Q. Which of the following statements represents your view of how the Government should respond to these penalty rate reductions?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Work full time | Work part time | |||
| The Government should accept the decision to cut penalty rates | 31% | 15% | 55% | 14% | 32% | 37% | 27% | ||
| The Government should pass legislation to protect current penalty rates | 51% | 73% | 29% | 64% | 52% | 47% | 51% | ||
| Don’t know | 18% | 12% | 16% | 22% | 16% | 16% | 22% |
51% think that the Government should pass legislation to protect current penalty rates and 31% think the Government should accept the decision to cut penalty rates.
Those most likely to think the Government should pass legislation to protect current penalty rates were labor voters (73%), Greens voters (64%) and women (55%).
Those most likely to think the Government should accept the decision to cut penalty rates were Liberal National voters (55%), men (37%), aged 65+ (51%) and full-time workers (37%).