corporate interests, Essential Report, Labor, Polling, worker interests
Q. Do you think the Federal Labor Government favours the interests of businesses or workers?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | |
| Total favour businesses | 28% | 21% | 31% | 40% |
| Total favour workers | 41% | 40% | 50% | 28% |
| Favour businesses a lot more than workers | 13% | 7% | 16% | 18% |
| Favour businesses a little more than workers | 15% | 14% | 15% | 22% |
| Favour workers a little more than businesses | 24% | 32% | 21% | 20% |
| Favour workers a lot more than businesses | 17% | 8% | 29% | 8% |
| Balance the interests of businesses and workers | 14% | 29% | 5% | 15% |
| Don’t know | 17% | 10% | 14% | 17% |
41% think that the Federal Labor Government favours the interests of workers, 28% think they favour the interests of businesses and 14% think they balance their interests.
Labor voters think the favour workers over business by 40% to 21% and 29% think they balance their interests.
Liberal /National voters are much less likely to think they balance their interests – 50% think they favour workers’ interests and 31% think they favour businesses. Greens voters are more likely to think they favour the interests of businesses (40%) over workers (28%).
The only substantial difference across demographic groups is that 20% of older respondents (aged 55+) think the Government balances the interests of businesses and workers.