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Approval of ETS Decision

3 May 2010

Q. The Federal Government has announced that it has postponed introducing an emissions trading scheme (ETS) to address climate change for 3 years. Do you approve or disapprove of the Government’s decision not to introduce an ETS for 3 years?

  Total Labor voters Lib/Nat voters Greens voters
Total approve 38% 40% 47% 21%
Total disapprove 41% 40% 37% 76%
Strongly approve 12% 9% 19% 7%
Approve 26% 31% 28% 14%
Disapprove 27% 31% 25% 30%
Strongly disapprove 14% 9% 12% 46%
Don’t know 22% 20% 16% 4%

 Opinions are divided over the Government postponing a decision on introducing an ETS – 38% approve and 41% disapprove.

Labor voters are evenly split (40% approve/40% disapprove) while Liberal/National voters are a little more likely to approve (47% approve/37% disapprove). 76% of Greens voters disapprove and 21% approve.

46% of men approve (39% disapprove) compared to 31% of women (43% disapprove).

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