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Poll: Half of Australians Want to Ban Muslim Immigration - Breitbart
I guess the Aussies are tired of the nonsense as well.
Poll: Half of Australians Want to Ban Muslim Immigration
The Essential Research survey also revealed 48 per cent of voters would welcome a national debate on the issue, and showed that two thirds of Australians agree that populist senator Pauline Hanson talks about topics other politicians are afraid to bring up.
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poll was first conducted in early August and then repeated to ensure the results were not outliers.
Writing in The Guardian about the results, Essential Research pollster Peter Lewis says his polling company decided to ask whether people opposed a ban following Ms. Hansonās maiden speech in the Senate. In it, the populist One Nation party politician proposed Australia end Muslim migration and stop building mosques and Islamic schools.
Mr. Lewis expresses horror at the number of people sceptical of mass Muslim migration and that large numbers of Labour and Green voters also back a ban.
Sixty per cent of respondents who support the right-wing Coalition favour an end to Muslim migration along with 40 per cent of Labour voters and 34 per cent of Green voters.
āFlooredā by the results, the pollster laments that the ābasket of deplorablesā, who he previously thought were just a āmarginalised rump, out of step with the views of modern, mainstream, cosmopolitan Australiaā, is too big to ignore.
He writes: āThis not a ābasket of deplorablesā who sit outside the confines of polite society, that is 49% of the men and women who make up our nation.
āYes, they are more likely to vote Coalition or āotherā but 40% of Labor voters and one third of Greens agree too. Look around you right now, there are people in your workplace, in your street, on your train, who agree with Hanson.ā
Mr Lewis asserts that votersā fears over migration are due to increasing feelings of job insecurity among Australians.
He points to this weekās Essential Research report, which revealed a quarter of voters think their jobs will be less secure in the next two years, and that just one third expect to be working with the same employer in five years time.
With a question asking what constitutes the biggest threat to job security in Australia, the top response was āfree trade deals that allow foreign workers into the Australian labour marketā. A third of respondents opted for this as their answer.
Mr. Lewis asserts: āWhile the political insiders see rising insecurity as the natural consequence of technology and our economic affluence, the majority of Australians see it as the outcome of conscious decisions made by their leaders.
āSomeone feeling insecure does not cheer for free trade deals or see the spread of labour hire and contracting out as the way to reduce costs and make businesses more productive. They endure these decisions and then when they are personally affected, they resent them.ā
On the topic of how political elites can deal with Australians who have views he says are informed by āunderlying ignorance and mindless stereotypesā, Mr. Lewis claims:
āSo hereās the challenge to everyone concerned or affronted by these findings. How do you tell half the population that they are wrong?ā
The best course of action to challenge Ms. Hanson and her supporters, he concludes, is to talk about āunfashionable ideas [such] as income distribution, workplace bargaining rights, industry development and corporate responsibility.ā
I guess the Aussies are tired of the nonsense as well.
Poll: Half of Australians Want to Ban Muslim Immigration
The Essential Research survey also revealed 48 per cent of voters would welcome a national debate on the issue, and showed that two thirds of Australians agree that populist senator Pauline Hanson talks about topics other politicians are afraid to bring up.
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poll was first conducted in early August and then repeated to ensure the results were not outliers.
Writing in The Guardian about the results, Essential Research pollster Peter Lewis says his polling company decided to ask whether people opposed a ban following Ms. Hansonās maiden speech in the Senate. In it, the populist One Nation party politician proposed Australia end Muslim migration and stop building mosques and Islamic schools.
Mr. Lewis expresses horror at the number of people sceptical of mass Muslim migration and that large numbers of Labour and Green voters also back a ban.
Sixty per cent of respondents who support the right-wing Coalition favour an end to Muslim migration along with 40 per cent of Labour voters and 34 per cent of Green voters.
āFlooredā by the results, the pollster laments that the ābasket of deplorablesā, who he previously thought were just a āmarginalised rump, out of step with the views of modern, mainstream, cosmopolitan Australiaā, is too big to ignore.
He writes: āThis not a ābasket of deplorablesā who sit outside the confines of polite society, that is 49% of the men and women who make up our nation.
āYes, they are more likely to vote Coalition or āotherā but 40% of Labor voters and one third of Greens agree too. Look around you right now, there are people in your workplace, in your street, on your train, who agree with Hanson.ā
Mr Lewis asserts that votersā fears over migration are due to increasing feelings of job insecurity among Australians.
He points to this weekās Essential Research report, which revealed a quarter of voters think their jobs will be less secure in the next two years, and that just one third expect to be working with the same employer in five years time.
With a question asking what constitutes the biggest threat to job security in Australia, the top response was āfree trade deals that allow foreign workers into the Australian labour marketā. A third of respondents opted for this as their answer.
Mr. Lewis asserts: āWhile the political insiders see rising insecurity as the natural consequence of technology and our economic affluence, the majority of Australians see it as the outcome of conscious decisions made by their leaders.
āSomeone feeling insecure does not cheer for free trade deals or see the spread of labour hire and contracting out as the way to reduce costs and make businesses more productive. They endure these decisions and then when they are personally affected, they resent them.ā
On the topic of how political elites can deal with Australians who have views he says are informed by āunderlying ignorance and mindless stereotypesā, Mr. Lewis claims:
āSo hereās the challenge to everyone concerned or affronted by these findings. How do you tell half the population that they are wrong?ā
The best course of action to challenge Ms. Hanson and her supporters, he concludes, is to talk about āunfashionable ideas [such] as income distribution, workplace bargaining rights, industry development and corporate responsibility.ā
