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Government spending cuts

20 May 2013

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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