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  • Jan, 2014

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    Better Prime Minister

    Q. Who do you think would make the better Prime Minister out of Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten?

     

    Total

     

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

    Vote other/

    indep-endent

     

    22 Oct

    12 Nov

    10 Dec

    Tony Abbott

    42%

    11%

    84%

    7%

    28%

    41%

    42%

    43%

    Bill Shorten

    31%

    62%

    3%

    56%

    25%

    22%

    27%

    33%

    Don’t know

    27%

    27%

    12%

    37%

    48%

    37%

    31%

    24%

    42%  (down 1%) think Tony Abbott would make the better Prime Minister and 31% (down 2%) favour Bill Shorten. 27% (up 3%) could not make a choice.

    Tony Abbott is favoured 49%/30% among men and 36%/31% among women.

  • Dec, 2013

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    Approval of Bill Shorten

    Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the job Bill Shorten is doing as Opposition Leader?

     

    Total

     

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

    Vote other/ Indep-endent

     

    12 Nov

    Total approve

    39%

     

    66%

    22%

    49%

    24%

    31%

    Total disapprove

    31%

     

    10%

    49%

    20%

    44%

    27%

    Strongly approve

    7%

    17%

    1%

    7%

    1%

    5%

    Approve

    32%

    49%

    21%

    42%

    23%

    26%

    Disapprove

    19%

    9%

    26%

    15%

    27%

    17%

    Strongly disapprove

    12%

    1%

    23%

    5%

    17%

    10%

    Don’t know

    31%

    24%

    29%

    31%

    32%

    43%

    39% approve (up 8%) of the job Bill Shorten is doing as Opposition Leader and 31% (up 4%) disapprove. 31% could not give an opinion. This represents an improvement on his rating as Prime Minister over the last four weeks from net +4 to net +8.

    By gender – 40% (up 6%) of men approve and 35% (up 2%) disapprove; 36% (up 9%) of women approve and 27% (up 6%) disapprove.

  • Dec, 2013

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    Better Prime Minister

    Q. Who do you think would make the better Prime Minister out of Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten?

     

    Total

     

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

    Vote other/

    indep-endent

     

    22 Oct

    12 Nov

    Tony Abbott

    43%

    7%

    86%

    4%

    42%

    41%

    42%

    Bill Shorten

    33%

    68%

    4%

    62%

    20%

    22%

    27%

    Don’t know

    24%

    24%

    10%

    34%

    38%

    37%

    31%

    43%  (up 1%) think Tony Abbott would make the better Prime Minister and 33% (up 6%) favour Bill Shorten. 24% (down 7%) could not make a choice.

    Tony Abbott is favoured 48%/31% among men and 38%/35% among women.

  • Oct, 2013

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    Leader Attributes – Bill Shorten

    Q. Which of the following describe your opinion of the Opposition Leader, Bill Shorten?

     

    Total

    Intelligent

    69%

    Hard working

    65%

    Understands the problems facing Australia

    50%

    A capable leader

    49%

    Out of touch with ordinary people

    42%

    Good in a crisis

    40%

    Superficial

    37%

    Arrogant

    35%

    Trustworthy

    34%

    Visionary

    33%

    Narrow-minded

    31%

    Aggressive

    31%

    Erratic

    30%

    Intolerant

    30%

    More honest than most politicians

    27%

    Bill Shorten’s key attributes were intelligent (69%), hard working (65%), understands the problems facing Australia (50%) and a capable leader (49%).

     

  • Oct, 2013

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    Leader Attributes – Comparisons

     

    Abbott

    Shorten

     

    Difference

    Narrow-minded

    54%

    31%

    +23

    Arrogant

    54%

    35%

    +19

    Intolerant

    49%

    30%

    +19

    Aggressive

    46%

    31%

    +15

    Erratic

    43%

    30%

    +13

    Superficial

    49%

    37%

    +12

    More honest than most politicians

    39%

    27%

    +12

    Out of touch with ordinary people

    51%

    42%

    +9

    Trustworthy

    40%

    34%

    +6

    Good in a crisis

    45%

    40%

    +5

    A capable leader

    52%

    49%

    +3

    Hard-working

    67%

    65%

    +2

    Understands the problems facing Australia

    51%

    50%

    +1

    Visionary

    33%

    33%

    Intelligent

    62%

    69%

    -7

    Compared to Bill Shorten, Tony Abbott is much more likely to be considered narrow minded (+23), arrogant (+19), intolerant (+19), aggressive (+15) and erratic (+13).

