Q. As far as you are aware, has the Turnbull Coalition Government increased funding to schools, decreased school funding or not changed school funding much at all?
Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | ||
Increased school funding | 28% | 21% | 42% | 12% | 30% | |
Decreased school funding | 22% | 32% | 15% | 30% | 19% | |
Not changed school funding much | 22% | 25% | 20% | 25% | 27% | |
Don’t know | 28% | 22% | 23% | 34% | 24% |
Views about whether the Federal Government had increased or decreased school funding were mixed. 28% thought they had increased funding, 22% thought they had decreased funding and 22% thought they had not changed the funding. Responses were partly related to voting intention – 42% of Liberal/National voters thought funding had increased while 32% of Labor voters thought it had decreased.