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Asylum Seeker Polling – Three Pollsters

November 9, 2009 – 9:00 am

Today we have some results on the public perception of asylum seeker policy issues from both Newspoll and Nielsen. When combined with last week’s Essential Report questions on the same issue, all three pollsters turn out to be pretty consistent with each other, only differing by amounts we’d expect from slightly different question wording. First [...]

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First big polling on Asylum Seeker issue

November 2, 2009 – 3:23 pm

This weeks Essential Report has the primaries running 49 (down 1) / 35 (down 1) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 59/41 the same way – steady since last week. The Greens are on 8 (steady), while the broad “Others” are up 1 to 8. The missing point is due to [...]

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Essential Report: Border Protection and Stimpac Edition

April 29, 2009 – 7:14 am

This week’s Essential Report has the primaries running 48 (down 2) /36 (up 2) to Labor, washing out for a two party preferred of 58/42 – the ALP down 2 since last week. This comes from a two week rolling sample of 2181 for a hypothetical margin of error around the 2.1%.
The supplementary questions this [...]

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