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Federal government response to Covid-19

Oct 26, 2021

Q. Overall, how would you rate the federal government’s response to the Covid-19 outbreak?

	25/10	11/10	27/09	13/09	30/08	16/08	02/08	19/07	05/07	07/06	24/05	12/04	15/03
Very poor	12%	12%	12%	16%	16%	13%	16%	13%	12%	10%	6%	7%	5%
Quite poor	19%	18%	18%	20%	20%	22%	19%	19%	17%	14%	12%	10%	7%
Neither good nor poor	24%	25%	25%	21%	24%	24%	28%	23%	26%	22%	25%	21%	18%
Quite good	32%	32%	34%	28%	29%	32%	28%	32%	33%	38%	40%	40%	39%
Very good	14%	13%	11%	15%	10%	9%	10%	14%	11%	15%	18%	22%	31%
TOTAL: Poor	31%	30%	30%	35%	36%	35%	35%	31%	30%	24%	18%	17%	12%
TOTAL: Good	46%	45%	45%	43%	39%	41%	38%	46%	44%	53%	58%	62%	70%
Base (n)	1,781	1,097	1,094	1,100	1,100	1,100	1,098	1,100	1,099	1,104	1,100	1,368	1,124

TOTAL: Good	25/10	11/10	27/09	13/09	30/08	16/08	02/08	19/07	05/07	07/06	24/05	12/04	15/03
NSW	50%	48%	48%	41%	34%	34%	39%	49%	44%	62%	56%	66%	69%
VIC	34%	37%	39%	39%	35%	37%	33%	39%	40%	42%	57%	55%	65%
QLD	46%	50%	44%	43%	45%	44%	40%	46%	48%	54%	56%	63%	69%
SA	52%	46%	42%	54%	48%	45%	48%	51%	48%	58%	66%	62%	78%
WA	46%	49%	48%	51%	51%	53%	37%	51%	42%	49%	56%	65%	75%

46% of people rate the federal government’s response to the Covid-19 outbreak as quite good or very good (similar to earlier this month), with 31% rating it as quite poor or very poor.
The only state to record an improvement in positive rating of the federal government’s handling of Covid-19 is South Australia (52% from 46% earlier in October).

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State Government response to Covid-19

Jun 16, 2020

Q. How would you rate your state government’s response to the Covid-19 outbreak?

	15/06	08/06	01/06	25/05	18/05	11/05	04/05	27/04	20/04
Very poor	4%	4%	6%	4%	3%	4%	4%	4%	5%
Quite poor	8%	7%	6%	7%	8%	8%	8%	9%	9%
Neither good, nor poor	17%	17%	20%	17%	17%	16%	18%	17%	20%
Quite good	38%	39%	38%	38%	39%	39%	38%	41%	39%
Very good	33%	32%	30%	35%	33%	34%	31%	30%	26%
TOTAL: Poor	12%	11%	12%	11%	11%	12%	12%	13%	14%
TOTAL: Good	71%	71%	68%	73%	72%	73%	70%	70%	66%
Base (n)	1,087	1,073	1,059	1,087	1,073	1,067	1,093	1,054	1,051

			State
	Total	NSW		VIC	QLD	SA	WA
Very poor	4%	4%		6%	6%	1%	3%
Quite poor	8%	9%		5%	12%	6%	4%
Neither good, nor poor	17%	22%		13%	15%	17%	17%
Quite good	38%	41%		39%	39%	40%	28%
Very good	33%	24%		36%	28%	36%	49%
TOTAL: Poor	12%	13%		11%	18%	7%	6%
TOTAL: Good	71%	65%		75%	67%	76%	77%
Base (n)	1,087	352		275	217	83	107

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State Government response to Covid-19

Apr 21, 2020

Q. How would you rate your state government’s response to the Covid-19 outbreak?

	20/04	13/04
Very poor	5%	5%
Quite poor	9%	11%
Neither good, nor poor	20%	20%
Quite good	39%	38%
Very good	26%	23%
NET: Poor	14%	17%
NET: Good	66%	63%
Base (n)	1,051	1,068

		State
	Total	NSW	VIC	QLD	SA	WA
Very poor	5%	5%	6%	3%	3%	4%
Quite poor	9%	12%	5%	11%	8%	7%
Neither good, nor poor	20%	21%	20%	23%	23%	12%
Quite good	39%	37%	38%	47%	43%	34%
Very good	26%	24%	32%	16%	23%	43%
NET: Poor	14%	17%	11%	14%	11%	11%
NET: Good	66%	61%	69%	63%	66%	77%
Base (n)	1,051	322	275	216	88	106

Nationally, the perception of state governments’ handling of the crisis in in line with government, with 66% rating their own state’s handling as Very/Quite good (compared to 65%).
In the past week the rating in Queensland has increased from 52% to 63%, while Victoria has fallen from 76% to 69%. Western Australia and Victoria remain the states with the highest rating.

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