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  • Apr, 2013

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    Parties and social class

    Q. Whose interests do you think the Liberal Party mainly represent?

     

    Total

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

    Working class

    Middle class

    Working class

    5%

    6%

    7%

    2%

    10%

    4%

    Middle class

    20%

    9%

    33%

    13%

    16%

    25%

    Upper class

    40%

    68%

    17%

    64%

    42%

    39%

    All of them

    17%

    4%

    33%

    4%

    11%

    21%

    None of them

    8%

    7%

    4%

    7%

    9%

    6%

    Don’t know

    9%

    6%

    7%

    10%

    12%

    5%

    40% believe that the Liberal Party mainly represents upper class people and 20% think they represent the middle class. 68% of Labor voters think the Labor Party mainly and 64% of Greens voters think they mainly represent the upper class. 33% of Liberal/National voters think they represent the middle class and 33% think they represent all classes.

    42% of respondents who describe themselves as working class and 39% of those who say they are middle class think the Liberal Party mainly represents the upper class.

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