Q. Do you think people who are required to work outside of normal hours – like night shifts, weekends or public holidays – should receive a higher hourly rate of pay?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote Other |
|
Work full time |
Work part time |
|
May 2013 |
|
| Yes |
81% |
91% |
69% |
91% |
83% |
80% |
84% |
81% |
|||
| No |
13% |
7% |
23% |
7% |
11% |
14% |
10% |
12% |
|||
| Don’t know |
6% |
2% |
8% |
2% |
6% |
6% |
5% |
7% |
81% think that people who are required to work outside of normal hours should receive a higher hourly rate of pay and 13% think they should not. There has been no change of opinion on this issue since this question was asked in May 2013.
A large majority of all demographic and voter groups agree that worker should receive higher rates for working outside normal hours – although Labor voters (91%) and Greens voters (91%) are somewhat more likely to support this than Liberal/National voters (69%).
Q. Would you support or oppose cutting weekend and public holiday penalty rates for hospitality and retail workers?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote Other |
|
Work full time |
Work part time |
|
| Total support |
23% |
16% |
37% |
13% |
12% |
29% |
15% |
||
| Total oppose |
68% |
76% |
53% |
82% |
77% |
62% |
71% |
||
| Strongly support |
9% |
7% |
16% |
5% |
3% |
12% |
6% |
||
| Support |
14% |
9% |
21% |
8% |
9% |
17% |
9% |
||
| Oppose |
32% |
26% |
35% |
27% |
43% |
33% |
23% |
||
| Strongly oppose |
36% |
50% |
18% |
55% |
34% |
29% |
48% |
||
| Don’t know |
10% |
8% |
10% |
5% |
10% |
10% |
14% |
68% oppose cutting weekend and public holiday penalty rates for hospitality and retail workers and 23% support.
While a majority of all demographic and voter groups oppose cutting penalty rates, those most likely to oppose were Labor voters (76%), Greens voters (82%), women (73%) and those aged 45-64 (76%). 37% of Liberal/National voters and 36% of those aged 65+ support cutting penalty rates.
Q. What do you think would be the more likely result of cutting penalty rates for hospitality and retail workers?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote Other |
|
Work full time |
Work part time |
|
| Businesses will make bigger profits |
63% |
75% |
50% |
77% |
66% |
61% |
68% |
||
| Businesses will employ more workers |
18% |
10% |
32% |
8% |
18% |
22% |
14% |
||
| Don’t know |
18% |
15% |
18% |
15% |
15% |
16% |
18% |
63% think that cutting penalty rates will more likely result in businesses making bigger profits while 18% think the more likely result will be that businesses will employ more workers.
A substantial majority (over 60%) of all demographic groups believe it will more likely result in bigger profits for businesses. Only Liberal/National voters have a somewhat different view – 50% think it is more likely to result in bigger profits and 32% more jobs.
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?
Q. If don’t know -Well which party are you currently leaning to?
Sample size = 1,792 respondents
| First preference/leaning to |
Election 7 Sep 13 |
|
4 weeks ago 18/11/14 |
2 weeks ago 2/12/14 |
Last week 9/12/14 |
This week 16/12/14 |
| Liberal |
|
37% |
37% |
35% |
35% |
|
| National |
|
3% |
3% |
4% |
4% |
|
| Total Liberal/National |
45.6% |
40% |
40% |
39% |
40% |
|
| Labor |
33.4% |
38% |
40% |
39% |
38% |
|
| Greens |
8.6% |
10% |
9% |
10% |
10% |
|
| Palmer United Party |
5.5% |
3% |
3% |
2% |
2% |
|
| Other/Independent |
6.9% |
9% |
8% |
10% |
10% |
| 2 Party Preferred |
Election 7 Sep 13 |
|
4 weeks ago 18/11/14 |
2 weeks ago 2/12/14 |
Last week 9/12/14 |
This week 16/12/14 |
| Liberal National |
53.5% |
48% |
47% |
47% |
48% |
|
| Labor |
46.5% |
52% |
53% |
53% |
52% |
NB. The data in the above tables comprise 2-week averages derived from the first preference/leaning to voting questions. Respondents who select ‘don’t know’ are not included in the results. The two-party preferred estimate is calculated by distributing the votes of the other parties according to their preferences at the 2013 election.
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 09 |
Dec 10 |
Jun 11 |
Oct 12 |
Oct 13 |
Sep 14 |
|
| Climate change is happening and is caused by human activity |
57% |
70% |
42% |
87% |
49% |
53% |
45% |
50% |
48% |
52% |
56% |
||
| We are just witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate |
29% |
21% |
44% |
3% |
38% |
34% |
36% |
39% |
39% |
36% |
30% |
||
| Don’t know |
14% |
9% |
14% |
9% |
13% |
13% |
19% |
12% |
13% |
12% |
14% |
57% (up 1% since June) agree that climate change is happening and is caused by human activity and 29% (down 1%) believe that we may just be witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate. This is the highest level of belief in climate change recorded in Essential polls – and the lowest level of disbelief.
By age groups, those aged under 35 split 67%/20% and those aged 55+ split 41%/48%. People with higher education were more likely to think climate change is happening and is caused by human activity – those with university degrees split 68%/22%.
Q. Over the last 2 years, have you become more concerned or less concerned about the environmental effects of global warming or do you feel about the same as you did 2 years ago?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other |
|
Sep 14 |
|
| Total more concerned |
51% |
62% |
38% |
78% |
47% |
52% |
||
| Total less concerned |
9% |
5% |
16% |
3% |
9% |
9% |
||
| Much more concerned |
21% |
31% |
11% |
40% |
16% |
22% |
||
| A little more concerned |
30% |
31% |
27% |
38% |
31% |
30% |
||
| About the same |
35% |
29% |
43% |
17% |
43% |
35% |
||
| A little less concerned |
6% |
4% |
10% |
3% |
6% |
6% |
||
| Much less concerned |
3% |
1% |
6% |
– |
3% |
3% |
||
| Don’t know |
5% |
3% |
3% |
3% |
2% |
4% |
51% say they have become more concerned about the environmental effects of global warming over the last two years and 9% have become less concerned – 35% feel about the same.
These results are very similar to those when this question was asked in September.
Those most likely to have become more concerned were Labor voters (62%), Greens voters (78%) and people with university degrees (62%).
Q. As far as you know, do you think the following countries are doing enough, not enough or too much to address climate change?
|
Doing enough |
Not doing enough |
Doing too much |
Don’t know |
|
| Australia |
26% |
51% |
6% |
16% |
| USA |
17% |
53% |
5% |
25% |
| China |
9% |
63% |
3% |
25% |
51% of respondents think Australia is not doing enough to address climate change – while 53% think the USA is not doing enough and 63% think China is not doing enough. Only 26% think that Australia is doing enough.
Those most likely to think Australia is not doing enough were aged 18-34 (57%), Greens voters (91%), Labor voters (65%) and people with university education (59%).
Q. Which party do you think is most likely to win the next Federal election due in 2016?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other |
|
| Labor Party |
46% |
84% |
16% |
66% |
40% |
|
| Liberal/National Party |
27% |
2% |
64% |
7% |
16% |
|
| Can’t say |
27% |
14% |
20% |
27% |
44% |
46% think the Labor Party is most likely to win the next election and 27% think the Liberal/National Party is most likely to win. 27% could not give an opinion.
84% of Labor voters think the Labor Party is most likely to win and 64% of Liberal/National voters think the Liberal/National Party will win.