Newspoll state leaders and coronavirus polling

Persistent high ratings all round for state Premiers and the Prime Minister amid the coronavirus crisis, but signs the current Victorian outbreak may have cost Daniel Andrews some shine.

Courtesy of The Australian, Newspoll offers a repeat of an exercise conducted two months ago in which a large national sample is polled to produce state-level results on the popularity of premiers as well as the Prime Minister, both generally and in their dealings with the coronavirus. While the results are positive all round, they find Daniel Andrews falling from a top tier that continues to include Peter Gutwein, Mark McGowan and Steven Marshall, bringing him about level with Gladys Berejiklian but still clear of Annastacia Palaszczuk.

Andrews was down eight on approval to 67% and up ten on disapproval to 27%, while Berejiklian was down one to 68% and up three to 26%. Allowing for small sample sizes in the smaller states, Peter Gutwein took the lead (up six on approval to 90% and down three on disapproval to 8%) from Mark McGowan (down one to 88% and up three on 9%). Despite continuing to trail the pack, Palaszczuk recorded the best improvement with a four point increase in approval to 59% and a four point drop on disapproval to 35%.

However, Palaszczuk remains the only Premier with a weaker net approval rating in their state than Scott Morrison, who according to the poll has strengthened in Queensland (by five on approval to 72%, and down four on disapproval to 24%) but weakened everywhere else (approval down six to 61% and disapproval up five to 35% in New South Wales; down seven to 65% and up four to 30% in Victoria; down three to 67% and up two to 29% in South Australia; down three to 70% and up three to 26% in Western Australia; down four to 60% and up six to 37% in Tasmania).

Andrews’ deterioration on approval is more than matched on the question of handling of coronavirus, on which he now trails out of the Premiers with 72% for well (down 13 points) and 25% for badly (up 14). This pushes him behind Berejiklian (up two to 79% and down two to 16%), Palaszczuk (up four to 76% and down one to 22%) and Marshall (up five to 87% and down two to 9%). Still clear of the field are McGowan and Gutwein, who are tied at 93% well (down one for McGowan, up four for Gutwein) and 5% badly (up one and down three). Scott Morrison’s ratings on this score are little changed, and remarkably consistent from state to state — Queensland and South Australia are his best with 84% well and 14% poorly apiece, but his weakest result, in New South Wales, is still 79% well and 18% badly.

The poll was conducted from a national sample of 2949, ranging from 526 in Victoria to 309 in Tasmania.

Author: William Bowe

William Bowe is a Perth-based election analyst and occasional teacher of political science. His blog, The Poll Bludger, has existed in one form or another since 2004, and is one of the most heavily trafficked websites on Australian politics.

1,085 comments on “Newspoll state leaders and coronavirus polling”

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  4. Rex Douglas @ #847 Wednesday, July 1st, 2020 – 2:39 pm

    WeWantPaul @ #842 Wednesday, July 1st, 2020 – 4:36 pm

    Rex Douglas @ #831 Wednesday, July 1st, 2020 – 2:26 pm

    WeWantPaul @ #825 Wednesday, July 1st, 2020 – 4:19 pm

    lizzie @ #822 Wednesday, July 1st, 2020 – 2:13 pm

    Karvelas and Albo going toe to toe without mercy on 24.

    It is time they gave Pat an LNP senate seat for services above and beyond

    Not sure why you’d say that …?

    You can take the media personality out of sky, but you can never take the sky out of the media personality, nor make them anything like a journo.

    Now we can argue about better ways Albo may have handled the bushfire and the pandemic, and all the neocon shitfuckery Morrison has done, but you can’t argue that essentially he has been sidelined and made irrelevant to the national discourse pretty much the whole year. Albo just isn’t a factor in the byelection. It is a referendum on the Govt. Maybe the ‘rally to the flag’ that media personalities all across Australia’s useless broken stupid media establishment have been cheerleaders for, get the LNP across the line, maybe the voters aren’t complete morons and #ScottyfromMarketing takes a hit for being overseas and lying about it in a crisis and then being a partisan fool full of shitfuckery during a pandemic. But whatever happens Pat from Sky News’ line of abuse of the opposition leader is very in line with the way the Australian media think and work and just complete useless, worse than useless shitfuckery for Murdoch.

    I’ve seen PK tear apart hack politicians from all persuasions like no other political interviewer.

    Oh she is a lot smarter than PvO, Phil Coorey, any number of numpties in the media, if you are marking on a curve then she is top shelf. But an unbiased actual journalist, that does not make her.

  8. a r

    Just to be clear that comment is not mine. It was given by the Guardian reporter.

    The point being highlighted is Albanese goes on about the Liberals “playing politics” when it’s Labor here “playing politics” with its ad though Albanese tries to spin and deflect.

