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Federal budget engagement
Q. How much attention have you paid to the federal budget announcements?
This budget
May’21 |
Last budget
Oct’20 |
|
A lot of attention | 19% | 19% |
A little attention | 44% | 44% |
Not much attention | 27% | 25% |
No attention at all | 10% | 12% |
Base (n) | 1,100 | 1,082 |
Total | Gender | Age Group | Federal Voting Intention | |||||||||
Male | Female | 18-34 | 35-54 | 55+ | Labor | TOTAL: Coalition | Greens | TOTAL: Other | ||||
A lot of attention | 19% | 24% | 13% | 15% | 20% | 20% | 18% | 24% | 16% | 14% | ||
A little attention | 44% | 45% | 44% | 40% | 46% | 47% | 48% | 50% | 50% | 32% | ||
Not much attention | 27% | 24% | 31% | 34% | 22% | 27% | 28% | 19% | 24% | 35% | ||
No attention at all | 10% | 8% | 12% | 11% | 12% | 6% | 6% | 6% | 11% | 19% | ||
Base (n) | 1,100 | 539 | 561 | 341 | 379 | 380 | 369 | 410 | 105 | 112 | ||
- There is little difference between the level of engagement in the federal budget announcements this May compared to last October. People mainly either paid a little attention (44%) or not much attention (27%) to the announcements.
- Men are more likely than women to say they paid a lot of attention to the federal budget announcements (24% to 13%). Coalition voters are also more likely to have paid a lot of attention compared to all other voters (24% to 17%).

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