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Is Royal Commission biased?

8 Sep 2015

Q. Do you believe the Royal Commission into Trade Unions is biased against unions and the Labor Party?

Total     Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote other
Yes – biased against unions 5% 6% 4% 2% 7%
Yes – biased against Labor Party 7% 9% 7% 16% 6%
Yes – based against both unions and Labor 24% 43% 4% 43% 26%
No – not biased at all 29% 11% 60% 6% 21%
Don’t know 35% 31% 26% 33% 40%

29% of Australians – the largest proportion who gave an answer – believe that the Royal Commission into Trade Unions is not biased.

However, 35% could not give an opinion.

24% believe the Royal Commission is biased against both unions and the Labor Party, while a further 5% believe it to be biased against just unions and 7% biased just against the Labor party.

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