Q. How confident are you that the Turnbull Government – with current Senate – will be able to get things done that the nation needs?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | ||
| Total confident | 31% | 20% | 57% | 9% | 18% | |
| Total not confident | 58% | 69% | 39% | 86% | 77% | |
| Very confident | 4% | 4% | 8% | <1% | <1% | |
| Somewhat confident | 27% | 16% | 49% | 9% | 18% | |
| Not very confident | 36% | 38% | 33% | 47% | 41% | |
| Not at all confident | 22% | 31% | 6% | 39% | 36% | |
| Don’t know | 11% | 12% | 4% | 5% | 4% |
Just under one third (31%) of Australians are confident that the Turnbull Government will be able to get things done that the nation needs. Just 4% are ‘very confident’.
58% are not confident that the Turnbull Government will be able to get things done that the nation needs.
Lib/Nat voters (57%) are far more likely to be confident; however 39% still say they are not confident that the Turnbull Government will be able to get things done that the nation needs.
Labor (20%), other (18%) and Greens (9%) voters were less likely to be confident than the overall average.
Q. Do you expect the Coalition Government will run its full term until 2019 when the next Federal election is due or do you think there will be an early election?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Sep 2016 | |||
| Will run full term | 35% | 23% | 59% | 19% | 25% | 35% | ||
| Will be an early election | 39% | 49% | 27% | 58% | 51% | 38% | ||
| Don’t know | 26% | 28% | 14% | 23% | 24% | 27% |
35% think that the Coalition Government will run its full term and 39% think there will be an early election. These results have not changed significantly since September 2016.
59% of Lib/Nat voters believe the Coalition Government will run its full term (up from 50% in September).
49% of Labor voters (down from 52% in September) and 58% of Greens voters (up from 43% in September) think there will be an early election.
Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the NSW Government’s decision to reverse their proposed ban on greyhound racing?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | NSW | |||
| Total approve | 41% | 40% | 52% | 20% | 39% | 44% | ||
| Total disapprove | 38% | 38% | 33% | 70% | 46% | 40% | ||
| Strongly approve | 12% | 11% | 15% | 1% | 16% | 13% | ||
| Approve | 29% | 29% | 37% | 19% | 23% | 31% | ||
| Disapprove | 19% | 18% | 20% | 20% | 21% | 22% | ||
| Strongly disapprove | 19% | 20% | 13% | 50% | 25% | 18% | ||
| Don’t know | 21% | 22% | 16% | 10% | 15% | 15% |
41% of Australians approve of the NSW Government’s decision to reverse their proposed ban on greyhound racing. However, 38% disapprove.
These figures are not significantly different in NSW, where 44% approve and 40% disapprove.
Nationally, Greens voters (70%) are far more likely to disapprove. Lib/Nat voters (52%) are more likely than the average to approve. Labor (40% approve) and other voters (39% approve) do not differ significantly from the overall average.
Males (51%) were far more likely than females (31%) to approve of the decision to reverse the proposed ban on greyhound racing.
Q. How concerned would you be if Donald Trump was elected US President?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | ||
| Total concerned | 79% | 84% | 81% | 85% | 69% | |
| Total not concerned | 14% | 11% | 15% | 8% | 28% | |
| Very concerned | 61% | 66% | 58% | 75% | 53% | |
| Somewhat concerned | 18% | 18% | 23% | 10% | 16% | |
| Not very concerned | 9% | 9% | 10% | 5% | 11% | |
| Not at all concerned? | 5% | 2% | 5% | 3% | 16% | |
| Don’t know | 6% | 5% | 4% | 6% | 3% |
More than three quarters of Australians (79%) would be concerned if Donald Trump was elected US President. 61% of these said they would be ‘very concerned’.
Overall, just 14% said that they would not be concerned.
There was little difference in results amongst the major voting segments; 84% of Labor and 85% of Greens voters would be concerned, compared to 81% of Lib/Nat voters. Those that vote ‘other’ were slightly less likely to be concerned (69%).
Females (84%) were more likely than males (75%) to be concerned.
Q. Thinking about some of the major decisions the Federal Government has made over the years, do you think the following decisions have been good for Australia or bad for Australia?
