Performance of politicians
Q. How would you rate the performance of the following people over the last 12 months?
Total good |
Total poor |
Net rating |
|
Very good |
Good |
Neither good nor poor |
Poor |
Very poor |
Don’t know |
|
Tony Abbott – Prime Minister |
27% |
49% |
-22 |
8% |
19% |
17% |
16% |
33% |
7% |
|
Bill Shorten – Opposition leader |
26% |
31% |
-5 |
7% |
19% |
30% |
17% |
14% |
13% |
|
Joe Hockey – Treasurer |
22% |
46% |
-24 |
5% |
17% |
23% |
16% |
30% |
10% |
|
Clive Palmer – leader of PUP |
9% |
59% |
-50 |
2% |
7% |
22% |
21% |
38% |
11% |
|
Christine Milne – leader of the Greens |
16% |
39% |
-23 |
4% |
12% |
27% |
14% |
25% |
19% |
|
Julie Bishop – Foreign Minister |
47% |
19% |
+28 |
23% |
24% |
22% |
9% |
10% |
12% |
The Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop was the only politician measured with a positive rating – 47% rated her performance as good and 19% poor. Bill Shorten was the best of the others with a net rating of -5. Clive Palmer’s performance was rated very poorly (-50) while Tony Abbott, Joe Hockey and Christine Milne received similar net ratings.
Tony Abbott received a net rating of +50 from Liberal/National voters, Bill Shorten scored +42 with Labor voters and Christine Milne scored +36 with Greens voters.
Among Liberal/National voters Julie Bishop’s net rating was +61 and Joe Hockey’s +35.

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