Q. Over the next 12 months do you think economic conditions in Australia will get better, get worse or stay much the same?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Oct 2010 | Oct 2011 | August 2012 |
Jan 2013 |
Sept 2013 | |||||
| Get Better | 16% | 15% | 23% | 8% | 10% | 40% | 16% | 22% | 29% | 38% | ||||
| Get Worse | 59% | 67% | 51% | 69% | 58% | 30% | 58% | 45% | 37% | 33% | ||||
| Get a lot better | 3% | 2% | 4% | 1% | 1% | 6% | 2% | 3% | 4% | 7% | ||||
| Get a little better | 13% | 13% | 19% | 7% | 9% | 34% | 14% | 19% | 25% | 31% | ||||
| Get a little worse | 39% | 44% | 36% | 44% | 36% | 20% | 41% | 30% | 28% | 23% | ||||
| Get a lot worse | 20% | 23% | 15% | 25% | 22% | 10% | 17% | 15% | 9% | 10% | ||||
| Stay much the same | 18% | 12% | 22% | 14% | 26% | 24% | 22% | 27% | 27% | 19% | ||||
| No opinion | 7% | 4% | 4% | 9% | 5% | 6% | 4% | 6% | 6% | 10% |
Just 16% of Australians believe that over the next 12 months, economic conditions in Australia will get better. Over half (59%) believe they will get worse.
Labor (67%) and Greens (69%) voters were more likely than Coalition voters (51%) to think that economic conditions in Australia would get worse over the next 12 months.
Since the first time this question was asked in September 2013, the percentage of Australians who believe economic conditions will get worse has risen from 33% to 59%.