📊 What does the public really think following the 2025 #FederalElection?. Our latest national survey reveals a public appetite for policy action—especially on productivity, tax reform, and economic growth. Full report: .. #JWSResearch #AusPol

This chart shows how distinctly more people saw the recent election campaign as economically irresponsible (38%) compared to economically responsible (30%). Clearly the campaign also had some issues when it came to honesty and offering people some new and different propositions.

So, as the dust settles after the election, industry and NGOs would do well to dust off the good policies for their part of the economy that may not contain much populism but are what the country needs.

Because interestingly the data shows the electorate actually wants more of the harder “we need this” policy stuff. Things like fiscal reform and greater economic responsibility.

Our Founder John Scales spoke at the Australian Energy Producers conference in Bris and highlighted our post-election data that should encourage the re-elected Labor Govt to give the public more of what they need rather than just what they want.

Great photo of our two grads – Loan Do and Finn Sargentson at their Monash Uni graduation last week. Congratulations to you both!

You can see from this chart that the younger generation of voters were more likely than other age groups to actually decide who they were voting for just shortly before they cast it.

Post federal election, #JWSResearch took a detailed survey of when people decided their vote and what the key influences were on their voting decision. @FinancialReview political editor Phillip Coorey covered some of our insights:

High quality public opinion research should play an instrumental role in economic policy reform. Our latest data offers insights on the public’s attitudes to broad based tax reform. News Limited’s Clare Armstrong has written about our research findings:

5/5 This third chart shows public reaction to the idea of broad tax reform. Notably, 12 months ago only 24% felt the tax system was working well and didn’t need major change. Frustration with the system is now an embedded reality for most Australians.

4/ This second chart shows strong public backing for the Treasurer’s post-election call to prioritise productivity. The breakdown on the right also confirms support for tackling harder policy tasks is consistent across age, income, education, and geography.

3/ We’re releasing detailed data to explain the reform opportunity. This chart shows where economic policy debates should start: recognising the public’s posture to back the re-elected Govt tackling harder issues to drive growth and fix fiscal circumstances.

2/ In our post election survey put in field the week after the federal election result, the data we gathered & analysed showed that Australians are up for the Govt to extend themselves. David Speers has written about this in his ABC column this morning:

1/ JWS Research has long been tracking an often overlooked receptivity in the community for economic reform that faces up to some of the nation’s more complex challenges around balancing the budget, improving productivity, fixing the tax system and driving economic growth.

JWS Research’s John Scales spoke to Sally Sara on ABC Radio National yesterday to discuss how the national polling picture for this election and the seat by seat reality ought to be understood carefully. Have a listen here: . #JWSResearch #AusPol #Ele .

To get election campaign seat polling right, we insist on 3 essentials:. ✅ Robust sample size 800+.✅ Candidate names inc in ballot question.✅ Preference flows captured directly from respondents. This approach delivers data you can trust. More: #AusPol

One of the pillars of #JWSResearch marked 10 yrs with us. Katrina Cox, Director of Client Services, has built a reputation as one of the best qual & quant dualists in the business. We’re proud of her & wish her the best as she heads to the US soon to run the Boston marathon.

.@FinancialReview's political editor Phillip Coorey discusses the ramifications of Trump here on the election campaign featuring comments from JWS Research's John Scales. #JWSResearch #TrumpTariffs #AusPol

John Scales contributed to James Campbell’s piece in News Ltd papers on the election campaign contest in VIC. Parties are focussed on outer suburbs but our research shows cost of living, health & housing are also big issues for voters in inner suburbs.

Our Senior Research Director Jessica Lai is speaking at the Govt & Social Research Conference in Canberra on 2 April. We’re also sponsoring the coffee cart there, so tune in to hear Jessica’s ‘State of the Nation’ session feature & then come say hello and grab a cuppa. #GSR25