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Whether Government should legislate

7 Mar 2017

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%).

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