Impact of Budget on employment
Q. Do you think the Government’s budget will be good or bad for employment in Australia?
|
Total
|
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other |
|
| Total good |
21% |
8% |
46% |
3% |
11% |
|
| Total bad |
49% |
76% |
15% |
74% |
67% |
|
| Very good |
4% |
4% |
8% |
– |
1% |
|
| Good |
17% |
4% |
38% |
3% |
10% |
|
| Neither good nor bad |
21% |
13% |
31% |
12% |
16% |
|
| Bad |
24% |
30% |
13% |
37% |
31% |
|
| Very bad |
25% |
46% |
2% |
37% |
36% |
|
| Don’t know |
9% |
4% |
8% |
11% |
5% |
49% think that the Government’s budget will be bad for employment in Australia and 21% think it will be good for employment.
Among those earning less than $600pw, 17% think it will be good and 60% think it will be bad.
Refusal of budget
Q. If the Senate refuses to pass major parts of the Government’s budget (e.g. $7 Medicare co-payment, deregulating university fees) which of the following actions do you think the Government should take?
|
Total
|
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other |
|
| Introduce a new budget |
38% |
22% |
60% |
32% |
30% |
|
| Call an election |
43% |
67% |
19% |
52% |
55% |
|
| Don’t know |
19% |
11% |
20% |
16% |
16% |
If the Senate refuses to pass major parts of the Government’s budget, 43% think the Government should call an election and 38% think they should introduce a new budget.
Liberal/National voters favour introducing a new budget (60%) while 67% of Labor voters think the Government should call an election. A majority of Greens (52%) and other voters (55%) also favour an election.
Election promises
Q. The Prime Minister, Tony Abbott has said that no election promises were broken in the recent Federal budget. Do you agree or disagree?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other |
|
| Total agree |
19% |
7% |
41% |
4% |
9% |
|
| Total disagree |
72% |
92% |
49% |
86% |
86% |
|
| Strongly agree |
5% |
5% |
8% |
1% |
4% |
|
| Agree |
14% |
2% |
33% |
3% |
5% |
|
| Disagree |
26% |
11% |
40% |
19% |
27% |
|
| Strongly disagree |
46% |
81% |
9% |
67% |
59% |
|
| Don’t know |
8% |
1% |
10% |
10% |
4% |
19% agree with Tony Abbott’s claim that no election promises were broken in the recent Federal budget and 72% disagree.
Even Liberal/National voters were more likely to disagree – 41% agree, 49% disagree.
Federal budget: comparison to pre-budget expectations
Q. In general, do you think the next Federal Budget, to be announced on Tuesday 13th May 2014 will be good or bad for?
|
Pre-Budget |
Post-Budget |
|||
|
|
Total Good |
Total Bad |
Total Good |
Total Bad |
| You personally |
8% |
55% |
13% |
52% |
| Average working people |
9% |
63% |
14% |
59% |
| Australian business |
25% |
33% |
36% |
23% |
| The economy over all |
28% |
36% |
40% |
32% |
| People who are well off |
40% |
23% |
45% |
16% |
| People on lower incomes |
12% |
60% |
11% |
66% |
| Australian families |
11% |
59% |
11% |
62% |
| Older Australians |
8% |
67% |
10% |
66% |
| Younger Australians |
11% |
49% |
16% |
55% |
Perceptions of the how the budget will impact on each of these groups have not shifted dramatically from when the question was last asked prior to the budget.
The key areas of difference are listed below:
- Compared to prior to the budget, less people now think this that the budget will be bad for Australian business (33% before, 23% after).
- More people now believe that the budget will be bad for people on lower incomes (60% before, 66% after) and ‘younger Australians’ (49% before, 55% after).
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