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Q. Does the Government’s decision to exempt fuel from the carbon tax for households, trade and small business make you more or less likely to support a carbon tax or does it make no difference?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Men | Women | Age
18-34 |
Aged
35-54 |
Aged 55+ | |
| Total more likely to support | 30% | 50% | 20% | 44% | 30% | 31% | 41% | 26% | 24% |
| Total less likely to support | 11% | 8% | 11% | 19% | 14% | 8% | 12% | 13% | 10% |
| A lot more likely to support | 7% | 18% | 2% | 12% | 9% | 6% | 8% | 7% | 6% |
| A little more likely to support | 23% | 32% | 18% | 32% | 21% | 25% | 33% | 19% | 18% |
| A little less likely to support | 6% | 8% | 5% | 13% | 7% | 4% | 8% | 7% | 5% |
| A lot less likely to support | 5% | * | 8% | 8% | 7% | 4% | 4% | 6% | 5% |
| Makes no difference | 52% | 36% | 66% | 29% | 50% | 53% | 37% | 55% | 63% |
| Don’t know | 6% | 6% | 2% | 5% | 5% | 7% | 9% | 6% | 3% |
More than half the respondents (52%) said the Government’s decision to exempt fuel from the carbon tax for households, trade and small business makes no difference to their support for the carbon tax. 30% say it makes them more likely to support the tax and 11% less likely.
Those more likely to support the tax were Labor voters (50%), Greens voters (44%) and people aged under 35 (41%).
Those most likely to say it makes no difference were Coalition voters (66%) and people aged 55+ (63%).
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Q. Do you think Australia should delay imposing a carbon pollution tax until the US has established an equal or stronger carbon pricing system? (Question commissioned by Network Ten)
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Men | Women | Aged
18-34 |
Aged
35-54 |
Aged 55+ | |
| Yes | 45% | 33% | 62% | 13% | 51% | 40% | 34% | 47% | 56% |
| No | 33% | 47% | 21% | 71% | 34% | 33% | 40% | 31% | 29% |
| Don’t know | 21% | 20% | 17% | 16% | 15% | 27% | 25% | 22% | 15% |
45% of respondents think Australia should delay imposing a carbon pollution tax until the US has established an equal or stronger carbon pricing system and 33% think we should not delay.
Those most likely to think Australia should delay imposing a carbon pollution tax were Coalition voters (62%), men (51%) and aged 55+ (56%).
Those most likely to disagree were Greens voters (71%), Labor voters (47%) and aged 18-34 (40%).
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