Labor’s vote shows no signs of any recovery, today’s Essential Report finds.
Essential Report
Essential: we like our local BER, and Howard’s the best PM
Parents like the BER program and think it benefited their children’s school, today’s Essential Report finds.
Essential: strong support for manufacturing assistance and pokies reform
There’s strong support for mandatory pre-commitment from voters, and they also back handouts for the car industry.
Essential: for big retailers, price and service are a key problem
New Essential Report data backs what we know about the changes in Australian retail, but with an interesting age-related twist.
Essential Research: 54-46 to Coalition
The first Essential Research poll for the year has the two-party vote at the same place as the final poll last year, with the Coalition leading 54-46 two-party preferred, reports William Bowe.
Essential: warmer months but voters still cold on leaders
Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott both finish the Summer break with marginal improvements in their voter standing, but the political landscape is essentially unchanged.
Essential: Gillard will go, and Labor deserves no economic credit
Most voters believe Julia Gillard will lose the prime ministership within 12 months, with new polling recording more disapproval and predictions of doom for the Labor government.
Essential: trust in commercial media continues to fall
Trust in Australia’s commercial media continues to slump despite the industry’s insistence all is well.
Essential: both leaders end the year on the nose
Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott end the political year as deeply unpopular leaders, losing the faith of even more voters.
Essential: early election out, but Labor brand still toxic
There’s been a marked fall in support for an early election in the wake of the Gillard government shoring up its parliamentary numbers as the political year draws to a close.
Essential: delay the surplus and share the resources boom
Voters would prefer the return to surplus delayed, today’s Essential Report finds. And voters were underwhelmed with Tony Abbott’s performance during President Obam’s visit.
Essential: no to uranium exports to India, yes to mining tax
Voters back the mining tax but oppose uranium exports to India, today’s Essential Report shows. And voters are less concerned about a return to Workchoices.
Essential: the Gillard (semi) recovery edition
Julia Gillard has turned around her negative momentum with voters, but Tony Abbott continues to go the wrong way, today’s Essential Report finds.
Essential: Qantas divides voters, Fair Work Australia the only winner
Voters disapprove of Qantas management’s decision to ground its fleet, but don’t approve of the way anyone in the dispute conducted themselves except the industrial relations regulator, Essential Report has found.
Essential: divisions over Occupy, but we’re gunning for CSG
Voters support the concerns of the Occupy movement, but don’t support the protests themselves and are divided over whether police were justified in breaking them up, new polling shows.
Essential: meh on the republic, but fired up about Qantas
Voters blame Qantas management for its dispute with unions, today’s Essential Report finds. But support for a republic isn’t going anywhere.
Essential: we don’t like carbon tax any more now it’s passed
Opinion of the carbon tax has been little affected either by the government’s political success in negotiating it through the House of Representatives nor by the perceived unseemliness of the triumphalism that followed.
Essential: amid the economic gloom, Labor gets a primary boost
The latest weekly Essential Research survey offers more evidence of gloom about the economy, with 58% expecting conditions in Australia to worsen over the next 12 months. However, the pessimism is not quite as bad as first appears
Essential: Gillard a model of stability, Greens gain ground
For all the convulsions it has faced on the political front, in one respect the Gillard government has presented a model of stability in recent months: its opinion poll ratings, as measured by the weekly Essential Research report, have been set in stone since the middle of June.
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Essential: we’ll cop a carbon tax with compensation
The federal government has failed to sway those opposed to a carbon tax, though more than half of voters are prepared to support it with compensation for lower income households, new polling finds.
Essential: Gillard down again, but support for offshoring, pokies reform
Julia Gillard has hot a new low in today’s Essential Report. But there’s support for the government in asylum seeker processing and pokies.
Essential: Rudd preferred as crisis leader; election now, say voters
Kevin Rudd’s the preferred choice of voters in the event there’s another financial crisis. But more voters want an election held now.
Essential: surge in opposition to Afghan involvement, voters split on rallies
Opposition to our involvement in Afghanistan has hit new highs, today’s Essential Report finds.
Essential: we trust Negus and Oakes, but who’s Andrew Bolt?
Crikey / Jason Whittaker / Monday, 5 September 2011
We trust Laurie Oakes and George Negus to bring us the news. But not Alan Jones and Andrew Bolt, an Essential Research poll found.