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Most important environmental problems

27 Oct 2015

Q. Which of these do you think is the most important environmental problem facing Australia today? And which would you say is the second most important?

Total 2 most import- ant

Most import- ant

Second most import- ant

Vote Labor

Vote Lib/Nat

Vote Greens

Vote other

Climate change

49%

32%

17%

58%

42%

69%

39%

Water supply

38%

20%

18%

35%

45%

26%

31%

The impact of mining

25%

12%

13%

26%

22%

36%

20%

Loss of native habitat

23%

9%

14%

21%

27%

21%

28%

The health of the Great Barrier Reef

20%

9%

11%

18%

22%

12%

28%

Air pollution

17%

7%

10%

20%

16%

13%

17%

The Murray-Darling Basin

11%

3%

8%

9%

14%

6%

21%

Don’t know

9%

9%

1%

6%

6%

6%

8%

The most important environmental problems were thought to be climate change (49%) and water supply (38%).

58% of Labor voters and 69% of Greens voters thought climate change was the most important problem – compared to 42% of Liberal/National voters. 36% of Greens voters thought the impact of mining was one of the two most important problems.

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