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Top three economic issues

Nov 27, 2017

Q. And which of these would be your top three concerns?

	Total	1^st	2^nd	3rd
Energy prices	55%	24%	19%	12%
Affordability of housing	37%	15%	12%	10%
Food prices and inflation generally	34%	8%	12%	14%
Petrol prices	29%	11%	11%	7%
Unemployment	20%	7%	7%	6%
The age pension	17%	7%	4%	6%
Improving wages for low income earners	15%	4%	5%	6%
Personal income tax rates	14%	4%	5%	5%
Jobs going overseas	13%	3%	5%	5%
Not enough superannuation	13%	3%	4%	6%
Interest rates	11%	3%	4%	4%
Excessive executive salaries	11%	3%	4%	4%
Government debt	11%	3%	3%	5%
Cuts in penalty rates	6%	2%	1%	3%
Not enough regulation of banks	6%	1%	2%	3%
Not enough regulation of large corporations	6%	1%	2%	3%

Top economic issues were very similar to the rankings of issues of concern.

The main issues mentioned were energy prices (55%), housing affordability (37%) and food prices and inflation generally (34%).

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