Vote Compass data shows nearly half of Australians worried about making ends meet
ABCKaleisha Ivory is used to having to make hard decisions, but at the centre of every one is her daughter, Lillie. Polling shows 45 per cent of Australians are more worried about their ability to make ends meet now than they were a year ago. Fifteen per cent said they were less worried, and 39 per cent said they felt about the same about their ability to make ends meet. Women were more likely than men to say they were concerned, with 52 per cent of women saying they were more worried about making ends meet compared to 38 per cent of men. "The only worthwhile thing to note is there's a very strong analogy we could make with the Rudd government expenditure during the global financial crisis when they spent a lot of money very quickly for very solid macroeconomic reasons knowing there would be wastage, misallocations and problems in that, but in one sense the misallocations were one thing they would accept for an intervention to prevent the economy going into recession," Dr Chen said.
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