Essential Research: Morrison approval and gender issues

A new poll finds an unprecedented gender gap opening up on prime ministerial approval.

Essential Research has seized the day in its latest fortnightly survey with new personal ratings for Scott Morrison, in addition to its normal montly reading (together with Anthony Albanese’s and the preferred prime minister rating) which came in the last poll. The results are broadly similar to Newspoll’s in finding Morrison down five on approval to 57% and up six on disapproval to 35%.

However, the real kicker is the accompanying gender breakdowns, which have Morrison steady at 65% approval and up two on disapproval to 30% among men, but down ten on approval to 49% and up ten on disapproval to 40% among women. This 16% gender gap on prime ministerial approval is twice as big as the Newspoll record from 1996 to the present, which came when Tony Abbott scored 42% among men and 34% among women in January-March 2014 (the biggest the other way was when Julia Gillard scored 38% among women and 31% among men in April-June 2011).

Further questions from the survey continue on this theme: presented with five propositions as to why there are fewer women than men in parliament, the most popular was that “political parties do not do enough to ensure gender equality in their organisations”, with which 63% agreed. Forty-eight per cent indicated support for gender quotas, with 36% opposed. Variations by party support were in the directions you would expect, but were not of great magnitude.

On other fronts, the poll finds respondents taking a mostly positive view of the causalisation of the workforce: while they were most likely to believe it was good for employers, at 65% versus 11% for bad, 46% felt it had been good for the economy, 42% for indivdual workers and 41% for the nation, compared with respective bad ratings of 19%, 29% and 26%. However, 84% expressed support for the right of workers to convert from casual to permanent employment after six months, with only 10% opposed, and 80% felt gig-based workers with regular hours should be recognised with permanent employment, with only 8% opposed.

For good measure, the poll finds 48% supportive for a republic and 28% opposed, although the question emphasises “a republic with an Australian head of state”, which tends to encourage a positive result. The poll was conducted Wednesday to Sunday from a sample of 1100.

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.

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  1. ‘sprocket_ says:
    Sunday, April 4, 2021 at 5:55 pm

    I must say BW, I’ve been thinking about the (almost) coordinated criticism of AZ, amplified by the usual media droogs. The BigPharma are making billions, and can see more billions – if the cheaper shots from AZ are downplayed.

    But then they wouldn’t do anything so low rent with people’s health, would they?’

    I don’t know. I would have preferred Pfizer which seems to be a bit more efficacious than AZ for some variants. But this time last year I was wondering whether we were going to be living in Covid limbo for the rest of our lives. The science effort on vaccines has been little short of stupendous, IMO.

  2. Long story short, my son kissed me on the forehead when he came home from work last Tuesday. He had been dealing with a client, as a Disability Support worker, who had stuck his fingers xx xxx xxxxxxxx then forced them into my son’s mouth.

    Not short enough.

  3. [‘Regardless, the opposition has accused Mr Dutton of taking “a rhetorical crab walk towards a royal commission but sadly one that doesn’t deliver for veterans and their families”.

    In a joint statement issued on Saturday, Labor MPs Shayne Neumann and Brendan O’Connor said the government needed to listen more closely to veterans, advocates and the will of the parliament and establish a royal commission immediately.’]

    Given Dutton’s form, I’ll for settle for “a rhetorical crabwalk….”, though he may be trying to discard his
    had as nails reputation bearing in mind he’s breathing down Morrison’s neck in case he further falters.

    https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/2021/04/04/labor-backs-suicide-inquiry/

  4. I am posting a last time tonight specifically to cat.

    I didn’t know that. It’s called sexual assault and I hope the appropriate actions are being taken by your son. BB is right to avoid trauma for other possible victims you should have just used the term.

    Understandandable lapse in your indirect trauma and subsequent trauma.

    Enjoy your mindless viewing

  5. Asha Leu,
    Maybe you need an empathy class too!

    Jeez, you can’t even be unwell around this joint without heartless contributors saying wtte, suck it up princess, you dish it, so you should take it too! (sick or not), others jumping in and saying, well just don’t reply, and uber heartless contributor guytaur accusing me of playing the victim!
    Honestly, I ask for a small consideration under the circumstances and I get gobs of venom in return! Well I hope it made you all feel 10 foot tall and indescribably untainted by hypocrisy as a result. Sheesh!

    Okay, um, where to start with this one.

