coronavirus, Health and safety
Q To what extent are you concerned about the threat of the Coronavirus in Australia?
| Mar’20 | Feb’20 | Difference | |
| Very concerned | 27% | 25% | +2 |
| Quite concerned | 36% | 43% | -7 |
| Not that concerned | 28% | 26% | +2 |
| Not at all concerned | 9% | 6% | +3 |
| Base (n) | 1,096 | 1,057 | – |
Q How likely do you think it is, that you will develop Coronavirus?
| Age group | Federal Voting Intention | |||||||
| Total | 18-34 | 35-54 | 55+ | Labor | Coalition | Greens | NET: Other | |
| Very likely | 7% | 11% | 9% | 2% | 6% | 7% | 6% | 10% |
| Somewhat likely | 24% | 25% | 27% | 21% | 27% | 26% | 18% | 21% |
| Somewhat unlikely | 43% | 35% | 42% | 49% | 40% | 48% | 37% | 38% |
| Very unlikely | 26% | 29% | 22% | 27% | 27% | 19% | 38% | 31% |
| Base (n) | 1,096 | 341 | 370 | 385 | 347 | 359 | 92 | 171 |
coronavirus, Health and safety
Q. To what extent are you concerned about the threat of the Coronavirus in Australia?
| Total | |
| Very concerned | 25% |
| Quite concerned | 43% |
| Not that concerned | 26% |
| Not at all concerned | 6% |
| Base (n) | 1,056 |
Q. Do you think the Government is doing enough to protect Australians from the threat of Coronavirus?
| Age | Federal Voting Intention | |||||||
| Total | 18-34 | 35-54 | 55+ | Labor | Coalition | Greens | NET: Other | |
| Government is doing enough | 49% | 43% | 45% | 57% | 43% | 68% | 34% | 37% |
| Government is not doing enough | 30% | 38% | 35% | 19% | 38% | 16% | 38% | 40% |
| Don’t know | 21% | 19% | 20% | 24% | 19% | 15% | 28% | 23% |
| Base (n) | 1,056 | 341 | 366 | 349 | 354 | 320 | 113 | 155 |
Q. To what extent do you support or oppose the following measures to limit the spread of the Coronavirus to Australia?
| NET: Agree | NET: Disagree | Strongly agree | Somewhat agree | Somewhat disagree | Strongly disagree | Unsure | |
| Stopping all flights to and from China until more is known about the disease | 85% | 10% | 59% | 25% | 8% | 2% | 5% |
| Stopping anyone from entering the country who has who has been to China in the last 14 days | 84% | 11% | 59% | 25% | 8% | 3% | 5% |
| People entering Australia from affected areas in China will be quarantined on Christmas Island for 14 days | 82% | 12% | 59% | 23% | 8% | 4% | 6% |
| NET: Agree | Age | Federal Voting Intention | ||||||
| Total | 18-34 | 35-54 | 55+ | Labor | Coalition | Greens | NET: Other | |
| Stopping all flights to and from China until more is known about the disease | 85% | 77% | 83% | 92% | 84% | 91% | 72% | 82% |
| Stopping anyone from entering the country who has who has been to China in the last 14 days | 84% | 76% | 84% | 90% | 84% | 90% | 71% | 86% |
| People entering Australia from affected areas in China will be quarantined on Christmas Island for 14 days | 82% | 73% | 82% | 90% | 79% | 92% | 67% | 83% |
| Base (n) | 1,056 | 341 | 366 | 349 | 354 | 320 | 113 | 155 |
cost to taxpayers, Health and safety, important regulation, rights and freedom
Q. What should be the most important factor Governments consider in relation to regulating each of these issues – protecting rights and freedom, protecting people’s health and safety or managing the cost to taxpayers (e.g. health costs of drug/alcohol/tobacco use)?
