Q. The Renewable Energy Target scheme encourages investment in renewable energy by requiring electricity retail companies to purchase a certain amount of renewable energy each year. By the year 2020, at least […] Read more

Q. Do you approve or disapprove of governments giving the following types of financial support to these industries?   Total approve Total disapprove   Strongly approve Approve Disapprove Strongly disapprove Don’t know […] Read more

Q. How important is it that Australia has a car manufacturing industry, even if it needs hundreds of millions of dollars each year in Government support and investment?   Total   Vote […] Read more

Q. After you reach retirement age, what do you expect will be your main source of income?   Total   Men Women   Aged 18-34 Aged 35-54 Aged 55+ The Government age […] Read more

Q. After you reach retirement age, what do you expect will be your main source of income?   Total Vote ALP Vote Lib Vote Greens Men Women Aged 18 -24 Aged 25 […] Read more

Q. The federal government has recently announced a number of major spending initiatives on health, education and defence reforms that will involve substantial investment over the next few years.  For each of […] Read more

Before you read the thoughts of Janelle, Kathy, Andrea, Ewen and Penelope, you should prepare the right way: in the sixty seconds, whatever you do, under no circumstances should you think of PINK ELEPHANTS. NO PINK ELEPHANTS. Of course, if you are human, your mind was immediately flooded with nothing but images of pink elephants. Read more

Deep in the weeds of the 24-hour dust-up over whether the mining boom is over lurks a more obvious strategy on the part of the mining companies: a determination to build up the specter of a threat to the boom if “costs” are not controlled—“costs” being workers’ wages. Read more