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Doing enough to address climate change

23 Oct 2018

Q. As far as you know, do you think Australia is doing enough, not enough or too much to address climate change?

  Total   Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote other   Aug 2015 Mar 2016 Aug 2016 Dec 2016 Sep 2017
Doing enough 23%   16% 36% 5% 24%   24% 21% 22% 22% 20%
Not doing enough 56%   69% 45% 88% 45%   53% 57% 52% 49% 56%
Doing too much 7%   3% 9% 2% 21%   7% 8% 8% 11% 8%
Don’t know 13%   12% 10% 5% 9%   16% 13% 18% 18% 16%

56% (no change since September last year) think Australia is not doing enough to address climate change and 23% (up 3%) think Australia is doing enough.

Those most likely to think Australia is not doing enough were aged 18-44 (61%) and university educated (65%).

Liberal National voters were split but were more likely to think the Government was not doing enough (45%).

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