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  • Feb, 2019

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    Gender quotas

    Q. To what extent do you support or oppose political parties setting gender quotas when selecting candidates to achieve a representative number of women in parliament?

    Total Male Female Aged 18-34 Aged 35-54 Aged 55+
    NET: Support 46% 45% 48% 59% 44% 38%
    NET: Oppose 40% 44% 36% 29% 40% 49%
    Strongly support 18% 17% 19% 26% 14% 14%
    Somewhat support 29% 28% 29% 33% 30% 24%
    Somewhat oppose 20% 21% 19% 16% 19% 22%
    Strongly oppose 20% 23% 18% 12% 21% 26%
    Don’t know 14% 12% 16% 12% 16% 14%

    Just under one in five (18%) strongly support the introduction of gender quotas when selecting political candidates. Overall support was highest among 18-34 years olds (59%).

    Total Labor Liberal + National Greens NET: Other
    NET: Support 46% 59% 37% 65% 32%
    NET: Oppose 40% 30% 50% 22% 52%
    Strongly support 18% 24% 13% 27% 11%
    Somewhat support 29% 36% 24% 38% 22%
    Somewhat oppose 20% 17% 22% 16% 25%
    Strongly oppose 20% 14% 29% 6% 28%
    Don’t know 14% 10% 12% 13% 15%

    Support for gender quotas was highest among Greens voters (65%), followed by Labor (59%). Under half of Coalition voters (37%) were in support.

  • Feb, 2019

    Australia Day

    Q. Will you personally be doing anything to celebrate Australia Day or do you treat it as just a public holiday?

    Total Aged 18-34 Aged 35-54 Aged 55+ Jan ‘17 Jan ‘16 Jan ‘15
    Doing something to celebrate Australia Day 40% 45% 38% 38% 34% 38% 40%
    Just a public holiday 45% 43% 49% 44% 46% 44% 41%
    Working – I don’t get the Australia Day holiday 6% 7% 5% 5% 5% 6% 7%
    Don’t know 9% 5% 8% 13% 15% 12% 12%

    40% said they will be doing something to celebrate Australia Day, 45% treat Australia Day as just a public holiday and 6% are working because they don’t get the Australia Day holiday.

    People aged 18-34 were most likely to be engaging in specific celebrations to mark the National Day (45%).

  • Feb, 2019

    National day

    Q. It has been suggested that Australia should have a separate national day to recognise Indigenous Australians. Do you…?   

    Total Labor Liberal + National Greens NET: Other Oct ‘18
    Support a separate day and keep Australia Day 37% 43% 36% 41% 28% 36%
    Support a separate day to replace Australia Day 15% 18% 11% 34% 9% 14%
    NET: Support a separate day 52% 61% 46% 74% 38% 50%
    Do not support a separate day 40% 30% 49% 21% 58% 37%
    Don’t know 8% 9% 5% 3% 5% 12%

    Support for a separate day to recognise Indigenous Australians (either in place, or alongside Australia Day) has increased 2%pts from Oct ’18, from 50% to 52%.

    37% support including a separate national day with a further 15% supporting a replacement of Australia Day.

    Support for a separate day was highest among Greens (74%) and Labor (61%) voters.

    Total Aged 18-34 Aged 35-54 Aged 55+
    Support a separate day and keep Australia Day 38% 51% 37% 26%
    Support a separate day to replace Australia Day 15% 21% 17% 9%
    NET: Support a separate day 52% 72% 54% 35%
    Do not support a separate day 40% 21% 36% 59%
    Don’t know 8% 7% 10% 6%

    Support for a separate day was highest among those aged 18-34, with 72% support. This dropped to 54% support among 35-54 year olds and 35% among those aged over 55.

  • Feb, 2019

    Australian values

    Q. Which of the following values and characteristics, which would you describe as ‘Uniquely Australian’, ‘Australian, but shared with other countries’ or ‘Not Australian’?

      Uniquely Australian Australian, but shared with other countries NET: Australian value Not Australian
    Mateship

    Offering help to each other in times of need

    52% 45% 97% 3%
    Larrikinism

    We have a sense of humour and don’t take authority too seriously

    64% 29% 93% 7%
    ‘Fair-go’

    People are judged on their merits and everyone has a chance to succeed

    46% 47% 93% 7%
    Education

    Learning and self-improvement should be available to everyone

    21% 72% 93% 7%
    Freedom of speech

    People can say what they what, how they want to

    25% 67% 92% 8%
    Democracy

    The political system provides safety to live peacefully

    21% 71% 92% 8%
    Hard-working

    Individual commitment and dedication is rewarded

    25% 66% 91% 9%
    Tradition

    Care for the land, its wildlife and respect for Indigenous peoples

    32% 58% 90% 10%
    Innovation

    Being creative, modern and moving with the times

    19% 71% 90% 10%
    Fairness

    Everyone is treated equally, regardless of background

    26% 63% 89% 11%

    While over half of 18-34 years olds believe Larrikinism is a uniquely Australian characteristic (55%), it is lower than those aged 55+ (70%).