    Bill Shorten is regarded by more respondents to be intelligent (-7).

    Note that Bill Shorten’s ratings are mostly lower than those of Tony Abbott on both positive and negative attributes – presumably because he is less well known.

  • Sep, 2013

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    Better Prime Minister

    Q. Who do you think would make the better Prime Minister out of Tony Abbott and Anthony Albanese?

    Q. Who do you think would make the better Prime Minister out of Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten?

     

    Total

     

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

    Tony Abbott

    37%

    7%

    74%

    11%

    Anthony Albanese

    31%

    58%

    5%

    51%

    Don’t know

    33%

    35%

    21%

    38%

    Tony Abbott

    37%

    7%

    75%

    2%

    Bill Shorten

    32%

    58%

    6%

    55%

    Don’t know

    32%

    35%

    19%

    43%

    Tony Abbott is preferred to Anthony Albanese as Prime Minister by 37% to 31% and to Bill Shorten by 37% to 32%.

    Among Labor voters both Bill Shorten and Anthony Albanese are preferred 58% to 7%.

    In comparison, immediately after the 2010 election Julia Gillard was preferred over Tony Abbott by 47% to 35%.

  • Apr, 2012

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    Best Leader of the Labor Party

    Q. Which of the following do you think would make the best leader of the Labor Party?

     

    30 May 2011

    Total

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

    Julia Gillard

    23%

    16%

    40%

    4%

    21%

    Kevin Rudd

    32%

    31%

    33%

    32%

    32%

    Wayne Swan

    2%

    4%

    6%

    4%

    5%

    Greg Combet

    4%

    2%

    1%

    2%

    2%

    Bill Shorten

    3%

    6%

    8%

    5%

    3%

    Someone else

    19%

    23%

    6%

    33%

    18%

    Don’t know

    17%

    17%

    6%

    19%

    19%

    33% think Kevin Rudd would make the best leader of the Labor Party and 16% prefer Julia Gillard. This represents  declines of 1% for Kevin Rudd and 7% for Julia Gillard since this question was asked nearly 12 months ago. Those selecting “someone else” has increased from 19% to 23%.

    Julia Gillard is preferred by 40% of Labor voters compared to 33% for Kevin Rudd. Men prefer Kevin Rudd over Julia Gillard 33% to 16% and women by 28% to 17%.

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  • Aug, 2011

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    Preferred Leader of the Labor Party

    Q. If you were able to choose any politician to be leader of the Labor Party, which of the following would you prefer? (This question was commissioned by Network Ten).

    Total Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Men Women Age

    18-34

    Aged

    35-54

    Aged 55+
    Kevin Rudd 37% 43% 36% 35% 40% 33% 40% 39% 30%
    Julia Gillard 12% 31% 2% 24% 10% 13% 12% 12% 12%
    Malcolm Turnbull 11% 6% 17% 7% 12% 10% 10% 9% 15%
    Stephen Smith 7% 6% 9% 2% 7% 6% 3% 6% 12%
    Bob Brown 3% 2% 2% 11% 3% 3% 2% 3% 4%
    Greg Combet 2% 2% 1% 2% 3% 2% 2% 1% 3%
    Bill Shorten 1% 1% 2% 1% 2% 1% 1% 2% 2%
    Don’t know 28% 9% 32% 18% 22% 33% 31% 28% 22%

    37% of respondents prefer Kevin Rudd as leader of the Labor Party, 12% prefer Julia Gillard and 11% Malcolm Turnbull.

    Among Labor voters, 43% prefer Kevin Rudd and 31% Julia Gillard.

    Kevin Rudd is more preferred by younger respondents while those aged 55+ were more likely than the average to prefer Malcolm Turnbull (15%) and Stephen Smith (12%).

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