Do you think the following parties are too right wing/conservative, too left wing/progressive or about right?
Too right wing/ conservative | Too left wing/ progressive | About right | Don’t know | Labor voters
Too right wing/ conservative |
Labor voters
Too left wing/ progressive |
Labor voters
About right |
Labor voters
Don’t know |
Lib/Nat voters Too right wing/ conservative | Lib/Nat voters Too left wing/ progressive | Lib/Nat voters About right | Lib/Nat voters Don’t know | |
The Labor Party | 16% | 19% | 30% | 35% | 15% | 6% | 51% | 28% | 17% | 34% | 22% | 27% |
The Liberal Party | 26% | 9% | 31% | 34% | 41% | 9% | 16% | 34% | 11% | 9% | 58% | 22% |
The Greens | 7% | 31% | 21% | 41% | 9% | 25% | 24% | 42% | 9% | 45% | 13% | 33% |
Respondents were evenly divided over whether the Labor Party was too right wing (16%) or left wing (19%) but more likely to think that the Liberal Party was too right wing (26%) and the Greens were too left wing (31%).
However, 51% of Labor voters think the Labor Party is about right and 58% of Liberal/National voters think the Liberal party is about right. Labor voters were a little more likely to think the Labor Party was too right wing (15%) than left wing (6%) whereas Liberal/National voters were more evenly divided (11% too right wing/9% too left wing).