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State Government response to Covid-19

Jun 16, 2020
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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
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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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