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Same-sex marriage
Q. Do you support changing the law to allow same-sex couples to marry?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Men | Women | Aged 18-34 | Aged 35-54 | Aged 55+ | Will
def-initely vote |
Will prob-ably vote | Will not vote | ||||
| Yes | 59% | 73% | 47% | 82% | 48% | 52% | 65% | 69% | 57% | 49% | 69% | 60% | 16% | |||
| No | 31% | 18% | 42% | 14% | 46% | 38% | 24% | 20% | 33% | 39% | 28% | 27% | 72% | |||
| Don’t know | 11% | 8% | 12% | 3% | 6% | 10% | 11% | 11% | 10% | 12% | 2% | 13% | 12% |
59% (up 2% from 2 weeks ago) support changing the law to allow same-sex couples to marry and 31% (down 1%) are opposed.
Those most in favour of changing the marriage laws are Labor voters (73%), Greens voters (82%), women (65%) and those aged 18-34 (69%).
Those who would definitely vote in the national survey are more likely to support same-sex marriage (69%).