Campaign snapshot: Week 1

The fieldwork for this survey was conducted between Friday 28 March and Tuesday 1 April, 2025. The sample of N = 1,006 Australian voters aged 18 and older was recruited over online panel. Quotas for age, gender, location, education and vote at the 2022 federal election were used to ensure the sample is representative of the Australian electorate.

Rim weighting was used to apply interlocking weights for age, gender, education, religion and location. The efficiency of these weights was 77 per cent, providing an effective sample size of 774.

Based on this effective sample size, the margin of error (95 per cent confidence interval) for a 50 per cent result on the full sample is ± 3.5 per cent.

This is larger for subsets of the data, such as age or location, and results based on these and similar breakdowns should be interpreted conservatively.

Vote intention questions were located immediately after demographic items and other questions used for screening and quotas. Undecided respondents were asked a leaner question. Those who refused to or were unable to provide a vote intention in both the initial question and leaner made up eight per cent of the sample, and were excluded from published vote intention figures. Two-party preferred was calculated using 2022 preference flows; except for Trumpet of Patriots, which are equally weighted between UAP 2022 preference flows and respondent allocated flows.

Detailed findings and question wording are contained in the following sections. These are shown in the order in which they appeared in the survey.

This project was commissioned by News Corp Australia.

The full report can accessed here: