Q. Over the last couple of weeks, have your concerns about the impact on religious freedoms increased or decreased or stayed about the same?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Support same sex marriage | Don’t support same sex marriage | |||
| Concerns have increased | 24% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 31% | 9% | 51% | ||
| Concerns have decreased | 5% | 6% | 5% | 11% | 3% | 7% | 4% | ||
| Stayed about the same | 61% | 64% | 60% | 73% | 61% | 77% | 38% | ||
| Not sure | 9% | 11% | 5% | 6% | 5% | 7% | 7% |
24% say their concerns that allowing same-sex marriage may impact on religious freedoms has increased while 65% say their concerns have stayed the same or decreased.
51% of those who don’t support same-sex marriage say their concerns have increased.
Q. Do you believe or disbelieve the following propositions?
| Total believe | Total disbelieve | Strongly believe | Somewhat believe | Somewhat disbelieve | Strongly disbelieve | Not sure | ||
| Heaven and hell both exist as destinations after life. | 40% | 42% | 20% | 20% | 13% | 29% | 19% | |
| Angels and demons are active in the world. | 39% | 46% | 19% | 20% | 14% | 32% | 15% | |
| Ghosts exist and can influence their will on the living. | 35% | 50% | 9% | 26% | 18% | 32% | 16% | |
| Extra-terrestrials have visited the earth. | 34% | 44% | 10% | 24% | 18% | 26% | 23% | |
| The story of creation in the book of Genesis is a true account of the first man and woman. | 34% | 48% | 14% | 20% | 13% | 35% | 18% | |
| Global warming is a hoax perpetrated by scientists. | 21% | 68% | 9% | 12% | 19% | 49% | 11% | |
| The vibrations from wind farms cause long term health damage. | 16% | 58% | 5% | 11% | 19% | 39% | 26% | |
| Vaccines can cause autism. | 14% | 70% | 4% | 10% | 18% | 52% | 16% |
A substantial minority believe that –
A majority do not believe that –
Q. Do you agree or disagree with the following statements about health insurance?
| Total agree | Total disagree | Strongly agree | Agree | Disagree | Strongly disagree | Don’t know | ||
| The government should do more to keep private health insurance affordable | 85% | 7% | 49% | 36% | 5% | 2% | 7% | |
| If the private health insurance industry wants to increase fees it should have limits to the profits it can make. | 84% | 8% | 50% | 34% | 6% | 2% | 8% | |
| The government should cap increases in private health insurance premiums at the level of inflation. | 82% | 7% | 47% | 35% | 5% | 2% | 11% | |
| Health insurance isn’t worth the money you pay for it. | 60% | 27% | 29% | 31% | 20% | 7% | 12% | |
| The private health industry provides value for money | 31% | 59% | 7% | 24% | 31% | 28% | 11% |
| Total agree | Total disagree | Have health insurance agree | Have health insurance disagree | Had health insurance agree | Had health insurance disagree | Never had health insurance agree | Never had health insurance disagree | ||
| The government should do more to keep private health insurance affordable | 85% | 7% | 92% | 5% | 77% | 11% | 76% | 12% | |
| If the private health insurance industry wants to increase fees it should have limits to the profits it can make. | 84% | 8% | 88% | 7% | 85% | 5% | 76% | 9% | |
| The government should cap increases in private health insurance premiums at the level of inflation. | 82% | 7% | 87% | 7% | 81% | 7% | 71% | 9% | |
| Health insurance isn’t worth the money you pay for it. | 60% | 27% | 53% | 37% | 82% | 10% | 68% | 12% | |
| The private health industry provides value for money | 31% | 59% | 42% | 50% | 13% | 79% | 14% | 68% |
There was very strong agreement with the statements that “The government should do more to keep private health insurance affordable “ (85%), “If the private health insurance industry wants to increase fees it should have limits to the profits it can make” (84%) and “The government should cap increases in private health insurance premiums at the level of inflation” (82%).
60% agreed that “Health insurance isn’t worth the money you pay for it “ and 59% disagreed that “The private health industry provides value for money”.
Q. If a Federal Election was held today to which party will you probably give your first preference vote? If not sure, which party are you currently leaning toward? If don’t know – Well which party are you currently leaning to?
| Total | Last week 12/9/17 | 2 weeks ago 5/9/17 | 4 weeks ago 22/8/17 | Election 2 Jul 16 | |||
| Liberal | 34% | 33% | 33% | 34% | |||
| National | 3% | 3% | 4% | 3% | |||
| Total Liberal/National | 38% | 36% | 36% | 37% | 42.0% | ||
| Labor | 36% | 37% | 37% | 37% | 34.7% | ||
| Greens | 10% | 10% | 10% | 9% | 10.2% | ||
| Nick Xenophon Team | 3% | 2% | 2% | 3% | |||
| Pauline Hanson’s One Nation | 8% | 9% | 8% | 8% | |||
| Other/Independent | 5% | 6% | 6% | 6% | 13.1% | ||
| 2 party preferred | |||||||
| Liberal National | 48% | 46% | 47% | 47% | 50.4% | ||
| Labor | 52% | 54% | 53% | 53% | 49.6% |
Q. Do you support changing the law to allow same-sex couples to marry?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | ||
| Yes | 55% | 65% | 47% | 83% | 44% | |
| No | 34% | 28% | 42% | 13% | 45% | |
| Don’t know | 11% | 7% | 12% | 4% | 12% |
| Total | Men | Women | Aged 18-34 | Aged 35-54 | Aged 55+ | Will
def-initely vote |
Will prob-ably vote | Will not vote | Already voted | 5 Sep | ||||
| Yes | 55% | 47% | 62% | 61% | 54% | 51% | 63% | 50% | 18% | 59% | 59% | |||
| No | 34% | 41% | 27% | 27% | 33% | 41% | 33% | 31% | 56% | 37% | 31% | |||
| Don’t know | 11% | 11% | 11% | 12% | 13% | 8% | 4% | 19% | 25% | 5% | 11% |
59% (down 4% from 2 weeks ago) support changing the law to allow same-sex couples to marry and 34% (up 3%) are opposed.