    Not sure how my short little post where I deliberately tried to be as diplomatic as possible could possibly be considered “gobs of venom.”

    Secondly, nobody is saying you can’t be unwell. Nobody is saying you don’t deserve some sympathy for being ill. At least, that’s certainly not what I’m saying.

    What I am saying, however, is when you make repeated unprovoked, snark responses to another contributor’s posts, laden with nasty jibes about said contributor’s intelligence and state of mind, you don’t get to then say, “By the way, be nice to me, I’m sick.” That’s not how it works. If you are not feeling up to the soul-destroying endeavour that is conversing with Guytaur – a very understandable emotion – you probably want to avoid deliberately needling him for no reason.

    Perhaps instead of demanding others take empathy training for their grievous sin of – *checks notes* – mildly rebuking you, you could try showing a little more yourself. Do you ever stop to think what someone else here might be going through in their personal life before you go off at them? If Guytaur were to respond to you the way you did to him on the previous page and then followed up with, “I don’t want to keep talking about this, I just got out of hospital”, how would you react to that?

    First rule of the internet: don’t dish it out if you can’t take it. You dish it out a lot. Learn to take it.

  6. Oakeshott Country @ #2288 Sunday, April 4th, 2021 – 6:48 pm

    Whatever the cells were that Tony Basten discovered – you know, the ones that cure cancer.

    That was actually Peter Doherty (NK cells). Tony was initially B-lymphocyte specialist (following his post-doc with Peter Medowar) until HIV came along and focused our attention on T cells. He did do a lot of work with programed-cell death inhibitors (PD-1I) which underlie the newer immunotherapy agents like nivolumab.

  7. I might add that it also strikes me as being just as unfair to have a go at C@t for sharing the details she just did.

    Sounds like an awful situation for both you and your son, hope you both are doing okay. (I mean that.)

  8. I thought it was Tony who got badly misquoted by The Australian in 1975 that he had found the cure for cancer. He was a very very young professor then. I think you may have had significant dealings with his family.

  9. I have never seen such hyperventilation as when the “Block” function here goes tits-up for a day or so. Ditto “Edit” and the “Quote” function.

    The edit function is of no importance to me. Even if what I post is riddled with typos the underlying message remains the same.

    The block is nice because you don’t have to bother reading the two posters on here who have basically posted the same post since their very first.

    The quote function is however pretty essential, if only for courtesy. It helps people to follow the conversation.

    So yeah, I can live without the block and edit functions, but the quote function is important.

  10. In measurable ways, Americans are winning the war against the coronavirus. Powerful vaccines and an accelerating rollout all but guarantee an eventual return to normalcy — to backyard barbecues, summer camps and sleepovers.

    But it is increasingly clear that the next few months will be painful. So-called variants are spreading, carrying mutations that make the coronavirus both more contagious and in some cases more deadly.

    Even as vaccines were authorized late last year, illuminating a path to the pandemic’s end, variants were trouncing Britain, South Africa and Brazil. New variants have continued to pop up — in California one week, in New York and Oregon the next. As they take root, these new versions of the coronavirus threaten to postpone an end to the pandemic.’]

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/health/coronavirus-variants-vaccines.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

    Perhaps C.19 could end up like the flu, requiring an annual jab to treat variants.

  11. ABC TV News now covering the vaccination fiasco.

    On the one hand they note that only a small percentage of the predicted – indeed braggingly promised – number of vaccinations has occurred.

    On the other they play footage of Hunt outright boasting – again in advance of the event, again without any evidence – that “record numbers” of people are about to receive their jab.

    ScoMo got his Pfizer vaccination well before virtually anyone else in the country got anything except marketing spin. He has completed his course of two injections already, while the other 98% of Australians are fed a diet of bullshit and chronically empty promises, but no jabs, not even the first one.

    He says he got his injection early as an example to others who may be questioning the safety of the vaccine.

    It has been an utterly pointless exercise, because the vaccine Morrison received (Pfizer) isn’t the same one everybody else will be receiving (Astra Zeneca).

    And the two – as we have seen over the last few days – are fundamentally different, both in efficacy and side-effects. They’re the Pepsi and Coke of COVID immunology. Morrison’s exercise in setting a shining example was clinically and medically pointless, a classic Scotty From Marketing bait-and-switch exercise.

