Q. How important is it that Australia wins gold medals at the 2016 Olympics being held in Rio?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Men | Women | Aged 18-34 | Aged 35-54 | Aged 65+ | Aug 2012 | |
| Very important | 15% | 18% | 18% | 4% | 13% | 18% | 12% | 17% | 16% | 10% | 12% |
| Quite important | 36% | 35% | 45% | 25% | 26% | 38% | 35% | 36% | 37% | 35% | 32% |
| Not so important | 30% | 29% | 30% | 42% | 33% | 27% | 33% | 29% | 29% | 32% | 36% |
| Not at all important | 13% | 13% | 6% | 25% | 20% | 14% | 12% | 10% | 13% | 17% | 17% |
| Don’t know | 6% | 5% | 2% | 3% | 9% | 3% | 8% | 8% | 5% | 5% | 3% |
51% say it is very or quite important that Australia wins gold medals at the Rio Olympics and 43% say it is not so important or not at all important.
This is considerably higher than for the London Olympics (44% important).
Those most likely to think it is important were men (56%) and full-time workers (57%).
Q. Direct Federal funding of Australia’s Olympic sports over the past four years has been at least $377 million. Do you think this investment is too much, not enough or about right?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Aug 2012 | |||
| Too much | 36% | 36% | 34% | 35% | 48% | 58% | ||
| Not enough | 11% | 14% | 10% | 11% | 8% | 9% | ||
| About right | 34% | 30% | 42% | 35% | 30% | 19% | ||
| Don’t know | 19% | 20% | 13% | 18% | 13% | 14% |
36% (down from 58% in 2012) think that Australia invests too much in Olympic sports, 34% (up 15%) think Australia spends about the right amount and 11% think we don’t spend enough.
Q. The Government plans to re-establish the Australian Building and Construction Commission to address claims of union militancy in the construction industry. The ABCC’s powers included preventing any person from revealing they had been forced to give testimony to the Commission, and overriding a person’s right to silence. Do you support or oppose re-establishing the ABCC?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Oct 2013 | Mar 2016 | Apr 2016 | |||
| Total support | 32% | 20% | 53% | 25% | 28% | 29% | 35% | 35% | ||
| Total oppose | 18% | 30% | 6% | 27% | 22% | 22% | 17% | 16% | ||
| Strongly support | 13% | 5% | 24% | 8% | 11% | 12% | 17% | 17% | ||
| Support | 19% | 15% | 27% | 17% | 17% | 17% | 18% | 18% | ||
| Neither support nor oppose | 28% | 27% | 28% | 24% | 30% | 23% | 27% | 23% | ||
| Oppose | 9% | 14% | 4% | 14% | 11% | 9% | 8% | 8% | ||
| Strongly oppose | 9% | 16% | 2% | 13% | 11% | 13% | 9% | 8% | ||
| Don’t know | 23% | 23% | 14% | 24% | 20% | 25% | 22% | 27% |
32% support re-establishing the ABCC and 18% oppose. 28% neither support nor oppose and 23% don’t have an opinion. This is a decline in support for re-establishing the ABCC since this question was asked in April.
39% of full-time workers support and 16% oppose. 23% of part-time workers support and 15% oppose.
Q. Compared to other issues the Government needs to address, how important is the issue of re-establishing the ABCC?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Apr 2016 | |||
| Total important | 35% | 24% | 51% | 21% | 39% | 34% | ||
| Total not important | 40% | 50% | 31% | 54% | 39% | 41% | ||
| Very important | 9% | 5% | 15% | 2% | 9% | 10% | ||
| Somewhat important | 26% | 19% | 36% | 19% | 30% | 24% | ||
| Not so important | 25% | 27% | 25% | 31% | 23% | 26% | ||
| Not at all important | 15% | 23% | 6% | 23% | 16% | 15% | ||
| Don’t know | 26% | 26% | 18% | 24% | 22% | 26% |
35% say that re-establishing the ABCC is very or somewhat important compared to other issues the Government needs to address and 40% say it is not important. This is similar to when this question was asked in April.
Those more likely to think it is important were Liberal/National voters (51%) and people aged 65+ (48%).
Those more likely to say it was not important were Labor (50%) and Greens (54%) voters.
