2020 Lowy Institute Poll

Last week, the Lowy Institute released its sixteenth annual Poll, which tests Australian attitudes towards foreign policy and the world around us.

 
The 2020 Lowy Institute Poll, produced by Research Fellow Natasha Kassam, covers a variety of international issues, including trust in global powers; confidence in world leaders, the economic outlook and free trade; and attitudes towards climate change and global warming. This year’s Poll finds Australians’ trust in China has fallen even further, and most Australians express little confidence in China’s President Xi Jinping. It also finds that concern about climate change after the summer of bushfires has been overtaken by anxiety about COVID-19 and its economic fallout. Read more