Trust in various Australian institutions

Q. How much trust do you have in the following institutions?

	Total Trust	Total No Trust		A lot of trust	Some trust	A little trust	No trust	Don’t know
The High Court	72%	19%		33%	39%	13%	6%	10%
The Reserve Bank	67%	24%		23%	44%	17%	7%	10%
Courts in general	65%	26%		19%	46%	18%	8%	9%
Charitable organisations	61%	30%		18%	43%	22%	8%	9%
Federal Parliament	55%	36%		15%	40%	21%	15%	10%
The ABC	46%	44%		12%	34%	31%	13%	10%
Environment groups	45%	46%		11%	34%	28%	18%	9%
Trade unions	39%	52%		10%	29%	30%	22%	10%
Business groups	38%	51%		6%	32%	34%	17%	10%
Religious organisations	29%	62%		9%	20%	27%	35%	9%
Please note: ‘Total Trust’ is an aggregate figure achieved by adding ‘A lot of trust’ and ‘Some trust’ together.  ‘Total No Trust’ is an aggregate figure achieved by combining ‘A little trust’ and ‘No trust’.

The institution in which respondents place the most trust is the High Court with 72% of respondents stating that they either have ‘a lot of trust’ or ‘some trust’ in the High Court.  The High Court is followed by the Reserve Bank (67%), Courts in general (65%) and Charitable organisations (61%).

Federal parliament features below these top four, ranking 5^th with 55% of respondents having either ‘a lot of trust’ or ‘some trust’, followed by the ABC which ranked in sixth place (46% total trust).

The institutions for which respondents had the most distrust were trade unions (52% no trust), business groups (51% no trust) and Religious organisations, which attracted the highest proportion of distrust (62% no trust).