Fees will decrease a lot |
1% |
* |
1% |
1% |
1% |
|
| Don’t know |
17% |
14% |
15% |
17% |
13% |
61% of respondents think that the sale of Medibank Private will cause an increase in health insurance fees, 19% think it will make no difference and 3% think fees will decrease.
Those most likely to think fees will increase were Labor voters (77%), Greens voters (68%), aged 45-64 (66%) and people on incomes under $600pw (69%).
government-owned assests, Joe Hockey, ports, rail, roads, state government
Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the Treasurer Joe Hockey’s proposal that State Governments sell their Government-owned assets (e.g. ports, rail, roads) to fund construction of new infrastructure?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other/ Indep-endent |
|
| Total approve |
25% |
|
10% |
44% |
17% |
23% |
| Total disapprove |
58% |
|
80% |
41% |
63% |
60% |
| Strongly approve |
7% |
3% |
11% |
4% |
8% |
|
| Approve |
18% |
7% |
33% |
13% |
15% |
|
| Disapprove |
27% |
25% |
31% |
28% |
22% |
|
| Strongly disapprove |
31% |
55% |
10% |
35% |
38% |
|
| Don’t know |
18% |
11% |
16% |
19% |
16% |
58% disapprove of the Treasurer Joe Hockey’s proposal that State Governments sell their Government-owned to fund construction of new infrastructure and 25% approve.
Labor voters (80%) and Greens voters (63%) strongly disapprove but Liberal/National voters are divided with 44% approve/41% disapprove.
climate change, climate change caused by human activity, fluctuation in earth's climate
Q. Do you believe that there is fairly conclusive evidence that climate change is happening and caused by human activity or do you believe that the evidence is still not in and we may just be witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate which happens from time to time?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other |
|
Nov 09 |
Dec 10 |
Jun 11 |
Oct 12 |
Oct 13 |
Jan 14 |
|
| Climate change is happening and is caused by human activity |
56% |
70% |
39% |
87% |
46% |
53% |
45% |
50% |
48% |
52% |
51% |
||
| We are just witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate |
34% |
23% |
51% |
5% |
39% |
34% |
36% |
39% |
39% |
36% |
39% |
||
| Don’t know |
10% |
7% |
10% |
8% |
15% |
13% |
19% |
12% |
13% |
12% |
11% |
56% (up 5% since January) agree that climate change is happening and is caused by human activity and 34% (down 5%) believe that we may just be witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate. This is the largest gap recorded between these figures since this question was first asked in 2009.
By age groups, those aged under 35 split 65%/22% and those aged 55+ split 42%/52%. People with higher education were more likely to think climate change is happening and is caused by human activity – those with university degrees split 66%/24%.
Carbon Tax, climate change, direct action plan, emissions trading scheme
Q. Which of the following actions on climate change do you most support?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other |
|
Oct 13 |
|
| Keeping the carbon tax |
17% |
27% |
6% |
29% |
19% |
15% |
||
| Replacing the carbon tax with an emissions trading scheme |
22% |
30% |
14% |
35% |
19% |
21% |
||
| Replacing the carbon tax with the Liberal’s “direct action” plan |
12% |
4% |
23% |
4% |
13% |
15% |
||
| Dumping the carbon tax and not replacing it at all |
30% |
19% |
44% |
9% |
35% |
31% |
||
| Don’t know |
19% |
20% |
13% |
23% |
15% |
18% |
30% think the carbon tax should be dumped and not replaced, 22% support replacing it with an emissions trading scheme, 12% prefer the Liberal’s “direct action” plan and 17% think the Government should keep the carbon tax. These figures have changed little since this question was asked in October.
Those most likely to support keeping the tax or changing to an emissions trading scheme were Labor voters (57%) and Greens voters (64%) and those with a university education (51%).
Those most likely to think the carbon tax should be dumped and not replaced were Liberal/National voters (44%) and those who had not completed secondary education (43%). Only 23% of Liberal/National voters preferred the Liberal’s “direct action” plan (down from 28% in October).