|
Protecting rights and freedom |
Protecting people’s health and safety |
Managing the cost to taxpayers |
Don’t know |
|
| Wearing seatbelts in cars |
5% |
89% |
3% |
3% |
| Wearing bike helmets |
6% |
88% |
3% |
3% |
| Personal use of recreational drugs |
14% |
64% |
13% |
10% |
| Smoking in public places |
16% |
70% |
8% |
6% |
| Buying and consuming alcohol |
18% |
64% |
11% |
7% |
| Shopping hours |
48% |
13% |
16% |
23% |
| Cigarette packaging |
15% |
65% |
10% |
10% |
| Junk food advertising |
13% |
70% |
8% |
9% |
| Gambling, poker machines |
22% |
46% |
20% |
12% |
| Films (i.e. censorship) |
51% |
21% |
8% |
19% |
| The internet |
56% |
21% |
7% |
16% |
| Making public statements which other people might find offensive |
54% |
18% |
5% |
23% |
For most of the areas listed above, the majority of respondents thought the most important factor for Governments to consider was ‘protecting people’s health and safety’.
The areas where respondents thought that is was more important to consider ‘protecting rights and freedoms’ were the internet (56%), making statements which other people might find offensive (54%), films (51%) and shopping hours (48%). ‘Managing the cost to tax payers’ was not considered to be an important factor by most respondents.
30 April 2012, 300412, cost to taxpayers, Government regulation, Health and safety, Polling, polls, regulation, rights and freedom
Q. What should be the most important factor Governments consider in relation to regulating each of these issues – protecting rights and freedom, protecting people’s health and safety or managing the cost to taxpayers (e.g. health costs of drug/alcohol/tobacco use)?
|
Protecting rights and freedom |
Protecting people’s health and safety |
Managing the cost to taxpayers |
Don’t know |
|
| Wearing seatbelts in cars |
5% |
91% |
3% |
2% |
| Wearing bike helmets |
6% |
89% |
3% |
2% |
| Personal use of recreational drugs |
18% |
61% |
12% |
9% |
| Smoking in public places |
19% |
67% |
9% |
5% |
| Buying and consuming alcohol |
25% |
58% |
11% |
6% |
| Shopping hours |
55% |
11% |
16% |
19% |
| Cigarette packaging |
16% |
61% |
14% |
8% |
| Junk food advertising |
16% |
66% |
11% |
8% |
| Films (i.e. censorship) |
59% |
19% |
7% |
15% |
| The internet |
62% |
18% |
6% |
15% |
For most of the areas listed above, the majority of respondents thought the most important factor for Governments to consider was ‘protecting people’s health and safety’.
The three areas where respondents thought that is was more important to consider ‘protecting rights and freedoms’ were ‘the internet’ (62%), ‘films’ (59%) and ‘shopping hours’ (55%).
‘Managing the cost to tax payers’ was not considered to be an important factor by most respondents.
annual leave, Board decisions, CEO, Health and safety, Offshoring jobs, Redundancies, rostering, salary and bonuses, wages, Working conditions, workplace, Workplace Issues
Q. How much say should employees have in the following issues in their workplace?
| Total a lot/
some say |
A lot of say | Some say | A little say | No say at all | Don’t know | |
| Health and safety | 90% | 63% | 27% | 7% | 2% | 1% |
| Working conditions | 88% | 55% | 33% | 8% | 2% | 1% |
| When they can take annual leave | 86% | 42% | 44% | 11% | 2% | 2% |
| Hours of work and rostering | 77% | 26% | 51% | 19% | 3% | 2% |
| Wages | 76% | 24% | 52% | 18% | 4% | 2% |
| Offshoring jobs (i.e. transferring jobs to another country) | 66% | 37% | 29% | 18% | 12% | 4% |
| Redundancies | 65% | 24% | 41% | 21% | 11% | 3% |
| CEO salary and bonuses | 59% | 29% | 30% | 18% | 20% | 3% |
| Board decisions | 44% | 16% | 28% | 29% | 22% | 4% |
A majority of respondents think employees should have a lot or some say in all workplace issues listed except for board decisions.
63% think employees should have a lot of say in health and safety, 55% in working conditions, 42% in annual leave and 37% in offshoring jobs.
Those on lower incomes (under $1,000pw) were more likely to think employees should have a lot of say in off-shoring jobs (45%) and CEO salary and bonuses (35%).