They were supportive of the debate on the Afghanistan war (most wanted troops home), although much less so of that on gay marriage.
They also overwhelmingly supported Joe Hockey’s call for a banking inquiry as, in a move which started from a stumble, he showed how an activist opposition can make a ponderous government look slow, dim-witted and unelectable.
We’ve had not quite 2 months of a hung parliament, and it is already changing how both major parties do business. With those changes will come broader changes in the perception of how politics can and should be conducted, and maybe even a lasting change in the paradigm.
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We may even become like the rest of the world where compromise and gridlock is generally accepted as just part of the parliamentary system, and we may like it that way.
| Hung_Parliament |
ALP |
Grn |
Lib |
Total |
| Very good thing |
8% |
33% |
3% |
11% |
| Good thing |
29% |
40% |
8% |
21% |
| Neither good nor bad thing |
36% |
17% |
15% |
22% |
| Bad thing |
18% |
6% |
41% |
26% |
| Very bad thing |
5% |
1% |
29% |
16% |
| Unsure |
5% |
3% |
3% |
4% |
| Grand Total |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
| Total good thing |
36% |
73% |
11% |
33% |
| Total bad thing |
23% |
7% |
71% |
41% |
| Net good thing |
13% |
66% |
-60% |
-8% |
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