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Conditions for asylum seekers

30 Aug 2016

Q. As far as you know, are the conditions in which asylum seekers are kept on Nauru and Manus Island good or poor?

  Total   Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote other   Feb 2016
Total good 28%   27% 36% 9% 35%   34%
Total poor 46%   54% 35% 74% 42%   40%
Very good 8%   7% 9% 4% 11%   9%
Good 20%   20% 27% 5% 24%   25%
Poor 23%   25% 24% 14% 21%   20%
Very poor 23%   29% 11% 60% 21%   20%
Don’t know 26%   19% 28% 17% 22%   25%

28% (down 6% since February) think that the conditions in which asylum seekers are kept on Nauru and Manus Island are good and 46% (up 6%) think they are poor.

36% of Liberal/National voters think the conditions are good while 74% of Greens voters and 54% of Labor voters think they are poor.

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