What The People Want

Indian students prefer Australia

Administrator — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:18:45 +1000

A survey by TNS puts three Australian universities at the top of the list for Indian students looking to study overseas. This is strongly at odds with the media narrative here and on the sub-continent, which suggests that Australia is regarded as unsafe and racist.

ANZ Job ads increase more slowly

Administrator — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:02:02 +1000

The ANZ Job ads series showed slower trend growth in February, and was the slowest increase since September 2009.
"In trend terms, the monthly growth rate in total job ads decelerated to 2.3% in February which, while still firmly positive, was the slowest pace of growth since September 2009. Annual trend growth improved to the ‘less bad’ rate of -9.2% YoY, from -18.4% in January, and has now been improving each month since June 2009 (see table 1)."

Labor maintains lead - Morgan

Administrator — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:22:05 +1000

The latest Roy Morgan survey shows no statistically significant change in support for any political party since the previous poll. If an election had been held the last weekend of February and the first weekend of March Labor would likely have won 55.5% of the vote.

South Australia 2010 - the qual

Graham — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:18:05 +1000

Is the state heading in the right direction?

This is a battle between those who look at the economy and those who think that the government is obsessed with spin and performs poorly. Those who think the state is heading in the right direction cite building of infrastructure, the economy, low jobless rate, the defence, mining and arts sectors, and the desalination plant.

South Australia 2010 - the quants

Graham — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:18:24 +1000

We polled last week and got some interesting results. Mike Rann appears to be in some trouble. Electors have made a judgement on him, perceive him to be obsessed with spin and failing to deliver on his promises. The deciding factor may well be whether voters decide to trust the Liberals so as to change government, or vote for them so as to pull Rann back into line and perhaps engineer a hung parliament.

80% of voters support Rudd health system

Graham — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:27:19 +1000

According to an AC Nielsen poll taken between Thursday and Saturday last week 80% of Australians back the federal government's health plan. At the same time there has been a small deterioration in the standing of the Prime Minister and support for Tony Abbott is up.

Consumer confidence up 34.3 pts in twelve months

Graham — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:19:39 +1000

Roy Morgan research reports that consumers are now 34.3 pts more confident than they were twelve months ago, taking the Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence index to 129.5, up 4.8 in a week. This mirrors our polling with most respondents confident of the direction in which their personal circumstances are heading.

Libs lead in Victoria - Roy Morgan

Graham — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:11:04 +1000

Roy Morgan research reports that the Liberals are just ahead of Labor in Victoria with 50.5% of the two-party preferred vote. This is despite ALP Premier John Brumby being preferred as premier by 50.5% over Ted Baillieu, the Opposition leader who is preferred by only 30.5%. ALP first preference support of 37.5% was well below the Liberal Party's support of 42%. The poll was taken betwen February 17 and 28th.

It could be the end of Media Mike's love affair with voters

Graham — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:52:29 +1000

Christmas hasn't been kind to South Australian Premier Mike Rann. According to the December Newspoll, he had a satisfaction rating of 50 per cent, with only 38 per cent dissatisfied.

South Australian election 2010

Administrator — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +1000

Last week we polled on the South Australian election. The survey is now closed and the results in. Mike Rann is facing a real challenge from Isobel Redmond and it could be hard for him to hold office.