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 Report
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’re happy to ban social media, indifferent on health reforms
More people support a ban on social media during times of unrest than oppose one — but it depends on usage. And on health … voters seem uninterested in the recent reform package.
Essential: voters prefer Coalition if there’s another GFC
Voters prefer the Coalition if there’s another GFC, and they’re convinced there’s a surge of asylum seekers coming to Australia.
Essential: opposition to Malaysian Solution grows
Opposition to the Malaysian Solution has spiked, and Labor’s carbon pricing campaign isn’t working.
Measuring the gap in trust in Australia’s media
There has been a marked collapse in trust in Australian media outlets, increasing the distance between the ABC and the rest.
Essential: trust in media slumps following phone hacking
Trust in commercial media outlets has slumped in the wake of the phonehacking scandal, Essential has found.
Everyone (nearly) hates the carbon pricing scheme
Only younger and lower-income voters are even faintly attracted to the government’s carbon pricing package.
Essential: voters convinced carbon pricing will hurt them
Things aren’t looking much better for Labor after its carbon pricing announcement: voters believe the scheme will be bad for them and won’t work.
Essential: Gillard under the hammer, support for a carbon price down
Julia Gillard’s support has collapsed among voters and she now trails Tony Abbott as preferred Prime Minister.
Essential: we trust Negus and Oakes, but who’s Andrew Bolt?
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We trust Laurie Oakes and George Negus to bring us the news. But not Alan Jones and Andrew Bolt, an Essential Research poll found.