Voter hostility to tackling climate change with a carbon price has jumped sharply since the federal government announced the plan last month.
A Nielsen telephone poll, published in Fairfax newspapers, surveyed 1400 voters and shows found 56 per cent were opposed to the introduction of a carbon price, while 35 per cent supported it.
A month earlier, 44 per cent of voters opposed the introduction of a carbon price, compared to 46 per cent which supported it.
The poll follows Prime Minister Julia Gillard's announcement that the government would introduce a price on carbon from July 1, 2012 before the commencement of an emissions trading scheme three to five years later.
This was despite Ms Gillard having promised, in the lead-up to the federal election, there would be no carbon tax.
