Q. Some supermarkets have stopped providing customers with free plastic bags. Do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
| Total agree | Total disagree | Strongly agree | Agree | Disagree | Strongly disagree | Don’t know | ||
| Banning plastic bags is a positive step to protect the environment | 76% | 18% | 37% | 39% | 11% | 7% | 5% | |
| Banning plastic bags is simply an attempt by supermarkets to reduce costs | 46% | 46% | 16% | 30% | 30% | 16% | 8% | |
| The plastic bag ban will change my behaviour as a consumer | 57% | 36% | 19% | 38% | 26% | 10% | 6% | |
| Banning plastic bags, along with self-save checkouts, just places more of the work onto the shopper | 57% | 36% | 19% | 38% | 27% | 9% | 6% | |
| I support banning plastic bags in supermarkets | 73% | 20% | 39% | 34% | 11% | 9% | 7% |
73% say they support banning plastic bags in supermarkets and 76% agree that it is a positive step to protect the environment. A majority (57%) believe the ban will change their behaviour.
However, a majority also agree that it places more of the work onto the shopper (57%) and they were split over whether it is simply an attempt by supermarkets to reduce costs (46% agree/46% disagree).
Grocery buyers held very similar views to the total population.
| Grocery buyers | Total agree | Total disagree | Strongly agree | Agree | Disagree | Strongly disagree | Don’t know | |
| Banning plastic bags is a positive step to protect the environment | 77% | 18% | 38% | 39% | 10% | 8% | 5% | |
| Banning plastic bags is simply an attempt by supermarkets to reduce costs | 44% | 48% | 17% | 27% | 31% | 17% | 8% | |
| The plastic bag ban will change my behaviour as a consumer | 59% | 35% | 20% | 39% | 25% | 10% | 6% | |
| Banning plastic bags, along with self-save checkouts, just places more of the work onto the shopper | 56% | 36% | 22% | 36% | 27% | 9% | 5% | |
| I support banning plastic bags in supermarkets | 74% | 20% | 40% | 34% | 11% | 9% | 6% |
Q. Thinking about childcare and early learning, do you agree or disagree with the following policies?
| Total agree | Total disagree | Strongly agree | Agree | Disagree | Strongly disagree | Don’t know | ||
| Ensuring all children have access to two years of early learning (e.g. kindy or preschool program) before they started school | 77% | 12% | 32% | 45% | 8% | 4% | 11% | |
| Removing support for children whose parents are not in the workforce and are not actively looking for work | 42% | 43% | 16% | 26% | 27% | 16% | 14% | |
| Ensuring children from poor or disadvantaged children get the support they need to access two years of early learning (e.g. kindy or preschool program) before they start school. | 81% | 9% | 37% | 44% | 6% | 3% | 9% |
There was strong agreement with the policies that all children have access to two years of early learning (77% agree) and that children from poor or disadvantaged children get the support they need to access two years of early learning (81%).
However, respondents were split over removing support for children whose parents are not in the workforce and are not actively looking for work (42% agree/43% disagree).
Households with children were more likely to agree that all children have access to two years of early learning (85%) but were also evenly divided over removing support for children whose parents are not in the workforce and are not actively looking for work (45% agree/45% disagree). Those most likely to oppose removing support were women (49% disagree), Greens voters (58%) and aged 65+ (52%).
Q. If a Federal Election was held today to which party will you probably give your first preference vote? If not sure, which party are you currently leaning toward? If don’t know – Well which party are you currently leaning to?
| Total | 2 weeks ago 19/618 | 4 weeks ago 5/6/18 | Election 2 Jul 16 | |||
| Liberal | 36% | 35% | 34% | |||
| National | 4% | 3% | 3% | |||
| Total Liberal/National | 40% | 38% | 36% | 42.0% | ||
| Labor | 37% | 35% | 37% | 34.7% | ||
| Greens | 11% | 11% | 10% | 10.2% | ||
| Nick Xenophon Team | 1% | 2% | 2% | |||
| Pauline Hanson’s One Nation | 6% | 7% | 8% | |||
| Other/Independent | 5% | 7% | 7% | 13.1% | ||
| 2 party preferred | ||||||
| Liberal National | 48% | 48% | 46% | 50.4% | ||
| Labor | 52% | 52% | 54% | 49.6% |
Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the job Malcolm Turnbull is doing as Prime Minister?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote Other | Jun 2018 | May 2018 | Apr 2018 | Mar 2018 | Dec 2017 | Sep 2017 | June 2017 | Mar 2017 | |||
| Total approve | 43% | 28% | 79% | 25% | 27% | 42% | 40% | 39% | 41% | 41% | 41% | 36% | 33% | ||
| Total disapprove | 40% | 59% | 14% | 58% | 56% | 42% | 42% | 42% | 43% | 44% | 46% | 45% | 50% | ||
| Strongly approve | 8% | 3% | 19% | 5% | 3% | 7% | 9% | 8% | 9% | 8% | 7% | 5% | 5% | ||
| Approve | 35% | 25% | 60% | 20% | 24% | 34% | 31% | 31% | 32% | 33% | 34% | 31% | 28% | ||
| Disapprove | 22% | 28% | 10% | 35% | 27% | 23% | 22% | 26% | 26% | 27% | 28% | 28% | 30% | ||
| Strongly disapprove | 18% | 31% | 4% | 23% | 29% | 18% | 20% | 16% | 17% | 17% | 18% | 17% | 20% | ||
| Don’t know | 17% | 12% | 7% | 16% | 17% | 16% | 19% | 19% | 16% | 15% | 14% | 19% | 18% |
43% approved of the job Malcolm Turnbull is doing as Prime Minister (up 1% from last month), and 40% disapproved (down 2%) – a change in net approval rating from 0 to +3. This is Malcolm Turnbull’s first positive net approval rating since May 2016.
