Yes, just their results and not representative of the nation as a whole. ABC didnt suggest it was anything else. Thought it worth sharing though
Definitely worth sharing and interesting to look at but I do think that ABC suggests it as something else. for example, the title and subtitle read thusly:
Federal election: This is Australia as 100 people
If the Australian electorate were made up of just 100 people, what would they think about the big issues facing the country — and how did they vote?
Then down the page we have):
Vote Compass found the environment and the economy were pretty much neck and neck as the top issue.
Then this:
Across the election campaign, Vote Compass provided a detailed snapshot of what the Australian electorate is thinking
If you look at the notes down the bottom, it leads to a page where they defend their survey against the claims of self-selection -
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06...the-vote-compass-methodology-holds-up/7498692
But the problem they have with that explanation (based on my limited knowledge of methodology) not only is their survey based on self-selection, as all polls are to a degree, but that they are not taking active measures, other than poststratification to manage the issue. All they are saying is that "all polls have an element of self-selection, so that means that any criticism of ours is invalid". Where as, for me, the only acceptable response would be "to manage the problem of the layered self-selection, that being, selecting to come to our website, selecting to look at the vote compass page, selecting to take the survey, etc., we have combined the online results from these surveys carried by ................ at ......................., etc. etc.".
So in closing, your honour, I'd argue that ABC have 100% suggested that their polling represents the nation as a whole.