It is the question that has driven a protracted debate, which has gripped Australian politics for the better part of a decade.
How much should Australia do to reduce its carbon emissions?
At a time when climate change poses one of the biggest challenges for the nation and the globe, Vote Compass data shows an overwhelming number of Australians want more action.
Almost 60 per cent of voters want "much more" cuts to emissions, and another 20 per cent said Australia could be doing "somewhat" more. In all, 79 per cent support further action.
Just 7 per cent of voters thought Australia should be cutting fewer emissions, another 13 per cent thought we could be doing about the same as now.
'Great to see that sentiment'
In Perth, Catherine Patterson and her family of four are doing everything they can to reduce their carbon footprint.
Ms Patterson, who works for an environmental charity, said she and her husband are mindful of travelling too much and "only do trips away when necessary".
Most of their furniture is second-hand and the family strives to reduce waste around the house by composting and thinking about each new item they buy.
Ms Patterson is pleased that many other Australian families are also supportive of a move to cut our emissions further.
Support for cutting emissions varies along party lines
Given the evidence is "real, and that its impacts appear to be significant", many voters believe climate change has personal implications, according to Dr Peter Chen at The University of Sydney.
"Since the last election, we've had major fires and major flooding."
Dr Chen, who lectures on public policy, said after the election later this month, political scientists will be asking one key question: "Are we going to see a big impact of the salience issue of climate in this election?
"Because there was a lot of discussion about the climate at the last election which didn't really eventuate.
A majority of voters who intend to support Labor, the Greens and the Liberal-National parties supported a greater cut in emissions.
But there was a clear difference along party lines among those who thought Australia could commit to "much more" action.
At 94 per cent, an overwhelming number of Greens voters are looking for much more action, 81 per cent of Labor voters agreed, compared with 23 per cent of Liberal-National voters.
"I don't think the split is surprising, I guess it shows that issue has become extremely partisan and a marker of party differences," Dr Chen said.
There was still majority support among Coalition voters for Australia to reduce its emissions — 58 per cent thought the government could do more, while a third of Liberal-National voters were comfortable with what the nation was already doing.
The Coalition and Labor have both committed to a net zero by 2050 target.
But Labor has committed to cutting emissions by 43 per cent by 2030.
The Coalition has stuck with its target of making cuts of between 26 and 28 per cent by 2030.
Its plan includes utilising carbon capture, low emission steel production and hydrogen.
Labor is investing in upgrading the transmission network and supporting community batteries and electric vehicles.
How much would you be prepared to pay?
Catherine Patterson's family factors in environmentally friendly investments into their budget.
Investing in solar panels, an electric vehicle and charging station has enabled them to reduce their bills "quite substantially", Ms Patterson said.
Vote Compass asked how much voters would be prepared to spend each year to help prevent climate change.
A quarter of Greens voters said they'd be willing to pay more than $2,000 annually to mitigate climate change.
While a quarter of Coalition voters said they wanted to pay nothing.
Paying between $100 and $500 per year felt about right for voters of all major parties — a quarter of Labor, Liberal-National and Greens voters selected this answer.
And on the question of whether we should stop exporting coal to other countries to be used for electricity, Australians had a mixed response, with 23 per cent saying they strongly agreed.
Another 24 per cent of Australians "somewhat" agreed.
A relatively high proportion of voters were neutral on the question at 17 per cent, and 34 per cent disagreed either strongly or somewhat with stopping coal exports for energy.
More Australian women agreed with halting coal exports — 55 per cent were in favour, compared with 37 per cent of men.
Coalition voters were not in favour of stopping coal exports — 63 per cent disagreed with that idea, either strongly or somewhat.
About the data
- Vote Compass responses have been weighted by gender, age, education, language, religion, place of residence and past vote to match the Australian population, creating a nationally representative sample
- Find out more about the methodology in this explainer
