Q. Which of the following issues are you more concerned about – over payments to welfare recipients or how politicians use their travel expenses?
Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | ||
Over payments to welfare recipients | 8% | 5% | 14% | 10% | 7% | |
Politicians travel expenses | 46% | 52% | 35% | 60% | 50% | |
Both equally | 40% | 38% | 48% | 29% | 40% | |
Neither | 2% | 3% | 1% | – | 1% | |
Don’t know | 4% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 2% |
46% are more concerned about how politicians use their travel expenses than over payments to welfare recipients and 40% are equally concerned about both. Only 8% are more concerned about over payments to welfare recipients.
Those most concerned about how politicians use their travel expenses were Labor voters (52%), Greens voters (60%) and aged 18-34 (51%).