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Tuesday, 13 November 2007

Australia Revealed: The green guide

Christian Kerr writes:

There’s practical reconciliation – and practical environmentalism, or so it seems.

We’ve drilled down into the Roy Morgan electorate by electorate attitudinal material to find out voter’s views on some fundamental environmental issues.

It should come as no surprise that the resident of the inner-west Sydney seat of Grayndler are most likey to agree with the proposition “At heart I’m an environmentalist”. There, the Greens breathe down the back of Labor’s Anthony Albanese’s neck. But the safe Queensland Nationals’ seat of Wide Bay as number two? There’s a turn up. And the electorates where the punters say they try to recycle everything they can? They simply seem to be a solid bloc of suburbia.

It’s a different story when we come the seats where the voters say threats to the environment are exaggerated. There are three Nationals seats in the top five, Bob Katter’s electorate of Kennedy, and the safe Labor electorate of Fowler, in Western Sydney. No doubt there’s not much demand for soy decaf lattes out there.

Crikey’s key seats  — the 49 seats we believe will decide the federal election  — are marked with an asterisk. More details are available from Electorate Profiles on the Roy Morgan Online Store.

Percentage of electors who agree “At heart I’m an environmentalist”

Electorate

% of electors

2PP
Pre-Rudd

2PP
Post-Rudd

Grayndler (NSW)

83.02%

LNP 22.5%,
ALP 77.5%

LNP 14%,
ALP 86%

Wide Bay (Qld)

80.59%

LNP 55%,
ALP 45%

LNP 38%,
ALP 62%

Berowra (NSW)

80.21%

LNP 55%,
ALP 45%

LNP 54%,
ALP 46%

Fremantle (WA)

79.67%

LNP 34%,
ALP 66%

LNP 27.5%,
ALP 72.5%

*McMillan (Vic)

78.96%

LNP 54.5%,
ALP 45.5%

LNP 47%,
ALP 53%

Percentage of electors who agree “I try to recycle everything I can”

Electorate

% of electors

2PP
Pre-Rudd

2PP
Post-Rudd

*McMillan (Vic)

97.16%

LNP 54.5%,
ALP 45.5%

LNP 47%,
ALP 53%

Calwell (Vic)

97.12%

LNP 36%,
ALP 64%

LNP 24.5%,
ALP 75.5%

Bruce (Vic)

96.33%

LNP 49%,
ALP 51%

LNP 45%,
ALP 55%

Jagajaga (Vic)

96.09%

LNP 50.5%,
ALP 49.5%

LNP 34.5%,
ALP 65.5%

Reid (NSW)

96.03%

LNP 45.5%,
ALP 54.5%

LNP 39%,
ALP 61%

Percentage of electors who agree “Threats to environment are exaggerated”

Electorate

% of electors

2PP
Pre-Rudd

2PP
Post-Rudd

Mallee (Vic)

37.09%

LNP 56%,
ALP 44%

LNP 55.5%,
ALP 44.5%

Gippsland (Vic)

36.27%

LNP 57.5%,
ALP 42.5%

LNP 44.5%,
ALP 55.5%

Fowler (NSW)

32.23%

LNP 29.5%,
ALP 70.5%

LNP 29.5%,
ALP 70.5%

Kennedy (Qld)

32.11%

LNP 46%,
ALP 54%

LNP 42%,
ALP 58%

Maranoa (Qld)

31.99%

LNP 55.5%,
ALP 44.5%

LNP 60%,
ALP 40%

Pre Rudd polling covers January-Dec 2006; post Rudd January-June 2007.

One Comment

  1. gizmo
    Posted Wednesday, 14 November 2007 at 4:39 am | Permalink

    You say the Greens are breathing down Albanese’s neck in Grayndler. I wish. Maybe without the 2 party preferred rort, but while disproportional representation rules the 2 oligarchies have the whole game sewn up. Why aren’t the media as mad as hell?