      Total

    (Uniquely Australian)

    18-34 35-54 55+
    Larrikinism 64% 55% 65% 70%
    Mateship 52% 50% 49% 55%
    ‘Fair-go’ 46% 42% 45% 50%
    Tradition 32% 33% 31% 33%
    Fairness 26% 28% 24% 27%
    Freedom of speech 25% 26% 21% 28%
    Hard-working 25% 29% 21% 25%
    Education 21% 24% 18% 22%
    Democracy 21% 26% 17% 21%
    Innovation 19% 23% 16% 20%

    While over half of 18-34 years olds believe Larrikinism is a uniquely Australian characteristic (55%), it is lower than those aged 55+ (70%).

  • Feb, 2019

    Preferred election results

    Q. Which party do you think each of the following groups would prefer to win the next federal election in 2019?

      Labor Liberal/National Coalition Don’t know
    Big business 13% 63% 24%
    Mining companies 17% 54% 29%
    Major banks 14% 54% 31%
    Private health insurance companies 16% 50% 34%
    Small business owners 29% 43% 27%
    Farmers 30% 39% 31%
    The media 25% 32% 43%
    Pensioners 42% 28% 30%
    People with a disability 44% 22% 34%
    Families with young children 50% 21% 30%
    People who are unemployed 55% 16% 30%

    The majority of people believe big businesses (63%), mining companies (54%), major banks (54%) and private health insurers (50%) would prefer to see a Coalition victory at the next election, whereas they believe families with young children (50%) and those who are unemployed (55%) would welcome a Labor triumph.

  • Jan, 2019

    Federal voting intention

    Q. 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   3 weeks ago 5 weeks ago   Election
    18/12/18 04/12/18 02/07/16
    Liberal 34% 34% 34%
    National 4% 3% 4%
    Total Liberal/National 38%   37% 38%   42.0%
    Labor 38%   36% 36%   34.7%
    Greens 10% 11% 11% 10.2%
    Pauline Hanson’s One Nation 7% 7% 7%
    Other/Independent 8% 9% 9% 13.1%
    2 party preferred
    Liberal/National 47%   47% 47%   50.4%
    Labor 53%   53% 53%   49.6%
    1. 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 2016 election.
  • Jan, 2019

    Scott Morrison

    Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the job Scott Morrison is doing as Prime Minister?

      Total   Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote other   Dec 2018 Nov 2018 Oct

    2018

    Sep

    2018

    Total approve 43%   24% 77% 24% 36%   42% 41% 43% 37%
    Total disapprove 39%   62% 13% 53% 49%   34% 37% 28% 31%
    Strongly approve 9%   5% 19% 3% 3%   10% 10% 10% 9%
    Approve 34%   19% 58% 22% 33%   32% 31% 33% 28%
    Disapprove 25%   38% 11% 35% 32%   19% 21% 17% 17%
    Strongly disapprove 14%   24% 2% 19% 17%   15% 16% 11% 14%
    Don’t know 18%   14% 10% 22% 15%   24% 23% 28% 33%

    43% approved of the job Scott Morrison is doing as Prime Minister (up 1%pt from last month) and 39% disapproved (up 5%pts from 34% in December). Just under a fifth of people (18%) could not give an opinion of his leadership of the country.

    77% (no change from Dec’18) of Liberal/National voters approved of the job Scott Morrison is doing, compared to 24% of ALP voters, 24% of Greens and 36% of other voters.

    By gender, men were 47% approve/42% disapprove, and of women 38% approve/37% disapprove.

  • Jan, 2019

    Bill Shorten

    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 Dec 2018 Nov 2018 Oct 2018 Sep 2018 Jun 2018 Mar 2018
    Total approve 35% 66% 22% 29% 15% 35%      38% 33% 35% 33% 37%
    Total disapprove 47% 21% 68% 41% 73% 43%      44% 45% 43% 46% 44%
    Strongly approve 8% 20% 4% 5% 1% 8% 8% 8% 8% 6% 8%
    Approve 27% 47% 19% 25% 14% 27% 30% 25% 27% 27% 29%
    Disapprove 25% 17% 30% 30% 36% 21% 24% 23% 21% 23% 23%
    Strongly disapprove 21% 4% 38% 11% 37% 22% 20% 22% 22% 23% 21%
    Don’t know 18% 13% 10% 30% 12% 22% 18% 23% 22% 21% 19%

    35% approved of the job Bill Shorten is doing as Opposition Leader (no change from last month), and 47% disapproved (up 4%pts from 43%).

    66% of ALP voters approved of the job Bill Shorten is doing, compared to 29% of Greens voters and 122 of Liberal/National voters.

    By gender, men were 42% approve/46% disapprove and women 29% approve/47% disapprove. Bill Shorten has positive approval among 18-34 year olds, with 41% approving and 34% disapproving. However 57% of those aged over 55 disapprove of his performance as opposition leader, with just 34% approving.

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