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Leader attributes – Julia Gillard

Apr 2, 2013

Q. Which of the following describe your opinion of the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard?

	5 Jul 10	4 Oct 10	7 Feb 11	27 Jun 11	2 Apr 12	17 Sept 12	14 Jan 13	2 Apr 13	*Change*
Intelligent	87%	81%	75%	73%	61%	68%	72%	69%	-3%
Hard-working	89%	82%	76%	75%	65%	69%	72%	66%	-6%
Out of touch with ordinary people	35%	44%	50%	60%	65%	56%	53%	64%	+11%
Arrogant	37%	39%	44%	48%	53%	46%	47%	55%	+8%
Superficial			51%	52%	54%	46%	46%	55%	+9%
Narrow-minded	28%	35%	43%	46%	53%	46%	45%	55%	+10%
Aggressive	–	–	–	–	–	42%	46%	55%	+9%
Erratic	–	–	–	–	–	43%	40%	55%	+15%
Intolerant	–	–	–	–	–	37%	37%	49%	+12%
Good in a crisis	61%	46%	46%	41%	36%	43%	50%	44%	-6%
A capable leader	72%	59%	52%	42%	38%	43%	50%	37%	-13%
Understands the problems facing Australia	68%	55%	52%	44%	41%	43%	47%	37%	-10%
Visionary	48%	38%	30%	26%	25%	31%	29%	30%	+1%
More honest than most politicians	45%	37%	37%	29%	26%	31%	30%	27%	-3%
Trustworthy	49%	42%	40%	30%	25%	30%	32%	25%	-7%

Julia Gillard’s key attributes were intelligent (69%), hard-working (66%), out of touch with ordinary people (64%), arrogant (55%), superficial (55%), narrow-minded (55%), aggressive (55%) and erratic (55%). Almost all positive leader attributes for Gillard moved down and the negative attributes moved down from the last time the question was polled in January. The biggest shifts were for erratic (+15%), a capable leader (-13%), intolerant (+12), out of touch with ordinary people (+11%), narrow-minded (+10%) and understands the problems facing Australia (-10%).

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