Q. Do you think Australia spends too much or too little on foreign aid?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Jun 2015 | Jul 2011 | ||
| Spends too much | 41% | 36% | 46% | 13% | 66% | 44% | 42% | |
| Spends too little | 16% | 18% | 12% | 46% | 11% | 16% | 16% | |
| Spends about the right amount | 19% | 19% | 26% | 13% | 11% | 21% | 21% | |
| Don’t know | 24% | 27% | 16% | 27% | 11% | 19% | 21% |
41% thought we spend too much on foreign aid, 16% thought we spend too little, and 19% thought we spend about the right amount.
Of those who identified the correct amount spent on foreign aid, 47% thought we spend too little, 24% thought we spend too much, and 18% thought we spend the right amount.
Of those who over-estimated the amount spent on foreign aid, 50% thought we spend too much, 18% thought we spend too little, and 27% thought we spend the right amount.
36% of those who said they did not know how much we spend in foreign aid said that we spend too much.
Additional Table
The following table provides a cross-tabulation of the previous two questions, breaking down attitudes towards foreign aid spending by how much is believed to be spent on foreign aid.
| Total | Under 1% (Correct) | 1-5% | Over 5% | Don’t know | ||
| Spends too much | 41% | 24% | 39% | 77% | 36% | |
| Spends too little | 16% | 47% | 22% | 6% | 8% | |
| Spends about the right amount | 19% | 18% | 32% | 12% | 10% | |
| Don’t know | 24% | 12% | 6% | 4% | 45% |