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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.

  • Jul, 2014

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    Approval of Government Ministers

    Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the job the following people are doing as Government Ministers? 

     

    Total approve

    Total dis-approve

    Net score

    Strongly approve

    Approve

    Dis-approve

    Strongly dis-approve

    Don’t know

    Malcolm Turnbull – Communications

    44%

    31%

    +13

    8%

    36%

    18%

    13%

    25%

    Julie Bishop – Foreign Affairs

    41%

    38%

    +3

    12%

    29%

    18%

    20%

    22%

    George Brandis – Attorney General

    33%

    31%

    +2

    7%

    26%

    15%

    16%

    36%

    Scott Morrison – Immigration and Border Protection

    38%

    39%

    -1

    14%

    24%

    17%

    22%

    24%

    Greg Hunt – Environment

    28%

    39%

    -11

    5%

    23%

    18%

    21%

    34%

    Joe Hockey – Treasurer

    36%

    48%

    -12

    10%

    26%

    21%

    27%

    15%

    Christopher Pyne – Education

    29%

    47%

    -18

    7%

    22%

    20%

    27%

    24%

    Malcolm Turnbull (+13) received the highest rating while Christopher Pyne (-18), Joe Hockey (-12) and Greg Hunt (-11) receive substantial negative ratings. Respondents were divided over the performance of Julie Bishop (+3), George Brandis (+2) and Scott Morrison (-1). 

    Liberal voters were most approving of Joe Hockey (78% approve), Julie Bishop (74%), Malcolm Turnbull (72%) and Scott Morrison (70%).

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  • Jul, 2013

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    Best leader of the Liberal Party

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

     

    Total

     

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

     

    23 Apr 12

    30 May 11

    28 Feb 11

    27 Sep 10

    Tony Abbott

    17%

    5%

    36%

    1%

    23%

    22%

    24%

    26%

    Malcolm Turnbull

    37%

    44%

    35%

    51%

    30%

    25%

    18%

    20%

    Joe Hockey

    10%

    9%

    13%

    9%

    14%

    17%

    16%

    15%

    Julie Bishop

    3%

    4%

    3%

    1%

    5%

    3%

    4%

    5%

    Andrew Robb

    *

    *

    *

    1%

    1%

    1%

    na

    Someone else

    12%

    20%

    3%

    13%

    12%

    13%

    14%

    na

    Don’t know

    19%

    19%

    9%

    24%

    16%

    19%

    22%

    33%

    37% (up 7% since April last year) think Malcolm Turnbull would make the best leader of the Liberal Party, 17% (down 6%) prefer Tony Abbott and 10% (down 4%) Joe Hockey.

    Among Liberal/National voters, 36% (-3%) prefer Tony Abbott, 35% (+9%) Malcolm Turnbull and 13% (-4%) Joe Hockey.

    Malcolm Turnbull is preferred by 39% of men and 36% of women, Tony Abbott by 21% of men and 14% of women.

  • May, 2011

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    Best Leader of the Liberal Party

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

    27 Sep 2010 28 Feb 2011 30 May 2011
    Total Total Total Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens
    Tony Abbott 26% 24% 22% 10% 40% 7%
    Malcolm Turnbull 20% 18% 25% 35% 19% 33%
    Joe Hockey 15% 16% 17% 13% 22% 18%
    Julie Bishop 5% 4% 3% 4% 2% 1%
    Andrew Robb na 1% 1% 1% 1% 1%
    Someone else na 14% 13% 17% 7% 16%
    Don’t know 33% 22% 19% 20% 8% 22%

    25% (+7%) think Malcolm Turnbull would make the best leader of the Liberal Party, 22% (-3%) prefer Tony Abbott and 17% (+1%) Joe Hockey.

    Among Liberal/National voters, 40% prefer Tony Abbott, 22% Joe Hockey and 19% Malcolm Turnbull.

    Malcolm Turnbull is preferred by 25% of men and 24% of women, Tony Abbott by 24% of men and 19% of women.

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  • Feb, 2011

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    Liberal party Leadership

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

    27 Sep 10 28 February 2011
    Total Total Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens
    Tony Abbott 26% 24% 9% 45% 1%
    Malcolm Turnbull 20% 18% 24% 16% 29%
    Joe Hockey 15% 16% 18% 17% 17%
    Julie Bishop 5% 4% 6% 2% 4%
    Andrew Robb na 1% 1% 1% 2%
    Someone else na 14% 18% 8% 27%
    Don’t know 33% 22% 23% 10% 20%

    24% of respondents believed that Tony Abbott is the best leader of the Liberal Party, 18% prefer Malcolm Turnbull and 16% Joe Hockey.

