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Economy heading in right or wrong direction

29 Sep 2015

Q. Do you think Australia’s economy is heading in the right or wrong direction?

Total

Vote Labor

Vote Lib/Nat

Vote Greens

Vote other

 

 

Jun 2012

Apr 2013

Apr 2014

Aug 2014

May 2015

Sep 2015

The right direction

34%

24%

54%

12%

27%

 

 

43%

36%

39%

35%

35%

35%

The wrong direction

39%

47%

26%

59%

55%

 

 

32%

39%

34%

41%

40%

41%

Don’t know

27%

30%

20%

28%

19%

 

 

25%

25%

26%

24%

25%

24%

34% of respondents think that Australia’s economy is heading in the right direction and 39% think it is heading in the wrong direction. This represents no significant change since this question was asked two weeks ago.

24% (up 2%) of Labor voters, 54% (down 8%) of Liberal/National voters and 12% (down 9%) of Greens voters think the economy is heading in the right direction. 47% (down 5%) of Labor voters, 26% (up 5%) of Liberal/National voters and 59% (down 2%) of Greens voters think it is heading in the wring direction.

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