Those most in favour of changing the marriage laws are Labor voters (65%), Greens voters (83%), women (62%) and those aged 18-34 (61%).
Those who would definitely vote in the national survey are more likely to support same-sex marriage (63%). 59% of hose who have already voted support same-sex marriage and 37% oppose.
Q. How likely are you to vote in the national postal vote on same-sex marriage?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | ||
| Will definitely vote | 62% | 64% | 66% | 68% | 66% | |
| Will probably vote | 12% | 12% | 12% | 10% | 12% | |
| Will probably not vote | 2% | 2% | 3% | 1% | – | |
| Will definitely not vote | 3% | 3% | 2% | 5% | 6% | |
| Not sure | 8% | 7% | 6% | 2% | 6% | |
| I have already voted | 9% | 9% | 10% | 9% | 8% | |
| I am not enrolled to vote at my current address | 5% | 2% | 1% | 4% | 2% |
| Total | Men | Women | Aged 18-34 | Aged 35-54 | Aged 55+ | Support same sex marriage | Don’t support same sex marriage | 5 Sep | |||
| Will definitely vote | 62% | 55% | 64% | 56% | 61% | 69% | 71% | 60% | 62% | ||
| Will probably vote | 12% | 14% | 10% | 18% | 11% | 6% | 11% | 11% | 16% | ||
| Will probably not vote | 2% | 2% | 2% | 3% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 3% | 4% | ||
| Will definitely not vote | 3% | 4% | 3% | 4% | 5% | 1% | 1% | 6% | 3% | ||
| Not sure | 8% | 9% | 7% | 9% | 9% | 5% | 3% | 6% | 10% | ||
| I have already voted | 9% | 8% | 9% | 4% | 7% | 15% | 9% | 9% | – | ||
| I am not enrolled to vote at my current address | 5% | 4% | 5% | 6% | 5% | 3% | 4% | 5% | 4% |
62% (no change from 2 weeks ago) say they will definitely vote in the same-sex marriage national vote and 12% (down 4%) will probably vote. However, 9% say they have already voted.
71% of those in favour of same-sex marriage will definitely vote compared to 60% of those opposed.
Q. Do you believe that there is fairly conclusive evidence that climate change is happening and caused by human activity or do you believe that the evidence is still not in and we may just be witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate which happens from time to time?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Nov 2009 | Dec 2010 | Jun 2011 | Oct 2012 | Oct 2013 | Dec 2014 | Nov 2015 | Aug 2016 | Dec 2016 | Feb 2017 | |||
| Climate change is happening and is caused by human activity | 64% | 74% | 57% | 86% | 54% | 53% | 45% | 50% | 48% | 52% | 57% | 56% | 57% | 54% | 60% | ||
| We are just witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate | 24% | 17% | 34% | 9% | 37% | 34% | 36% | 39% | 39% | 36% | 29% | 32% | 26% | 27% | 25% | ||
| Don’t know | 12% | 9% | 10% | 6% | 8% | 13% | 19% | 12% | 13% | 12% | 14% | 12% | 17% | 18% | 14% |
60% (up 4% since February) agree that climate change is happening and is caused by human activity and 24% (down 1%) believe that we may just be witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate.
By age groups, those aged under 35 split 68%/18% and those aged 55+ split 54%/36%. People with higher education were more likely to think climate change is happening and is caused by human activity – those with university degrees split 72%/18%.
Q. As far as you know, do you think Australia is doing enough, not enough or too much to address climate change?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Climate change is happen-ing | Aug 2015 | Mar 2016 | Aug 2016 | Dec 2016 | ||||
| Doing enough | 20% | 17% | 30% | 4% | 21% | 15% | 24% | 21% | 22% | 22% | |||
| Not doing enough | 56% | 69% | 42% | 89% | 48% | 75% | 53% | 57% | 52% | 49% | |||
| Doing too much | 8% | 2% | 13% | 1% | 18% | 2% | 7% | 8% | 8% | 11% | |||
| Don’t know | 16% | 12% | 15% | 6% | 14% | 8% | 16% | 13% | 18% | 18% |
56% (up 7% since December) think Australia is not doing enough to address climate change and 20% (down 2%) think Australia is doing enough.
Those most likely to think Australia is not doing enough were aged 18-34 (60%) and university educated (62%).
Of those who believe climate change is happening, 75% think Australia is not doing enough.