Q. Overall, do you expect the Federal Budget to be good or bad for you personally?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Men | Women | Age
18-34 |
Aged
35-54 |
Aged 55+ | |
| Total good | 12% | 21% | 9% | 7% | 10% | 14% | 22% | 8% | 5% |
| Total bad | 35% | 18% | 50% | 33% | 40% | 30% | 21% | 40% | 43% |
| Very good | 2% | 2% | 2% | – | 1% | 2% | 3% | 1% | * |
| Good | 10% | 19% | 7% | 7% | 9% | 12% | 19% | 7% | 5% |
| Neither good nor bad | 44% | 54% | 36% | 53% | 43% | 44% | 45% | 42% | 46% |
| Bad | 27% | 16% | 37% | 25% | 30% | 23% | 17% | 30% | 32% |
| Very bad | 8% | 2% | 13% | 8% | 10% | 7% | 4% | 10% | 11% |
| Don’t know | 9% | 7% | 6% | 7% | 6% | 12% | 11% | 10% | 6% |
35% expect the Federal Budget will be bad for them personally and 12% expect it will be good – 44% think it will be neither.
Labor voters are split – 21% good/18% bad while 50% of Liberal/National voters expect it will be bad and only 9% expect it will be good.
Younger voters are more optimistic than older voters – those aged under 35 are split 22% good/21% bad while 43% of over 55’s expect it will be bad and only 5% good. By income, the only major difference from the average is that 45% of people on incomes under $600 pw expect it will be bad for them.