Q. Have you personally experienced or witnessed any of the following forms of intolerance in the past 12 months?
|
Total |
Men |
Women |
Aged 18-34 |
Aged 35-54 |
Aged 55+ |
Total Jun 13 |
Total Feb 14 |
Total Mar 15 |
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|
Racism against people from other countries |
28% |
24% |
32% |
33% |
28% |
22% |
39% |
36% |
33% |
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|
Racism against indigenous Australians |
19% |
17% |
21% |
24% |
18% |
15% |
|||||
|
Sexism |
23% |
17% |
30% |
26% |
26% |
17% |
29% |
29% |
26% |
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|
Homophobia |
19% |
16% |
21% |
24% |
20% |
11% |
26% |
24% |
19% |
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|
Religious intolerance |
26% |
23% |
30% |
31% |
27% |
20% |
29% |
28% |
26% |
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|
Ageism |
23% |
19% |
26% |
19% |
22% |
28% |
24% |
26% |
22% |
28% say they have experienced or witnessed racism against people from other countries in the past 12 months, while about one quarter have exintoperienced or witnessed sexism, ageism and religious intolerance.
Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the Government’s proposal to take away the citizenship of dual nationals who are engaged in terrorism or supporting terror groups.
|
Total |
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote Other |
||
|
Total approve |
81% |
77% |
93% |
52% |
84% |
|
|
Total disapprove |
9% |
11% |
2% |
35% |
10% |
|
|
Strongly approve |
60% |
54% |
74% |
29% |
61% |
|
|
Approve |
21% |
23% |
19% |
23% |
23% |
|
|
Disapprove |
6% |
6% |
1% |
24% |
6% |
|
|
Strongly disapprove |
3% |
5% |
1% |
11% |
4% |
|
|
Don’t know |
11% |
11% |
5% |
13% |
6% |
81% support the Government’s proposal to take away the citizenship of dual nationals who are engaged in terrorism or supporting terror groups. A majority of all voter groups support and support is strongest among Liberal/National voters (93%)
Q. And would you approve or disapprove of taking away the citizenship of sole nationals who are engaged in terrorism or supporting terror groups if they are eligible to become a citizen of another country?
|
Total |
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote Other |
||
|
Total approve |
73% |
67% |
90% |
44% |
77% |
|
|
Total disapprove |
13% |
15% |
5% |
31% |
15% |
|
|
Strongly approve |
54% |
47% |
71% |
26% |
57% |
|
|
Approve |
19% |
20% |
19% |
18% |
20% |
|
|
Disapprove |
9% |
10% |
4% |
18% |
11% |
|
|
Strongly disapprove |
4% |
5% |
1% |
13% |
4% |
|
|
Don’t know |
13% |
17% |
5% |
26% |
8% |
A substantial majority of 73% also support the Government’s proposal to take away the citizenship of sole nationals who are engaged in terrorism or supporting terror groups if they are eligible to become a citizen of another country.
Support is strongest among Liberal/National voters (90%). Green voters are split but more likely to support (44% support/31% oppose/26% don’t know).
Q. And should the decision about taking away citizenship be made by a court of law or a Government minister?
|
Total |
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote Other |
||
|
Court of law |
54% |
58% |
47% |
71% |
56% |
|
|
Government minister |
24% |
22% |
34% |
8% |
25% |
|
|
Don’t know |
22% |
20% |
19% |
215 |
19% |
A majority (54%) think that the decision about taking away citizenship should be made by a court of law rather than the Government minister (24%).
Q. Do you agree or disagree that Australians 60 years of age and older and of sound mind should be able to obtain a prescription for euthanasia drugs like Nembutal from their GP?
| Total | Men | Women | Aged 18-34 | Aged
35-54 |
Aged 55+ | |||
| sample | 1,016 | 500 | 516 | 310 | 361 | 345 | ||
| Total agree | 50% | 51% | 49% | 48% | 50% | 53% | ||
| Total disagree | 29% | 29% | 29% | 31% | 28% | 27% | ||
| Strongly agree | 24% | 23% | 25% | 20% | 26% | 27% | ||
| Agree | 26% | 28% | 24% | 28% | 24% | 26% | ||
| Disagree | 16% | 16% | 16% | 17% | 15% | 15% | ||
| Strongly disagree | 13% | 13% | 13% | 14% | 13% | 12% | ||
| Don’t know | 21% | 20% | 22% | 21% | 22% | 19% |
Q. If a Federal Election was held today to which party will you probably give your first preference vote? If not sure, which party are you currently leaning toward?
