Q. Which party has the best policy for handling the issue of asylum seekers arriving by boat?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Jun 2013 | |||
| Labor | 12% | 32% | 2% | 4% | 1% | 13% | ||
| Liberal | 37% | 11% | 78% | 4% | 32% | 38% | ||
| Greens | 8% | 7% | 3% | 55% | 6% | 7% | ||
| None of them | 24% | 29% | 11% | 27% | 41% | 31% | ||
| Don’t know | 19% | 21% | 6% | 9% | 19% | 11% |
37% think the Liberal Party has the best policy for handling the issue of asylum seekers arriving by boat and 12% think the Labor Party has the best policy. 24% think no party has the best policy. These results are very similar to those from June 2013.
Only 32% of Labor voters think the Labor Party has the best policy compared with 78% of Liberal/National voters who think the Liberals have the best policy.
Of those who think the asylum seeker issue is one of or the most important election issue, 46% think that the Liberals have the best policy, 15% think Labor has the best policy, 12% think the Greens have the best policy and 14% think none of them do.