Q. What do you think presents the biggest health challenge over the next 10 years?
| Total | Men | Women | Aged 18-34 | Aged 35-54 | Aged 55+ | ||
| Dementia | 21% | 23% | 20% | 12% | 19% | 35% | |
| Heart disease | 11% | 11% | 11% | 13% | 13% | 9% | |
| Cancer | 28% | 27% | 29% | 30% | 30% | 22% | |
| Diabetes | 18% | 18% | 18% | 19% | 15% | 20% | |
| Stroke | 2% | 2% | 2% | 2% | 2% | 2% | |
| Don’t know | 20% | 19% | 20% | 25% | 21% | 12% |
28% think that cancer presents the biggest health challenge over the next 10 years and 21% nominated dementia. Those aged 55+ were much more likely to nominate dementia (35%) and less likely to nominate cancer (22%)
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 | Last week 24/10/17 | 2 weeks ago 17/10/17 | 4 weeks ago 3/10/17 | Election 2 Jul 16 | |||
| Liberal | 33% | 34% | 34% | 33% | |||
| National | 3% | 3% | 3% | 3% | |||
| Total Liberal/National | 36% | 37% | 37% | 36% | 42.0% | ||
| Labor | 37% | 36% | 36% | 38% | 34.7% | ||
| Greens | 10% | 9% | 9% | 10% | 10.2% | ||
| Nick Xenophon Team | 3% | 3% | 3% | 3% | |||
| Pauline Hanson’s One Nation | 7% | 8% | 8% | 7% | |||
| Other/Independent | 6% | 7% | 7% | 7% | 13.1% | ||
| 2 party preferred | |||||||
| Liberal National | 46% | 48% | 48% | 46% | 50.4% | ||
| Labor | 54% | 52% | 52% | 54% | 49.6% |
Q. Do you agree or disagree that access to the Internet is becoming an essential service – like access to water and electricity?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Men | Women | Aged 18-34 | Aged 35-54 | Aged 55+ | Oct 2016 | ||||
| Total agree | 92% | 95% | 93% | 93% | 92% | 93% | 92% | 90% | 94% | 92% | 88% | |||
| Total disagree | 4% | 2% | 5% | 3% | 6% | 5% | 4% | 5% | 3% | 5% | 7% | |||
| Strongly agree | 51% | 57% | 52% | 50% | 43% | 52% | 50% | 47% | 59% | 45% | 47% | |||
| Agree | 41% | 38% | 41% | 43% | 49% | 41% | 42% | 43% | 35% | 47% | 41% | |||
| Disagree | 3% | 1% | 4% | 3% | 5% | 4% | 3% | 4% | 2% | 4% | 6% | |||
| Strongly disagree | 1% | 1% | <1% | – | <1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | <1% | 1% | 1% | |||
| Don’t know | 4% | 2% | 2% | 5% | 3% | 3% | 4% | 5% | 3% | 3% | 5% |
92% agree that access to the internet is becoming an essential service. Only 4% disagreed.
There was very little difference across demographic and voter groups.
Q. Do you think that the National Broadband Network will adequately meet Australia’s future Internet requirements?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Men | Women | Aged 18-34 | Aged 35-54 | Aged 55+ | Oct 2016 | ||||
| Yes | 23% | 23% | 31% | 20% | 10% | 27% | 18% | 35% | 20% | 11% | 22% | |||
| No | 54% | 56% | 46% | 56% | 68% | 56% | 52% | 44% | 57% | 63% | 47% | |||
| Don’t know | 23% | 22% | 24% | 24% | 22% | 16% | 30% | 21% | 23% | 26% | 31% |
23% think that the National Broadband Network will adequately meet Australia’s future Internet requirements and 54% disagree.
Those most likely to think it will not meet future needs were other party voters (68%) and aged 55+ (63%).
Q. The current Government’s national broadband network plan is to more quickly roll out fibre to local nodes and let Telstra’s copper network carry internet traffic to households, compared to the previous Labor plan to roll out fibre to every household outside rural areas, which would cost more and have taken longer but produced higher speeds. Which plan do you believe is best for Australia?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Men | Women | Aged 18-34 | Aged 35-54 | Aged 55+ | Oct 2016 | ||||
| The Liberal Government’s plan | 24% | 10% | 53% | 9% | 17% | 27% | 21% | 29% | 18% | 26% | 27% | |||
| The Labor plan | 43% | 66% | 22% | 54% | 45% | 51% | 35% | 38% | 44% | 45% | 42% | |||
| Don’t know | 33% | 24% | 25% | 37% | 38% | 22% | 45% | 33% | 38% | 29% | 32% |
43% think the Labor NBN plan is best for Australia and 24% think the Government’s plan is best. 33% did not give an opinion.
Those more likely to prefer the Labor plan were Labor voters (66%), Greens voters (54%) and men (51%).
Q. Is your home or workplace connected to the NBN?
| Total | Men | Women | Aged 18-34 | Aged 35-54 | Aged 55+ | ||
| Home connected to NBN | 43% | 44% | 42% | 48% | 41% | 38% | |
| Workplace connected to NBN | 12% | 14% | 9% | 17% | 13% | 4% | |
| Neither connected to NBN | 44% | 43% | 45% | 35% | 45% | 53% | |
| Don’t know | 8% | 7% | 9% | 9% | 10% | 5% |
40% of respondents say they are connected to the NBN, either at home or at work. Younger respondents were a little more likely to be connected both at home and work.
Q. Would you say that your NBN internet service is better or worse than your previous service in terms of speed and reliability?
| Total | Men | Women | Aged 18-34 | Aged 35-54 | Aged 55+ | ||
| Total better | 52% | 57% | 48% | 64% | 50% | 38% | |
| Total worse | 17% | 17% | 17% | 14% | 17% | 23% | |
| Much better | 25% | 30% | 20% | 33% | 25% | 13% | |
| A little better | 27% | 27% | 28% | 31% | 25% | 25% | |
| About the same | 28% | 24% | 32% | 21% | 30% | 37% | |
| A little worse | 10% | 9% | 11% | 9% | 11% | 11% | |
| Much worse | 7% | 8% | 6% | 5% | 6% | 12% | |
| Don’t know | 2% | 1% | 3% | 1% | 3% | 2% |
(Based on respondents with NBN connection – n=476)
52% think their NBN internet service is better than their previous service while 45% think it is about the same or worse. 25% think their NBN service in “much better”.
Q. Complaints about the speed and reliability of the NBN have increased substantially over the last 12 months. Who do you think is mainly to blame for the current problems with the NBN?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Men | Women | Aged 18-34 | Aged 35-54 | Aged 55+ | |||
| The Turnbull Coalition Government | 39% | 57% | 25% | 51% | 38% | 48% | 30% | 36% | 39% | 41% | ||
| The previous Labor Government | 19% | 14% | 31% | 12% | 20% | 24% | 14% | 18% | 18% | 23% | ||
| Not sure | 42% | 30% | 44% | 37% | 42% | 28% | 56% | 46% | 43% | 36% |
39% blame the Turnbull Coalition Government for the current problems with the NBN and 19% blame the previous Labor Government. 42% are not sure.