Some interesting Australian poll results

[Alexander's Horse]

This poll is open at Australia's most popular internet portal every day.

Previous Vote Results

Ninemsn news puts up a daily vote on whatever controversial subject is making the headlines. Check out how you and others voted on some of our previous topics.

Monday 14 July: Has Australia become too slavish to US foreign policy?
Yes: 26308 (72%)
No: 10116 (28%)

Friday 11 July: Do you think we have been deliberately misled over Iraq?
Yes: 21488 (62%)
No: 13063 (38%)

Thursday 10 July: Should Australia join a force to prevent nations from trading in WMD?
Yes: 14354 (65%)
No: 7575 (35%)

Tuesday 8 July: Are our universities in danger of becoming too elitist?
Yes: 20550 (74%)
No: 7386 (26%)

Monday 7 July: Are you confident we can be protected from future terrorist attacks?
Yes: 4367 (15%)
No: 24622 (85%)

Friday 4 July: Are we being fair and just in our treatment of boat people?
Yes: 21235 (70%)
No: 8989 (30%)

Thursday 3 July: Do you support a national register of child sex offenders?
Yes: 32666 (90%)
No: 3480 (10%)

Wednesday 2 July: Do you think there is a genuine desire for peace in the Middle East?
Yes: 7852 (28%)
No: 19991 (72%)

Saturday 21 June: Should children of asylum seekers be exempt from detention?
Yes: 13923 (14%)
No: 84222 (86%)

Thursday 12 June: Do you think there will ever be peace in the Middle East?
Yes: 6405 (16%)
No: 34000 (84%)

Tuesday 10 June: Should Hillary Clinton run for President of the United States?
Yes: 25973 (63%)
No: 15391 (37%)

Monday 9 June: Is the Australian cricket team playing too many one-day games?
Yes: 10868 (68%)
No: 5209 (32%)

Saturday 7 June: Do you think the Williams sisters get undue bad press?
Yes: 9074 (32%)
No: 19225 (68%)

Thursday 5 June: Should adventurers be forced to contribute to their rescue costs?
Yes: 30447 (84%)
No: 5969 (16%)

Wednesday 21 May: Do you support the use of cannabis for medical purposes?
Yes: 34762 (78%)
No: 9735 (22%)

Monday 19 May: Has Australia's role in Iraq made us more vulnerable to terrorist attacks?
Yes: 27377 (69%)
No: 12335 (31%)

Thursday 15 May: Do top Aussie sportspeople need to display better sportsmanship?
Yes: 26619 (76%)
No: 8256 (24%)

Wednesday 14 May: Should students be paying more to go to university?
Yes: 10822 (23%)
No: 37153 (77%)

Thursday 17 April: Should execs found guilty of gross mismanagement face jail terms?
Yes: 40653 (90%)
No: 4308 (10%)

Wednesday 16 April: Have you suffered from anxiety or depression recently?
Yes: 24297 (71%)
No: 10081 (29%)

The full list of daily poll results can be found here:

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/voteresults.asp

[Kuciwalker]

Friday 4 July: Are we being fair and just in our treatment of boat people?
Yes: 21235 (70%)
No: 8989 (30%)

"boat people"?

[RGBVideo]

People are becoming stupider and stupider, I see.

[Gangerolf]

not very surprising results, except for the last one

Wednesday 16 April: Have you suffered from anxiety or depression recently?
Yes: 24297 (71%)
No: 10081 (29%)

[Gangerolf]

boat people are illegal immigrants

[Kuciwalker]

Oh.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Gangerolf
not very surprising results, except for the last one

Wednesday 16 April: Have you suffered from anxiety or depression recently?
Yes: 24297 (71%)
No: 10081 (29%)

I was certainly plunged into depression after I read some of the poll results.

[Faboba]

What they should have asked was do you think there's any likelihood of either of the two main US political parties putting either a woman or an ethnic minority candidate up for election as president, seriously?

(( How do you treat boat people? Surely in a hospital? No? ))

[Kuciwalker]

(( How do you treat boat people? Surely in a hospital? No? ))

[DinoDoc]

Monday 14 July: Has Australia become too slavish to US foreign policy?
Yes: 26308 (72%)
No: 10116 (28%)

The fact that you joined us in Vietnam wasn't enough of a clue?

[Alexander's Horse]

[Kramerman]

nah, you arent slavish, just... err... 'pro' american... yeah, thats it....

[introvert]

Originally posted by Faboba
(( How do you treat boat people? Surely in a hospital? No? ))

Don't be silly. We have detention camps to put them in. Wonderful places with barb wire fences, and very basic accomidation. Frankly these nasty boat people should be bloody grateful that we lock them up like that for years on end, before sending back home to be brutally killed [which is exactly what has happened in some cases].

Really we've gone soft on these refugees. Back in the good old days [the mid 70's] Australia was looking at developing nuclear weapons so that we could nuke all these illegal boat people. That would have stopped them trying to come over here.

[I'm not kidding. The leading supportier of Australia going nuclear said we would need nukes after the USA and USSR blew the Northern Hemisphere away to keep the millions of refugees, fleeing the environmental detruction of half the world, out of our comparitively intact bit of it. So all these people complaining about our slightly cruel manditory detention practices should be grateful we aren't nuking them ]