Guardian Essential poll: voters back drastic policy action on Australia’s cost-of-living crisis

Prime minister Anthony Albanese. The latest Guardian Essential poll found that half the electorate (50%) is in favour of reducing ‘tax breaks like negative gearing for property investors’. Photograph: James Ross/AAP

Australians appear ready for more radical solutions to the cost-of-living crisis, with price caps on rent, groceries and energy bills topping a list of possible reforms with 70% support.

Those are the results of the latest Guardian Essential poll of 1,139 voters, which also found that half the electorate (50%) is in favour of reducing “tax breaks like negative gearing for property investors”.