Q. Do you think there should be more or fewer independents in Federal Parliament?
Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | |
Should be more | 29% | 29% | 21% | 58% | 65% |
Should be fewer | 26% | 21% | 40% | 5% | 7% |
About the right number | 23% | 32% | 19% | 19% | 14% |
Don’t know | 22% | 19% | 20% | 17% | 14% |
Respondents are divided over whether there should be more or fewer independents in Parliament – 29% say more, 26% fewer and 23% think there is about the right number. 40% of Coalition voters think there should be fewer and a majority of Greens and other voters think there should be more.