The prime minister has suffered a fall in his net performance rating to minus 7 per cent, driving this measure into negative territory for the first time since the election.
“If anything, the campaign is having the opposite effect because the No vote is still growing,” he said.
The Resolve Political Monitor surveyed 1604 eligible voters about the wording proposed by the government in the referendum bill passed by parliament to change the Constitution to recognise First Australians by establishing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. The questions were asked from Wednesday to Saturday, days after the launch of the Yes advertising campaign using Farnham’s song, and the results have a margin of error of 2.4 percentage points.
While the survey suggests Tasmania supports the change, with 56 per cent in favour and 44 per cent against, this is based on a small sample size to reflect the state’s relatively small population, leading to a bigger margin of error.“Every poll has a margin of error, but we are sure of the national result being No and of the same result in four of the six states because they are outside that margin,” Reed said.
Voters cut their support for Labor from 37 to 36 per cent over the past month, while they increased the Coalition’s primary vote from 33 to 34 per cent. When voters were asked about the prime minister’s performance, 40 per cent said he was doing a good job and 47 per cent said he was doing a poor job, with the remainder undecided. This resulted in a net performance rating of minus 7 per cent, down from a positive rating of 2 per cent one month ago. His net rating was 35 percentage points in January.
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