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Federal Government response to Covid-19

Nov 17, 2020
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Q. Overall, how would you rate the Federal Government’s response to the Covid-19 outbreak?

  16/11 02/11 05/10 21/09 07/09 24/08 10/08 27/07 13/07 22/06 15/06 08/06
Very poor 5% 5% 5% 5% 8% 6% 7% 6% 6% 4% 3% 4%
Quite poor 9% 10% 12% 13% 12% 11% 8% 11% 10% 8% 8% 8%
Neither good, nor poor 18% 24% 22% 21% 22% 22% 21% 20% 20% 17% 16% 18%
Quite good 41% 39% 39% 40% 40% 40% 40% 40% 40% 43% 42% 40%
Very good 26% 22% 21% 21% 18% 22% 24% 24% 24% 27% 30% 30%
TOTAL: Poor 15% 15% 18% 18% 19% 17% 16% 16% 16% 12% 11% 12%
TOTAL: Good 67% 61% 60% 61% 59% 61% 63% 64% 64% 71% 72% 70%
Base (n) 1,010 1,063 1,066 1,081 1,076 1,068 1,010 1,058 1,054 1,079 1,087 1,073
  • Rating of the Federal Government’s handling of Covid-19 has improved, with 67% rating it very or quite good (up from 61% earlier in the month).

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