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Economy heading in right or wrong direction

1 Sep 2015

Q. Do you think Australia’s economy is heading in the right or wrong direction?

Total

Vote Labor

Vote Lib/Nat

Vote Greens

Vote other

May 2010

May 2011

Jun 2012

Apr 2013

Apr 2014

Aug 2014

May 2015

The right direction

35%

22%

62%

21%

26%

51%

45%

43%

36%

39%

35%

35%

The wrong direction

41%

52%

21%

61%

52%

25%

29%

32%

39%

34%

41%

40%

Don’t know

24%

26%

16%

189%

21%

24%

25%

25%

25%

26%

24%

25%

35% of respondents think that Australia’s economy is heading in the right direction and 41% think it is heading in the wrong direction. This represents no significant change since this question was asked in May.

22% (up 3%) of Labor voters, 62% (down 5%) of Liberal/National voters and 21% (up 12%) of Greens voters think the economy is heading in the right direction. 52% (down 6%) of Labor voters, 61% (down 4%) of Greens voters and 47% of those earning less than $600pw think the economy is heading in the wrong direction.

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