Q. From what you have read and heard, what percentage of Australia’s annual immigration intake are asylum seekers arriving by boat?
Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | |
50% or more | 10% | 10% | 12% | 6% |
About 25% | 15% | 15% | 17% | 8% |
About 10% | 13% | 12% | 15% | 13% |
About 5% | 15% | 12% | 17% | 18% |
1% or less | 18% | 21% | 17% | 26% |
Don’t know | 30% | 30% | 22% | 28% |
38% of respondents think asylum seekers arriving by boat make up at least 10% of Australia’s immigration intake – 15% think it about 5% and 18% think it is 1% or less.
26% of Greens voters think it is 1% or less and 44% of Liberal/National voters think it is 10% or more.
26% of people aged 45-64 think it is 1% or less.