ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence increased 6.4pts to 114.1 a week after the lockdown of Greater Brisbane ended and Australians enjoyed the four-day Easter long weekend. Consumer Confidence is now well above the 2021 weekly average of 110.6 and a huge 35.9pts higher than the same week a year ago, April 11/12, 2020 (78.2).

Now 83% of Australians have either already been vaccinated (7%), say they are willing to be vaccinated (69%) or would be willing to be vaccinated once the Pfizer vaccine becomes available (7%) – a total of 83% and an increase of 3% points since February, according to a special Roy Morgan Snap SMS survey conducted on Friday April 9 and Saturday April 10, 2021.

The Labour/Greens government support is down 1% point to 57.5% in March. However, support for the Labour Party was up 0.5% points to 45.5% in March while support for the Greens dropped 1.5% points to 12%.

Latest Roy Morgan employment series data shows 1.64 million Australians unemployed in March (down 291,000 on February) for an unemployment rate of 11.4% - the lowest for a year.

New Zealand Consumer Confidence was down by 2.3pts to 110.8 in March, stopping slightly short of its historical average of 120.

In March 2021 Roy Morgan Business Confidence increased 3.2pts (+2.6%) to 124.0. This is the highest level of Business Confidence in Australia for over seven years since January 2014 (131.5). Business Confidence is now 10.4pts above the long-term average of 113.6.

New financial data from Roy Morgan shows ING has increased its lead at the top of banking customer satisfaction ratings among home loan customers in early 2021. ING increased an already exceptional score of 95.1% in December 2020 to 95.6% in February 2021. This is up 3.6% points on a year earlier (92.0% in February 2020).