| Total good | Total bad | Very good | Good | Neither good nor bad | Bad | Very bad | Don’t know | 2011 total good | 2011 total bad | |||
| Introducing the GST | 46% | 22% | 12% | 34% | 25% | 13% | 9% | 7% | 39% | 30% | ||
| Privatising Qantas | 28% | 33% | 6% | 22% | 26% | 23% | 10% | 14% | 23% | 44% | ||
| Privatising Telstra | 22% | 42% | 6% | 16% | 24% | 27% | 15% | 12% | 20% | 53% | ||
| Privatising the Commonwealth Bank | 24% | 39% | 7% | 17% | 24% | 24% | 15% | 14% | 26% | 42% | ||
| Floating the dollar | 33% | 12% | 11% | 22% | 28% | 8% | 4% | 27% | 46% | 11% | ||
| Free trade agreements | 38% | 21% | 11% | 27% | 24% | 13% | 8% | 18% | 41% | 21% | ||
| Compulsory superannuation | 71% | 8% | 36% | 35% | 14% | 5% | 3% | 7% | 79% | 7% | ||
| Medibank (now Medicare) | 63% | 10% | 31% | 32% | 19% | 7% | 3% | 9% | 76% | 6% | ||
| Reducing subsidies to car manufacturing | 28% | 27% | 10% | 18% | 28% | 18% | 9% | 16% | – | – |
Only the Government decisions to introduce compulsory superannuation (71%) and Medibank (63%) were considered good for Australia by a majority of respondents – although opinions on floating the dollar (33% good/12% bad), free trade agreements (38%/21%), the GST (46%/22%) and (by only a small margin) reducing subsidies to car manufacturing (28% good/27% poor) were more likely to be positive than negative.
The decisions to privatise three major national enterprises were more likely to be considered bad; 42% think privatising Telstra was bad (22% good), 33% thought privatising Qantas was bad (28% good) and 39% thought privatising the Commonwealth Bank was bad (24% good).
Q. The Labor Party is committed to a target of 50% renewable energy by 2030. An independent report has said this policy would require about $48 billion of new private sector (not Government) investment in large scale renewable energy production such as solar and wind farms. Do you approve or disapprove of this policy?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | ||
| Total approve | 59% | 70% | 48% | 86% | 59% | |
| Total disapprove | 19% | 8% | 32% | 5% | 25% | |
| Strongly approve | 20% | 27% | 10% | 49% | 17% | |
| Approve | 39% | 43% | 38% | 37% | 42% | |
| Disapprove | 11% | 5% | 18% | 4% | 12% | |
| Strongly disapprove | 8% | 3% | 14% | 1% | 13% | |
| Don’t know | 23% | 23% | 20% | 9% | 16% |
Over half (59%) of Australians approve of the target of 50% renewable energy by 2030. Just 19% disapprove.
Greens voters (86%) were far more likely to approve of this policy, followed by Labor voters (70%). Lib/Nat voters (48%) were less likely to approve.
Approval of this policy is higher with younger age groups, with 64% of those aged under 35 compared to 61% of those aged 35-54 and 39% of those aged 55+ approving.
There were no significant differences by gender, with 59% of males and 57% of females approving of this policy.
Q. Would you support or oppose the following measures?
| Total support | Total oppose | Strongly support | Support | Oppose | Strongly oppose | Don’t know | ||
| Cut corporate tax for small businesses with annual revenue/turnover of less than $2million (90% of trading companies). | 60% | 17% | 18% | 42% | 12% | 5% | 23% | |
| Cut corporate tax for larger companies, those with annual revenue/turnover of $2million or more (top 10% of trading companies). | 20% | 61% | 5% | 15% | 32% | 29% | 20% | |
| Change the definition of small business to give a tax cut to some companies with revenue of more than $2 million per year, putting them in the top 10% biggest (trading) companies in Australia. | 26% | 41% | 5% | 21% | 25% | 16% | 33% |
Amongst the measures listed, ‘Cut corporate tax for small businesses with annual revenue/turnover of less than $2million (90% of trading companies)’ was the only one with majority (60%) support.
A large number of Australians (61%) were opposed to ‘cutting the corporate tax for larger companies, those with annual revenue/turnover of $2million or more (top 10% of trading companies)’.
More Australians were opposed (41%) than supported (26%) changing ‘the definition of small business to give a tax cut to some companies with revenue of more than $2 million per year, putting them in the top 10% biggest (trading) companies in Australia.’
Q. Would you support or oppose the following measures?
| Total support | Labor support | Lib/Nat support | Greens support | other support | |
| Cut corporate tax for small businesses with annual revenue/turnover of less than $2million (90% of trading companies). | 60% | 52% | 72% | 56% | 61% |
| Cut corporate tax for larger companies, those with annual revenue/turnover of $2million or more (top 10% of trading companies). | 20% | 15% | 31% | 9% | 20% |
| Change the definition of small business to give a tax cut to some companies with revenue of more than $2 million per year, putting them in the top 10% biggest (trading) companies in Australia. | 26% | 23% | 37% | 17% | 24% |
Cutting the corporate tax for small businesses with annual revenue/turnover of less than $2million (90% of trading companies) was popular amongst all four voting groups, with 72% of Lib/Nat voters, 56% of Greens, 52% of Labor voters and 61% of other voters supporting this measure.
The other two measures were less popular, even amongst Lib/Nat voters; just 31% support cut corporate tax for larger companies, those with annual revenue/turnover of $2million or more, and just 37% support changing the definition of small business to give a tax cut to some companies with revenue of more than $2 million per year.