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  • Oct, 2020

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    NBN

    Q. Is your home or workplace connected to the NBN? 

      Is your home connected to the NBN? Is your workplace connected to the NBN? NET: Home or work connected to NBN
    Yes 59% 28% 65%
    No 38% 19% 33%
    Don’t know 3% 15% 2%
    Not applicable 37%

     

      Is your home connected to the NBN? Is your workplace connected to the NBN? NET: Home or work connected to NBN
    Yes 76% 34% 79%
    No 20% 10% 19%
    Don’t know 4% 17% 2%
    Not applicable 38%
    • Home connection to NBN has increased from 59% in January 2019 to 76%, while workplace connection is now at 34% (previously 28%).
    • Would you say that your NBN internet service is better or worse than your previous service in terms of speed and reliability?

    All people with NBN connection at home/work

      Oct’20 Jan’19
    NET: Better 51% 51%
    NET: Worse 15% 17%
    Much better 24% 24%
    A little better 27% 27%
    About the same 32% 30%
    A little worse 10% 10%
    Much worse 7% 7%
    Don’t know 2% 2%
    •  There has been no improvement to the speed and reliability of NBN over the past two years. Half of people using NBN the service has improved since switching (no change from Jan’19) and a third (32%) there has been no change. 15% report having a worse service since moving to NBN?

    Q. Would you approve or disapprove of privatising the NBN when it is completed in 2020?

        Federal Voting Intention Gender Age    
      Total Labor Coalition Greens TOTAL: Other Male Female 18-34 35-54 55+   Jan’19
    Strongly approve 11% 11% 12% 20% 15% 18% 5% 11% 16% 6%   9%
    Somewhat approve 22% 17% 27% 19% 25% 25% 19% 33% 21% 12%   20%
    Somewhat disapprove 14% 14% 14% 8% 14% 13% 14% 13% 14% 14%   18%
    Strongly disapprove 25% 34% 18% 26% 30% 23% 26% 16% 18% 39%   26%
    Don’t know 29% 24% 30% 28% 15% 21% 36% 27% 31% 29%   27%
    NET: Approve 33% 28% 39% 39% 40% 43% 23% 45% 37% 19%   29%
    NET: Disapprove 38% 48% 31% 34% 45% 36% 40% 29% 32% 52%   44%
    Base (n) 1,082 352 421 84 123 352 555 328 369 385   1,089
    •  A third (33%) approve of privatising the NBN when it is completed in 2020 and 38% disapprove.
    • Labor voters were more likely to disapprove of privatisation (48%) than Coalition voters (31%) and Greens voters (34%).
  • Sep, 2015

    NBN

    Q. The Government’s national broadband network plan is to more quickly roll out fibre to local nodes and let Telstra’s copper network carry internet traffic to households, compared to Labor’s plan to roll out fibre to every household outside rural areas, which would cost more and have taken longer but produced higher speeds. Which plan do you believe is best for Australia?

    Total

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

    Vote other

    The Liberal Government’s plan

    29%

    7%

    63%

    6%

    26%

    The Labor plan

    38%

    62%

    12%

    66%

    43%

    Don’t know

    33%

    31%

    25%

    28%

    31%

    38% think the Labor NBN plan is best for Australia and 29% think the Government’s plan is best. 33% did not give an opinion. These views were consistent across age groups.

  • Jan, 2014

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    Support for privatisation

    Q. Would you support or oppose privatisation of the following Government-owned corporations?

     

     

    Total support

    Total

    oppose

     

    Strongly support

    Support

    Oppose

    Strongly oppose

    Don’t know

    Medibank Private

    29%

    54%

    5%

    24%

    26%

    28%

    18%

    Australia Post

    20%

    69%

    4%

    16%

    26%

    43%

    11%

    The ABC and SBS

    21%

    64%

    5%

    16%

    25%

    39%

    14%

    The National Broadband Network

    28%

    58%

    7%

    21%

    24%

    34%

    14%

    Snowy Hydro

    17%

    53%

    3%

    14%

    23%

    30%

    30%

    Australian Rail Track Corporation (which runs much of the interstate train network)

    23%

    58%

    5%

    18%

    25%

    33%

    19%

    There was majority opposition to privatising each of the Government-owned corporations listed.

