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Ending the climate wars: the public’s mandate
Australians understand the need to act. As global scientists issue the clearest warning yet, can Labor deliver?
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10 Oct 2022
Australia and Pacific Islands: Polls apart?
Without a comprehensive public opinion survey of Pacific people, common attitudes can be challenging to identify. -
25 Jul 2022
France-Australia: Moving beyond AUKUS
A change of PM has certainly helped, and the latest Lowy Poll suggests no enduring damage has been done to relations. -
30 Jun 2022
War fatigue in the West
The democratic world passed the compassion test for Ukraine. Now it faces the real challenge. -
13 Apr 2022
Bellicose or bluster? How South Koreans see the North’s nuclear threat
The policy of a new president in Seoul depends not only on Pyongyang but also South Korean public perceptions. -
7 Apr 2022
Five key findings from the Being Chinese in Australia survey
The latest Lowy survey of Chinese-Australians captures views on belonging, trust, strategic competition, Covid and more. -
24 Feb 2022
Economic diplomacy: Slow dividends for Australia from ASEAN spending
Amid the Ukraine sanctions showdown, an Indian trade deal looms as a pre-election win for the Morrison government. -
7 Jul 2021
Personality in foreign policy
How leaders interact and are judged can shape a country’s approach to the world as much as economics or military might. -
28 Jun 2021
Building stronger Australia-Indonesia ties
The latest Lowy Poll shows the gaps in public understanding that bedevils the goal of closer bilateral relations. -
24 Jun 2021
The dangers in Australia’s blissful ignorance about India
It’s far from all bad news. But Australians don’t know that other Asian great power as well as they should. -
23 Jun 2021
By the numbers: Charting the Australia-China relationship in decline
Trust has plummeted and concern about China’s military is growing. And Australians point a finger of blame at Beijing. -
23 Jun 2021
How Australians look in the mirror, and out a window to the world
The reflection people see might be rosy, but Australians need a better understanding of how others might see us. -
31 May 2021
As varied as the weather: How public attitudes shape climate policy
Opinion surveys across the big emitters reveal the social complexity surrounding climate policy commitments. -
3 May 2021
State of mind: How Australians see the pandemic and efforts to help
New polling by the Lowy Institute looks at Australians’ attitudes to Covid-19 responses at home and abroad. -
30 Mar 2021
Taking the measure of prejudice in a pandemic
Has Covid-19 heightened anti-Asian bias in Australia? A new survey shows some worrying signs. -
10 Aug 2020
What we have lost: International education and public diplomacy
Entangling universities with geopolitics can mean a bad student experience has a far broader cost. -
3 Aug 2020
Young Australians turn from the US towards Asia. And it isn’t Trump
Millennials don’t remember Washington behaving as a great power or helpful ally, so support for the alliance is waning. -
18 Jun 2020
Will Timor-Leste be the region’s latest press freedom casualty?
An new law under the guise of “dignity” would only diminish democracy and transparency in the country. -
29 May 2020
The middle power alignment in public attitudes about Covid-19
Beijing is on the nose, leading the Western world to band together, but not with Washington at the fore. -
14 May 2020
Australians doubt either US or China will emerge stronger after Covid
New Lowy polling shows Australians are disappointed in Beijing’s Covid-19 response and despairing about Washington’s. -
3 Jan 2020
New Year on Australia’s fire ravaged coast
These first days of 2020 have been terrible as exhausted volunteers battle blazing fires in the bush and countryside. -
21 Nov 2019
Chart of the week: The climate cost
Polls suggest a majority of Australians want action on global warming, even at a cost – but politics tells us otherwise. -
30 Aug 2019
Secrets and laws
Finding the balance between national security and press freedom means acknowledging real threats exist. -
28 Jun 2019
National security: Australians and their elites
A tour through this year’s Lowy Institute Poll to see where the public differs from political leaders. -
27 Jun 2019
Australian attitudes to China shift: 2019 Lowy Poll
A deep dive into the 2019 Lowy poll reveals an across-the-board hardening of Australian attitudes towards China. -
27 Jun 2019
The Pacific: pinching pennies doesn’t make for policy longevity
Australians might be wary on aid but are far more alert to the region’s biggest security concern in climate change. -
26 Jun 2019
Are Australians more worried about climate change or climate policy?
Climate change is again on the public mind but this didn’t translate to a strong message at the ballot box for action. -
26 Jun 2019
The polls were wrong, but here’s our poll, and why you should read it
Election pollsters must deal with tricky challenges but issues polls – such as the Lowy Institute Poll – are different. -
7 May 2019
After the Australian election: the China test
New Lowy poll figures suggest voters prefer Labor over the Coalition for managing relations with Beijing – just. -
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