Q. Thinking about the Australian manufacturing industry, which of the following statements is closest to your view?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
|
Aug 2012 |
Jun 2013 |
|
| With Government support, Australia can have a successful manufacturing industry |
65% |
70% |
64% |
60% |
63% |
61% |
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| There is no future for manufacturing in Australia and Government support would be a waste of money |
19% |
17% |
23% |
17% |
17% |
22% |
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| Don’t know |
16% |
13% |
14% |
23% |
21% |
17% |
65% agree that “With Government support, Australia can have a successful manufacturing industry” and 19% agree “There is no future for manufacturing in Australia and Government support would be a waste of money”. Those who think that “Australia can have a successful manufacturing industry” has increased 4% and those thinking “There is no future for manufacturing in Australia” has dropped 3% since this question was last asked in June.
Those most likely to agree that “Australia can have a successful manufacturing industry” were aged 45+ (69%), Labor voters (70%) and people on income of less than $1,000pw (75%).
Those most likely to agree that “There is no future for manufacturing in Australia” were men (25%), Liberal/National voters (23%) and people on incomes over $1,600pw (28%).