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Biggest threat to international peace and security

25 Oct 2016

Q. What of these is the biggest threat to international peace and stability?

  Total   Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote other
Global warming 6%   8% 4% 20% 2%
ISIS and Islamic radicalisation 42%   41% 53% 16% 46%
Russian aggression 5%   3% 7% 3% 3%
Growing level of inequality 11%   13% 8% 15% 14%
Over-population 9%   8% 10% 8% 14%
A Trump presidency 21%   22% 16% 35% 17%
None of these 6%   4% 2% 3% 4%

 

Almost half (42%) of Australians consider ‘ISIS and Islamic radicalisation’ to be the biggest threat to international peace and stability (from the list offered).

This was followed by ‘A Trump presidency’, which more than one in five (21%) of Australians consider to be the biggest threat to international peace and stability.

Lib/Nat voters (53%) were more likely than the other voter group to select ‘ISIS and Islamic radicalisation’, while Greens voters were more likely to select ‘A Trump presidency’ (at 35% this was seen by Green voters to be the biggest threat from the list offered). One in five (20%) of Greens voters selected ‘global warming’, far more than any other voting group.

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