Guardian Essential poll: voters back Labor’s Future Made in Australia plan while overestimating cost of renewables

More voters think the transition to renewable energy will be positive for Australia (49%) than negative (26%), the latest Guardian Essential poll finds. But responses on whether the shift will benefit ‘me individually’ are more evenly split. Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images

Voters have backed Anthony Albanese’s Future Made in Australia plan but are under the misapprehension that renewables are the most expensive form of power.

Those are the results of Guardian’s latest Essential poll of 1,145 voters, illustrating the difficulty for Labor of selling the energy transition to sceptical voters.