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Whether Opposition favours Businesses or Workers

31 Oct 2011

Q. Do you think the Federal Liberal/National opposition parties favour the interests of businesses or workers?

Total Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens
Total favour businesses 61% 79% 50% 73%
Total  favour workers 8% 5% 12% 5%
Favour businesses a lot more than workers 36% 63% 14% 57%
Favour businesses a little more than workers 25% 16% 36% 16%
Favour workers a little more than businesses 7% 4% 11% 4%
Favour workers a lot more than businesses 1% 1% 1% 1%
Balance the interests of businesses and workers 14% 3% 27% 4%
Don’t know 17% 12% 10% 19%

61% think that the Federal Opposition favours the interests of businesses, 8% think they favour the interests of workers and 14% think they balance their interests.

Labor voters think they favour businesses over workers by 79% to 5% and Greens voters are also much more likely to think they favour the interests of businesses (73%) over workers (5%).

Liberal /National voters are more likely to think they balance their interests (27%) – although 50% think they favour businesses’ interests and only 12% think they favour workers.

Men are more likely to think they favour the interests of businesses over workers by 66% to 9% compared to women 55% to 8%.

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