List of tables

Table 1.1: Political trust in Australia, 1993–2016, %.
Table 1.2: Political trust within socio-demographic groups, 2013, %.
Table 1.3: Perceptions of insecurity, 2013, %.
Table 1.4: Political trust by economic insecurity, 2013, %.
Table 1.5: Political trust by military insecurity, 2013, %.
Table 1.6: Political trust by cultural insecurity, 2013, %.
Table 1.7: Effects on political trust (multiple regression).
Table 2.1: Voter economic insecurity (sociotropic and personal).
Table 3.1: Major populist right party vote (main house of parliament) and attitudes to immigration in selected rich democracies.
Table 3.2: Attitudes and demographics of populist right voters versus all other voters, %.
Table 3.3: Drivers of anti-immigration sentiments, 1996–2016.
Table 3.4: Patterns of opposition to immigration levels (1996 v 2016) and boat arrivals (2001 v 2016), %.
Table 3.5: House of Representatives vote in 2016 among self-identified working-class voters by attitudes to boat turnbacks and redistribution.
Table 3.6: Agree that the government is too hard (soft) on asylum seekers, %.
Table 3.7: Ordinal regression models on immigration levels and asylum turnbacks.
Table 3.8: Voter immigration concerns: boat arrivals versus foreign workers, %.
Table 3.9: Attitudes to multiculturalism and Muslim immigration, %.
Table 3.A1: Questions in Australian Election Studies series.
Table 4.1: Climate change sceptics in international perspective (odds ratios).
Table 4.2: Self-assessed knowledge of climate change.
Table 4.3: What predicts climate scepticism among Australians? (odds ratios).
Table 5.1: Gender gap in the Labor vote across socio-demographic and individual characteristic groups, %.
Table 5.2: Most important issues during the 2016 election campaign by vote choice and gender, %.
Table 5.3: Gender differences in political attitudes toward government intervention and equality, %.
Table 5.4: Women’s representation in federal parliament by party, %.
Table 5.5: Gender differences in support for increasing the number of women MPs, %.
Table 5.6: Gender and voting for the Labor Party in 2016.
Table 6.1: Socioeconomic characteristics of types of voters, 1996 and 2016.
Table 7.1: Acceptance of the freedom of assembly across countries and over time (higher score=more accepting).
Table 7.2: Correlation between the average national acceptance of freedom of assembly for extremist groups in 2014 and country characteristics.
Table 7.3: Structural and cultural characteristics of Australia compared to 33 countries.
Table 7.4: Effects of individual characteristics on the acceptance of the freedon of assembly (Australia only, Generalized Linear Model, Maximum Likelihood estimation).
Table 8.1: Number of polls conducted and published in Australia between the dissolution of the Parliament (9 May) and the day of the election (2 July 2016), column % in brackets.
Table 8.2: Number of questions in the published Australian polls from the dissolution of the Parliament (9 May) to the day of the election (2 July 2016), % in brackets.
Table 8.3: Number of questions in the published British polls from the dissolution of the Parliament (30 March) to the day of the election (7 May 2015), % in brackets.
Table 9.A1: Survey item coding for regression models.
Table 9.A2: Regression coefficients (support for retaining the monarchy).
Table 10.1: Selected marriage statistics, 1980–2010, 2015.
Table 10.2: Married people are generally happier than unmarried people, %.
Table 10.3: Percentage agreeing that married people are generally happier than unmarried people, by selected characteristics for each year, %.
Table 10.4: People who want children ought to get married, %.
Table 10.5: Percentage agreeing that people who want children ought to get married, by selected characteristics for each year, %.
Table 10.6: Percentage who agree that marriage is an outdated institution, by selected characteristics, %.