Survey participants cited what they saw as the inability of Muslims to integrate into Australian society as their primary reason for voting in favor of a ban, with the threat of terrorism and a perceived lack of shared values as the second and third reasons respectively.
The polls come after the recently elected senator Pauline Hanson — who ran on an anti-immigration platform—gave her first speech to the Australian Senate, during which she said “[Muslims] share a culture and ideology that are incompatible with our own.”
