Whether Government should legislate

Q. Which of the following statements represents your view of how the Government should respond to these penalty rate reductions?

	Total		Vote Labor	Vote Lib/Nat	Vote Greens	Vote other		Work full time	Work part time
The Government should accept the decision to cut penalty rates	31%		15%	55%	14%	32%		37%	27%
The Government should pass legislation to protect current penalty rates	51%		73%	29%	64%	52%		47%	51%
Don’t know	18%		12%	16%	22%	16%		16%	22%

51% think that the Government should pass legislation to protect current penalty rates and 31% think the Government should accept the decision to cut penalty rates.

Those most likely to think the Government should pass legislation to protect current penalty rates were labor voters (73%), Greens voters (64%) and women (55%).

Those most likely to think the Government should accept the decision to cut penalty rates were Liberal National voters (55%), men (37%), aged 65+ (51%) and full-time workers (37%).