Q. The Government has announced a possible agreement with Malaysia on asylum seekers. Under these agreements, asylum seekers arriving by boat in Australia will be sent to Malaysia for processing, and in return Australia will take a fixed number of refugees from Malaysia. How much have you heard about this proposal?
Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | |
A lot | 27% | 24% | 34% | 27% |
Something | 31% | 38% | 29% | 30% |
A little | 29% | 28% | 29% | 28% |
Nothing | 9% | 8% | 6% | 14% |
Don’t know | 3% | 2% | 2% | 1% |
58% said they had heard a lot or something about the Government’s possible agreement with Malaysia on asylum seekers. Awareness was similar across voter groups.