Economy and climate dwarfed every other issue, including the coronavirus, when it came to deciding the election outcome, a new survey reveals.
dwarfing health and the COVID-19 response, immigration and the need for a national integrity commission, new analysis says.
The post-election survey sampled people who cast a ballot and was conducted in the two days straight after the May 22 election at which Anthony Albanese’s Labor ousted Scott Morrison’s Coalition government.the survey finds that among those who voted Labor, 36 per cent cited climate change as a top issue and 30 per cent cited economic concerns.Of those who voted for the Greens, 67 per cent cited climate while 24 per cent nominated economic issues.
Just 6 per cent of all voters listed the COVID-19 response as one of their top three issues, the same percentage as those who listed the integrity commission.The traditional Coalition strength of immigration/border security recorded just 7 per cent, despite efforts by the Coalition, right until polling day, to stoke fears that people smuggling would restart under Labor.