Majority of Victorians think it’s fair to blame Daniel Andrews for the failed hotel quarantine: poll
A new poll has revealed exactly what Victorians think about the handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Here are the results.
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A poll has found a majority of Victorians think it is fair to hold Daniel Andrews responsible for the hotel quarantine debacle while only half of the population think he has been honest and transparent about that failure and the resulting second wave.
It also found almost half of Victorians think the state should stick to the road map to reopening even if there is a third outbreak.
And while it would still be returned comfortably if an election were held today, the Andrews government has suffered a swing of more than 2 per cent on a two-party preferred basis since the November 2018 election.
The YouGov poll, the first done into voting intentions in almost two years, was carried out in the last week of October as Melburnians enjoyed returning to pubs and restaurants.
It was commissioned privately and its results provided in full to the Herald Sun.
According to YouGov, 65 per cent of Victorians were satisfied with the way Mr Andrews is doing his job compared with 32 per cent who were unhappy with his performance, while only 26 per cent of people were satisfied with the performance of the Opposition Leader Michael O’Brien and 53 per cent were dissatisfied.
The poll suggests that if an election were held now, Victorians would dump minor parties for Labor and the Coalition.
Labor’s primary vote in Victoria is now 44 per cent, up from 42.9 at the last election while the Coalition’s has jumped from 35.2 per cent to 40 per cent.
Support for Greens was almost unchanged at 11 per cent but the number of people opting for “other” has dropped by more than half from 11.2 per cent to 5 per cent.
The two-party preferred result between Labor the Coalition was 55-45 per cent, a modest improvement for the non-Labor parties from the 2018 election when they were smashed 57.3-42.7 per cent.
Asked if it was fair or unfair to hold Mr Andrews responsible for the way the state handled the hotel quarantine failure and the resulting second wave of COVID-19, 55 per cent said it was either completely or mostly fair while 40 per cent said it was not fair.
However a clear majority — 55 per cent — was either completely or mostly confident in the Victorian government’s ability to restrict the spread of COVID clusters using contact tracing.
On the question of whether Mr Andrews has been honest or transparent about the hotel quarantine failure and the resulting second wave, only 12 per cent thought he had been completely honest while 38 per cent thought he had been mostly honest.
Slightly more than a quarter of Victorians thought Mr Andrews had not been honest and transparent and 16 per cent thought he had been mostly not honest and transparent.
In the event of a third outbreak, 44 per cent said the state should go back into lockdown while 45 per cent said it should continue on the road map to reopening. The poll of 1241 people was carried out between October 29 and November 4.
THE RESULTS
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