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Economy heading in right or wrong direction

27 Jan 2016

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

Aug 2014

May 2015

Sep 2015

The right direction

30%

24%

48%

12%

15%

51%

45%

43%

36%

35%

35%

34%

The wrong direction

38%

49%

24%

50%

57%

25%

29%

32%

39%

41%

40%

39%

Don’t know

31%

27%

28%

38%

28%

24%

25%

25%

25%

24%

25%

27%

30% (down 4% since September) of respondents think that Australia’s economy is heading in the right direction and 38% (down 1% think it is heading in the wrong direction. This is the least optimistic outlook recorded over the past 5 years.

24% (no change) of Labor voters, 48% (down 6%) of Liberal/National voters and 12% (no change) of Greens voters think the economy is heading in the right direction. 49% (up 2%) of Labor voters, 24% (down 2%) of Liberal/National voters and 50% (down 9%) of Greens voters think it is heading in the wrong direction.

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