Q. Which of the following issues are you most concerned about?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Mar 2013 | |||
| The arrival of asylum seekers by boat | 36% | 26% | 51% | 17% | 40% | 38% | ||
| The use of foreign workers under short term (457) visas | 21% | 29% | 19% | 18% | 17% | 20% | ||
| The overall increase in Australia’s total population | 20% | 22% | 16% | 25% | 27% | 18% | ||
| None of them | 17% | 18% | 10% | 32% | 16% | 19% | ||
| Don’t know | 6% | 5% | 4% | 8% | – | 4% |
36% were most concerned about the arrival of asylum seekers by boat, 21% about the use of foreign workers under short term (457) visas and 20% about the overall increase in Australia’s total population (20%).
Liberal/National voters were most concerned about the arrival of asylum seekers by boat (51%) while Labor voters were more concerned about the use of foreign workers under short term (457) visas (29%).
These results are very similar to when this question was asked in 2013.