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Population Growth
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.
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Two Party Preferred:
Labor
45%
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48%
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- Performance of Scott Morrison
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- Preferred Prime Minister
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- Perceptions of change in the standard of living for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- Changing views towards Australia Day
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