Voters back NDIS and Gonski reforms according to exclusive Auspoll for News Limited Picture: Kym Smith Source: news.com.au VOTERS strongly support the Budget's two key social reforms, with 65 per cent backing the Gonski funding package and more than half supporting the Medicare levy increase to pay for disability care. An exclusive Auspoll for News Ltd shows solid bipartisan support for Labor's two big spends - $9.8 billion over six years for schools and funding an extra $14.3 billion in disability support through a 0.5 per cent rise in Medicare Levy. The bipartisan support for these measures is in contrast to how Treasurer Wayne Swan's Budget was judged as a whole. While more Australians thought the Budget was bad for Australia (36 per cent compared to 27 per cent), support was divided along party lines, with 50 per cent of Labor voters in favour compared to just 13 per cent of Coalition voters. And almost two-thirds of Coalition supporters saw it as bad for hitting families compared to 39 per cent of Labor voters. "Overall, the Budget has been judged very much according to party allegiances, with Labor voters mostly supporting the budget and Coalition voters mostly against it," said Darryl Nelson, senior research partner at Auspoll said. This suggests many people have stopped listening to any specific policy details, if indeed they ever did. There was little support for the deferral of planned 2015 income tax cuts, with less than a quarter in favour. More voters also supported the freezing of the family tax benefit threshold, with 39% for the measure and 30% opposing. "The data highlights how most of us as voters want to have our proverbial cake and eat it too," Mr Nelson said. While there is widespread and bipartisan support among voters for the extra school funding and the Medicare Levy to fund the NDIS, there is also widespread and bipartisan opposition to the deferring of planned income tax cuts. While Labor's tough budget was judged responsible by many economists, it failed to gain popular support, with only 27 per cent believing it would help balance the current deficit and 40 per cent thinking it won't. The Auspoll of 1200 respondents was conducted over two days after Tuesday's budget.