What do Australian people think about universal basic income?
Economic axis · 🇦🇺 Australia · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
17% of Australian respondents take the position “The state should pay everyone enough to live on, with no strings.”, against 59% for “Money from the state should go to people who work, or who clearly need it.”, with 24% choosing neither. n = 116, margin of error ±9.4, weighted to Australia's adult population.
Where Australia sits on economic
What is measured about Australia on this axis. These are facts about the country, not what its people think about them — that is the part of this page waiting on a sample.
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Unemployment
ILO modelled estimate · 2025
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4.1% |
somewhat below the middle
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Income per person
World Bank / ICP · 2025
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$60,194 |
higher than most countries
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Ranked against every country with a published figure for the same series. Sources: World Bank World Development Indicators, which republish UN, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, SIPRI, IISS and UNODC data.
The questions that bear on universal basic income
Asked as a forced choice between two written positions, in randomised order, with the sides flipped for half of respondents.
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A · Money from the state should go to people who work, or who clearly need it.
B · The state should pay everyone enough to live on, with no strings.
World, unweighted: 24% A ·
20% neither ·
56% B · n = 4775
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17% B 🇦🇺 n=116 |
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A · If machines take the jobs, people must retrain and move on.
B · If machines take the jobs, the state must guarantee an income.
World, unweighted: 24% A ·
23% neither ·
52% B · n = 4736
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20% B 🇦🇺 n=113 |
A national figure appears only once that nation clears 100 responses on the question. The world column is a raw count of every answer received and is not post-stratified — it is shown because withholding it would say less, not more.
Asked another way
The same question, as people put it.
- Australia public opinion on universal basic income
- Universal basic income poll australia
- What do australian people think about universal basic income
- What percentage of australian people support universal basic income
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.