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Economic outlook

16 Sep 2013

Q. Over the next 12 months do you think economic conditions in Australia will get better, get worse or stay much the same?  

 

 

1 Dec

08

5 Oct

09

18 Oct

10

3 Oct

11

27 Aug 12

29 Jan

13

 

Total

16 Sep 13

 

Vote Labor

Vote Lib/Nat

Vote Greens

Total better

21%

66%

40%

16%

22%

29%

38%

16%

68%

13%

Total worse

61%

15%

30%

58%

45%

37%

33%

59%

8%

58%

Get a lot better

2%

8%

6%

2%

3%

4%

7%

4%

14%

Get a little better

19%

58%

34%

14%

19%

25%

31%

12%

54%

13%

Get a little worse

45%

11%

20%

41%

30%

28%

23%

40%

7%

40%

Get a lot worse

16%

4%

10%

17%

15%

9%

10%

19%

1%

18%

Stay much the same

13%

15%

24%

22%

27%

27%

19%

17%

19%

20%

Don’t know

5%

4%

6%

4%

6%

6%

10%

9%

5%

10%

Confidence in the economic outlook has improved since January.  The percentage of respondents believing conditions will get better increased 9 points to 38%, while those believing that economic conditions will get worse over the next 12 months dropped 4 points to 33%.  This is the most positive outlook recorded since October 2010.

Shifts in opinion are strongly associated with voting intention – Labor voters have shifted from 50% better/22% worse (net +28) to 16% better/59% worse (net -43). Liberal/National voters have shifted from 21% better/51% worse (net -30) to 68% better/8% worse (net +60).

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