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Addressing Climate Change

13 Mar 2019

Q. As far as you know, do you think Australia is doing enough, not enough or too much to address climate change?

Total Male Female Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote other Aged 18-34 Aged 35-54 Aged 55+ Dec 2018 Oct 2018 Sep 2017
Not doing enough 51% 43% 58% 64% 34% 79% 46% 58% 48% 48% 53% 56% 56%
Doing enough 27% 31% 23% 18% 43% 10% 28% 26% 26% 29% 24% 23% 20%
Doing too much 11% 16% 6% 8% 15% 2% 16% 8% 9% 15% 9% 7% 8%
Don’t know 12% 10% 13% 10% 9% 8% 10% 8% 18% 9% 14% 13% 16%

Just over half (51%) think Australia is not doing enough to address climate change. This has not statistically changed from December 2018.

Those people most likely to think Australia was not doing enough include women (58%), Greens voters (79%) and Labor voters (64%).

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