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ABCC

12 Apr 2016

Q: The Government plans to re-establish the Australian Building and Construction Commission to address claims of union militancy in the construction industry. The ABCC’s powers included preventing any person from revealing they had been forced to give testimony to the Commission, and overriding a person’s right to silence. Do you support or oppose re-establishing the ABCC?

 
Total
 
Vote Labor
Vote Lib/Nat
Vote Greens
Vote other
 
Oct 2013
Mar 2016
Total support 35%   24% 52% 25% 32%   29% 35%
Total oppose 16%   25% 8% 32% 19%   22% 17%
Strongly support 17%   8% 28% 13% 18%   12% 17%
Support 18%   16% 24% 12% 14%   17% 18%
Neither support nor oppose 23%   29% 20% 17% 20%   23% 27%
Oppose 8%   11% 6% 10% 8%   9% 8%
Strongly oppose 8%   14% 2% 22% 11%   13% 9%
Don’t know 27%   22% 20% 26% 29%   25% 22%

35% support re-establishing the ABCC and 16% oppose. 23% neither support nor oppose and 27% don’t have an opinion. This is a very similar result to when this question was asked last month.

39% of full-time workers support and 15% oppose.  29% of part-time workers support and 12% oppose.

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