Q. As far as you know, about how much of the Federal budget is spent on foreign aid?
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Total |
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote Other |
Jul 2011 |
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Less than 1% |
13% |
14% |
10% |
31% |
17% |
7% |
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|
About 1% |
11% |
12% |
12% |
12% |
8% |
8% |
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|
About 2% |
14% |
14% |
18% |
8% |
9% |
17% |
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|
About 5% |
10% |
10% |
11% |
11% |
14% |
11% |
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|
More than 5% |
9% |
11% |
8% |
7% |
16% |
16% |
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|
Don’t know |
43% |
39% |
41% |
32% |
35% |
41% |
19% (down 8% since July 2011) think Australia spends 5% or more of the Federal Budget on foreign aid – 24% (up 9%) think it is 1% or less. 43% could not give an estimate.
The majority of respondents who gave an answer over-estimated how much Australia spends on foreign aid – the actual figure for the 2014-15 budget was less than 1%.