ABOUT THE POLL – Federal Politicians
Method : Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI).
Date : Saturday 13 August 1994 to Tuesday 13 September 1994.
Sample : Simple random sample from the Canberra Telephone Directory 1994
The Questions
* How would you rate the performance of your member of federal parliament, Ros Kelly, or, John Langmore (according to the respondent’s federal elecorate)?
* How would you rate the performance of the ACT’s two federal senator Bob McMullan and Margaret Reid?
* Canberra will have a third seat at the next federal election. Recently a Labor senator, Bob McMullan suggested that the Labor party reserve this seat for a woman when the choose the Labor candidate. When the Labor Party selects their candidate for the third seat in your opinion should they consider only male candidates, only female candidates or candidates from either sex?
* Respondents were also asked their age, sex, suburb and income sector. All results are quoted to the nearest per cent. This may result in answers not exactly totalling 100 percent.