Q. Which of the following describe your opinion of the Republican American Presidential nominee, Donald Trump?
| Yes | No | Don’t know | |
| Intelligent | 30% | 56% | 14% |
| Hard-working | 38% | 45% | 17% |
| A capable leader | 15% | 71% | 14% |
| Understands the problems facing America | 22% | 62% | 17% |
| Visionary | 19% | 67% | 14% |
| Good in a crisis | 13% | 66% | 21% |
| Superficial | 71% | 15% | 14% |
| More honest than most politicians | 20% | 66% | 14% |
| Trustworthy | 9% | 77% | 14% |
| Narrow-minded | 75% | 13% | 12% |
| Arrogant | 85% | 7% | 8% |
| Out of touch with ordinary people | 67% | 19% | 14% |
| Intolerant | 74% | 13% | 13% |
| Aggressive | 83% | 8% | 9% |
| Erratic | 78% | 10% | 13% |
| Someone who will strengthen the US relationship with Australia | 11% | 71% | 18% |
The most common attributes for Donald Trump were seen to be:
38% or less of Australians agreed that each of the positive attributes described Donald Trump. In terms of positive attributes the most commonly agreed with were ‘hard-working’ (38%) and ‘intelligent’ (30%); however far more disagreed than agreed that these attributed describes Donald Trump.
Just 11% believe that Donald Trump is ‘someone who will strengthen the US relationship with Australia’.
Q. Which of the following describe your opinion of the Democratic American Presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton?
| Yes | No | Don’t know | |
| Intelligent | 74% | 13% | 13% |
| Hard-working | 71% | 14% | 15% |
| A capable leader | 60% | 21% | 19% |
| Understands the problems facing American | 57% | 25% | 18% |
| Visionary | 39% | 39% | 23% |
| Good in a crisis | 54% | 20% | 26% |
| Superficial | 31% | 51% | 18% |
| More honest than most politicians | 24% | 51% | 25% |
| Trustworthy | 33% | 42% | 25% |
| Narrow-minded | 22% | 60% | 18% |
| Arrogant | 33% | 54% | 13% |
| Out of touch with ordinary people | 34% | 47% | 20% |
| Intolerant | 20% | 61% | 19% |
| Aggressive | 28% | 57% | 14% |
| Erratic | 20% | 64% | 16% |
| Someone who will strengthen the US relationship with Australia | 53% | 21% | 26% |
The most common attributes for Hillary Clinton were seen to be:
33% or less of Australians agreed that each of the negative attributes described Hillary Clinton.
In terms of negative attributes the most commonly agreed with were ‘out of touch with ordinary people’ (34%) and ‘arrogant’ (33%), however far more disagreed than agreed that these attributes described Hillary Clinton.
Over half (53%) believe that Hillary Clinton is ‘someone who will strengthen the US relationship with Australia’.
Q. Do you think Australian gun ownership laws are too strong, not strong enough or about right?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | July 2015 | |||
| Too strong | 6% | 6% | 5% | – | 15% | 6% | ||
| Not strong enough | 44% | 47% | 49% | 47% | 39% | 45% | ||
| About right | 45% | 44% | 43% | 48% | 43% | 40% | ||
| Don’t know | 5% | 4% | 3% | 5% | 2% | 10% |
While 45% of Australians think that our gun ownership laws are ‘about right’, almost the same amount (44%) think that they are ‘not strong enough’.
These results replicate those from July 2015.
The results are consistent across voting groups, however ‘other’ voters are slightly more likely than the average to think that gun ownership laws are ‘too strong’. However even amongst these voters the largest proportion say they are ‘about right’ (43%).
Q. Have you ever lent to or borrowed from money to any of the following people to purchase a home?
| Have lent to | Have borrowed from | |
| Your parents | 9% | 19% |
| Your grandparents | 3% | 4% |
| Other relatives | 9% | 6% |
| Your children | 11% | 3% |
| Friends | 11% | 6% |
| Your employer | 1% | 4% |
Just over one in ten (11%) Australians have lent money to their children or their friends to enable them to purchase a home. Just under one in 10 (9%) have lent to their parents or other relatives.
