Polling Brief – Election Promises
The Australia Institute surveyed Australians about the importance of governments keeping their election promises, finding three in five think it is more important to adapt economic policy to suit the current circumstances.
Respondents were asked whether they thought it was more important to keep election promises regardless of how economic circumstances have changed or if it was more important to adapt economic policy to suit the changing circumstances, even if that meant breaking an election promise.
Three in five Australians (60%) think it is more important to adapt economic policy to suit the current circumstances, even if that means breaking an election promise.
Support was highest for breaking an election promise to suit the current circumstances among Labor and Greens voters at 69% and 64%, respectively.
The results show that:
- Three in five Australians (60%) think it is more important to adapt economic policy to suit the current circumstances, even if that means breaking an election promise.
- One in three Australians (32%) think it is more important to keep an election promise regardless of how economic circumstances have changed.
- Even among Coalition voters most (54%) think it is more important to adapt economic policy to suit the changing circumstances, even if that means breaking an election promise.