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Tony Abbott’s Immigration Policy

2 Aug 2010

Q. Tony Abbott has proposed to cut immigration from around 300,000 a year to 170,000? Do you approve or disapprove of this cut to immigration?

  Total Vote Labor Vote Liberal/ National Vote Greens
Total approve 64% 52% 91% 38%
Total disapprove 22% 32% 6% 49%
Strongly approve 33% 20% 56% 16%
Approve 31% 32% 35% 22%
Disapprove 15% 22% 5% 30%
Strongly disapprove 7% 10% 1% 19%
Don’t know 14% 16% 3% 13%

 64% approve Tony Abbott’s proposal to cut immigration and 22% oppose. There is strong support for cutting immigration from Liberal/National voters (91%) – while Labor voters (52% approve/32% disapprove) and Greens voters (38%/49%) are split.

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