The Age 14 October 2011
Only one in five Labor voters supports Julia Gillard's desire to
press ahead with sending asylum seekers offshore for processing as
cabinet this morning considers legislation to get around the High
Court's decision striking down the Malaysia solution.
In The Age/Nielsen poll, 22 per cent of ALP
voters said asylum seekers should be sent to another country to be
assessed, 62 per cent said they should be allowed to land in Australia
and processed here and 13 per cent took the hardest option of wanting
the boats sent back to sea.
Coalition voters were also unenthusiastic about the
offshore solution with only 32 per cent supporting it, 44 per cent
saying people should be processed here and 19 per cent wanting them sent
back to sea.
Greens voters were overwhelmingly in favour of Australian
processing (83 per cent), with just 10 per cent favouring an offshore
solution and 6 per cent wanting boats turned around.
Women are more likely than men to support processing in
Australia (58 to 51 per cent) as are younger voters, with almost
two-thirds of those aged 18-24 in favour compared with less than half of
those over 55. Capital city voters were more likely to support local
processing than those in regional areas (58 to 48 per cent).
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