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  • Apr, 2014

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    Selling Government-owned assets

    Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the Treasurer Joe Hockey’s proposal that State Governments sell their Government-owned assets (e.g. ports, rail, roads) to fund construction of new infrastructure?

     

    Total

     

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

    Vote other/ Indep-endent

    Total approve

    25%

     

    10%

    44%

    17%

    23%

    Total disapprove

    58%

     

    80%

    41%

    63%

    60%

    Strongly approve

    7%

    3%

    11%

    4%

    8%

    Approve

    18%

    7%

    33%

    13%

    15%

    Disapprove

    27%

    25%

    31%

    28%

    22%

    Strongly disapprove

    31%

    55%

    10%

    35%

    38%

    Don’t know

    18%

    11%

    16%

    19%

    16%

    58% disapprove of the Treasurer Joe Hockey’s proposal that State Governments sell their Government-owned to fund construction of new infrastructure and 25% approve.

    Labor voters (80%) and Greens voters (63%) strongly disapprove but Liberal/National voters are divided with 44% approve/41% disapprove.

  • Mar, 2013

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    Services better run by Government or Private Sector

    Q. Which of the following are better run by the private sector and which are better run by Government?

     

    11 Mar 2013

    31 Jan 2011

     

    Better run by private sector

    Better run by Government

    Don’t know

    Better run by private sector

    Better run by Government

    Don’t know

    Electricity

    25%

    62%

    13%

    22%

    61%

    17%

    Water

    19%

    69%

    12%

    15%

    70%

    16%

    Trains, buses and ferries

    25%

    64%

    11%

    19%

    68%

    13%

    Motorways

    23%

    66%

    11%

    17%

    70%

    13%

    Community services such as child protection

    14%

    75%

    11%

    14%

    71%

    15%

    Telecommunications (including broadband services)

    45%

    44%

    11%

    na

    na

    na

    Hospitals and health services

    19%

    71%

    10%

    na

    na

    na

    Schools

    21%

    69%

    10%

    na

    na

    na

    Prisons

    17%

    73%

    11%

    10%

    76%

    15%

    Universities

    27%

    61%

    12%

    20%

    64%

    16%

    Ports

    22%

    60%

    19%

    na

    na

    na

    Most services listed were clearly thought to be better run by Government than the private sector.

    The only exception was telecommunications where respondents were split 45% private sector, 44% Government.

    The areas most preferred to be run by Government were – community services (75%), prisons (73%), hospitals and health services (71%), schools (69%) and water (69%).

    Compared to the results when this question was asked in January 2011, preference for the private sector running services has increased a little – +6% for trains, buses and ferries and motorways and +7% for prisons and universities.

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