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Essential Report – Equal lowest ever for the ALP

November 16, 2009 – 3:26 pm

The equal worst Essential Report for the ALP comes in with the primaries running 45 (down 3) /39 ( up 4) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 55/45 the same way – a 4 point gain to the Coalition. The Greens are on 9 (steady) while the broad “Others” are on [...]

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Essential Report – political approval and the economy

November 10, 2009 – 6:12 am

This week’s Essential Report has the primaries coming in 48 (down 1) /35 (steady) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 59/41 the same way – no change since last week. The Greens are on 9 (up 1) while the broad “Others” are sitting on 8 (steady). This comes from a two [...]

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Asylum Seeker Polling – Three Pollsters

November 9, 2009 – 9:00 am

Today we have some results on the public perception of asylum seeker policy issues from both Newspoll and Nielsen. When combined with last week’s Essential Report questions on the same issue, all three pollsters turn out to be pretty consistent with each other, only differing by amounts we’d expect from slightly different question wording. First [...]

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First big polling on Asylum Seeker issue

November 2, 2009 – 3:23 pm

This weeks Essential Report has the primaries running 49 (down 1) / 35 (down 1) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 59/41 the same way – steady since last week. The Greens are on 8 (steady), while the broad “Others” are up 1 to 8. The missing point is due to [...]

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Essential Report – Best to Manage Edition

October 27, 2009 – 6:16 am

This week’s Essential Report has the primaries running 50 (up 1) / 36 (down 1) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 59/41 the same way – a 1 point gain to the ALP since the last Essential Report. The Greens are on 8 (up 1) while the broad others are steady [...]

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Essential Report – GFC Management Edition

October 20, 2009 – 8:13 am

This week’s Essential Report comes in with the primaries running 49 (up 2)/ 37 (steady) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 58/42 the same way – no change since last week. Both the Greens and the broad “Others” are down 1 to 7 a piece. This comes from a rolling two [...]

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Essential Report – Annual Leave Edition

October 13, 2009 – 6:04 am

This week’s Essential Report has the primaries running 47 (down 3) /37 (up 2) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 58/42 the same way – a two point gain to the Coalition since last week. Both the Greens and the broad “Others” came in on 8% a piece – unchanged from [...]

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Opposition Leadership Polling

October 8, 2009 – 7:31 am

With the current Coalition leadership shenanigans dominating the media space today, it might be worth having a look at the recent history of Liberal Party leadership polling – especially since we’ll inevitably get a new round of such polling pretty soon.
We have two pollsters that have asked questions about the Liberal leadership recently, Essential Report [...]

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Essential Report – Kevin’s Foreign Affairs

October 6, 2009 – 8:01 am

This week’s Essential Report has the primaries running 50 (up 1) / 35 (down 1) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 60/40 the same way – a 1 point increase to the ALP since last weeks Essential. The Greens are on 8 (steady) while the broad “Others” are on 8 (up [...]

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Essential Report – Leaders Approval Strength

September 29, 2009 – 6:48 am

This week’s Essential Report has the primaries running 49 (up 1) /36 (down 1) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 59/41 the same way – a 1 point gain to the ALP. The Greens are on 8 (steady), while the broad “Others” come in with 7 (steady). This comes from a [...]