Q. Which of these do you think is the most important environmental problem facing Australia today? And which would you say is the second most important?
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Total 2 most import- ant |
Most import- ant |
Second most import- ant |
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other |
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Climate change |
49% |
32% |
17% |
58% |
42% |
69% |
39% |
|
|
Water supply |
38% |
20% |
18% |
35% |
45% |
26% |
31% |
|
|
The impact of mining |
25% |
12% |
13% |
26% |
22% |
36% |
20% |
|
|
Loss of native habitat |
23% |
9% |
14% |
21% |
27% |
21% |
28% |
|
|
The health of the Great Barrier Reef |
20% |
9% |
11% |
18% |
22% |
12% |
28% |
|
|
Air pollution |
17% |
7% |
10% |
20% |
16% |
13% |
17% |
|
|
The Murray-Darling Basin |
11% |
3% |
8% |
9% |
14% |
6% |
21% |
|
|
Don’t know |
9% |
9% |
1% |
6% |
6% |
6% |
8% |
The most important environmental problems were thought to be climate change (49%) and water supply (38%).
58% of Labor voters and 69% of Greens voters thought climate change was the most important problem – compared to 42% of Liberal/National voters. 36% of Greens voters thought the impact of mining was one of the two most important problems.