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Approval of Tony Abbott

10 Dec 2013

Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the job Tony Abbott is doing as Prime Minister?

 

Total

 

Vote Labor

Vote Lib/Nat

Vote Greens

Vote other/

indep-endent

 

Tony Abbott as Opposition Leader

2 Sep

Tony Abbott as Prime Minister

24 Sep

22
Oct

12
Nov

Total approve

45%

 

10%

89%

9%

33%

 

40%

41%

46%

45%

Total disapprove

46%

 

84%

5%

85%

47%

 

49%

36%

35%

40%

Strongly approve

12%

3%

27%

3%

13%

14%

16%

14%

Approve

33%

7%

62%

9%

30%

27%

27%

30%

31%

Disapprove

20%

34%

5%

19%

23%

19%

13%

15%

19%

Strongly disapprove

26%

50%

*

66%

24%

30%

23%

20%

21%

Don’t know

9%

6%

6%

5%

15%

10%

23%

19%

16%

45% (no change) approve of the job Tony Abbott is doing as Prime Minister and 46% (up 6%) disapprove. This represents a decline on his rating as Prime Minister over the last four weeks from net +5 to net -1.

By gender – 50% (no change) of men approve and 43% (up 5%) disapprove; 41% (up 2%) of women approve and 49% (up 7%) disapprove.

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