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Curia poll on tax cuts

April 23, 2024

A poll by Curia for the Taxpayers’ Union on whether tax cuts should proceed is here.

Curia did a poll for the Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance on the number of managers at Auckland Council. The results are here.

A Curia poll for the Taxpayers’ Union on whether above inflation rates increases should require referendums is here.

Auckland rates poll

March 28, 2024

A poll by Curia for the Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance on Auckland rates can be found here.

The results are here. It was done by Curia for the Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance.

Holocaust Awareness Poll

August 7, 2019

Curia did a poll for the Auckland Holocaust Memorial Trust on Holocaust Awareness in New Zealand. The full results are below.

Holocaust Awareness Poll Results July 2019

Key findings were:

  • Only 43% of New Zealanders said they know a reasonable amount or a lot about the Holocaust
  • 4% of New Zealanders think the Holocaust is a myth or has been exaggerated
  • 30% of New Zealanders are unsure if the Holocaust is a myth or has been exaggerated.
  • Only 43% of New Zealanders knew that the number of European Jews killed in the Holocaust was around six million

More info can be found at the website of the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand.

Abortion poll

February 8, 2018

A Curia poll for Family First found:

  • 52% generally support abortion and 29% oppose
  • 65% think society should work to reduce the level of abortions and 17% disagree
  • 86% support registration for abortion providers and premises, 8% opposed
  • 36% were unsure on what time limit should apply for abortions. 50% support 15 weeks or less.
  • 90% oppose abortions based on the sex of the child
  • 49% support women being able to have an abortion because they don’t want to be a mother with 38% opposed
  • 76% support doctors being required to ascertain a women is not under pressure from a third party to have an abortion, with 8% opposed

Curia did a poll for the Property Institute. It asked how important is housing policy in determining your vote:

  • Will determine 8%
  • Very important 29%
  • Important 29%
  • Not an issue 32%

The Property Institute released:

“The number of people predicting an increase in property prices over the next six months is up 5% to 55% since March. Those expecting prices to decrease has dropped 5% from 12% to just 7%”.

“This means that expectations have rebounded to figures that closely match our November poll (56% increase & 8% decrease) – except in Auckland where there has been a big slump in expectations. Back in November 58% of Aucklanders were expecting house prices to rise – but last month that figure was down 12% to 46%, unchanged from our March poll”.

Pornography poll

May 1, 2017

A poll by Curia for Family First found:

  • 71% of respondents think pornography overall is bad for society and only 4% good.
  • 68% say online depictions of sexual violence are very harmful to society and 90% say moderately or very harmful.
  • 72% says there is a fair bit or a lot of connection and 42% say there is a lot of connection between online pornography and public issues such as ‘rape culture’ and sexting.
  • 62% of adults say they have come across pornography online, when not seeking it out. 13% say this has happened often and 48% at least occasionally.
  • 91% say that it is too easy for under 18s to access online pornography.
  • 81% say that Internet Providers should be required by the Government to offer filters to block pornographic material.
  • 70% say that Internet Providers should automatically block pornography unless the customer opts out by turning off a filter.
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