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Doing enough to address climate change

19 Sep 2017

Q. As far as you know, do you think Australia is doing enough, not enough or too much to address climate change?

  Total   Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote other   Climate change is happen-ing   Aug 2015 Mar 2016 Aug 2016 Dec 2016
Doing enough 20%   17% 30% 4% 21%   15%   24% 21% 22% 22%
Not doing enough 56%   69% 42% 89% 48%   75%   53% 57% 52% 49%
Doing too much 8%   2% 13% 1% 18%   2%   7% 8% 8% 11%
Don’t know 16%   12% 15% 6% 14%   8%   16% 13% 18% 18%

 

56% (up 7% since December) think Australia is not doing enough to address climate change and 20% (down 2%) think Australia is doing enough.

 

Those most likely to think Australia is not doing enough were aged 18-34 (60%) and university educated (62%).

 

Of those who believe climate change is happening, 75% think Australia is not doing enough.

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