So where can I get a copy of " the report" - the Executive Summary available on-line is insufficient.
In this day and age researchers commonly publish methodology (including survey questions)- prior to undertaking the research - such that all this criticism can be avoided.
I just think its a shame that an opportunity for Australia to understand better women's attitudes to abortion - has been lost - on account of poor management of release of the research findings.

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Which Ethics Committee did you submit your research proposal to John?
It would be very reassuring if it was known that a Human Research Ethics Committee had supported your research

Dear Manz. For the report, go to SCBI website: www.bioethics.org.au and it will tell you how you can pourchase the report. On your second matter, this was not a project that necessitated a visit to a human research ethics committee because we were doing nothing that involved research on human subjects!!

Well there you go. When I last worked at a university, any research involving human "subjects" had to be approved by the relevant research ethics committee. This certainly included surveys, questionnaires etc.

Fleming and Ewing's 'research', apparently conducted on their behalf by commercial pollsters without reference to a human research ethics committee, must be somehow above peer scrutiny.

Unless of course, the 'peers' are spiritual rather than academic in orientation, in which case the Reverend Doctor's investigations have obviously been directly approved by the God.

John,

Your research appears to be well conducted and the results interesting. And assuming it has been well conducted and the results valid, why on earth aren't the questions released--for transparency's sake--so that your critics can be silenced? Surely this would give you and the survey results much more credibility so that we can progress in this fascinating debate,

Regards, Mountebank

I have read the report, John.

I don't agree that your interpretations are valid. You're arguing against a claim that has never been seriously made. It has been claimed time and again that the majority of Australians are pro-choice. Your survey has proved this, yet you have presented it as proof that the majority of Australians are not pro- abortion on demand. There was never a question of that.

I guess it wouldn't have been such exciting news if you'd just come out and said: "Majority of Australians want more choice for women, not less".