ALP support is now at 56% (up 0.5% points since mid-December) cf. L-NP on 44% (down 0.5% points) on a two-party preferred basis according to the latest Roy Morgan Poll on Federal voting intention conducted during the first half of January.

Australians are set to shop up a storm during the Boxing Day sales with over $3 billion to be spent in stores and online as retailers slash their prices ahead of the rush of bargain hunters through their shops. 

A special Roy Morgan web survey taken in late November shows over a third of Australians, 37%, think next year will be a year of ‘Economic difficulty’, although this is down 11% points on a year ago when nearly half of Australians, 48%, predicted ‘Economic difficulty’ for 2021.

A special Roy Morgan web survey taken in late November shows only 37% of Australians think 2022 will be ‘better’ than 2021, down a large 22% points from when the same question was asked a year ago in late 2020.

New data from Roy Morgan shows over 8.1 million Australians in paid employment now have over 185 million days of annual leave due – up from 149.5 million days a year ago. There are a further 5 million workers in paid employment who have no leave.

Pent-up demand for shopping is set to continue in the post-Christmas sales, with $21 billion to be spent in stores and online across the country – an increase of 2.1% on the previous year and up 12.6% on pre-pandemic levels in 2019. 

A special analysis of movement data in Australia’s Capital City CBDs since the COVID-19 pandemic began shows that movement levels in the Sydney and Melbourne CBDs are still stuck below 50% of pre-pandemic levels in the run-up to Christmas.