Asylum seeker boat turn-backs supported by 71 per cent in poll

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Asylum seeker boat turn-backs supported by 71 per cent in poll

The Prime Minister's turn-back policy is backed by 71 per cent of Australians.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/asylum-seeker-boat-turnbacks-supported-by-71-p...

A new poll also finds almost two-thirds of Australians back spying operations in Indonesia, another flashpoint for Mr Abbott to navigate after last year's revelations that Australia bugged Mr Yudhoyono's telephone.

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There is no explicit  mention in your OP of what poll it was was that produced that figure i.e who conducted it and how it was conducted. I am assuming, from your link, that it  was the Lowy poll - a nationwide poll of 1000 people.  If indeed the figures were taken forom this poll, then perhaps it would put things in perspective to consider those 1000 people as a percentage of Australia'stotal population (currently around 23,000,000) and state that 71% of that percentage indicated that they supported the policy

Perhaps someone a lot better at maths than I am could do the sums and tell me what percentage of 23,000,000  71% of 1000 is? 

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

There is no explicit  mention in your OP of what poll it was was that produced that figure i.e who conducted it and how it was conducted. I am assuming, from your link, that it  was the Lowy poll - a nationwide poll of 1000 people.  If indeed the figures were taken forom this poll, then perhaps it would put things in perspective to consider those 1000 people as a percentage of Australia'stotal population (currently around 23,000,000) and state that 71% of that percentage indicated that they supported the policy

Perhaps someone a lot better at maths than I am could do the sums and tell me what percentage of 23,000,000  71% of 1000 is? 

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Same Lowy poll also shows that The nationwide survey of 1000 taken in February also shows strong support for offshore processing of asylum seekers, but in a sign of community divisions over boat arrivals, 57 per cent disagreed that ''no asylum seeker coming to Australia by boat should be allowed to settle in Australia''.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/asylum-seeker-boat-turnbacks-supported-by-71-p...

Depends how leading the questions were.

But on saying that I imagine most Australians WOULD be pleased that there are no boats reaching Australian shores. But then again we are all sitting under a mushroom aren't we? So it would be pretty easy to agree to something in principle when you have absolutely no information about it.

[the_great_she_elephant]

I bet if they'd polled 1000 random Aussies  in 1947 at least 71% of them would have agreed wirth Arthur Calwell in support of the White Australia policy. I sometimes wonder how far we've actually moved on since then.

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@nero_wulf wrote:

A new poll also finds almost two-thirds of Australians back spying operations in Indonesia, another flashpoint for Mr Abbott to navigate after last year's revelations that Australia bugged Mr Yudhoyono's telephone.

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Australians appear comfortable with the government spying on other countries – even allied countries. The majority of Australians believe it is acceptable to spy on China (65%), Indonesia (62%) and East Timor (60%), but also on the United States (54%) and even New Zealand (51%).

Key findings: Lowy Poll 2014

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Asylum seeker policy

Australians strongly support the government’s policy of turning back boats when safe to do so, with 71% in agreement. A majority (59%) support offshore processing of asylum seekers in places such as Nauru and Papua New Guinea. Temporary protection visas are more divisive, 48% agreeing with this policy idea against 49% disagreeing.

Less than half (42%) agree that ‘no asylum seeker coming to Australia by boat should be allowed to settle in Australia’.

Lowy Poll 2014