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  • Dec, 2014

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    Defence forces pay increase

    Q. Australia’s defence forces have been awarded a 1.5% annual pay increase for the next three years. Do you think this pay increase is fair or unfair?

     

    Total

     

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

    Vote Other

     

    Work full time

    Work part time

    No increase

    Increase up to 1.5%

    Increase more than 1.5%

    Total fair

    42%

    37%

    50%

    42%

    39%

    45%

    38%

    50%

    55%

    34%

    Total unfair

    47%

    52%

    43%

    33%

    56%

    45%

    44%

    37%

    38%

    61%

    Very fair

    11%

    9%

    12%

    8%

    16%

    12%

    9%

    15%

    13%

    5%

    Fair

    31%

    28%

    38%

    34%

    23%

    33%

    29%

    35%

    42%

    29%

    Unfair

    28%

    25%

    31%

    30%

    37%

    26%

    33%

    24%

    26%

    37%

    Very unfair

    19%

    27%

    13%

    3%

    19%

    19%

    11%

    13%

    12%

    24%

    Don’t know

    12%

    11%

    6%

    25%

    5%

    10%

    17%

    14%

    7%

    5%

    42% think the 1.5% pay increase awarded to the defence forces is fair and 47% think it is unfair.

    A majority of Labor voters (52%) and other voters (56%) think it is unfair.

    A majority of workers who said they had received no pay increase or an increase of 1.5% or less in the last 12 months thought the defence forces pay increase was fair while 61% of those who had received a pay increase greater than 1.5% thought it was unfair.

  • Mar, 2012

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    Women in Defence Forces

    Q. From what you’ve read and heard, do you think that women are generally respected and treated fairly in Australia’s defence forces or are they not respected or treated fairly?

     

    Total

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

    Men

    Women

    Respected and treated fairly

    31%

    34%

    34%

    24%

    37%

    25%

    Not respected or treated fairly

    44%

    43%

    41%

    58%

    40%

    48%

    Don’t know

    25%

    23%

    25%

    18%

    23%

    27%

    44% think that women in Australia’s defence forces are not respected or treated fairly, 31% think they are respected and treated fairly and 25% don’t know.

    Only 25% of women think women in the defence forces are respected and treated fairly compared to 37% of men. 54% of respondents aged 55+ think they are not respected or treated fairly.

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  • Apr, 2011

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    Careers

    Q. Which of the following occupations do you think provide good careers for young people?

    Yes No Don’t know
    Trades 88% 6% 6%
    Computing and information technology 86% 6% 7%
    Nursing 78% 15% 7%
    Teaching 75% 17% 8%
    Tourism and hospitality 72% 19% 9%
    Police 71% 20% 9%
    Defence forces 71% 20% 9%
    Banking and finance 70% 19% 10%
    Retail 54% 36% 10%

    The most favoured occupations for providing good careers were thought to be trades (88%), computing and IT (86%) and nursing (78%).

    All occupations tested scored at least 70% except for retail at 54%.

    Younger respondents (aged 18-35) tended to have a similar order of preference to the general population – their most favoured occupations were trades (78%), computing and IT (76%), teaching (68%) and nursing (67%).

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