Essential Report

Type of Government

Apr 2, 2012

Q. Which of the following statements is closest to your view?

	Total	Vote Labor	Vote Lib/Nat	Vote Greens
An active Government is necessary to provide important public services, and to protect ordinary Australians from unfair policies and practices on the part of large financial and/or industrial groups.	67%	82%	59%	82%
We don’t need big government and extensive regulation of business and finance to take care of these matters: the market itself can deal with many of these issues on their own.	20%	10%	28%	11%
Don’t know	13%	8%	13%	8%

67% agree more that an active Government is necessary and 20% agree more with the view that the market can deal with many issues.

Strongest support for an active Government came from Labor and Greens voters (82%), women (70%) and aged under 25 (77%).

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