79% (no change) of Liberal/National voters approved of the job Malcolm Turnbull is doing, compared to 28% of ALP voters, 25% of Greens and 27% of other voters.
By gender, men were 49% approve/40% disapprove and women 38% approve/39% disapprove.
Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the job Bill Shorten is doing as Opposition Leader?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Jun 2018 | May 2018 | Apr 2018 | Mar 2018 | Dec 2017 | Sep 2017 | June 2017 | Mar 2017 | |||
| Total Approve | 31% | 58% | 18% | 34% | 18% | 33% | 37% | 35% | 37% | 36% | 36% | 34% | 30% | ||
| Total Disapprove | 47% | 23% | 72% | 41% | 69% | 46% | 41% | 43% | 44% | 45% | 47% | 43% | 49% | ||
| Strongly approve | 5% | 12% | 2% | 4% | 2% | 6% | 8% | 6% | 8% | 7% | 7% | 5% | 4% | ||
| Approve | 26% | 46% | 16% | 30% | 16% | 27% | 29% | 29% | 29% | 29% | 29% | 29% | 26% | ||
| Disapprove | 25% | 19% | 31% | 31% | 27% | 23% | 21% | 22% | 23% | 23% | 25% | 28% | 26% | ||
| Strongly disapprove | 22% | 4% | 41% | 10% | 42% | 23% | 20% | 21% | 21% | 22% | 22% | 15% | 23% | ||
| Don’t know | 21% | 19% | 10% | 24% | 14% | 21% | 23% | 23% | 19% | 19% | 17% | 23% | 22% |
31% approved of the job Bill Shorten is doing as Opposition Leader (down 2% from last month), and 47% disapproved (up 1%) – a change in net approval rating from -13 to -16.
58% (down 4%) of ALP voters approved of the job Bill Shorten is doing, compared to 34% of Greens voters and 18% of Liberal/National voters.
By gender, men were 34% approve/52% disapprove and women 29% approve/44% disapprove.
Q. Who do you think would make the better Prime Minister out of Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Jun 2018 | May 2018 | Apr 2018 | Mar 2018 | Dec 2017 | Sep 2017 | June 2017 | Mar 2017 | Dec 2016 | |||
| Malcolm Turnbull | 42% | 16% | 83% | 24% | 36% | 41% | 40% | 41% | 41% | 42% | 43% | 39% | 38% | 39% | ||
| Bill Shorten | 25% | 53% | 6% | 39% | 10% | 27% | 26% | 26% | 26% | 28% | 29% | 26% | 26% | 28% | ||
| Don’t know | 34% | 31% | 12% | 37% | 54% | 32% | 34% | 33% | 33% | 31% | 28% | 34% | 36% | 33% |
42% thought that Malcolm Turnbull would make the better Prime Minister (up 1% from last month), and 25% thought Bill Shorten would be better (down 2%). 34% did not know who would make a better Prime Minister.
The results were split by party, with 83% of Liberal/National voters saying that Malcolm Turnbull would be a better Prime Minister, and 53% of Labor voters saying Bill Shorten would.
Greens voters preferred Bill Shorten (39%) to Malcolm Turnbull (24%).
46% of men prefer Malcolm Turnbull and 24% prefer Bill Shorten.
37% of women prefer Malcolm Turnbull and 25% prefer Bill Shorten.
Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the Federal Government’s proposal to cut the tax rate for businesses from 30% to 25% estimated to cost $80 billion over the next 10 years?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Jun 2018 | |||
| Total Approve | 41% | 25% | 69% | 37% | 35% | 37% | ||
| Total Disapprove | 36% | 57% | 15% | 43% | 44% | 37% | ||
| Strongly approve | 11% | 6% | 20% | 9% | 8% | 11% | ||
| Approve | 30% | 19% | 49% | 28% | 27% | 26% | ||
| Disapprove | 19% | 27% | 11% | 24% | 24% | 19% | ||
| Strongly disapprove | 17% | 30% | 4% | 21% | 20% | 18% | ||
| Don’t know | 22% | 18% | 16% | 17% | 21% | 26% |
41% (up 4% in last 4 weeks) approve of the Federal Government’s proposal for business tax cuts and 36% (down 1%) disapprove. 22% did not give an opinion.
69% of Liberal National voters approve but 57% of Labor voters, 43% of Greens voters and 44% of other voters disapprove. 49% of full-time workers approve and 32% disapprove.
Q. Which of the following statements is closest to your view?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Feb 2018 | |||
| Cutting the company tax rate will bring Australia’s tax base into line with other nations, attract investment and create more jobs and higher wages | 34% | 21% | 56% | 29% | 29% | 32% | ||
| Cutting the company tax rate will simply deliver business $80 billion more in profits – it won’t result in higher wages. | 41% | 59% | 25% | 49% | 47% | 38% | ||
| Not sure | 25% | 20% | 19% | 22% | 24% | 30% |
Respondents were divided over these statements – but a little more likely to think that company tax cuts will not deliver higher wages. 41% (up 3% from February) agreed more that “Cutting the company tax rate will simply deliver business $80 billion more in profits . . . “ and 34% (up 2%) agreed more that “Cutting the company tax rate will bring Australia’s tax base into line with other nations . . . “. 25% were not sure.
Those more likely to agree that “Cutting the company tax rate will simply deliver business $80 billion more in profits . . . “ were Labor voters (59%), Greens voters (49%) and other voters (47%).
Those more likely to agree that “Cutting the company tax rate will bring Australia’s tax base into line with other nations . . . “. were LNP voters (56%) and workers on incomes over $2,000pw. (40%).