Immigration and Religion

Q. When a family applies to migrate to Australia, should it be possible for them to be rejected purely on the basis of their religion?

	Total	Vote Labor	Vote Lib/Nat	Vote Greens
Should be rejected on basis of religion	19%	17%	24%	10%
Should not be rejected on basis of religion	65%	67%	63%	85%
Don’t know	15%	16%	13%	5%

65% believed that when a family applies to migrate to Australia, they should not be rejected purely on the basis of their religion and 19% think it should be possible to reject purely based on religion. There were no substantial differences across age and gender groups.

Liberal voters were a little more supportive of being able to reject based on religion (24%) and Greens voters were strongly opposed (85%).