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Same-sex marriage survey
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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