Leadership Challenge, Liberal party Leadership
Q. This week the Liberal Party MPs rejected a motion to hold an election for leadership positions. Do you approve or disapprove of their decision?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote Other |
|
| Total approve |
40% |
21% |
71% |
22% |
37% |
|
| Total disapprove |
40% |
63% |
18% |
55% |
42% |
|
| Strongly approve |
16% |
8% |
33% |
5% |
11% |
|
| Approve |
24% |
13% |
38% |
17% |
26% |
|
| Disapprove |
22% |
30% |
13% |
32% |
22% |
|
| Strongly disapprove |
18% |
33% |
5% |
23% |
20% |
|
| Don’t know |
20% |
15% |
11% |
23% |
21% |
40% approve of the Liberal Party’s rejection of motion to spill the leadership positions and 40% disapprove.
71% of Liberal/National voters approve.
050312, 5 March 2012, ALP, Labor Government, Labor leadership, Labor Party, Labor voters, Leadership Challenge, Polling, polls, voters
Q. Do you think the recent leadership challenge has been good or bad for the Labor Government?
|
Total |
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
|
| Total good |
13% |
30% |
7% |
16% |
| Total bad |
62% |
39% |
80% |
50% |
| Very good |
4% |
10% |
2% |
4 |
| Good |
9% |
20% |
5% |
12% |
| Neither good nor bad |
18% |
26% |
12% |
28% |
| Bad |
24% |
25% |
22% |
28% |
| Very bad |
38% |
14% |
58% |
22% |
| Don’t know |
6% |
4% |
2% |
6% |
62% think that the recent leadership challenge was bad for the Labor Party and only 13% think it was good.
Labor voters were split – 39% think it was bad, 30% good and 26% neither good nor bad.
050312, 5 March 2012, ALP, Julia Gillard, kevin rudd, Labor Party, Leadership Challenge, party leadership, Polling, polls, the media, tony abbott
Q. How would you rate the performance of the following during the Labor leadership challenge?
|
Total good |
Total poor |
Very good |
Good |
Average |
Poor |
Very poor |
Don’t know |
|
| Julia Gillard |
23% |
49% |
10% |
13% |
24% |
17% |
32% |
4% |
| Kevin Rudd |
33% |
35% |
12% |
21% |
27% |
16% |
19% |
4% |
| Labor Party Ministers |
10% |
52% |
2% |
8% |
30% |
25% |
27% |
8% |
| Tony Abbott |
25% |
40% |
9% |
16% |
27% |
18% |
22% |
8% |
| The media |
14% |
43% |
3% |
11% |
35% |
20% |
23% |
6% |
Apart from Kevin Rudd, the performance of all parties to the leadership challenge were rated poorly.
33% thought the performance of Kevin Rudd was good and 35% poor. For Julia Gillard the rating was 23% good and 49% poor. Labor Party Ministers were rated most negatively – 10% good and 52% poor.
However, Julia Gillard was rated a little better than Kevin Rudd by Labor voters – their rating of Julia Gillard was 50% good/15% poor compared to 49% good/22% poor for Kevin Rudd.