Surging living costs have become the most concerning issue for Australian voters as the federal election is only a couple of weeks away, a new study has found.
The Australian National University (ANU) has surveyed 3,500 voters and found that 64.7 percent of the respondents believed reducing living costs should be the top priority of the next federal government.
“This outranks all other major policy considerations,” study co-author Nicholas Biddle said.
“Interestingly, we also found that this was a view held by people who said they would vote for Labor, for people who said they would vote for the Coalition, and for those who weren’t planning on voting for either party.
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