Troops in Afghanistan

Q. Thinking about the Australian troops in Afghanistan, do you think Australia should –

	Total 11 Oct 10	Labor	Liberal	Greens		21 June 10	March 09
Increase the number of troops in Afghanistan	13%	10%	20%	6%		7%	14%
Keep the same number of troops in Afghanistan	24%	26%	29%	14%		24%	24%
Withdraw our troops from Afghanistan	49%	50%	41%	73%		61%	50%
Don’t know	14%	14%	10%	7%		8%	12%

49% of respondents believe Australia should withdraw our troops from Afghanistan, 24% think we should keep the same number and 13% think the numbers should be increased.

Support for withdrawal has dropped from the 61% recorded in June but is similar to the result recorded in March last year.

50% of Labor voters and 73% of Greens voters support withdrawal but 49% of Liberal/National voters favour maintaining or increasing the number of troops.