This Research Note is one of a series examining the results of polls that test the importance of issues to voters and the parties that voters prefer to handle those issues.

Sarah Miskin and Greg Baker show the latest results as compared to those of the previous poll and changes in the importance of selected issues, the results from June 2001 onwards for the party preferred to handle several key issues, and the 'preferred prime minister' results of Newspoll and ACNielsen.