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Approval of Malcolm Turnbull

9 Feb 2016

Do you approve or disapprove of the job Malcolm Turnbull is doing as Prime Minister?

  Total   Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote other   Oct 2015 Nov 2015 Dec 2015 Jan 2016
Total approve 51%   36% 83% 33% 38%   47% 56% 56% 51%
Total disapprove 27%   43% 9% 46% 40%   17% 20% 23% 25%
Strongly approve 8%   3% 17% 8%   11% 12% 13% 9%
Approve 43%   33% 66% 33% 30%   36% 44% 43% 42%
Disapprove 18%   30% 7% 32% 20%   11% 14% 16% 16%
Strongly disapprove 9%   13% 2% 14% 20%   6% 6% 7% 9%
Don’t know 21%   20% 8% 21% 22%   35% 23% 21% 23%

51% (no change since last month) of respondents approve of the job Malcolm Turnbull is doing as Prime Minister and 27% (up 2%) disapprove – a net approval rating of +24 (down 2).

83% (up 7%) of Liberal/National voters approve of Malcolm Turnbull’s performance with 9% (down 1%) disapproving. 36% (down 6%) of Labor voters and 33% (up 1%) of Greens voters approve of Malcolm Turnbull’s performance.

By gender, men were 58% approve/28% disapprove and women 46% approve/27% disapprove.

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