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Bill Shorten

8 May 2018

Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the job Bill Shorten is doing as Opposition Leader?

  Total   Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote other   Apr 2018 Mar 2018 Dec 2017
Total Approve 37% 65% 25% 36% 13%   35% 37% 36%
Total Disapprove 41% 19% 60% 37% 67%   43% 44% 45%
Strongly approve 8% 17% 4% 5% 1% 6% 8% 7%
Approve 29% 48% 21% 31% 12% 29% 29% 29%
Disapprove 21% 16% 26% 29% 25% 22% 23% 23%
Strongly disapprove 20% 3% 34% 8% 42% 21% 21% 22%
Don’t know 23%   16% 14% 27% 19%   23% 19% 19%

 

65% (up 6%) of ALP voters approved of the job Bill Shorten is doing, compared to 36% of Greens voters and 25% of Liberal/National voters.37% approved of the job Bill Shorten is doing as Opposition Leader (up 2% from last month), and 41% disapproved (down 2%) – a change in net approval rating from -8 to -4.

By gender, men were 42% approve/43% disapprove and women 31% approve/39% disapprove.

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