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State Government – Co-operate or Compete

23 Apr 2012

Q. When it comes to business expansion and investment in Australia, do you think that State Governments should co-operate with each other to attract business and investment or should they compete for business and investment by offering lower taxes and less regulation?

 

Total

Vote Labor

Vote Lib/Nat

Vote Greens

Should co-operate

67%

74%

64%

78%

Should compete

17%

16%

23%

5%

Don’t know

15%

10%

14%

16%

67% believe that State Governments should co-operate with each other to attract business and investment and 17% think they should compete for business and investment by offering lower taxes and less regulation.

23% of Liberal/National voters, 21% of men and 21% of NSW respondents think they should compete. Those most likely to think they should co-operate were Greens voters (78%), Labor voters (74%) and Queensland respondents (73%).

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