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Same Sex Marriage – Party Policies
Q. From what you understand which party has the policy on same sex marriage which is closest to your own view of the issue?
Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | |
Labor Party | 13% | 29% | 2% | 1% |
Liberal Party | 21% | 5% | 44% | 3% |
Greens | 20% | 19% | 13% | 71% |
Don’t know | 46% | 47% | 41% | 24% |
21% prefer the Liberal Party policy on same sex marriage, 20% prefer the Greens and 13% Labor.
Opinions generally follow party preference although only 29% of Labor voters prefer the Labor policy and 19% prefer the Greens.
Those with no religion are more likely to prefer the Greens policy (29%) while 30% of Anglicans and 32% of other Christians prefer the Liberal policy.

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