This week’s Essential Report comes in with the primaries running 43 (up 1)/ 40 (steady) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 54/46 the same way – a one point gain to Labor since last week. The Greens and the broad “Others” are steady on 9 a piece. This comes from a rolling two week sample of 1889, giving us an MoE that maxes out around the 2.3% mark.
Additional questions this week covered which level of government the public believes should be responsible for an array of issues, perceptions of gender wage differentials in the workplace, why people vote the way they do at both State and Fed elections, as well as public opinion on Rudd’s national curriculum.
These additional questions ran off a sample of 1129, giving us an MoE that maxes out around the 2.9% mark.
Do you think the following services should be mainly the responsibility of the Federal Government or State Governments?
On the cross-tabs we have:
People in Western Australia (50%) and Victoria (43%) wee more likely to think that health should be the responsibility of both State and Federal Governments.
35% of those surveyed think that water supply should be the responsibility of the State Governments and 25% think it should be the
responsibility of the Federal Government.People in South Australia (42%) were more likely to think that water supply should be the responsibility of the Federal Government.
If we ever wonder why Federal governments have centralist tendencies, we should probably look in the mirror occasionally. I suppose, as a consolation, we think States should do water
