Reflection of JobKeeper surplus

Q. Last Friday the Federal Government announced that, due to an accounting error, the number of people on JobKeeper is around half what the Treasury estimated it to be. The current cost of JobKeeper has consequently been reduced from $130b to $70b.

How do you think this reflects on the government’s credibility?

		Federal Voting Intention
	Total	Labor	Coalition	Greens	TOTAL: Other
Very poorly	18%	30%	6%	24%	22%
Quite poorly	23%	28%	16%	37%	27%
Quite well	11%	12%	14%	8%	5%
Very well	5%	4%	5%	0%	10%
Does not affect the Government’s credibility	43%	26%	59%	31%	37%
TOTAL: Poorly	41%	58%	21%	61%	49%
TOTAL: Well	16%	16%	19%	8%	15%
Base (n)	1,059	299	413	95	136

•  43% of the public do not think the error causing the re-estimation of the JobKeeper cost affects the Government’s credibility, 41% think it reflects Very or Quite poorly.
• Most Coalition voters do not think the issue has affected the credibility of the Government (59%), while the majority of Labor (58%) and Greens (61%) voters think it reflects poorly.