Q. Over the next 12 months do you think economic conditions in Australia will get better, get worse or stay much the same?
| Total
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Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Dec 2008 | Oct 2009 | Oct 2010 | Oct 2011 | Aug
2012 |
Sep
2013 |
Sep 2015 | |||
| Get Better | 27% | 21% | 41% | 18% | 15% | 21% | 66% | 40% | 16% | 22% | 38% | 16% | ||
| Get Worse | 41% | 50% | 26% | 48% | 55% | 61% | 15% | 30% | 58% | 45% | 33% | 59% | ||
| Get a lot better | 4% | 2% | 7% | – | 1% | 2% | 8% | 6% | 2% | 3% | 7% | 3% | ||
| Get a little better | 23% | 19% | 34% | 18% | 14% | 19% | 58% | 34% | 14% | 19% | 31% | 13% | ||
| Get a little worse | 30% | 34% | 25% | 38% | 33% | 45% | 11% | 20% | 41% | 30% | 23% | 39% | ||
| Get a lot worse | 11% | 16% | 1% | 10% | 22% | 16% | 4% | 10% | 17% | 15% | 10% | 20% | ||
| Stay much the same | 25% | 25% | 27% | 27% | 24% | 13% | 15% | 24% | 22% | 27% | 19% | 18% | ||
| No opinion | 7% | 3% | 5% | 7% | 6% | 5% | 4% | 6% | 4% | 6% | 10% | 7% |
27% of Australians believe that over the next 12 months, economic conditions in Australia will get better and 41% believe they will get worse.
Labor (50%) and Greens (48%) voters were more likely than Coalition voters (26%) to think that economic conditions in Australia would get worse over the next 12 months.
Since the last time this question was asked in September 2015, the percentage of Australians who believe economic conditions will get better has risen from 16% to 27%.