Gay marriage survey, Australia 2017

[Lachi]

No surprises that Victoria has the highest yes vote of any state.

The vote in Queensland was a massive shock to me.

[Lachi]

Dean Smith's version of the bill to legalise SSM as been introduced into the parliament

(Dean Smith's version is the liberal version of the bill, not the conservative Ferguson bill)

[Phony Moderate]

Why the eff is the state that is the home of Sydney has the highest No vote?

[Lachi]

Why the eff is the state that is the home of Sydney has the highest No vote?

Becuase of the conservative non-English speaking background community that live In Western Sydney

[Intell]

Why the eff is the state that is the home of Sydney has the highest No vote?

Becuase of the conservative non-English speaking background community that live In Western Sydney

Another question, doesn't Melbourne and Sydney have the same proportions of immigrant communities, but Melbourne even in immigrant areas had a higher yes% vote than in Sydney.

[parochial boy]

Why the eff is the state that is the home of Sydney has the highest No vote?

Becuase of the conservative non-English speaking background community that live In Western Sydney

Another question, doesn't Melbourne and Sydney have the same proportions of immigrant communities, but Melbourne even in immigrant areas had a higher yes% vote than in Sydney.

Isn't Melbourne generally less "ghettoised" than Sydney?

As in, it is more mixed throughout, as opposed to having places like Cabramatta or Bankstown that have huge concentrations of Vietnamese or Lebanese

[Lachi]

Why the eff is the state that is the home of Sydney has the highest No vote?

Becuase of the conservative non-English speaking background community that live In Western Sydney

Another question, doesn't Melbourne and Sydney have the same proportions of immigrant communities, but Melbourne even in immigrant areas had a higher yes% vote than in Sydney.

Isn't Melbourne generally less "ghettoised" than Sydney?

As in, it is more mixed throughout, as opposed to having places like Cabramatta or Bankstown that have huge concentrations of Vietnamese or Lebanese

Yes, this is mostly why. Bruce went No because of the high concentration of foreign born residents in and around Glen Waverley, it is also the electorate with the highest proportion of foreign born citizens in the country (50.8%).

Calwell went no because of it's unusually high concentration of adherents of Catholicism and Islam (38.5% and 16.8% respectively).

[Phony Moderate]

Paul Keating's old seat of Blaxland had the highest No vote.

[Intell]

Why the eff is the state that is the home of Sydney has the highest No vote?

Becuase of the conservative non-English speaking background community that live In Western Sydney

Another question, doesn't Melbourne and Sydney have the same proportions of immigrant communities, but Melbourne even in immigrant areas had a higher yes% vote than in Sydney.

Isn't Melbourne generally less "ghettoised" than Sydney?

As in, it is more mixed throughout, as opposed to having places like Cabramatta or Bankstown that have huge concentrations of Vietnamese or Lebanese

I get that but even if it's spread, the ethnic vote in Melbourne seems to be more in favour than the ethnic vote in Sydney such as in electorates of callwell and bruce which voted no at a lesser rate than sydney electorates. Furthermore, there were areas in Melbourne with a sizeable ethnic population that voted yes, while there was no case like that Sydney.

[Dr. MB]

Why did parts of Sydney vote so strongly against it?

[Hydera]

Why did parts of Sydney vote so strongly against it?

Immigrant communities are homophobic because of the culture of their homeland. (Don't forget gay acceptance wasnt even the norm in most Western countries until a decade ago)

[Lachi]

Why did parts of Sydney vote so strongly against it?

Immigrant communities are homophobic because of the culture of their homeland. (Don't forget gay acceptance wasn't even the norm in most Western countries until a decade ago)

Also, don't forget the areas around Blaxland are considered Australia's bible belt.

[Hydera]

Why did parts of Sydney vote so strongly against it?

Immigrant communities are homophobic because of the culture of their homeland. (Don't forget gay acceptance wasn't even the norm in most Western countries until a decade ago)

Also, don't forget the areas around Blaxland are considered Australia's bible belt.

Upper map is of catholics and second is of anglicans.

I know its uncomfortable but the reason why Western Sydney was against marriage equality was because of the large immigrant population who came to Australia but maintain the social customs of their home country of which unfortunately homophobia was a thing.

[Lachi]

Why did parts of Sydney vote so strongly against it?

Immigrant communities are homophobic because of the culture of their homeland. (Don't forget gay acceptance wasn't even the norm in most Western countries until a decade ago)

Also, don't forget the areas around Blaxland are considered Australia's bible belt.

-snip-

I know its uncomfortable but the reason why Western Sydney was against marriage equality was because of the large immigrant population who came to Australia but maintain the social customs of their home country of which unfortunately homophobia was a thing.

I never discounted this in my original post.

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The Northern Territory results are interesting. There was a lot of speculation that Aboriginals were opposed to gay marriage, which doesn't seem to have been founded.

[AtorBoltox]

The Northern Territory results are interesting. There was a lot of speculation that Aboriginals were opposed to gay marriage, which doesn't seem to have been founded.

Even if they are, they still only make up about 30% of the population in the NT and also probably have the lowest response rate of any demographic

[Dr. MB]

The Northern Territory results are interesting. There was a lot of speculation that Aboriginals were opposed to gay marriage, which doesn't seem to have been founded.

Even if they are, they still only make up about 30% of the population in the NT and also probably have the lowest response rate of any demographic

They're a large majority in the rural areas, though.

[AtorBoltox]

The Northern Territory results are interesting. There was a lot of speculation that Aboriginals were opposed to gay marriage, which doesn't seem to have been founded.

Even if they are, they still only make up about 30% of the population in the NT and also probably have the lowest response rate of any demographic

They're a large majority in the rural areas, though.

Yeah, rural areas with tiny populations. Not enough to sway the results in the state or either of its electorates.

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They make up about 43 percent of Lingiari division.

[parochial boy]

The fact that turnout was only 50% is Lingiari is probably the key story there