Saturday’s Federal Election results shows the L-NP Government will likely be returned with a small majority. Analysis of the polls show all polls significantly underestimated the L-NP primary vote. The Roy Morgan Poll a week before the Federal Election had L-NP support at 38.5% – 2.9% lower than their actual vote of 41.4%.

A new report from Roy Morgan, ‘General Insurance Industry Market Overview Currency Report’, shows that during the last 12 months, 9.4 million general insurance policies, or nearly one in five (19.1%) were subject to review. This was made up of the policies that were switched to another company and those that were renewed with the same company after approaching other companies. Companies with the most loyal customers (% who renew without looking around) are CGU and RACV; ahead of RACQ, CBA, Apia and Suncorp.

A new report from Roy Morgan (‘Customer Satisfaction – Consumer Banking in New Zealand') shows that customer satisfaction with banks in New Zealand in the 12 months to March 2019 was 77.5%, a decline from 78.1% in the 12 months to March 2018. This decline was as a result of six of the nine largest banks showing drops in satisfaction, with BNZ showing the biggest decline , down 2.9% points, followed by ANZ , down 1.2% points and The Co-operative Bank (down 1.1% points). The three banks showing improved satisfaction were Rabobank (up 8.8% points), SBS Bank (up 1.3% points) and ASB up 1.1% points.

In April 2019 as Indonesians went to the polls to elect a President and a legislature Roy Morgan Indonesian Consumer Confidence fell 1.3pts from March to 160.0. This is 1.9pts higher than a year ago in April 2018 (158.1) and a significant 23.3pts above the long-run average (2005-2019) of 136.7.

A special Roy Morgan SMS Poll conducted over the last few days shows a large majority of 66% of Australian electors think the ALP will win this week’s Federal Election compared to only 34% that think the L-NP Coalition will win.

The latest research from Roy Morgan shows that over 11.9 million Australians (58.3%) are planning on spending at least one night on their next trip in a domestic destination in Australia.