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Australia Day

24 Jan 2017

Q. Thursday 26th January is Australia Day. Will you personally be doing anything to celebrate Australia Day or do you treat it as just a public holiday?

  Total   Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote other   Jan 2010 Jan 2013 Jan 2014 Jan 2015 Jan 2016
Doing something to celebrate Australia Day 34%   35% 38% 26% 33%   40% 41% 37% 40% 38%
Just a public holiday 46%   46% 47% 59% 44%   40% 43% 44% 41% 44%
Working – don’t get the Australia Day holiday 5%   5% 2% 55 8%   6% 7% 7% 7% 6%
Don’t know 15%   14% 13% 11% 16%   14% 9% 11% 12% 12%

 

 

34% said they will be doing something to celebrate Australia Day, 46% treat Australia Day as just a public holiday and 5% are working because they don’t get the Australia Day holiday. This is the lowest proportion celebrating Australia Day over the last 7 years.

 

38% of Liberal/National voters and 41% of those with children say they will be doing something to celebrate Australia Day. 59% of Greens treat it as just another public holiday.

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