Knowing how some posters like polls - here is some more from The Age - Today
Two-thirds of Australian voters, including more than half of all Coalition supporters, believe claims that asylum seekers' hands were deliberately burnt by Australian border protection authorities should be investigated.
That is despite the Abbott government refusing to launch an investigation into the claims, while slamming media organisations such as the ABC as ''malicious'' for reporting them. The result comes from the latest Fairfax-Nielsen poll conducted among 1400 voters across the country from Thursday to Saturday last week.
The ABC has also been strongly supported in the survey, with just three in 10 voters viewing the publicly funded national broadcaster as politically biased while 59 per cent said it was not.
Asked if they thought allegations that the navy had deliberately burnt the hands of asylum seekers warranted an investigation, two thirds of respondents, or 66 per cent, answered yes
Even among Liberal and Nationals voters, the proportion in favour of an investigation was safely in a majority at 55 per cent. Those satisfied with the claims being dismissed as hearsay constituted just 31 per cent.
Among ALP supporters, the ratio in favour of investigation was 75 per cent - a figure that jumped to 88 per cent among Greens voters.
The government launched an unprecedented attack on the ABC earlier this month for reporting that Indonesian police were investigating allegations that Australian navy personnel forced asylum seekers to hold on to burning hot engine pipes aboard their boat as a form of punishment. The initial story showed graphic photographs of burnt hands along with the suggestion that the injuries appeared to support the torture claims.
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@donnashuggy wrote:something fishy going on
Do you mean that people have started to smell the stench of rotting fish coming off Abbott and his merry band of liars and incompetents - starting to get a little annoyed by the constant lies, the rise in unemployment, the plans to privatise everything, the sneaky bring back of workchoices, the expensive witch hunt, the favour's to mates......and on and on - then yes, something fishy is going on.
