Q. Do you agree or disagree with the following statements about Australia’s population growth?
| Total agree | Total disagree | Strongly agree | Agree | Disagree | Strongly disagree | Don’t know | |
| We just don’t have the infrastructure and services to manage more population growth | 75% | 19% | 36% | 39% | 14% | 5% | 6% |
| Immigration should be slowed as it causes too much change to our society | 64% | 29% | 32% | 32% | 20% | 9% | 7% |
| Australia has a fragile environment that cannot cope with a much larger population | 61% | 30% | 24% | 37% | 24% | 6% | 8% |
| Having a larger population will help our economy | 38% | 52% | 7% | 31% | 34% | 18% | 10% |
| Australia has the space and resources to cope with a much larger population | 35% | 58% | 8% | 27% | 31% | 27% | 7% |
When it comes to statements about population growth, most people agree that we just don’t have the infrastructure and services to manage more population growth (75%). 64% agree that immigration should be slowed as it causes too much change to our society and 61% think Australia has a fragile environment that cannot cope with a much larger population. More than half (58%) disagree that Australia has the space and resources to cope with a much larger population.
Labor voters were more likely to agree that having a larger population will help our economy (42%) and disagree that we just don’t have the infrastructure and services to manage more population growth (23%).
Coalition voters were more likely to agree that we just don’t have the infrastructure and services to manage more population growth (82%) and agree that immigration should be slowed as it causes too much change to our society (74%).
Greens voters were more likely to agree that Australia has a fragile environment that cannot cope with a much larger population (66%).