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  • Dec, 2014

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    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.

  • Mar, 2013

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    Approval of Christine Milne

    Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the job Christine Milne is doing as leader of the Greens?

     

    7 Nov 12

    Total

    4 Mar 13

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

    Total approve

    20%

    22%

    26%

    16%

    67%

    Total disapprove

    33%

    29%

    25%

    41%

    6%

    Strongly approve

    2%

    3%

    4%

    1%

    16%

    Approve

    18%

    19%

    22%

    15%

    51%

    Disapprove

    18%

    14%

    14%

    18%

    4%

    Strongly disapprove

    15%

    15%

    11%

    23%

    2%

    Don’t know

    47%

    48%

    50%

    44%

    27%

    22% approve of the job Christine Milne is doing as leader of the Greens and 29% disapprove – nearly half could not give an opinion. This is an improvement since November – from net -13 to -7.

    Among Greens voters 67% (down 4%) approve and 6% (up 1%) disapprove.

  • Nov, 2012

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    Approval of Christine Milne

    Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the job Christine Milne is doing as leader of the Greens?

     

    Total

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

    Total approve

    20%

    28%

    10%

    71%

    Total disapprove

    33%

    24%

    49%

    5%

    Strongly approve

    2%

    3%

    1%

    8%

    Approve

    18%

    25%

    9%

    63%

    Disapprove

    18%

    18%

    22%

    5%

    Strongly disapprove

    15%

    6%

    27%

    Don’t know

    47%

    48%

    42%

    24%

    20% approve of the job Christine Milne is doing as leader of the Greens and 33% disapprove – nearly half could not give an opinion.

    Among Greens voters 71% approve and 5% disapprove. 27% of respondents aged under 35 approve compared to 17% of those aged 55+.

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