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Human Rights Commission

3 Mar 2015

Q. The Federal government says it has lost confidence in the Commonwealth Human Rights Commission and its president Gillian Triggs after it released a report on children in immigration detention. Do you approve or disapprove of the performance of the Human Rights Commission? 

 

 

Total

 

 

Vote Labor

Vote Lib/Nat

Vote Greens

Vote other

Total approve

34%

46%

26%

60%

30%

Total disapprove

22%

15%

34%

9%

28%

Strongly approve

13%

20%

5%

36%

9%

Approve

21%

26%

21%

24%

21%

Disapprove

13%

11%

18%

6%

13%

Strongly disapprove

9%

4%

16%

3%

15%

Don’t know

44%

39%

41%

32%

42%

 

34% approve of the performance of the Human Rights Commission and 22% disapprove. 44% had no opinion.

Those most likely to approve were Greens voters (60%), Labor voters (46%) and university-educated (40%).

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