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Heading in the Right/Wrong Direction

17 May 2010

Q. Overall, from what you have read and heard, do you think the Australian economy is heading in the right direction or the wrong direction?

  Total Vote Labor Vote Liberal/ National
The right direction 51% 83% 30%
The wrong direction 25% 6% 47%
Don’t know 24% 12% 23%

Half (51%) the respondents think that Australia’s economy is heading in the right direction – 25% think it is heading in the wrong direction.

83% of Labor voters, 30% of Liberal/National voters and 59% of Greens voters think the economy is heading in the right direction.

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