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  • Jun, 2014

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    Level of Cuts

    Q. Do you think the Federal Budget has cut Government spending by too much, not enough or about the right amount?

    Total

     

     

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

    Vote other

     

    19 May

    Cut spending too much

    48%

    72%

    18%

    66%

    56%

    41%

    Not cut spending enough

    11%

    6%

    21%

    3%

    12%

    15%

    Cut spending about right amount

    21%

    4%

    49%

    11%

    11%

    26%

    Don’t know

    19%

    17%

    12%

    20%

    21%

    18%

    48% think the Federal Budget has cut Government spending by too much, 21% think it has cut the right amount and 11% think it has not cut spending enough. Over the last two weeks (since this question was asked immediately after the budget) the proportion thinking the budget has cut too much has increased 7% and decreased for both cut the right amount (down 5%) and not cut enough (down 4%).

    72% of Labor voters (up 3%), 66% of Greens voters (up 11%) and 56% of others (up 8%) think that the Federal Budget had cut spending by too much. 49% of Liberal-National voters (down 6%) think that spending had been cut by the right amount.

  • May, 2014

    ,

    Level of Cuts

    Q. Do you think the Federal Budget has cut Government spending by too much, not enough or about the right amount ?

     

    Total

     

     

    Male

    Female

     

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

    Vote other

    Cut spending too much

    41%

    42%

    40%

    69%

    11%

    55%

    48%

    Not cut spending enough

    15%

    19%

    11%

    9%

    22%

    14%

    14%

    Cut spending about right amount

    26%

    27%

    25%

    7%

    55%

    14%

    19%

    Don’t know

    18%

    12%

    24%

    15%

    12%

    17%

    19%

    The largest proportion of Australian’s believes that the Federal Budget has cut Government spending by too much (41%).

    26% believe that the Federal Budget has cut spending by the right amount, and 15% believe that they have not cut spending by enough.

    There were no significant differences between the genders.

    Labor (69%), Green (55) and other (48%) voters were more likely to think that the Federal Budget had cut spending by too much. Lib/Nat voters 955%) were more likely to think that spending had been cut by the right amount.

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