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Government response to Covid-19

14 Jul 2020

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

  13/07 22/06 15/06 08/06 01/06 25/05 18/05 11/05 04/05 27/04
Very poor 6% 4% 3% 4% 5% 4% 3% 4% 4% 4%
Quite poor 10% 8% 8% 8% 7% 6% 7% 9% 9% 9%
Neither good, nor poor 20% 17% 16% 18% 20% 16% 17% 16% 20% 17%
Quite good 40% 43% 42% 40% 39% 43% 41% 39% 38% 44%
Very good 24% 27% 30% 30% 28% 30% 32% 32% 28% 26%
TOTAL: Poor 16% 12% 11% 12% 12% 11% 11% 13% 14% 13%
TOTAL: Good 64% 71% 72% 70% 68% 73% 73% 71% 66% 70%
Base (n) 1,054 1,079 1,087 1,073 1,059 1,087 1,073 1,067 1,093 1,054

 

  • Rating of the Federal Government’s handling of the crisis has declined from last month. 64% now rate the Governments response as good (Very good or quite good), down from 71% in June.
  • Victoria has the lowest rating (60% rated very/quite good, down from 70% in June). 
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