Q. Which party – Labor or Liberal – do you think is best when it comes to:
| Labor | Liberal | No Diff-erence | Don’t Know | May 2014 diff-erence | |
| Representing the interests of the large corporate and financial interests | 13% | 50% | 23% | 14% | +41 |
| Handling the economy in a way that best helps small business | 23% | 36% | 27% | 15% | +5 |
| Handling the economy overall | 22% | 35% | 28% | 14% | +14 |
| Handling the economy in a way that best helps the middle class | 28% | 31% | 28% | 14% | -1 |
| Handling the economy in a way that helps you and people like you the most. | 32% | 28% | 26% | 14% | -8 |
| Representing the interests of you and people like you | 33% | 27% | 26% | 13% | -10 |
| Standing up for the middle class in Australia | 32% | 25% | 29% | 13% | -14 |
| Handling the economy in a way that tries to take the interests of working families into consideration as much as it takes the interests of the large corporate and financial groups | 31% | 24% | 29% | 16% | -10 |
| Representing the interests of Australian working families | 41% | 20% | 26% | 13% | -27 |
| Being more concerned about the interests of working families in Australia than the rich and large business and financial interests | 41% | 19% | 26% | 13% | -29 |
Labor was more likely to be selected as the party best at all of the items, except for ‘Representing the interests of the large corporate and financial interests’ (50% Liberal, 13% Labor), ‘Handling the economy overall’ (35% Liberal, 22% Labor), ‘Handling the economy in a way that best helps small business’ (36% Liberal, 23% Labor) and ‘Handling the economy in a way that best helps the middle class’ (31% Liberal, 28% Labor).
Since this question was asked nearly 2 years ago, the main shifts have been for ‘Handling the economy in a way that best helps small business’ (8% to the Liberals), ‘Standing up for the middle class in Australia’ (7% to the Liberals) and ‘Being more concerned about the interests of working families in Australia than the rich and large business and financial interests’ (7% to the Liberals).