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Importance of ETS
Q. How important for Australia do you think it is for the new Labor Government to move quickly to implement an emissions trading scheme or some other scheme (such as a tax on carbon) to address climate change?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens
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| Very Important | 37% | 54% | 20% | 72% |
| Not that Important | 27% | 12% | 47% | 5% |
| A top priority | 13% | 18% | 6% | 40% |
| Very important | 24% | 36% | 14% | 32% |
| Somewhat important | 26% | 29% | 24% | 19% |
| Not that important | 14% | 6% | 24% | 3% |
| Not important at all | 13% | 6% | 23% | 2% |
| Don’t know | 10% | 5% | 8% | 4% |
37% of people think it is very important to implement an ETS or other scheme to address climate change.
54% of Labor voters, compared with 20% of Lib/Nat voters think it is very important to implement an ETS or other scheme to address climate change. 72% of Green voters think it is very important to implement an ETS or other scheme to address climate change.
48% of those aged 18-24, compared with 26% of those aged 65+ it is very important to implement an ETS or other scheme to address climate change.
42% of Victorians, compared with 30% of Queenslanders it is very important to implement an ETS or other scheme to address climate change.
There was no significant difference between the genders.
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