Almost one in five Australians (19%) have borrowed from their parents.
Q. Would you support or oppose phasing out live exports to other countries?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | ||
| TOTAL Support | 44% | 47% | 38% | 66% | 49% | |
| TOTAL Oppose | 29% | 28% | 34% | 12% | 30% | |
| Strongly support | 19% | 21% | 13% | 33% | 26% | |
| Support | 25% | 26% | 25% | 33% | 23% | |
| Oppose | 21% | 20% | 25% | 11% | 20% | |
| Strongly oppose | 8% | 8% | 9% | 1% | 10% | |
| Don’t know | 27% | 25% | 28% | 22% | 22% |
Almost half (44%) of Australians support the phasing out of live exports to other countries. Just 29% oppose this.
Greens voters (66%) were more likely to support this. Lib/Nat (38%) were less likely.
There were no significant differences based on age or gender.
Q. Thinking about the export of live animals for slaughter, which of the following statements is closest to your view?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | ||
| Australia should not export live sheep and cattle to any country at all | 30% | 34% | 22% | 48% | 38% | |
| Australia should only export live sheep and cattle to countries which guarantee they will be treated humanely | 50% | 49% | 57% | 46% | 44% | |
| Australia should export live sheep and cattle to any country that wants them | 9% | 9% | 11% | 2% | 11% | |
| Don’t know | 11% | 8% | 10% | 5% | 7% |
From the statements offered, half of Australians selected ‘Australia should only export live sheep and cattle to countries which guarantee they will be treated humanely’ as the statement closest to their view.
A further 30% thought ‘Australia should not export live sheep and cattle to any country at all’.
Greens voters were more likely to select ‘Australia should not export live sheep and cattle to any country at all’ (48%).
There were no significant differences based on age or gender.
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
11/10/16 |
2 weeks ago
4/10/16 |
4 weeks ago
20/9/16 |
Election 2 Jul 16 | |||
| Liberal | 36% | 34% | 34% | 36% | |||
| National | 3% | 3% | 3% | 3% | |||
| Total Liberal/National | 38% | 37% | 38% | 39% | 42.0% | ||
| Labor | 37% | 37% | 36% | 36% | 34.7% | ||
| Greens | 10% | 11% | 10% | 9% | 10.2% | ||
| Nick Xenophon Team | 3% | 3% | 3% | 3% | |||
| Pauline Hanson’s One Nation | 6% | 5% | 6% | 6% | |||
| Other/Independent | 6% | 6% | 7% | 7% | 13.1% | ||
| 2 party preferred | |||||||
| Liberal National | 48% | 47% | 48% | 48% | 50.4% | ||
| Labor | 52% | 53% | 52% | 52% | 49.6% |
Q. How concerned are you about the risk of a terrorism attack on Australian soil?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | ||
| TOTAL Concern | 72% | 74% | 80% | 42% | 76% | |
| Very concerned | 24% | 23% | 28% | 2% | 33% | |
| Somewhat concerned | 48% | 51% | 52% | 40% | 43% | |
| Not very concerned | 19% | 20% | 15% | 39% | 17% | |
| Not at all concerned | 6% | 5% | 4% | 19% | 7% | |
| Don’t know | 3% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 1% |
Almost three quarters of Australians (72%) are concerned about the risk of a terrorism attack on Australian soil. 24% of those are ‘very’ concerned.
Greens voters (42%) are less likely than Labor (74%), Lib/Nat (80%) or Other voters (76%) to be concerned.
Older Australians were more likely to be concerned; 81% of those aged 55+ compared to 71% of those aged 35-54 and 63% of those aged 34 and under were concerned.
There were no significant differences between males and females.