The Lowy Institute for International Policy has conducted a major poll to gauge the attitudes of Australians on foreign policy issues.
The survey, Australians Speak: 2005, was launched today by Allan Gyngell, Executive Director of The Lowy Institute.
Remarks at the poll launch by Allan Gyngell, Executive Director, Lowy Institute for International Policy.
We’re releasing today the first of what we intend to be a regular series of Lowy Institute polls on the way Australians look at the world. We’ve called it “Australians speak: 2005”. This is the most comprehensive such survey undertaken in this country. Our objective was not so much to poll Australians’ attitudes on current issues – although we want to do some of that – but to ask questions that will let us understand some of the deeper issues of how Australians think about the world and our place in it and how they want us to act in it. Assertions are frequently made by politicians and commentators, journalists and analysts, about how ordinary Australians think – we wanted to find out how accurate these assertions are. [Read more…]