border security, Immigration and Religion, Operation sovereign borders, Scott Morrison
Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the performance of the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Scott Morrison in handling the issue of asylum seekers?
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Total
|
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other |
|
| Total approve |
39% |
18% |
72% |
7% |
33% |
|
| Total disapprove |
39% |
59% |
12% |
83% |
45% |
|
| Strongly approve |
13% |
3% |
28% |
5% |
8% |
|
| Approve |
26% |
15% |
44% |
2% |
25% |
|
| Disapprove |
19% |
26% |
9% |
25% |
25% |
|
| Strongly disapprove |
20% |
33% |
3% |
58% |
20% |
|
| Don’t know |
22% |
23% |
15% |
9% |
22% |
39% approve of the performance of the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Scott Morrison in handling the issue of asylum seekers and 39% disapprove.
Those most likely to approve were Liberal/National voters (72%) and aged 55+ (53%).
Those most likely to disapprove were Labor voters (59%), Greens voters (83%) and aged under 35 (46%).
050813, 5 August 2013, approach to asylum seekers, kevin rudd, Operation sovereign borders, PNG policy, tony abbott
Q. The Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the Opposition leader Tony Abbott have both recently made statements about the handling of asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat.
Do you think Kevin Rudd’s approach to handling asylum seekers is too harsh, too soft or about right?
Do you think Tony Abbott’s approach to handling asylum seekers is too harsh, too soft or about right?
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Kevin Rudd |
|
Tony Abbott |
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Total
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
|
Total
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
|
| Too harsh |
20% |
19% |
18% |
49% |
21% |
38% |
5% |
42% |
|
| Too soft |
24% |
12% |
35% |
13% |
20% |
21% |
16% |
21% |
|
| About right |
40% |
53% |
33% |
25% |
31% |
11% |
61% |
7% |
|
| Don’t know |
16% |
16% |
14% |
13% |
27% |
31% |
18% |
30% |
|
40% of respondents think Kevin Rudd’s approach to handling asylum seekers is about right and 31% think Tony Abbott’s approach is about right. Views are similar for both approaches in terms of whether they are too soft or too harsh – about one in five selected each option.
Kevin Rudd’s approach was more favoured by Labor voters (53%), aged 45-64 (45%) and tradespeople (51%). Tony Abbott’s approach was more favoured by Liberal/National voters (61%), men (37%), aged 65+ (46%) and tradespeople (40%).