carbon compensation, carbon pollution, Carbon Tax, Compensation, EMC, ER, Essential Media, Essential Report, Federal Government, Greens, Labor, Liberal, Nationals, Polling, polls, price increases
Q. The Federal Government says that the funds raised from the carbon tax will be used to compensate those affected by price increases. Which of the following forms of compensation do you favour?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | |
| A direct payment to households | 39% | 44% | 37% | 50% |
| An income tax cut | 33% | 36% | 34% | 26% |
| A cut to the GST rate | 13% | 11% | 17% | 8% |
| Cuts to corporate taxes | 2% | 1% | 2% | 1% |
| Don’t know | 13% | 8% | 10% | 14% |
39% favour compensation as a direct payment to households and 33% favour income tax cuts. Greens voters (50%) and Labor voters (44%) are most likely to favour a direct payment while Coalition voters split 37% direct payment/34% tax cut.
Older people strongly favour a direct payment – among those aged 55+, 51% favour direct payment and 21% a tax cut, while for those aged 18-44, 39% favour a tax cut and 33% favour a direct payment.
EMC, ER, Essential Report, Federal Government, Greens, Independents, Labor, Liberal, Minority Government, Parliament, Polling, polls, power in Parliament
Q. Do you think the independents and Greens holding the balance of power in Parliament has been good or bad for Australia?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | |
| Total good | 27% | 33% | 12% | 83% |
| Total bad | 41% | 25% | 66% | 2% |
| Very good | 7% | 8% | 1% | 34% |
| Good | 20% | 25% | 11% | 49% |
| Neither good nor bad | 33% | 41% | 22% | 15% |
| Bad | 22% | 18% | 29% | 2% |
| Very bad | 19% | 7% | 37% | – |
27% think that the independents and Greens holding the balance of power in Parliament has been good for Australia and 41% think it has been bad.
Greens voters overwhelmingly think it has been good (83%) while two-thirds of Coalition voters think it has been bad. Labor voters are somewhat split – 33% good/25% bad/41% neither. Older respondents were more likely to think it was bad – those aged under 35 split 32% good/29% bad while those aged 55+ split 21% good/52% bad.
Australian Military, Australian people, banks, EMC, ER, Essential Report, Federal Government, Floods, insurance industry, Performance, Performance of Groups, Performance of Organisations, QLD State Government
Q. And from what you have seen and heard, how would you rate each of the following in terms of how they have responded to the floods?
| Total good | Total poor | Very good | Good | Average | Poor | Very poor | Don’t know | |
| The Federal Labor Government | 48% | 15% | 15% | 33% | 26% | 7% | 8% | 11% |
| The Federal Coalition Opposition | 29% | 19% | 6% | 23% | 37% | 12% | 7% | 15% |
| The Queensland State Government | 78% | 3% | 48% | 30% | 10% | 1% | 2% | 9% |
| The Queensland State Government (Qld only) | 79% | 3% | 51% | 28% | 11% | 1% | 2% | 7% |
| The Victorian State Government | 48% | 4% | 14% | 34% | 22% | 3% | 1% | 26% |
| The Victorian State Government (Vic only) | 53% | 8% | 13% | 40% | 23% | 6% | 2% | 16% |
| The NSW State Government | 33% | 12% | 8% | 25% | 27% | 8% | 4% | 27% |
| The NSW State Government (NSW only) | 26% | 22% | 5% | 21% | 33% | 13% | 9% | 20% |
| The Australian military | 78% | 2% | 49% | 29% | 8% | 1% | 1% | 10% |
| State emergency services | 88% | 2% | 71% | 17% | 4% | 1% | 1% | 7% |
| The media | 61% | 9% | 26% | 35% | 23% | 5% | 4% | 7% |
| The banks | 22% | 26% | 6% | 16% | 30% | 17% | 9% | 23% |
| The insurance industry | 10% | 53% | 2% | 8% | 22% | 25% | 28% | 14% |
| Australian businesses overall | 48% | 8% | 13% | 35% | 30% | 6% | 2% | 14% |
| The Australian people overall | 85% | 2% | 56% | 29% | 7% | 1% | 1% | 6% |
Groups with highest ratings for their response to the floods were state emergency services (88% good), the Australian people overall (85%), the Queensland State Government (78%) and the Australian military (78%).
The Federal Government’s response was rated 48% good/15% poor/26% average while the Federal Opposition was rated 29% good/19% poor/37% average.
The only groups with overall negative ratings were the insurance industry (53% poor/10% good) and the banks (26% poor/22% good).
broadband, EMC, ER, Essential Report, Federal Government, Greens, Internet, Labor, Liberal, National Broadband Network, NBN
Q. The Federal Government plans to build a National Broadband Network over the next few years. How important do you think it is for Australia to build a National Broadband Network?
| Total
Nov 10 |
Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Nov 09 | ||
| Total important | 69% | 87% | 54% | 84% | 65% | |
| Total not important | 25% | 9% | 42% | 12% | 26% | |
| Very Important | 35% | 55% | 17% | 55% | 30% | |
| Quite Important | 34% | 32% | 37% | 29% | 35% | |
| Not so important | 14% | 6% | 21% | 10% | 20% | |
| Not at all important | 11% | 3% | 21% | 2% | 6% | |
| Don’t know | 6% | 4% | 4% | 3% | 8% |
69% think that it is important for Australia to build a National Broadband Network and 25% think it is not important. This represents an increase in support (net +5%) for the NBN since this question was last asked in November 2009.
