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Education Funding or Budget Surplus

Feb 27, 2012
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Q. The Gonski report also recommends a $5 billion increase in education funding with $1.5 billion of this additional funding coming from the Federal Government and the rest from the State Governments. If the Federal Government provides this additional funding it may mean they will not be able to return the budget to surplus next year.

Do you think it is more important to provide this additional funding for schools or more important to return a budget surplus?

 

Total

Vote Labor

Vote Lib/Nat

Vote Greens
More important to provide additional funding to schools

61%

63%

58%

83%
More important to return a budget surplus

24%

25%

29%

11%
Don’t know

15%

12%

12%

6%

61% think it is more important to provide additional funding to schools and 24% say it is more important to return a budget surplus.

Those who think it is more important to provide additional funding were women (65%), aged 45+ (67%), and Greens voters (83%).

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Two Party Preferred: 20 May 2013

Labor
45+/0
Coalition
55+/-0

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