    Privatisation of Australia Post (69%) and ABC/SBS (64%) were most strongly opposed.

    While support for privatisation of these corporations was higher among Liberal/National voter, they were still more likely to oppose than support. Apart from Medibank Private (40% support/46% oppose) and the NBN (42%/46%), a majority of Liberal/National voters opposed privatisation of each corporation.

  • Jul, 2013

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    Labor Party policies

    Q. Under Kevin Rudd’s leadership, do you think the Labor Party should dump, change or keep their policies on the following issues?

     

    Dump

    Keep

    Change

    Don’t know

    Handling of asylum seekers

    21%

    10%

    51%

    17%

    Building the NBN

    14%

    50%

    15%

    15%

    The mining tax

    29%

    30%

    24%

    18%

    The carbon tax

    39%

    25%

    23%

    13%

    The Gonski education reforms

    15%

    44%

    16%

    25%

    The NDIS

    7%

    59%

    9%

    25%

    Respondents were most likely to think the Labor Party under Kevin Rudd should keep the NDIS (59%), building the NBN (50%) and the Gonski reforms (44%).

    51% think it should change the policies around handling asylum seekers and 39% think it should dump the carbon tax. Opinions were divided over the mining tax – 30% keep, 29% dump and 24% change.

    Labor voters were most in favour of keeping the NBN (78%), the mining tax (47%), the carbon tax (39%), the Gonski reforms (67%) and the NDIS (74%) but favoured changing the policy on asylum seekers (56%).

  • Jun, 2013

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    Government decisions

    Q. Thinking about the decisions the Labor Government has made over the last few years, do you think the following decisions were good or bad for Australia?

     

    Total good

    Total bad

    Very good

    Good

    Neither good nor bad

    Bad

    Very bad

    Don’t know

    Sep 12 good

    Sep 12 bad

    Expanding dental health services for people on low incomes

    73%

    8%

    28%

    45%

    15%

    4%

    4%

    5%

    77%

    5%

    Increasing the tax free threshold from $6,000 to $18,200

    72%

    8%

    34%

    38%

    15%

    5%

    3%

    5%

    75%

    4%

    Increasing the age pension

    67%

    14%

    27%

    40%

    16%

    10%

    4%

    4%

    70%

    11%

    Protecting large areas of Australia’s marine environment in a network of marine reserves

    66%

    10%

    27%

    39%

    19%

    6%

    4%

    5%

    67%

    8%

    Introducing the National Disability Insurance Scheme

    63%

    9%

    26%

    37%

    20%

    5%

    4%

    8%

    58%

    5%

    Increasing superannuation from 9% to 12%

    62%

    14%

    24%

    38%

    19%

    10%

    4%

    5%

    68%

    9%

    Stimulus spending to tackle the Global Financial Crisis (GFC)

    50%

    26%

    21%

    29%

    19%

    17%

    9%

    5%

    54%

    22%

    Introducing a tax on large profits of mining companies

    49%

    27%

    21%

    28%

    20%

    15%

    12%

    5%

    49%

    25%

    Building the NBN (National Broadband Network)

    48%

    28%

    22%

    26%

    18%

    15%

    13%

    6%

    43%

    28%

    Paid parental leave

    48%

    22%

    14%

    34%

    24%

    13%

    9%

    5%

    52%

    20%

    Spending on new school buildings during the GFC

    47%

    26%

    12%

    35%

    20%

    15%

    11%

    6%

    53%

    22%

    Implementing the recommendations of the Gonski report to increase education funding

    46%

    22%

    17%

    29%

    23%

    12%

    10%

    9%

    54%

    8%

    Abolished WorkChoices

    42%

    27%

    23%

    19%

    22%

    17%

    10%

    10%

    42%

    27%

    Introducing a carbon tax to tackle climate change

    32%

    48%

    14%

    18%

    16%

    18%

    30%

    4%

    28%

    51%

    The two most popular decisions of the Labor Government are ‘expanding dental health services for people on low incomes’ (73% total good) and ‘increasing the tax free threshold from $6,000 to $18,000 (72% total good).  The least popular decisions were ‘Implementing the recommendations of the Gonski report (46% total good), ‘Abolished WorkChoices’ (42% total good) and ‘introducing a carbon tax to tackle climate change’ (32% total good).

