Federal government response to Covid-19

Q. Overall, how would you rate the federal government’s response to the Covid-19 outbreak?

	19/07	05/07	07/06	24/05	12/04	15/03	01/03	15/02	01/02	30/11	16/11	02/11	05/10
Very poor	13%	12%	10%	6%	7%	5%	6%	5%	4%	6%	5%	5%	5%
Quite poor	19%	17%	14%	12%	10%	7%	8%	7%	11%	8%	9%	10%	12%
Neither good nor poor	23%	26%	22%	25%	21%	18%	24%	19%	19%	19%	18%	24%	22%
Quite good	32%	33%	38%	40%	40%	39%	39%	42%	42%	41%	41%	39%	39%
Very good	14%	11%	15%	18%	22%	31%	23%	27%	25%	26%	26%	22%	21%
TOTAL: Poor	31%	30%	24%	18%	17%	12%	14%	12%	14%	13%	15%	15%	18%
TOTAL: Good	46%	44%	53%	58%	62%	70%	62%	69%	67%	67%	67%	61%	60%
Base (n)	1,100	1,099	1,104	1,100	1,368	1,124	1,074	1,109	1,092	1,034	1,010	1,063	1,066

 

TOTAL: Good	19/07	05/07	07/06	24/05	12/04	15/03	01/03
NSW	49%	44%	62%	56%	66%	69%	64%
VIC	39%	40%	42%	57%	55%	65%	51%
QLD	46%	48%	54%	56%	63%	69%	66%
SA	51%	48%	58%	66%	62%	78%	68%
WA	51%	42%	49%	56%	65%	75%	66%

• 46% of people rate the federal government’s response to the Covid-19 outbreak as quite good or very good, with 31% rating it as poor.
• Since peaking at 70% in March, positive rating of the federal government’s handling of Covid-19 has dropped off, falling to 44% earlier this month, the lowest rating recorded to date for this question which was first asked in March 2020.
• Positive rating of the federal government’s handling of Covid-19 has improved in WA (up 9 percentage points to 51%), NSW (up 5 percentage points to 49%) and SA (up 3 percentage points to 48%).
• In Victoria, positive rating is now at 39%, down from 65% in March. This positive rating also continues to drop in QLD, now 46% (from 69% in March).