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  • Dec, 2019

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    Impact of same-sex marriage

    Q. Same-sex marriage has now been legal in Australia for two years (since December 2017). To what extent do you think allowing same-sex people to marry has had a positive or negative impact on Australia?

      Total Federal Voting Intention
    Labor Coalition Greens NET: Other
    Strong positive impact 24% 28% 18% 43% 22%
    Somewhat positive impact 23% 27% 24% 22% 10%
    Neither positive, nor negative impact 38% 33% 43% 27% 38%
    Somewhat negative impact 7% 5% 8% 4% 10%
    Strong negative impact 8% 7% 8% 5% 21%
    NET: Positive impact 47% 55% 42% 65% 31%
    NET: Negative impact 15% 12% 15% 8% 31%
    Base (n) 1,035 339 356 106 116
    • 47% of participants say allowing same-sex people to marry has had a positive impact on Australia with only 15% saying this has had a negative impact.
    • Greens voters are most likely to say this has had a positive impact (65%) whereas 31% of other party or independent voters believe this has had a negative impact.
  • Feb, 2014

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    Other issue of most concern

    Q. And which of these other issues are you personally most concerned about?

     

    Total

     

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

    Vote other/

    indep-endent

     

    2 Sep 13

    19 Nov

    Climate change

    21%

    28%

    10%

    44%

    20%

    16%

    22%

    Border security

    21%

    11%

    36%

    6%

    15%

    30%

    21%

    Treatment of the aged

    20%

    21%

    21%

    8%

    22%

    17%

    18%

    Marriage equality

    11%

    14%

    9%

    20%

    8%

    9%

    9%

    Population growth

    10%

    12%

    8%

    10%

    14%

    12%

    14%

    Treatment of the disabled

    9%

    9%

    8%

    9%

    16%

    7%

    8%

    None of them

    5%

    4%

    5%

    5%

    4%

    5%

    4%

    Don’t know

    3%

    2%

    2%

    1%

    4%

    4%

    21% were most concerned about climate change, 21% were most concerned about border security, and 20% treatment of the aged.

    There has been little change since this question was asked in November.

    Border security (36%) was the main issue of concern to Liberal/National voters and 44% of Greens voters and 28% of Labor voters nominated climate change.

  • Oct, 2013

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    Same sex marriage

    Q. Do you think people of the same sex should or should not be allowed to marry?

     

    Total

    22 Oct 13

     

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

     

    15 Nov 10

    14 Mar 11

    4 Jul 11

    13 Aug 12

    24 Sep 12

    22 Apr 13

    6 May 13

    Should be allowed to marry

    57%

    65%

    41%

    80%

    53%

    49%

    54%

    54%

    55%

    54%

    58%

    Should not be allowed to marry

    31%

    23%

    45%

    10%

    36%

    40%

    35%

    33%

    36%

    33%

    32%

    Don’t know

    12%

    11%

    14%

    11%

    11%

    10%

    11%

    13%

    9%

    13%

    10%

    57% agree that people of the same sex should be allowed to marry and 31% think they should not. These results are very similar to the last time this issue was measured in May. However, over the last 3 years support for same sex marriage has increased a little and opposition declined.

    Support for same sex marriage is 49% among men but 65% among women. 66% of under 35’s and 62% of those with university education support same sex marriage.

  • Sep, 2013

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    Other issue of most concern

    Q. And which of these other issues are you personally most concerned about?

     

    Total

     

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

    Border security

    30%

    20%

    48%

    5%

    Climate change

    16%

    23%

    5%

    45%

    Population growth

    12%

    10%

    13%

    4%

    Marriage equality

    9%

    11%

    4%

    24%

    Treatment of the aged

    17%

    21%

    16%

    12%

    Treatment of the disabled

    7%

    10%

    4%

    7%

    None of them

    5%

    3%

    7%

    4%

    Don’t know

    4%

    2%

    3%

    30% were most concerned about border security, 17% treatment of the aged and 16% climate change.

    Border security (48%) was the main issue of concern to Liberal/National voters and 45% of Greens voters nominated climate change.

  • Jul, 2011

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    Same Sex Marriage

    Q. Do you think people of the same sex should or should not be allowed to marry?

    15 Nov 2010 14 Mar 2011 4 Jul 11 Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens
    Should be allowed to marry 53% 49% 54% 65% 41% 85%
    Should not be allowed to marry 36% 40% 35% 23% 48% 9%
    Don’t know 11% 10% 11% 12% 10% 6%

    54% think that people of the same sex should be allowed to marry and 35% think they should not. This represents an increase in support for same-sex marriage since this question was asked in March – however, similar to the result from last November.

    Strongest support came from women (62%) and those aged under 35 (63%).

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