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%).