Labor (87%) and Greens voters (84%) and more likely to think the NBN is important. A majority of Liberal/National voters (54%) think it is important although a sizable minority (42%) think it is not important.
A majority of all age groups believe the NBN is important, although support tends to decrease with increasing age – of those aged 65+, 54% think it is important and 45% not important.
EMC, ER, Essential Report, Federal Government, Greens, Internet, Labor, Liberal, National Broadband Network, NBN
Q. Thinking about the Government’s plan to build a national broadband network, how much benefit will a national broadband network be to-
| Total benefit | Great
benefit |
Some benefit | Little benefit | Don’t know | Total benefit
April 09 |
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| Australian businesses | 84% | 55% | 29% | 8% | 8% | 80% | |
| Schools | 78% | 48% | 30% | 14% | 8% | na | |
| The general public overall | 78% | 44% | 34% | 15% | 8% | 76% | |
| Children | 72% | 39% | 33% | 19% | 9% | na | |
| The Australian economy | 71% | 39% | 32% | 18% | 11% | 65% | |
| You personally | 65% | 33% | 32% | 27% | 8% | 66% | |
| The economy of your local community | 65% | 32% | 33% | 24% | 12% | na |
The NBN is thought to be of most benefit to Australian business (84%), schools (78%) and the general public overall (78%). Since this question was last asked in April 2009, perceptions of benefit have increased for Australian business (+4%) and the Australian economy (+6%).
65% think they will personally benefit from the NBN. Those most likely to think they will benefit personally are aged under 35 (74%) Labor voters (83%), Greens voters (80%) and full-time workers (71%).
asylum seekers, children in detention centres, detention centres, Federal Government, Greens, immigration, Labor, Liberal
Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the Federal Government’s decision to move children and their families out of immigration detention centres and allow them to live in the community while their cases are being processed?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | |
| Total approve | 33% | 42% | 24% | 63% |
| Total disapprove | 53% | 45% | 67% | 28% |
| Strongly approve | 11% | 15% | 4% | 39% |
| Approve | 22% | 27% | 20% | 24% |
| Disapprove | 24% | 22% | 29% | 12% |
| Strongly disapprove | 29% | 23% | 38% | 16% |
| Don’t know | 13% | 13% | 9% | 8% |
53% disapproved the Federal Government’s decision to move children and their families out of immigration detention centres and allow them to live in the community while their cases are being processed and 33% approved.
63% of Greens voters approved, 67% of Liberal/National voters disapproved and Labor voters were split 42% approve/45% disapprove.
By gender – men 38% approve/50% disapprove, women 28% approve/57% disapprove.
banks, Federal Government, Government support, immigrants, pensioners, rudd, small business, unions
Q7. During their term in office, do you think the Rudd Government has given too much support, not enough support or just about the right amount of support to the following –
| Given too much support | Given enough support | Not given enough support | Don’t know | |
| Pensioners | 3% | 27% | 57% | 12% |
| Poor families | 3% | 28% | 54% | 16% |
| Country Australia | 2% | 31% | 46% | 21% |
| Small businesses | 2% | 37% | 39% | 22% |
| Working people | 2% | 47% | 37% | 13% |
| Unemployed workers | 10% | 37% | 34% | 19% |
| Recent immigrants | 41% | 26% | 17% | 17% |
| Large businesses | 26% | 37% | 14% | 23% |
| Unions | 19% | 42% | 13% | 26% |
| The banks and other large financial institutions | 43% | 33% | 5% | 19% |
About half the respondents think that the Rudd Government has not given enough support to pensioners (57%), poor families (54%) and country Australia (46%). A sizable proportion think that too much support has been given to the banks and other large financial institutions (43%) and recent immigrants (41%). 47% think the Rudd Government has given enough support to working people and 42% think they have given enough support to unions.
Among Labor voters, 50% think the Government has not given enough support to pensioners and 54% think they have not given enough support to poor families. Comments »
Federal Government, Health, hospitals, hospitals takeover, State Governments
Q. Do you think the State Governments should or should not agree to the Federal Government’s health plan to take control of funding hospitals and health services?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Liberal/National | Vote Greens | |
| Should agree to health plan | 56% | 73% | 40% | 65% |
| Should not agree to health plan | 26% | 11% | 45% | 21% |
| Don’t know | 18% | 16% | 15% | 14% |
A majority (56%) think the State Governments should agree to the Federal Government’s health plan to take control of funding hospitals and health services – 26% think they should not agree.
States most likely to agree are South Australia (75%) and Queensland (64%). 55% of NSW respondents agree and 45% of Victorians agree (32% of Victorians disagree). Comments »