A majority of voters think people should be paid more for working on Sundays and would like to see the minimum wage raised, Vote Compass data shows.

Key points: Two thirds of voters want Sunday penalty rate cuts reversed

Two thirds of voters want Sunday penalty rate cuts reversed Wealthy electorates had the lowest support for Sunday penalty rates

Wealthy electorates had the lowest support for Sunday penalty rates A majority of Coalition, Labor, Greens and One Nation voters think the minimum wage should be higher

Penalty rates for about 700,000 retail, hospitality, and pharmacy workers were reduced by 10 to 15 per cent last year.

The Labor Party has promised to reverse the cuts within its first 100 days in government if elected.

Overall, two-thirds of voters agree the cuts to Sunday penalty rates should be reversed, a result that reflects earlier polling on the issue.

Vote Compass also registered strong support for raising the minimum wage, with 71 per cent in favour.

One Nation voters buck conservative trend on penalty rates

A clear majority of Greens and Labor voters want to see penalty rates reinstated, but right-leaning voters are more divided.

Coalition voters are equally split between those who want a return to Sunday penalty rates (39 per cent) or to keep the cut in place (40 per cent).

One Nation voters are more in agreement: 61 per cent want to see Sunday penalty rate cuts reversed.

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson initially supported the cuts to penalty rates, then came out against them before the change was implemented.

Wealthy electorates are the least keen on Sunday penalty rates

On most Vote Compass questions, electorate-level responses tend to run along a spectrum from socially conservative seats to progressive ones.

The inner-city Labor and Greens-held electorates of Melbourne, Sydney, Cooper and Wills, characterised by educated professional voters, tend to sit at one end of the spectrum, while the rural and regional LNP-held electorates of Maranoa, Flynn, Hinkler and Wright in Queensland sit at the other.

But on industrial relations questions, the electoral pattern is different.

The top five electorates in favour of re-instating Sunday penalty rates are the safe Labor-held seats of Chifley, Hunter, Watson, Lindsay and Macarthur. All are in what have traditionally been working-class areas in Sydney and Newcastle.

The electorates least in favour of reversing the penalty rate cuts are Higgins, Kooyong, Wentworth and Curtin, the wealthiest electorates in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth.

The only outlier was the electorate of O'Connor, centred on the southern wheatbelt and mining regions of WA. All are safe Liberal seats, with the exception of Wentworth, which the Liberals lost last year to independent Kerryn Phelps.

ABC election analyst Antony Green says the results reveal that "class still matters" when voters choose their party.

"This is not a class by Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production," he said.

Rather, occupational status and inherited party loyalties mean that many voters still align their party allegiance based on industrial and employment issues."

The numbers of professionals and managers living in the electorates least in favour of Sunday penalty rates are double those in the electorates most in favour.

Similarly, twice the number of trades and technical workers live in the electorates who want Sunday penalty rates back.

Seat Per cent agree Sunday penalty rates cut should be reversed Per cent technical and trade workers Per cent managers and professionals Chifley (ALP, 19.2%) 82 13 22 Hunter (ALP, 12.5%) 78 18 24 Watson (ALP, 17.6%) 76 14 30 Lindsay (ALP, 1.1%) 76 15 25 Macarthur (ALP, 8.3%) 75 14 25 Higgins (LIB, 7.4%) 53 7 57 O'Connor (LIB, 15%) 53 17 30 Kooyong (LIB, 12.8%) 53 6 58 Wentworth (IND, 1.0%) 52 6 62 Curtin (LIB, 20.7%) 44 8 55

Sources: Vote Compass; ABS, Discover your Commonwealth Electoral Division, Australia, 2019

Most voters say minimum wage should be higher

Attitudes to raising the minimum wage are very similar to those on restoring Sunday penalty rates.

More than 70 per cent of respondents say the minimum wage should be higher, with strong support from Labor, Greens and One Nation voters.

Voters are not so certain about trade union power — 36 per cent say trade unions have too much power in the workplace (down from 41 per cent in 2016), while 38 per cent disagree with that statement.

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