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.