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Same-sex marriage survey

14 Nov 2017

Thinking about the same-sex marriage postal survey which best reflects your view?

  Total   Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote other
It was a good process that should be used for informing Governments on other contentious issues in future 27%   29% 32% 16% 26%
It was a good process but should not be used in the future 19%   18% 25% 16% 14%
It was a bad process that should not be used in the future 45% 48% 37% 59% 56%
Don’t know 9% 5% 7% 8% 5%

45% think that the same-sex marriage postal survey was a bad process that should not be used in the future, 19% think it was a good process but should not be used in the future and 27% think it was a good process that should be used in future for other issues.

Those most likely to think it was a bad process were Greens voters (59%), other voters (56%).

58% of 18-34 year-olds thought it was a good process compared to 37% of those aged 35-64 and 48% of those aged 65+.

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