ResearchNZ polled 500 adults:
- 52% favour aeromagnetic surveying of minerals in world heritage sites
- 37% are against
- 42% support actual mining in world heritage sites that are not in Schedule 4
- 49% are against
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Archive for August, 2012
Mining poll
Schools poll
ResearchNZ polled 500 adults:
- 55% are in favour of schools being given an achievement rating based on their national standards results
- 37% are against
- 55% are also in favour of performance pay for school teachers
- 39% are against
Christchurch Cathedral poll
ResearchNZ polled 92 Cantabrians:
- 48% supported the plan to demolish the cathedral to 2-3 metres and then rebuild it from there
- 26% supported no further demolition and reconstruction
- 15% supported neither option
- 11% had no opinion
Auckland CBD Rail Loop poll
Research NZ polled 199 Aucklanders:
- 63% approved of the plan to build an inner city rail loop
- 29% disapproved
Waikato views on same sex marriage
The Waikato Times reports:
This comes in the wake of a Waikato Times Versus Research poll this week of 600 people in the region, which found 46 per cent in support of gay marriage and 39 per cent opposed.
Women were more likely to support marriage equality, with 52 per cent in favour, compared with 35 per cent of men.
There was also a generational divide, with 50 per cent of over 55s against gay marriage and 62 per cent of people aged 18 to 39 for it.Wai
One News Colmar Brunton poll July 2012
Polling Company: Colmar Brunton
Poll Method: Random Phone
Poll Size: 1,005 of whom 878 had a party vote preference
Undecideds:
Dates: 28 July to 1 August 2012
Client: One News
Report: Colmar Brunton
Party Support
- National 48.0% (+1.0%)
- Labour 32.0% (-1.0%)
- Green 12.0% (-1.0%)
- ACT 0.5% (-0.2%)
- Maori 2.3% (+1.0%)
- United Future 0.1% (+0.1%)
- Mana 0.4% (-0.6%)
- NZ First 2.5% (+0.3%)
- Conservative 0.9% (-0.5%)
Projected Seats
- National 60
- Labour 40
- Green 15
- ACT 1
- Maori 3
- United Future 1
- Mana 1
- NZ First 0
- Conservative 0
- Total 121
This is based on no change in electorate seats.
Coalition Options
- CR – National 60 + ACT 1 + United Future 1 = 62/121 – 1 more than minimum needed to govern
- CL – Labour 40 + Greens 15 + Mana 1= 56/122 -5 less than minimum needed to govern
The Maori Party is not shown as part of the centre-right or centre-left.
Preferred PM
- John Key 45% (-3%)
- David Shearer 13% (-1%)
Partial Asset Sales
- 32% in favour
- 62% against
- 59% say they could afford to buy $1,000 of shares
- 41% say they could not
- 34% say they are very or quite likely to buy shares
- 25% say not likely to buy shares and 40% not at all likely
Alcohol minimum price
- 54% support a minimum price
- 42% do not
