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Government spending cuts
Q. Do you think the Federal Budget has cut Government spending by too much, not enough or about the right amount?
Total |
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
|
Cut spending too much |
20% |
20% |
19% |
23% |
Not cut spending enough |
34% |
13% |
54% |
25% |
Cut spending about right amount |
21% |
42% |
9% |
29% |
Don’t know |
25% |
25% |
18% |
23% |
34% thought that the Federal budget had not cut Government spending enough. 20% thought it had cut spending too much and 21% thought it had cut spending about right.
42% of Labor voters thought the spending cuts were about right while 54% of Liberal/National voters thought spending had not been cut enough.

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