    The scenario as of today is looking more like an entitled Prime Minister and his family (and no doubt a few of his toadies and hangers-on) shamelessly jumping the queue to get Rolls Royce special treatment, while deceitfully disguising it as performing a selfless sacrifice in “public service”.

  12. Mavis to make clear from yesterday. It is the NSW electoral commission that requires a declaration that you have never been charged not convicted of kiddy fiddling, not the parties, although you would hope the parties are also vigilant.

  13. guytaur:

    Sunday, April 4, 2021 at 7:17 pm

    [‘Mavis

    Details can trigger victims of sexual assaults.

    That’s my only point in that regard.

    The only thing I will add to that is.’]

    I’m not quite sure what you mean. Care to elaborate?

  14. D P

    There are so many oportunities for misunderstandings on blogs like this that any feature that assists clarity is beneficial.

  15. Bushfire Bill

    On the other they play footage of Hunt outright boasting – again in advance of the event, again without any evidence – that “record numbers” of people are about to receive their jab.

    Same record he played on the Bull Dust Jukebox last week.

  16. Oakeshott Country @ #2295 Sunday, April 4th, 2021 – 7:08 pm

    I thought it was Tony who got badly misquoted by The Australian in 1975 that he had found the cure for cancer. He was a very very young professor then. I think you may have had significant dealings with his family.

    Yep. The “Transfer Factor” fiasco – which turned out to be a manipulated artifact by a desperate post-Doc ( not Tony – or even Bruce Hall). Tony was one of the Adelaide academic diaspora (like the old man, Anne Woolcock & Tanya Sorrell etc.) who stormed Sydney Medicine in the 70s. This was before Rupert Palpatine revealed his dark side.

  17. Oakeshott Country:

    Sunday, April 4, 2021 at 7:27 pm

    [‘Mavis to make clear from yesterday. It is the NSW electoral commission that requires a declaration that you have never been charged not convicted of kiddy fiddling, not the parties, although you would hope the parties are also vigilant.’]

    Thanks for the clarification.

  18. ‘Mavis

    Details can trigger victims of sexual assaults.

    That’s my only point in that regard.

    The only thing I will add to that is.’

    Everyone’s a sexual victim according to Guytaur. He must live his life in alternating states of terror, tears and anxiety. It’s getting close to the point where you can’t say anything within co’ee of him because it might inadvertently trigger PTSD arising from some obscure episode in his or someone else’s remote past.

    My objection to C@t’s overly graphic description of both the infection chain and the disgusting symptoms she suffers had little to do with triggering PTSD. It was that her posts were almost certainly not designed to genuinely inform the public about a new, dangerous disease in our midst (or the mutation of an existing one), but was more to just draw attention to C@t in the most chuck-inducing manner possible.

  19. Fitzy Labor, Latham ONP and Pork Barilaro Nats on a unity ticket for Chinese state coal company interests in the Hunter then it seems. The new triumvirate?

    Glad to have avoided another apparently long fetid day of the small cabal of Labor stooges talking to themselves… Nothing seems to suggest what a waste of time contemporary Labor is as the stooges of PB pissing in each others pockets, apparently because they are so insecure that going even 10 minutes without boosting each other or rounding on those not part of their bubble has them shaking in fear. Seems like a bad case status anxiety to need so much shallow reinforcement daily and repeatedly.

    piss in (one’s) pocket
    slang To attempt to gain one’s favor, affection, attention, or interest, especially through flattering, fawning, or solicitous overtures. Primarily heard in Australia.

    It’s obvious how much PB is not about discussion or understanding but seems more about self-gratification and reinforcement for the cabal.

  20. BB I think most people on here are sick of your feud with c@t.

    Why don’t you be the bigger person and move on from it ?

  21. I’m not very savvy about technical matters, but I read with interest the posts of those who are. I must say that I have no technical issues whatsoever with this site save for the recent problem that everyone had. I’ve never blocked anyone and don’t intend to do so. I have an Apple Mac desktop (macOS Catalina, version 10.15.7), using Safari as my web browser. I comment on several other news sites and find this site is by far the most user-friendly. That’s not to suggest others don’t have technical issues. I just try to keep things simple.

  22. clem attlee says:
    Sunday, April 4, 2021 at 7:41 pm
    So not the , what is it? Fifth incarnation of Covid for Crankmomma then.
    _______________________________
    I think c@t’s an arse most of the time – but she is allowed to be sick.

