Roughly 77 per cent of eligible Australians have returned their postal survey
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A new poll conducted by Newgate Research has found that 77 per cent of all eligible ages in the marriage equality postal survey have filled out their form and posted it back.
The polling also found that 69 per cent of young Australians aged 18 to 24 have returned their postal survey, a record number of young people turning out to vote.
An additional 17 per cent of young people claim they have filled out their survey with the intention to post it.
“We know that Australians are for marriage equality and won’t be fooled by any of the daily red herrings by opponents of equality,” Executive Director of the Equality Campaign, Tiernan Brady said.
“We got a taste of the enthusiasm of young Australians when record numbers enrolled on the electoral roll so that they could vote Yes for their friends family and workmates.
“This is not a normal political question this is a straightforward question about Australians and their values.
“Young people along with the majority of Australians understand this about real lives, real people and their dignity.”
Brady added that the postal survey was a question about the value Australians place on the lives of LGBTI people and the values they want to carry into the future.
“Young Australians know that they want to live in a country that champions fairness and equality,” he said.
“This poll is a reflection of the support marriage equality has in Australia, this support has existed for years, the majority of Australians want this done.”
ALL politicians, in particular the “Johnny-come-Lately” Bill Shorten, dumped ex-Prime Minister and dumped by the electorate John Howard should keep their traps shut. This is simply a Survey like millions of others and the politicians have no right to try and convince us one way or the other. Surveys simply ask people their personal opinion. This Survey has been turned into a Political Football with Shorten in particular in multiple acts of cynical political opportunism trying to score political points.
Most of us have already voted in favour and we don’t need the likes of Shorten or Howard telling us what to do or as to how they have suddenly become so enamoured of our GLBTIQ Community as Shorten is trying to make out.
We did not need Howard’s Full page Ads – which we hope he personally paid for and did/ does not expect the taxpayers to do so for him. We already know he is homophobic and nothing will ever change that.
malcolm turnbull has long been an LGBTI supporter – longer than I remember bill shorten, the ultimate opportunist, overtly expressing support. perhaps a pic of malcolm too sometime showing a supportive smiling face?
I think you are right about Turnbull and Shorten, but it means very little when it’s the so-called Liberal Party who are going against all of their values by inflicting ‘the tyranny of the majority’ on loving same sex couples while the ALP has supported a Parliamentary conscience vote on the issue for five or six years now. Turnbull is right, his party is wrong, but his party still get their way anyway – shows how useless Turnbull is.