Importance of re-establishing the ABCC

Q. Compared to other issues the Government needs to address, how important is the issue of re-establishing the ABCC?

	Total		Vote Labor	Vote Lib/Nat	Vote Greens	Vote other		Aug 2016	Apr 2016
TOTAL Important	39%		29%	57%	29%	38%		35%	34%
TOTAL not important	38%		47%	25%	55%	43%		40%	41%
Very important	12%		9%	19%	5%	12%		9%	10%
Somewhat important	27%		20%	38%	24%	26%		26%	24%
Not so important	25%		26%	22%	28%	27%		25%	26%
Not at all important	13%		21%	3%	27%	16%		15%	15%
Don’t know	24%		24%	18%	16%	19%		26%	26%

 

39% of Australians consider the re-establishing of the ABCC to be important compared to the other issues the Government needs to address. 38% consider it to be not important.

These results are not significantly different from those of August and April 2016.

Lib/Nat voters (57%) were more likely to consider it to be important. Labor (47%), Greens (55%) and Other voters (43%) were more likely to consider it to be not important.