Regulation of Privatised Organisations

Q. Do you think that organisations (such as Telstra, Commonwealth Bank, Qantas, power companies, etc) that are privatized should be regulated by the Government or should they be treated the same as any other private company?

	Total	Vote Labor	Vote Lib/Nat	Vote Greens
Should be regulated	56%	72%	46%	63%
Should be treated the same as any other private company	34%	23%	47%	25%
Don’t know	10%	5%	6%	12%

56% think that organisations that are privatized should be regulated by the Government and 34% think they should be treated the same as any other private company. Labor and Greens voters are strongly of the view they should be regulated while Coalition voters are split 46% regulated/47% treated the same. There were no major differences across demographic groups.