28 August 2012, 280812, charities, job cuts, liberal government, NPO, public services, The Commonwealth
Q. Do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
|
Total agree |
Total disagree |
Strongly agree |
Agree |
Disagree |
Strongly disagree |
Don’t know |
|
| The Commonwealth public sector cannot take 12,000 job cuts and still maintain service quality |
57% |
28% |
24% |
33% |
21% |
7% |
15% |
| Regardless of what they say before elections, Liberal Governments always cut public services. |
52% |
22% |
20% |
32% |
19% |
3% |
26% |
| Many of the Commonwealth public sector functions should be outsourced to private companies |
30% |
48% |
5% |
25% |
29% |
19% |
22% |
| Many of the Commonwealth public sector functions should be outsourced to charities and not for profit organisations |
32% |
42% |
5% |
27% |
29% |
13% |
25% |
| Cutting the public service will most hurt regional and rural areas |
57% |
22% |
22% |
35% |
17% |
5% |
21% |
| Cutting support and admin staff will affect the quality of service provided by frontline staff |
60% |
24% |
24% |
36% |
20% |
4% |
15% |
A majority of respondents agreed that – cutting support and admin staff will affect the quality of service provided by frontline staff (60%), cutting the public service will most hurt regional and rural areas (57%), the Commonwealth public sector cannot take 12,000 job cuts and still maintain service quality (57%) and regardless of what they say before elections, Liberal Governments always cut public services (52%).
They were more likely to oppose outsourcing public sector functions to private companies (48% disagree) or charities and not-for-profits (42%).
Liberal/National voters were evenly split over whether cutting the public service will most hurt regional and rural areas (42% agree/38% disagree) and cutting support and admin staff will affect the quality of service provided by frontline staff (43% agree/43% disagree).
23 July 2012, 230712, Australian workers, employment, liberal government, tony abbott
Q. Do you think Australian workers would be better off or worse off under a Liberal Government lead by Tony Abbott?
|
Total |
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Work full time |
Work part time |
|
| Total better off |
32% |
8% |
65% |
8% |
35% |
27% |
| Total worse off |
37% |
75% |
4% |
65% |
34% |
40% |
| A lot better off |
15% |
3% |
33% |
– |
17% |
12% |
| A little better off |
17% |
5% |
32% |
8% |
18% |
15% |
| Make no difference |
19% |
12% |
22% |
15% |
21% |
20% |
| A little worse off |
9% |
12% |
3% |
17% |
10% |
11% |
| A lot worse off |
28% |
63% |
1% |
48% |
24% |
29% |
| Don’t know |
11% |
5% |
8% |
12% |
9% |
12% |
32% think that Australian workers would be better off under a Liberal Government lead by Tony Abbott and 37% think they would be worse off – and 19% think it would make no difference.
Full-time workers split 35% better off and 34% worse off while part-time workers were more likely to think workers would be worse off (40% worse off/27% better off).
43% of respondents aged 45-64 think workers would be worse off and 31% better off. 40% of those earning under $1,000 pw thought workers would be worse off and 33% better off.