Q. On average, Australia’s population increases by about 300,000 per year (less than 2%). Do you think this is too high, too low or about right?
Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | |
Too high | 48% | 44% | 52% | 59% |
Too low | 4% | 3% | 6% | 7% |
About right | 35% | 39% | 35% | 31% |
Don’t know | 12% | 13% | 6% | 3% |
Nearly half (48%) believe that the current rate of population growth is too high and only 4% think it is too low – 35% think it is about right.
Labor voters are split (44% too high compared to 42% about right or too low), but a majority of Liberal/National voters (52%) and Greens voters (59%) think it is too high.