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Foreign aid budget

6 Jun 2017

Q. As far as you know, about how much of the Federal budget is spent on foreign aid?

  Total   Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote other Jun 2015 Jul 2011
Less than 1% 10%   10% 9% 20% 10% 13% 7%
About 1% 9%   8% 10% 12% 7% 11% 8%
About 2% 15%   15% 21% 13% 8% 14% 17%
About 5% 10%   10% 12% 5% 12% 10% 11%
More than 5% 12%   12% 11% 8% 26% 9% 16%
Don’t know 44%   44% 37% 41% 37% 43% 41%

 

Only 10% identified the correct amount of aid spending (less than 1% of the budget), a 3% decrease since June 2015. Those most likely to identify the correct amount were Greens voters (20%), those with a University degree (15%) and those earning over $104k per year (14%).

Overall, 82% of those who provided an answer other than ‘don’t know’ overestimated the amount spent on foreign aid.

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