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Scott Morrison

15 Jan 2019

Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the job Scott Morrison is doing as Prime Minister?

  Total   Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote other   Dec 2018 Nov 2018 Oct

2018

Sep

2018

Total approve 43%   24% 77% 24% 36%   42% 41% 43% 37%
Total disapprove 39%   62% 13% 53% 49%   34% 37% 28% 31%
Strongly approve 9%   5% 19% 3% 3%   10% 10% 10% 9%
Approve 34%   19% 58% 22% 33%   32% 31% 33% 28%
Disapprove 25%   38% 11% 35% 32%   19% 21% 17% 17%
Strongly disapprove 14%   24% 2% 19% 17%   15% 16% 11% 14%
Don’t know 18%   14% 10% 22% 15%   24% 23% 28% 33%

43% approved of the job Scott Morrison is doing as Prime Minister (up 1%pt from last month) and 39% disapproved (up 5%pts from 34% in December). Just under a fifth of people (18%) could not give an opinion of his leadership of the country.

77% (no change from Dec’18) of Liberal/National voters approved of the job Scott Morrison is doing, compared to 24% of ALP voters, 24% of Greens and 36% of other voters.

By gender, men were 47% approve/42% disapprove, and of women 38% approve/37% disapprove.

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