Q. Did you give both your name and address in the Census held this week?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Aged 18-34 | Aged 35-54 | Aged 55+ | |||
| Yes, gave both name and address | 71% | 76% | 72% | 58% | 77% | 61% | 69% | 85% | ||
| No, did not give name and address | 6% | 5% | 8% | 7% | 4% | 13% | 4% | 2% | ||
| Did not fill out the Census | 23% | 19% | 20% | 35% | 19% | 26% | 28% | 14% |
6% say they did not give their name and address in the 2016 Census. 23% say they have not yet completed the Census.
Those most likely to have not given their name and address were aged 25-34 (15%).
Q. Would you support or oppose holding a Royal Commission into the banking and financial services industry?
| Total
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Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | April 2016 | |||
| Total support | 64% | 76% | 59% | 71% | 72% | 59% | ||
| Total oppose | 13% | 6% | 22% | 8% | 10% | 15% | ||
| Strongly support | 28% | 38% | 17% | 34% | 33% | 27% | ||
| Support | 36% | 38% | 42% | 37% | 39% | 32% | ||
| Oppose | 9% | 5% | 15% | 8% | 7% | 11% | ||
| Strongly oppose | 4% | 1% | 7% | – | 3% | 4% | ||
| Don’t know | 23% | 18% | 19% | 21% | 18% | 25% |
There was majority support for holding a Royal Commission into the banking and financial services sector – 64% supported a Royal Commission and 13% opposed. This is a 5% increase in support since this question was asked in April.
Those most likely to support a Royal Commission into the banking and financial services sector were aged 65+ (70%), Labor voters (76%), Greens voters 71%) and those earning $2,000+ pw (70%).
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
2/8/16 |
2 weeks ago
26/7/16 |
4 weeks ago
12/7/16 |
Election 7 Sep 13 | |||
| Liberal | 37% | 36% | 35% | 37% | |||
| National | 2% | 3% | 4% | 4% | |||
| Total Liberal/National | 40% | 39% | 39% | 41% | 45.6% | ||
| Labor | 37% | 37% | 37% | 36% | 33.4% | ||
| Greens | 10% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 8.6% | ||
| Nick Xenophon Team | 4% | 4% | 4% | 3% | – | ||
| Other/Independent | 10% | 10% | 11% | 10% | 12.4% | ||
| 2 party preferred | |||||||
| Liberal National | 48% | 48% | 48% | 49% | 53.5% | ||
| Labor | 52% | 52% | 52% | 51% | 46.5% |
NB. Sample = 1,795. The data in the above tables comprise 2-week averages derived from the first preference/leaning to voting questions. Respondents who select ‘don’t know’ are not included in the results. The two-party preferred estimate is calculated by distributing the votes of the other parties according to their preferences at the 2013 election.
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 | Dec 2015 | Mar 2016 | Jun 2016 | Jul 2016 | |||
| Total approve | 38% | 15% | 77% | 18% | 27% | 56% | 45% | 38% | 37% | ||
| Total disapprove | 43% | 69% | 14% | 62% | 59% | 23% | 35% | 40% | 48% | ||
| Strongly approve | 6% | 2% | 15% | – | 1% | 13% | 6% | 6% | 8% | ||
| Approve | 32% | 13% | 62% | 18% | 26% | 43% | 39% | 32% | 29% | ||
| Disapprove | 26% | 37% | 12% | 37% | 35% | 16% | 24% | 24% | 27% | ||
| Strongly disapprove | 17% | 32% | 2% | 25% | 24% | 7% | 11% | 16% | 21% | ||
| Don’t know | 19% | 16% | 10% | 19% | 15% | 21% | 21% | 21% | 16% |
38% (up 1% from 4 weeks ago) of respondents approve of the job Malcolm Turnbull is doing as Prime Minister and 43% (down 5%) disapprove – a change in net approval rating from -11 to -5.
77% (up 2%) of Liberal/National voters approve of Malcolm Turnbull’s performance with 14% (no change) disapproving. 15% (up 2%) of Labor voters and 18% (down 1%) of Greens voters approve of Malcolm Turnbull’s performance.
By gender, men were 42% approve/46% disapprove and women 33% approve/41% disapprove.