Q. If don’t know -Well which party are you currently leaning to?
Sample size = 1,821 respondents
|
First preference/leaning to |
Election 7 Sep 13 |
4 weeks ago 5/5/15 |
2 weeks ago 19/5/15 |
Last week 26/5/15 |
This week 2/6/15 |
|
|
Liberal |
37% |
38% |
38% |
38% |
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|
National |
3% |
3% |
4% |
4% |
||
|
Total Liberal/National |
45.6% |
40% |
41% |
41% |
41% |
|
|
Labor |
33.4% |
39% |
40% |
39% |
40% |
|
|
Greens |
8.6% |
10% |
10% |
10% |
10% |
|
|
Palmer United Party |
5.5% |
1% |
1% |
1% |
1% |
|
|
Other/Independent |
6.9% |
9% |
8% |
8% |
8% |
|
2 Party Preferred |
Election 7 Sep 13 |
4 weeks ago 5/5/15 |
2 weeks ago 19/5/15 |
Last week 26/5/15 |
This week 2/6/15 |
|
|
Liberal National |
53.5% |
47% |
48% |
48% |
48% |
|
|
Labor |
46.5% |
53% |
52% |
52% |
52% |
NB. The data in the above tables comprise 2-week averages derived from the first preference/leaning to voting questions. Respondents who select ‘don’t know’ are not included in the results. The two-party preferred estimate is calculated by distributing the votes of the other parties according to their preferences at the 2013 election.
Q. Do you think people of the same sex should or should not be allowed to marry?
|
Total |
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other |
Nov 2010 |
Jul 2011 |
Sep 2012 |
Oct 2013 |
Jun 2014 |
Dec 2014 |
Feb 2015 |
|||
|
Should be allowed to marry |
59% |
70% |
49% |
93% |
39% |
53% |
54% |
55% |
57% |
60% |
55% |
59% |
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|
Should not be allowed to marry |
30% |
21% |
38% |
3% |
51% |
36% |
35% |
36% |
31% |
28% |
32% |
28% |
||
|
Don’t know |
11% |
9% |
13% |
4% |
9% |
11% |
11% |
9% |
12% |
12% |
14% |
13% |
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|
Total |
Men |
Women |
Aged 18-34 |
Aged 35-54 |
Aged 55+ |
||
|
Should be allowed to marry |
59% |
54% |
64% |
69% |
57% |
51% |
|
|
Should not be allowed to marry |
30% |
34% |
25% |
21% |
31% |
38% |
|
|
Don’t know |
11% |
12% |
10% |
10% |
12% |
11% |
59% agreed that people of the same sex should be allowed to marry and 30% think they should not. This represents little change since this question was previously asked in February.
Support for same sex marriage is 54% among men and 64% among women. 69% of under 35’s support same sex marriage – while those aged 65+ are split 43% in favour/43% against.
Q. If a political party or candidate supported same-sex marriage would you be more likely to vote for them, less likely to vote for them or does it make no difference to your vote?
|
Total |
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote Other |
||
|
Total more likely |
34% |
46% |
21% |
78% |
16% |
|
|
Total less likely |
22% |
15% |
28% |
2% |
41% |
|
|
Much more likely to vote for them |
17% |
25% |
9% |
39% |
7% |
|
|
A little more likely to vote for them |
17% |
21% |
12% |
39% |
9% |
|
|
A little less likely to vote for them |
7% |
6% |
9% |
1% |
10% |
|
|
Much less likely to vote for them |
15% |
9% |
19% |
1% |
31% |
|
|
Makes no difference |
40% |
36% |
49% |
19% |
42% |
|
|
Don’t know |
4% |
3% |
2% |
1% |
1% |
34% say they would be more likely to vote for a candidate/party that supported same sex marriage,
22% say they would be less likely and 40% say it would make no difference to their vote.
Those more likely include aged 18-34 (48%) and university educated (39%). Those less likely include aged 65+ (31%).