Q. Under Kevin Rudd’s leadership, do you think the Labor Party should dump, change or keep their policies on the following issues?
Dump |
Keep |
Change |
Don’t know |
|
Handling of asylum seekers |
21% |
10% |
51% |
17% |
Building the NBN |
14% |
50% |
15% |
15% |
The mining tax |
29% |
30% |
24% |
18% |
The carbon tax |
39% |
25% |
23% |
13% |
The Gonski education reforms |
15% |
44% |
16% |
25% |
The NDIS |
7% |
59% |
9% |
25% |
Respondents were most likely to think the Labor Party under Kevin Rudd should keep the NDIS (59%), building the NBN (50%) and the Gonski reforms (44%).
51% think it should change the policies around handling asylum seekers and 39% think it should dump the carbon tax. Opinions were divided over the mining tax – 30% keep, 29% dump and 24% change.
Labor voters were most in favour of keeping the NBN (78%), the mining tax (47%), the carbon tax (39%), the Gonski reforms (67%) and the NDIS (74%) but favoured changing the policy on asylum seekers (56%).