Q. The Government will provide special protections for journalists from its proposed data retention scheme (which involves keeping the phone and internet records of all Australians for two years) by requiring a warrant to access journalists’ communications data in certain circumstances. Do you think a warrant should be required to access all Australians’ data, just journalists’ data or should all data be able to be accessed without a warrant?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other/ Indep-endent |
|
| Warrant required to access journalists’ data |
10% |
10% |
13% |
4% |
7% |
|
| Warrant required to access all Australians’ data |
58% |
62% |
50% |
79% |
75% |
|
| No warrant required for any data |
12% |
10% |
18% |
2% |
10% |
|
| Don’t know |
19% |
17% |
18% |
15% |
8% |
The majority (58%) of respondents think under the proposed data retention scheme, a warrant should be required to access all Australians’ data, not just journalists’.
A majority of all voter and demographic groups think a warrant should be required to access all data.