    The only issue which received a net negative response was ‘introducing a carbon tax to tackle climate change’, where 48% of respondents believed it to be bad for Australia.

    Since this question was previously asked last September, perceptions of most decisions have become a little more negative – with the exceptions of the “carbon tax” which shifted from 28% to 32% ‘good’, the ‘NDIS’ which shifted from 58% to 63% ‘good’ and building the NBN which shifted from 43% to 48% ‘good’.

    The largest negative shifts were for the ‘Gonski recommendations’ (down 8% to 46%), increasing super (down 6% to 62%) and spending on schools during the GFC (down 6% to 47%).

  • Apr, 2013

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    NBN

    Q. The Government’s NBN (National Broadband Network) is a fast, high capacity fibre network to the home reaching 93% of Australian homes and businesses.

    The Coalition has proposed a broadband plan in which the NBN would be replaced with broadband fibre to local “nodes” (or exchanges) and the existing telephone copper network would connect the rest of the way to homes. This would mean slower broadband speeds than the NBN but cost less to build. Do you support the Government’s or the Coalition’s broadband policy?

     

    Total

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

    Support Government’s policy

    54%

    83%

    31%

    74%

    Support the Coalition’s policy

    23%

    4%

    46%

    7%

    Don’t know

    23%

    12%

    23%

    19%

    54% support the Government’s broadband policy and 23% support the Coalition’s policy.

    For those aged 18-34, 61% support the Government’s policy and 15% support the Coalition’s. 51% of those aged 35-54 and 49% of those aged 55+ support the Government’s policy.

  • Mar, 2013

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    Support for major Government decisions

    Q. Do you support or oppose the following Government decisions?

     

    26 Nov 12

    18 Mar 13

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Total Support

    Total Oppose

    Total Support

    Total Oppose

    Strongly support

    Support

    Oppose

    Strongly oppose

    Don’t know

    NBN (National Broadband Network) – high speed broadband access across Australia

    69%

    20%

    73%

    19%

    35%

    38%

    10%

    9%

    8%

    The Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) – a tax on large profits of mining companies

    63%

    22%

    57%

    29%

    24%

    33%

    15%

    14%

    14%

    The carbon pricing scheme – a tax on industries based on the amount of carbon pollution they emit

    46%

    44%

    44%

    46%

    17%

    27%

    20%

    26%

    10%

    The decision which has the most support amongst respondents is the NBN, with 73% in favour and only 19% opposed – an increase in support since this question was last asked in November (from net +49 to net +54).

    There is majority support from respondents for the MRRT, with 57% in favour of the tax and 29% opposed. However, this represents a significant drop in support since November – from net +41 to net +28.

    Support for the carbon pricing scheme has declined a little since the last time the question was polled in November. Support has decreased from 46% to 44% and opposition increased from 44% to 46% – a change from net +2 to net -2.

  • Nov, 2012

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    Repealing major Government decisions

    Q. If the Liberal and National parties win the next election, should they repeal any of these Government decisions?

     

    Yes, should repeal

    No, should not repeal

    Don’t know

    The carbon pricing scheme

    45%

    37%

    18%

    NBN (National Broadband Network)

    18%

    63%

    20%

    The Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT)

    24%

    50%

    28%

    A greater portion of respondents believe that a Coalition government should repeal the carbon pricing scheme (45%) that those that believe they should not (37%).

    A majority of respondents otherwise believe that a Coalition government should not repeal the NBN (63%), and a greater portion believe it should not repeal the MRRT (50%) compared to those that believe it should (24%).

    Looking at the results by voting intention, Lib/Nat voters are also more likely to believe a Coalition government should repeal the carbon pricing scheme (72%), the NBN (30%) and the MRRT (44%).

    Broken down by gender, male respondents (50%) are more likely than female respondents (39%) to believe that a Coalition government should repeal the carbon tax.  Conversely, male respondents were more likely to believe that a Coalition government should not repeal the NBN (66%) compared to female respondents (60%) and also more likely to believe that they should not repeal the MRRT (54%) compared with female respondents (47%).

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