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Policy on asylum seekers
Q: If the Labor Party was elected into Government at the next election, do you think they would keep the Coalition Government’s policy on asylum seekers arriving by boat or do you think they would change the policy?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | ||
| Would keep the policy | 28% | 38% | 27% | 30% | 26% | |
| Would change the policy | 38% | 26% | 54% | 29% | 46% | |
| Don’t know | 34% | 36% | 20% | 41% | 28% |
38% think that if the Labor Party is elected, they would change the Coalition Government’s policy on asylum seekers and 28% think they would keep the Coalition policy.
More than half the Liberal/National voters think Labor would change the Coalition policy.
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