9 October

A Newspoll survey shows that only 14 percent of voters (no gender dissection provided) approved of the model for selection of the President being put to the referendum. The Australian reports that an overwhelming majority of republicans and 50 percent of all voters still prefer a directly elected President.
WfaAR notes that there was no follow-up question in this poll about whether these voters would vote YES and that many supporters of the YES vote are direct election supporters who will vote YES on 6 November anyway. The Australian’s Newspoll of last week showed that 49 percent were intending to vote YES, 46 percent NO and 4 percent were undecided.