Not even Christmas can light up this miserable year, with fewer Australians saying they enjoy Christmas than last year. And as in 2015, Greens voters are the worst grinches of all, according to the latest Essential Report.
On the question of whether people enjoy Christmas, 34% of Australians say they enjoy Christmas a lot, down 2% from last year, but 46% say they enjoy some things about Christmas, compared to 44% last time around.
Coalition voters are more likely to enjoy Christmas a lot at 43%, up from 41% last year. Labor voters are liking Christmas less, with 32% saying they enjoy Christmas a lot compared to 38% last year. Greens voters are also enjoying Christmas a lot less, with 23% saying they enjoy Christmas a lot compared to 32% last year.
A total of 7% of Australians say they don’t enjoy Christmas at all, up 1% from last year, with those who vote Greens or other parties such as One Nation the highest percentage of people not enjoying Christmas at 12% and 10% respectively.
Women were more likely to say they enjoy Christmas a lot at 37%, while 42% of younger people between 18 and 34 say they also enjoy Christmas a lot. People earning over $2000 per week were more likely to enjoy Christmas a lot (39%) compared to those who earn under $1,000 per week (24%). People with children were also more likely to enjoy Christmas a lot compared to those without (40% to 29%).
Voters for the other parties, including One Nation were more likely to encourage their children to believe in Santa than any other type of voter, at 84%, followed closely by Coalition voters at 80%, Labor voters at 77% and Greens last at 60%.
It’s a bigger decline for the Greens telling their kids to believe in Santa, down 8% from last year. All up, 19% of all Australians did not encourage their children to believe in Santa, and younger people are much less likely to tell their children to believe in Santa than people over the age of 55 (69% to 83%).
It’s no surprise that right wing voters would be more likely to encourage belief in fantasies…
Once the littlies are sold on Santa it’s hardly a stretch to pitch virgin birth.
Or trickle down economics.
Wow, it’s a helluva stretch to get that headline from those numbers.
It really must have taken some contorted thinking – or perhaps not, maybe it just came naturally.
For example – if you combine the mildly positive and strongly positive responses to Xmas [‘enjoy a lot’ + ‘enjoy some”] then the 3 parties voters responded : 77%, 88% and 85%.
And it’s not the Greens with the smallest number.
If you combine the negative responses [“Don’t enjoy Xmas” +’Don’t care much”] the responses were – not in the same party order as above – 22%, 14% and 13% – with the Greens not being standout negative responders.
Seems like the headline might tell us more about Crikey’s attitude than anything else.
Not sure where you got the numbers “12% and 10%”, but they’re not in the table in the article.
“A total of 7% of Australians say they don’t enjoy Christmas at all, up 1% from last year, with those who vote Greens or other parties such as One Nation the highest percentage of people not enjoying Christmas at 12% and 10% respectively.”
You wouldn’t be seeing what you want to see, would you? How do you interpret the 62% figure?
My subscription is not being wasted then. Hard hitting stuff.
I’m with The Cleaning Lady… can’t see where the 12% Greens dislike came from. Maybe Josh didn’t have his glasses on… it is quite difficult to read that table.