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Liberal Party and WorkChoices
Q. How likely do you think it is that Tony Abbott and the Liberal Party would try to bring back industrial laws similar to WorkChoices?
Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote Other | Work full time | Work part time | May 2013 | ||||
Total likely | 44% | 65% | 30% | 60% | 54% | 46% | 41% | 51% | |||
Total unlikely | 26% | 16% | 41% | 21% | 25% | 29% | 21% | 27% | |||
Very likely | 20% | 36% | 7% | 42% | 19% | 18% | 17% | 26% | |||
Quite likely | 24% | 29% | 23% | 18% | 35% | 28% | 24% | 25% | |||
Not very likely | 17% | 10% | 28% | 13% | 14% | 18% | 17% | 16% | |||
Not at all likely | 9% | 6% | 13% | 8% | 11% | 11% | 4% | 11% | |||
Don’t know | 29% | 19% | 29% | 19% | 21% | 25% | 37% | 23% |
44% think it likely that Tony Abbott and the Liberal Party would try to bring back industrial laws similar to WorkChoices and 26% think it unlikely.
Since this question was asked in May 2013 (before the election of the Abbott Government), those thinking it likely has dropped from 51% to 44% – mostly due to an increase in “don’t know” from 23% to 29%.

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