  23. ‘Quoll says:
    Sunday, April 4, 2021 at 7:53 pm

    Fitzy Labor, Latham ONP and Pork Barilaro Nats on a unity ticket for Chinese state coal company interests…’

    The ones which are burning 53% of the world’s coal-fired CO2 emissions and increasing.
    Do we hear the Yappies about that? Not a bit of it.

    According to quoll China good. Fitzgerald bad.

    I blame the United States.

  24. BB I think most people on here are sick of your feud with c@t.

    Why don’t you be the bigger person and move on from it ?

    Are you for real, mate?

  25. lars,

    Clem died in 1967. He shouldn’t try these regular attempts at resurrection; even at Easter.

  26. I know you think you’re subtle, Lars, a kind of suave “puppet master” around here, the Svengali of PB… but you’re not.

    Everyone here, except yourself, hates your guts, and you don’t fool anyone, up or down the chain.

  27. Socrates
    Catching up late.

    The [Scomo} dog story is actually quite sad when you read it, with a neighbour at Kirribilli complaining that the dog was barking at the gate a lot, obviously because it was lonely and not getting enough attention. ScottyFromMarketing cares as much about animals as about people. Zero empathy.

    Bloody hell!!.

    A little dog like that kicked outside in the morning and told to take itself for a walk until nighttime. At least a big dog could amuse itself chasing rats around Kiribilli House., or bailing up the security guards.

    Unless the Morrison girls are unusual, they will want the dog in the house, and to sleep with them. Kids love pets.

    Does Morrison live in the 1930s? Probably.

    As I speak our lovely(?) white cat Dill is trying to stomp on my computer – not sure why, he is well fed, and our lovely(?) Jack Russell Georgie is settling down in our bed for the night.

    I must say, when I got my first Jack Russell Douglas, (well he was a Tenterfield Terrier – rescue), I was determined the dog would sleep in the garage. It lasted one night, until my kids, and Douglas, all with big eyes, explained to me that they would all be devastated unless they could sleep together.

    I definitely made the right decision!

  28. Mavis says:
    Sunday, April 4, 2021 at 8:13 pm
    Lars Von Trier:

    Sunday, April 4, 2021 at 7:55 pm

    Rapprochement is a wondrous quality.
    ________________________
    It is Mavis. I feel I am one of the few things c@t and BB have in common – albeit in a negative, hostile way (as BB’s latest post shows), so I feel I can be the honest broker.

  29. ‘Douglas and Milko says:
    Sunday, April 4, 2021 at 8:21 pm

    Socrates
    Catching up late.

    The [Scomo} dog story is actually quite sad when you read it, with a neighbour at Kirribilli complaining that the dog was barking at the gate a lot, obviously because it was lonely and not getting enough attention. ScottyFromMarketing cares as much about animals as about people. Zero empathy.

    Bloody hell!!.

    A little dog like that kicked outside in the morning and told to take itself for a walk until nighttime. At least a big dog could amuse itself chasing rats around Kiribilli House., or bailing up the security guards.

    Unless the Morrison girls are unusual, they will want the dog in the house, and to sleep with them. Kids love pets.

    Does Morrison live in the 1930s? Probably.

    As I speak our lovely(?) white cat Dill is trying to stomp on my computer – not sure why, he is well fed, and our lovely(?) Jack Russell Georgie is settling down in our bed for the night.

    I must say, when I got my first Jack Russell Douglas, (well he was a Tenterfield Terrier – rescue), I was determined the dog would sleep in the garage. It lasted one night, until my kids, and Douglas, all with big eyes, explained to me that they would all be devastated unless they could sleep together.

    I definitely made the right decision!’

    Same here… uh, no. Actually, I was permitted to endorse the decision as a sort of face-saving gesture by the kids/Jackie consortium.

  30. Bushfire Bill says:
    Sunday, April 4, 2021 at 8:14 pm
    I know you think you’re subtle, Lars, a kind of suave “puppet master” around here, the Svengali of PB… but you’re not.

    Everyone here, except yourself, hates your guts, and you don’t fool anyone, up or down the chain.
    ____________
    Your being petty – I recall some obscure dispute a couple of months ago and because c@t turned against you the 2 of you have been tit 4 tat now for months.

    Be the bigger person and call an end to hostility.

  31. D&M

    I am currently sitting on a (not very comfortable) dining chair because the dogs have taken up the whole of the couch and they get very peeved if I try and move them…

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