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Statements about politics
Q. Do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
| Total agree | Total disagree | Strongly agree | Agree | Neither agree nor disagree | Disagree | Strongly disagree | Don’t know | ||
| Political parties in Australia are too ideological | 45% | 12% | 13% | 32% | 31% | 10% | 2% | 11% | |
| I don’t personally identify with either “left wing” or “right wing” politics | 50% | 18% | 19% | 31% | 26% | 14% | 4% | 7% | |
| I would consider voting for a new “centrist” political party which takes ideas from both sides of politics | 45% | 14% | 11% | 34% | 29% | 9% | 5% | 12% | |
| I wish both sides of politics would try to ‘meet each other in the middle’ more often | 71% | 6% | 28% | 43% | 18% | 4% | 2% | 6% | |
| There is no substantial difference between the policies of the Labor and Liberal Parties | 37% | 30% | 11% | 26% | 25% | 22% | 8% | 8% | |
| We don’t need any new political parties – the Labor, Liberal and minor parties represent the interests of most Australians. | 43% | 26% | 13% | 30% | 24% | 17% | 9% | 8% |
| Total agree | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | ||
| Political parties in Australia are too ideological | 45% | 43% | 47% | 45% | 52% | |
| I don’t personally identify with either “left wing” or “right wing” politics | 50% | 46% | 46% | 54% | 63% | |
| I would consider voting for a new “centrist” political party which takes ideas from both sides of politics | 45% | 50% | 42% | 42% | 56% | |
| I wish both sides of politics would try to ‘meet each other in the middle’ more often | 71% | 75% | 74% | 59% | 75% | |
| There is no substantial difference between the policies of the Labor and Liberal Parties | 37% | 29% | 39% | 35% | 58% | |
| We don’t need any new political parties – the Labor, Liberal and minor parties represent the interests of most Australians. | 43% | 55% | 57% | 30% | 26% |
There was strong agreement with the statement that both sides of politics should try to “meet in the middle” (71%). Half agree that they don’t personally identify as either “Left” or “right”.
They were most divided on the statements that “there is no substantial difference between the parties policies” (37% agree/30% disagree) and that we don’t need any new political parties” (43% agree/26% disagree).
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