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The "Oi, Cameron, time to sort out..." poll

19 November 2012

If you could grab the Prime Minister and ask him to focus on sorting out a money/financial issue, which of the following would you choose? Pick up to three from this top 10:

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If you could grab the Prime Minister and ask him to focus on sorting out a money/financial issue, which of the following would you choose?

Pick up to three from this top 10:

Results

Car insurance - unaffordable for young drivers 1,589 votes (12 %)
Childcare - high costs and lack of availability 1,627 votes (12 %)
Financial education - put it on the curriculum 2,414 votes (18 %)
Gas & electricity bills - unaffordable for too many 8,027 votes (60 %)
Mortgages - too difficult to get 2,084 votes (16 %)
Payday loans (eg, 2,000% APR) - need strong regulation 2,390 votes (18 %)
Petrol prices - too high 9,134 votes (68 %)
Savings rates - dismally low 5,038 votes (38 %)
Spam texts - need to be stopped 920 votes (7 %)
Train fares - too expensive and complex 2,709 votes (20 %)

13,400 people have selected 35,932 options (percentages are the number who voted for that topic of the total people who have voted, so won't add up to 100%).

We try to use technology to limit voting to one per person. Occasionally, this may erroneously block a few people's votes (eg, from shared offices). Apologies for that.

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