The Essential Report Archive Read the latest report

Opposition vote on the budget

3 Jun 2014

Q. Do you think the Labor Opposition should vote to block the whole budget, vote against certain parts of the budget or pass the whole budget?

Total

 

 

Vote Labor

Vote Lib/Nat

Vote Greens

Vote other

Block the budget

18%

34%

1%

20%

21%

Vote against some parts of the budget

53%

60%

41%

64%

66%

Pass the whole budget

18%

1%

48%

8%

5%

Don’t know

11%

4%

10%

9%

9%

53% think the Labor Opposition should vote against some parts of the budget, 18% think they should block the whole budget and 18% think they should pass the whole budget.

A substantial majority of Labor voters (60%), Greens voters (64%) and other voters (66%) think that Labor should vote against some parts of the budget. 48% of Liberal/National voters think Labor should pass the whole budget but 41% think they should vote against some parts.

Error: