Q. Is your home or workplace connected to the NBN?
| Is your home connected to the NBN? | Is your workplace connected to the NBN? | NET: Home or work connected to NBN | |
| Yes | 59% | 28% | 65% |
| No | 38% | 19% | 33% |
| Don’t know | 3% | 15% | 2% |
| Not applicable | – | 37% | – |
| Is your home connected to the NBN? | Is your workplace connected to the NBN? | NET: Home or work connected to NBN | |
| Yes | 76% | 34% | 79% |
| No | 20% | 10% | 19% |
| Don’t know | 4% | 17% | 2% |
| Not applicable | – | 38% | – |
All people with NBN connection at home/work
| Oct’20 | Jan’19 | |
| NET: Better | 51% | 51% |
| NET: Worse | 15% | 17% |
| Much better | 24% | 24% |
| A little better | 27% | 27% |
| About the same | 32% | 30% |
| A little worse | 10% | 10% |
| Much worse | 7% | 7% |
| Don’t know | 2% | 2% |
Q. Would you approve or disapprove of privatising the NBN when it is completed in 2020?
| Federal Voting Intention | Gender | Age | ||||||||||
| Total | Labor | Coalition | Greens | TOTAL: Other | Male | Female | 18-34 | 35-54 | 55+ | Jan’19 | ||
| Strongly approve | 11% | 11% | 12% | 20% | 15% | 18% | 5% | 11% | 16% | 6% | 9% | |
| Somewhat approve | 22% | 17% | 27% | 19% | 25% | 25% | 19% | 33% | 21% | 12% | 20% | |
| Somewhat disapprove | 14% | 14% | 14% | 8% | 14% | 13% | 14% | 13% | 14% | 14% | 18% | |
| Strongly disapprove | 25% | 34% | 18% | 26% | 30% | 23% | 26% | 16% | 18% | 39% | 26% | |
| Don’t know | 29% | 24% | 30% | 28% | 15% | 21% | 36% | 27% | 31% | 29% | 27% | |
| NET: Approve | 33% | 28% | 39% | 39% | 40% | 43% | 23% | 45% | 37% | 19% | 29% | |
| NET: Disapprove | 38% | 48% | 31% | 34% | 45% | 36% | 40% | 29% | 32% | 52% | 44% | |
| Base (n) | 1,082 | 352 | 421 | 84 | 123 | 352 | 555 | 328 | 369 | 385 | 1,089 | |
Q. The Government’s national broadband network plan is to more quickly roll out fibre to local nodes and let Telstra’s copper network carry internet traffic to households, compared to Labor’s plan to roll out fibre to every household outside rural areas, which would cost more and have taken longer but produced higher speeds. Which plan do you believe is best for Australia?
|
Total |
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other |
||
|
The Liberal Government’s plan |
29% |
7% |
63% |
6% |
26% |
|
|
The Labor plan |
38% |
62% |
12% |
66% |
43% |
|
|
Don’t know |
33% |
31% |
25% |
28% |
31% |
38% think the Labor NBN plan is best for Australia and 29% think the Government’s plan is best. 33% did not give an opinion. These views were consistent across age groups.
280114, australia post, medibank private, NBN, privatisation, Snowy hydro
Q. Would you support or oppose privatisation of the following Government-owned corporations?
|
|
Total support |
Total oppose |
|
Strongly support |
Support |
Oppose |
Strongly oppose |
Don’t know |
| Medibank Private |
29% |
54% |
5% |
24% |
26% |
28% |
18% |
|
| Australia Post |
20% |
69% |
4% |
16% |
26% |
43% |
11% |
|
| The ABC and SBS |
21% |
64% |
5% |
16% |
25% |
39% |
14% |
|
| The National Broadband Network |
28% |
58% |
7% |
21% |
24% |
34% |
14% |
|
| Snowy Hydro |
17% |
53% |
3% |
14% |
23% |
30% |
30% |
|
| Australian Rail Track Corporation (which runs much of the interstate train network) |
23% |
58% |
5% |
18% |
25% |
33% |
19% |
There was majority opposition to privatising each of the Government-owned corporations listed.
Privatisation of Australia Post (69%) and ABC/SBS (64%) were most strongly opposed.
While support for privatisation of these corporations was higher among Liberal/National voter, they were still more likely to oppose than support. Apart from Medibank Private (40% support/46% oppose) and the NBN (42%/46%), a majority of Liberal/National voters opposed privatisation of each corporation.
08 July 2013, 080713, asylum seekers, Carbon Tax, Gonski, Labor Party policies, Mining tax, NBN, ndis
Q. Under Kevin Rudd’s leadership, do you think the Labor Party should dump, change or keep their policies on the following issues?
|
Dump |
Keep |
Change |
Don’t know |
|
| Handling of asylum seekers |
21% |
10% |
51% |
17% |
| Building the NBN |
14% |
50% |
15% |
15% |
| The mining tax |
29% |
30% |
24% |
18% |
| The carbon tax |
39% |
25% |
23% |
13% |
| The Gonski education reforms |
15% |
44% |
16% |
25% |
| The NDIS |
7% |
59% |
9% |
25% |
Respondents were most likely to think the Labor Party under Kevin Rudd should keep the NDIS (59%), building the NBN (50%) and the Gonski reforms (44%).
51% think it should change the policies around handling asylum seekers and 39% think it should dump the carbon tax. Opinions were divided over the mining tax – 30% keep, 29% dump and 24% change.
Labor voters were most in favour of keeping the NBN (78%), the mining tax (47%), the carbon tax (39%), the Gonski reforms (67%) and the NDIS (74%) but favoured changing the policy on asylum seekers (56%).
24 June 2013, 240613, age pension, Carbon Tax, dental health scheme, Labor decisions, Labor Government, NBN, Stimulus package, tax free threshold
Q. Thinking about the decisions the Labor Government has made over the last few years, do you think the following decisions were good or bad for Australia?
|
Total good |
Total bad |
Very good |
Good |
Neither good nor bad |
Bad |
Very bad |
Don’t know |
Sep 12 good |
Sep 12 bad |
|
| Expanding dental health services for people on low incomes |
73% |
8% |
28% |
45% |
15% |
4% |
4% |
5% |
77% |
5% |
| Increasing the tax free threshold from $6,000 to $18,200 |
72% |
8% |
34% |
38% |
15% |
5% |
3% |
5% |
75% |
4% |
| Increasing the age pension |
67% |
14% |
27% |
40% |
16% |
10% |
4% |
4% |
70% |
11% |
| Protecting large areas of Australia’s marine environment in a network of marine reserves |
66% |
10% |
27% |
39% |
19% |
6% |
4% |
5% |
67% |
8% |
| Introducing the National Disability Insurance Scheme |
63% |
9% |
26% |
37% |
20% |
5% |
4% |
8% |
58% |
5% |
| Increasing superannuation from 9% to 12% |
62% |
14% |
24% |
38% |
19% |
10% |
4% |
5% |
68% |
9% |
| Stimulus spending to tackle the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) |
50% |
26% |
21% |
29% |
19% |
17% |
9% |
5% |
54% |
22% |
| Introducing a tax on large profits of mining companies |
49% |
27% |
21% |
28% |
20% |
15% |
12% |
5% |
49% |
25% |
| Building the NBN (National Broadband Network) |
48% |
28% |
22% |
26% |
18% |
15% |
13% |
6% |
43% |
28% |
| Paid parental leave |
48% |
22% |
14% |
34% |
24% |
13% |
9% |
5% |
52% |
20% |
| Spending on new school buildings during the GFC |
47% |
26% |
12% |
35% |
20% |
15% |
11% |
6% |
53% |
22% |
| Implementing the recommendations of the Gonski report to increase education funding |
46% |
22% |
17% |
29% |
23% |
12% |
10% |
9% |
54% |
8% |
| Abolished WorkChoices |
42% |
27% |
23% |
19% |
22% |
17% |
10% |
10% |
42% |
27% |
| Introducing a carbon tax to tackle climate change |
32% |
48% |
14% |
18% |
16% |
18% |
30% |
4% |
28% |
51% |
The two most popular decisions of the Labor Government are ‘expanding dental health services for people on low incomes’ (73% total good) and ‘increasing the tax free threshold from $6,000 to $18,000 (72% total good). The least popular decisions were ‘Implementing the recommendations of the Gonski report (46% total good), ‘Abolished WorkChoices’ (42% total good) and ‘introducing a carbon tax to tackle climate change’ (32% total good).
The only issue which received a net negative response was ‘introducing a carbon tax to tackle climate change’, where 48% of respondents believed it to be bad for Australia.
Since this question was previously asked last September, perceptions of most decisions have become a little more negative – with the exceptions of the “carbon tax” which shifted from 28% to 32% ‘good’, the ‘NDIS’ which shifted from 58% to 63% ‘good’ and building the NBN which shifted from 43% to 48% ‘good’.
The largest negative shifts were for the ‘Gonski recommendations’ (down 8% to 46%), increasing super (down 6% to 62%) and spending on schools during the GFC (down 6% to 47%).
15 April 2013, 150413, Coalition, labor government policy, National Broadband Network, NBN
Q. The Government’s NBN (National Broadband Network) is a fast, high capacity fibre network to the home reaching 93% of Australian homes and businesses.
The Coalition has proposed a broadband plan in which the NBN would be replaced with broadband fibre to local “nodes” (or exchanges) and the existing telephone copper network would connect the rest of the way to homes. This would mean slower broadband speeds than the NBN but cost less to build. Do you support the Government’s or the Coalition’s broadband policy?
|
Total |
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
|
| Support Government’s policy |
54% |
83% |
31% |
74% |
| Support the Coalition’s policy |
23% |
4% |
46% |
7% |
| Don’t know |
23% |
12% |
23% |
19% |
54% support the Government’s broadband policy and 23% support the Coalition’s policy.
For those aged 18-34, 61% support the Government’s policy and 15% support the Coalition’s. 51% of those aged 35-54 and 49% of those aged 55+ support the Government’s policy.
18 March 2013, 180313, Carbon Tax, government decisions, Minerals Resource Rent Tax, MRRT, NBN
Q. Do you support or oppose the following Government decisions?
|
26 Nov 12 |
18 Mar 13 |
|
|
|
|
|
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|
Total Support |
Total Oppose |
Total Support |
Total Oppose |
Strongly support |
Support |
Oppose |
Strongly oppose |
Don’t know |
|
| NBN (National Broadband Network) – high speed broadband access across Australia |
69% |
20% |
73% |
19% |
35% |
38% |
10% |
9% |
8% |
| The Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) – a tax on large profits of mining companies |
63% |
22% |
57% |
29% |
24% |
33% |
15% |
14% |
14% |
| The carbon pricing scheme – a tax on industries based on the amount of carbon pollution they emit |
46% |
44% |
44% |
46% |
17% |
27% |
20% |
26% |
10% |
The decision which has the most support amongst respondents is the NBN, with 73% in favour and only 19% opposed – an increase in support since this question was last asked in November (from net +49 to net +54).
There is majority support from respondents for the MRRT, with 57% in favour of the tax and 29% opposed. However, this represents a significant drop in support since November – from net +41 to net +28.
Support for the carbon pricing scheme has declined a little since the last time the question was polled in November. Support has decreased from 46% to 44% and opposition increased from 44% to 46% – a change from net +2 to net -2.
26 November 2012, 261112, carbon pricing scheme, Liberal Party, MRRT, NBN
Q. If the Liberal and National parties win the next election, should they repeal any of these Government decisions?
|
Yes, should repeal |
No, should not repeal |
Don’t know |
|
| The carbon pricing scheme |
45% |
37% |
18% |
| NBN (National Broadband Network) |
18% |
63% |
20% |
| The Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) |
24% |
50% |
28% |
A greater portion of respondents believe that a Coalition government should repeal the carbon pricing scheme (45%) that those that believe they should not (37%).
A majority of respondents otherwise believe that a Coalition government should not repeal the NBN (63%), and a greater portion believe it should not repeal the MRRT (50%) compared to those that believe it should (24%).
Looking at the results by voting intention, Lib/Nat voters are also more likely to believe a Coalition government should repeal the carbon pricing scheme (72%), the NBN (30%) and the MRRT (44%).
Broken down by gender, male respondents (50%) are more likely than female respondents (39%) to believe that a Coalition government should repeal the carbon tax. Conversely, male respondents were more likely to believe that a Coalition government should not repeal the NBN (66%) compared to female respondents (60%) and also more likely to believe that they should not repeal the MRRT (54%) compared with female respondents (47%).