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  • Nov, 2013

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    Spying on Indonesia

    Q. It has recently been revealed that Australian agencies have been secretly monitoring communications from Indonesian leaders.

    Do you support or oppose Australia’s secret collecting of this information?

     

     Total

     

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

    Vote other

    Total support

    39%

    28%

    58%

    13%

    28%

    Total oppose

    23%

    32%

    12%

    37%

    34%

    Strongly support

    15%

    8%

    27%

    10%

    Support

    24%

    20%

    31%

    13%

    18%

    Neither support nor oppose

    28%

    32%

    23%

    38%

    33%

    Oppose

    12%

    15%

    6%

    25%

    21%

    Strongly oppose

    11%

    17%

    6%

    12%

    13%

    Don’t know

    9%

    8%

    6%

    12%

    5%

    39% support Australia’s secret monitoring of communications from Indonesian leaders and 23% oppose. 28% neither support nor oppose. There was strong support from Liberal/National voters (58%) while Labor voters were split 28% support/32% oppose.

    A somewhat similar question asked in October about the United States monitoring telephone and internet communications in the US and other countries produced a result of 24% support/45% oppose.

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