Q. Australia’s defence forces have been awarded a 1.5% annual pay increase for the next three years. Do you think this pay increase is fair or unfair?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote Other |
|
Work full time |
Work part time |
No increase |
Increase up to 1.5% |
Increase more than 1.5% |
|
| Total fair |
42% |
37% |
50% |
42% |
39% |
45% |
38% |
50% |
55% |
34% |
||
| Total unfair |
47% |
52% |
43% |
33% |
56% |
45% |
44% |
37% |
38% |
61% |
||
| Very fair |
11% |
9% |
12% |
8% |
16% |
12% |
9% |
15% |
13% |
5% |
||
| Fair |
31% |
28% |
38% |
34% |
23% |
33% |
29% |
35% |
42% |
29% |
||
| Unfair |
28% |
25% |
31% |
30% |
37% |
26% |
33% |
24% |
26% |
37% |
||
| Very unfair |
19% |
|
27% |
13% |
3% |
19% |
19% |
11% |
13% |
12% |
24% |
|
| Don’t know |
12% |
|
11% |
6% |
25% |
5% |
10% |
17% |
14% |
7% |
5% |
42% think the 1.5% pay increase awarded to the defence forces is fair and 47% think it is unfair.
A majority of Labor voters (52%) and other voters (56%) think it is unfair.
A majority of workers who said they had received no pay increase or an increase of 1.5% or less in the last 12 months thought the defence forces pay increase was fair while 61% of those who had received a pay increase greater than 1.5% thought it was unfair.