Government Support

Q7. During their term in office, do you think the Rudd Government has given too much support, not enough support or just about the right amount of support to the following –

	Given too much support	Given enough support	Not given enough support	Don’t know
Pensioners	3%	27%	57%	12%
Poor families	3%	28%	54%	16%
Country Australia	2%	31%	46%	21%
Small businesses	2%	37%	39%	22%
Working people	2%	47%	37%	13%
Unemployed workers	10%	37%	34%	19%
Recent immigrants	41%	26%	17%	17%
Large businesses	26%	37%	14%	23%
Unions	19%	42%	13%	26%
The banks and other large financial institutions	43%	33%	5%	19%

About half the respondents think that the Rudd Government has not given enough support to pensioners (57%), poor families (54%) and country Australia (46%). A sizable proportion think that too much support has been given to the banks and other large financial institutions (43%) and recent immigrants (41%). 47% think the Rudd Government has given enough support to working people and 42% think they have given enough support to unions.

Among Labor voters, 50% think the Government has not given enough support to pensioners and 54% think they have not given enough support to poor families.