  9. Ewart’s back roads are lined with towns which are full of positive people putting a positive spin on doing lots of positive stuff.
    She gets herself to some unlikely places. I learn something new about Australia practically every episode and I feel a bit better about being an Aussie after every show.

  10. I was out at Windorah recently and the police officer manning the anti-horde roadblock said there were herds of the southerners just over the border raring to invade our pristine lands.

  13. Okay, so I’ve just been down to the good old reliable, Pensioner barometer, otherwise known as the shops at Woy Woy.

    I was shocked to see a LOT of people now wearing masks where they had not done so to any great degree previously. And EVERYONE who was going in to Coles to shop was availing themselves of the hand sanitiser and trolley wipes, young and old alike. Also, everywhere I went people were obeying the social distancing rules. Even the barber had 2 bottles of hand sanitiser on the counter, where previously he had had none after he was allowed to re-open.

    Long story, short. The ‘Second Wave’ that strictly isn’t, has gotten people spooked.

  14. Pegasus @ #858 Wednesday, July 1st, 2020 – 2:45 pm

    a r

    Just to be clear that comment is not mine. It was given by the Guardian reporter.

    The point being highlighted is Albanese goes on about the Liberals “playing politics” when it’s Labor here “playing politics” with its ad though Albanese tries to spin and deflect.

    I agree with this analysis, but the LNP has been doing it every single day for months, why / how do you justify marking the Premier of Qld, and then by association the Oppo leader, 1000x harder than the Prime Minister has been marked for the same thing. I gotta say I agree with the standard you are setting but its asymmetrical application is Trumpesque in its mindless corrupt shitfuckery.

  15. Apparently Kingscliff, which is a seaside town on the NSW North Coast, just south of the border, is beset by peeps who can’t get further norf. Restaurants, etc, are booming.
    You have to book to buy a cuppa coffee.

  16. boerwar

    I think she does an excellent job as she “speaks rural Australian” and doesn’t come over as a city type condescending to them. I don’t like her, but that’s my problem, not the program.

  17. An edited extract from Judith Brett’s Quarterly Essay 78, The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia’s Future.

    Coal cursed: The fossil-fuel lobby could not have created the climate wars so easily without the preceding culture wars

    https://www.themonthly.com.au/blog/judith-brett/2020/01/2020/1593562904/coal-cursed

    The fossil-fuel lobby has benefited greatly from the polarised politics of the last three decades. It is a moot point when this polarisation started. Some put it in 1975, with the ill will flowing from the Dismissal, but I think the current period of discord began when Keating was prime minister. Brilliant at invective, he sharpened up lines of division around race and Indigenous politics and Howard transformed these into the culture wars.

    When serious pressure began at the turn of the century for governments to reduce carbon emissions, many cultural warriors transformed smoothly into climate warriors. Although the issues were very different, the enemies were mostly the same, which for many politicians is what counts. The fossil-fuel lobby deliberately stoked the polarisation, fostered climate change denialism among Australia’s conservative political elites, and rewarded its political advocates with jobs. But it could not have created the climate wars so easily without the preceding culture wars.

  20. boerwar

    Apparently Kingscliff, which is a seaside town on the NSW North Coast, just south of the border, is beset by peeps who can’t get further norf.
    —————-
    It seems every other car here (just south of Kingscliff) has a big “A”on their windscreen which is a pass into Queensland. That’s an awful lot of exemptions.

  21. Davidwh

    I was out at Windorah recently and the police officer manning the anti-horde roadblock said there were herds of the southerners just over the border raring to invade our pristine lands.

    General Ripper warned us about those Victorians, they will “sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.”

  22. ‘lizzie says:
    Wednesday, July 1, 2020 at 4:51 pm

    boerwar

    I think she does an excellent job as she “speaks rural Australian” and doesn’t come over as a city type condescending to them. I don’t like her, but that’s my problem, not the program.’

    She is friendly, easy, positive. What’s not to like?

  24. But Windorah is 400 kms past the border!! Have they surrendered south Qld to the Hordes? It’s the Brisbane Line all over again.

  27. Ah well, I guess it’s more fun to engage in the culture wars.

    At least one person here concerned about the economy going to crap.

    Surprised Buce wasn’t available to blame the states, or at least tell us all how it’s a good thing.

  28. C@tmomma

    No a second wave? 7 day average for daily cases sure staring to make it look like one.
    9th June 6.29
    16th June 17.0
    23rd Jun 26.57
    30th June 64.71

  29. Rakali Windorah is the best place to stop those southerners trying to sneak in through the back door. The police said they had stopped numbers who were fed, fueled and sent back.

  30. And on a cheery note, though I admit I have no idea of the veracity of the “Global News”:

    “ Scientists are only starting to grasp the vast array of health problems caused by the novel coronavirus, some of which may have lingering effects on patients and health systems for years to come, according to doctors and infectious disease experts.

