Australians right across the socio-economic divide are frustrated by the country’s unsustainable immigration rate, a new study has found.

Both rich and poor Australians are united in their support for pausing or curtailing the nation’s immigration intake, according to the YouGov Galaxy poll commissioned by the Centre for Independent Studies.  Requiring migrants to learn English and maintaining strong border protection policies  also gained the approval of both demographics.

“What we did was we polled the top and bottom ten percent of metropolitan postcodes based on income and education about some key immigration questions,” says Jeremy Sammut from the Centre for Independent Studies.

“To be honest, what we were really expecting to find is that elite and so-called ordinary voters would have very different attitudes to immigration.”

“But we actually found the attitudes are not starkly polarised .”

“These attitudes in these top and bottom postcodes are actually more similar then different.”

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