Q. As far as you know, are most asylum seekers arriving by in Australia boat genuine refugees or are most of them not genuine refugees?
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Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Jan 2014 | ||
| Most of them are genuine refugees | 32% | 37% | 26% | 64% | 27% | 30% | ||
| Most of them are not genuine refugees | 43% | 40% | 53% | 16% | 50% | 47% | ||
| Don’t know | 25% | 22% | 21% | 20% | 24% | 23% |
43% of respondents believe that most asylum seekers arriving by boat are not genuine refugees – 32% believe most are genuine refugees. This is a shift toward believing they are genuine since this question was asked in January last year.
Those more likely to think most are not genuine refugees were Liberal/National voters (53%) and aged 55+ (59%). Those more likely to think most are genuine refugees were Greens voters (64%), Labor voters (37%) and those with university education (42%).