    Besides the respiratory issues that leave patients gasping for breath, the virus that causes COVID-19 attacks many organ systems, in some cases causing catastrophic damage.”

    https://globalnews.ca/news/7111094/coronavirus-scientists-health-problems/

  31. Davdwh

    “Rakali Windorah is the best place to stop those southerners trying to sneak in through the back door. The police said they had stopped numbers who were fed, fueled and sent back.“
    ———-
    Southerners are very pernicious, the sneaky bastards!

  32. poroti

    The original meaning of “second wave” was when the Spanish Flu changed its nature and returned with added force.

  34. Rakali @ #881 Wednesday, July 1st, 2020 – 3:07 pm

    Davdwh

    “Rakali Windorah is the best place to stop those southerners trying to sneak in through the back door. The police said they had stopped numbers who were fed, fueled and sent back.“
    ———-
    Southerners are very pernicious, the sneaky bastards!

    I was always taught, up there in Caboolture that the mexicans were problematic, but the real enemy was always the cockroaches.

  35. C@tmomma (Block)
    Wednesday, July 1st, 2020 – 4:52 pm – NEW!
    Comment #869

    Good afternoon to you. I hope you are recovering well after your recent trip to hospital.

    In answer to your question “no comment”.

  36. Thousands of robodebt victims will be kept waiting on refunds the federal government said it would start processing from 1 July, while those owed “larger” amounts after receiving an unlawful Centrelink debt will receive their money back in “instalments”.

    In a backdown announced in May, the government services minister, Stuart Robert, said Services Australia would pay “some 190,000 [people] from 1 July”, while the agency would seek to get in touch with the remainder of the 373,000 people it says are eligible for refunds.

    But in a statement published on Wednesday, Services Australia said only a “small number of refunds” would be made in “early July” to test the refund system, while “refunds will then be made from late July, with most expected to be paid by the end of November this year”.

    “Refunds will include repayment of any recovery fees and interest charges that we applied to your eligible debt,” the statement said. “If your refund is a larger amount, it will be paid in instalments.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/01/robodebt-victims-forced-to-wait-for-refunds-from-unlawful-centrelink-debts

  37. The CDC surrenders: COVID-19 spreading too rapidly to be brought under control

    And then there’s the United States……….where the COVID-19 epidemic is burning more brightly than ever before. ……. And it’s blazing at such a level that on Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that this fire can’t be brought under control. The United States simply has “too much virus” to contain.”

    https://dailysoundandfury.com/the-cdc-surrenders-covid-19-spreading-too-rapidly-to-be-brought-under-control/

  38. Rakali

    Did you get the missing word in the sentence “Scotland could eliminate the coronavirus – if it weren’t for……” ?
    https://www.newscientist.com/article/2247462-scotland-could-eliminate-the-coronavirus-if-it-werent-for-england/

    Have some brain damage with your corona …….
    .
    Stroke, delirium, anxiety, confusion, fatigue – the list goes on. If you think Covid-19 is just a respiratory disease, think again.

    As each week passes, it is becoming increasingly clear that coronavirus can trigger a huge range of neurological problems.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53081022

  40. lizzie

    The second wave is not a reference to the “lethality” of the virus but a resurgence in frequency. There was even third wave of the Spanish Flu and that was not as “lethal” as the second.

  41. poroti

    Rakali

    Did you get the missing word in the sentence “Scotland could eliminate the coronavirus – if it weren’t for……” ?
    ———-
    Yes, it’s increasing anger and frustration. Westminster will not allow the other nations to differ from the Westminster approach.

  44. A bit of mixed bag.
    good to see them being named.

    Government names institutions which did not sign up to National Redress Scheme for child sexual abuse victims
    …
    Six institutions, including the Jehovah’s Witnesses, have been publicly named by the Federal Government for failing to sign up to the National Redress Scheme for victims of institutional child sexual abuse.
    …
    The six institutions are Australian Air League, Boys’ Brigade NSW, Fairbridge Restored Limited, Lakes Entrance Pony Club, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Kenja Communications.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-01/government-names-shames-institutions-not-part-of-redress-scheme/12406850

  48. KayJay @ #885 Wednesday, July 1st, 2020 – 5:11 pm

    C@tmomma (Block)
    Wednesday, July 1st, 2020 – 4:52 pm – NEW!
    Comment #869

    Good afternoon to you. I hope you are recovering well after your recent trip to hospital.

    In answer to your question “no comment”.

    The soul of discretion as always, KayJay.

    As to your question, I am having my good days and my bad days. I am having to learn to live with eating a bland, no seeds, low roughage diet (from a family known for loving their spicy food this is the cruelest cut). I have also learned that I have to wait 3-6 months for my operation. My son, who also loves his mum’s spicy food is in virtual open revolt about this fact but is keeping it under his hat. 🙂

    Such is life. It goes on.

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