    Tony Abbott is preferred by 45% of Liberal/National voters while Malcolm Turnbull is preferred by Labor (24%) and Greens voters (29%).

    Tony Abbott is more preferred by men (30%) – women are split between Tony Abbott (19%) and Joe Hockey (19%). 23% of men prefer Malcolm Turnbull compared to 14% of women.

    These figures are little changed since the question was last asked in September 2010.

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  • Nov, 2010

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    Liberal Party Leadership

    Q. Which of the following do you think would be the best person to lead the Liberal Party at the next election?

      Total Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens
    Tony Abbott 23% 5% 50% 5%
    Malcolm Turnbull 22% 27% 19% 39%
    Joe Hockey 14% 15% 15% 12%
    Julie Bishop 6% 9% 5% 7%
    Andrew Robb 1% 1% 1%
    Someone else 15% 22% 3% 18%
    Don’t know 19% 21% 7% 19%

    23% think Tony Abbott would be the best person to lead the Liberal Party at the next election, 22% prefer Malcolm Turnbull and 14% Joe Hockey.

    Among Coalition voters, 50% prefer Tony Abbott, 19% Malcolm Turnbull and 15% Joe Hockey.

    Tony Abbott is preferred over Malcolm Turnbull by those aged under 45 22% to 19% but the over 45’s prefer Malcolm Turnbull over Tony Abbott 27% to 25%.

    A similar question (although not exactly the same) asked in September showed Tony Abbott with a 26% to 20% lead over Malcolm Turnbull overall and 53% to 15% among Coalition voters. Joe Hockey’s support was 15% in total and 17% among Liberal voters. Comments »

  • Sep, 2010

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    Best Leader of Liberal Party

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

    Total Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens


    Tony Abbott 26% 10% 53% 2%
    Malcolm Turnbull 20% 27% 15% 27%
    Joe Hockey 15% 15% 17% 17%
    Julie Bishop 5% 8% 2% 10%
    Don’t know 33% 41% 13% 44%

    26% of people believe that Tony Abbott is the best leader of the Liberal Party. 20% believe Malcolm Turnbull is the best leader of the Liberal Party. 33% don’t know.

    27% of Labor voters think that Malcolm Turnbull is the best leader of the Liberal Party. 53% of Lib/Nat voters think that Tony Abbott is the best leader of the Liberal Party. 44% of Green voters don’t know who the best leader of the Liberal Party is.

    28% of males, compared with 24% of females think that Tony Abbott is the best leader of the Liberal Party.

    42% of females don’t know who the best leader of the Liberal Party is.

    38% of those aged 18-24 don’t know who the best leader of the Liberal Party is. 39% of those aged 65+ think that Tony Abbott is the best leader of the Liberal Party.

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  • Nov, 2009

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    Preferred Liberal Party Leader

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

    6 July 09

    Total

    17 Aug 09

    Total

    30 November 2009
    Total Labor Coalition Greens
    Joe Hockey 17% 16% 22% 27% 28% 14%
    Malcolm Turnbull 13% 12% 14% 15% 20% 14%
    Tony Abbott 7% 7% 9% 8% 13% 3%
    Julie Bishop 8% 6% 6% 7% 5% 9%
    Andrew Robb * 2% 2% 2% 2% *
    Someone else 20% 24% 19% 19% 14% 27%
    Don’t know 32% 33% 28% 22% 18% 33%

    * Not asked. Brendan Nelson (3%) and Greg Hunt (1%) were included in the July poll.

    22% of people think Joe Hockey would make the best leader of the Liberal Party, 14% prefer Malcolm Turnbull and 9% prefer Tony Abbott. Just under half (47%) do not think that any of those listed would be the best leader of the Liberal Party – 19% prefer someone else as leader and 28% don’t know.

    28% of Coalition voters think that Joe Hockey would make the best leader of the Liberal party, 20% of these same voters prefer Malcolm Turnbull and 13% prefer Tony Abbott.  Labor voters were more likely to think that Joe Hockey would make the best leader (27%).

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