The latest Essential Report from Essential Research as been released, which you can download and have a squiz at here. Not only were the usual vote estimates polled, but also the following questions:
Do you strongly approve, approve, disapprove or strongly disapprove of the job Kevin Rudd is doing as Prime Minister?
In Federal Parliament, the Liberals and Nationals work together as a coalition. Do you think the Liberal and National Parties should continue to work as a coalition, should they stand alone as two quite separate parties or should they merge into one party?
Australia faces some major future challenges such as climate change, managing the economy, improving health and education outcomes. Which political arrangement do you think would deliver the best outcomes for Australians?
The vote estimate charts for Essential Report this year look like this:
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::crickets::
Those qualitative questions are interesting… but they don’t really tell us much.
Big surprise: Labor voters think the Coalition should split, Coalition voters like the Coalition.
I don’t think the question about State and Federal government parties tells us anything. To me, it seems like it’s saying that Labor voters like Labor governments and Coalition voters like Coalition governments.
Is there any other value to be taken from those questions?
Going to be interesting to see the next lot of polls with the change to Malcolm Turnbull and the U.S. banking implosion.
I would expect a definite few percent bounce for Turnbull. What on earth would they do if it produced nothing!
If only you had 100% faith in my $10,000,000 rainmaking machine to solve the drought/climate change problems facing Australia…