Q. Over the next 12 months do you think economic conditions in Australia will get better, get worse or stay much the same?
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1 Dec 08 |
5 Oct 09 |
18 Oct 10 |
3 Oct 11 |
27 Aug 12 |
29 Jan 13 |
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Total 16 Sep 13 |
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Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
| Total better |
21% |
66% |
40% |
16% |
22% |
29% |
38% |
16% |
68% |
13% |
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| Total worse |
61% |
15% |
30% |
58% |
45% |
37% |
33% |
59% |
8% |
58% |
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| Get a lot better |
2% |
8% |
6% |
2% |
3% |
4% |
7% |
4% |
14% |
– |
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| Get a little better |
19% |
58% |
34% |
14% |
19% |
25% |
31% |
12% |
54% |
13% |
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| Get a little worse |
45% |
11% |
20% |
41% |
30% |
28% |
23% |
40% |
7% |
40% |
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| Get a lot worse |
16% |
4% |
10% |
17% |
15% |
9% |
10% |
19% |
1% |
18% |
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| Stay much the same |
13% |
15% |
24% |
22% |
27% |
27% |
19% |
17% |
19% |
20% |
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| Don’t know |
5% |
4% |
6% |
4% |
6% |
6% |
10% |
9% |
5% |
10% |
Confidence in the economic outlook has improved since January. The percentage of respondents believing conditions will get better increased 9 points to 38%, while those believing that economic conditions will get worse over the next 12 months dropped 4 points to 33%. This is the most positive outlook recorded since October 2010.
Shifts in opinion are strongly associated with voting intention – Labor voters have shifted from 50% better/22% worse (net +28) to 16% better/59% worse (net -43). Liberal/National voters have shifted from 21% better/51% worse (net -30) to 68% better/8% worse (net +60).