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  • Feb, 2010

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    Approval of Environment Minister, Peter Garrett

    Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the job Peter Garrett is doing as Environment Minister?

      %
    Strongly approve 4%
    Approve 24%
    Disapprove 26%
    Strongly disapprove 30%
    Don’t know 16%
    Total approve 28%
    Total disapprove 56%

     Just over half (56%) of those surveyed disapprove of the job Peter Garrett is doing as Environment Minister, 28% approve and 16% don’t know.

    This gives Peter Garrett an approval rating of -28%.  

     Results followed party lines – Labor voters were more likely to approve (47%), while Coalition voters were more likely to disapprove (84%).  37% of Labor voters disapprove of the job Garrett is doing as Environment Minister. 

     Green voters were reasonably split in terms of their level of approval of the Environment Minister – 42% approve and 46% disapprove of the job Garrett is doing. 

     People aged 65 years and over were more likely to disapprove (82%) while those aged 35 – 44 were more likely to approve (35%). 

     We asked a similar question in June 2008 asking people to rate the performance of Peter Garrett – 32% rated his performance as very good/good and 47% rated it as very poor/poor. Comments »

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