Four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war remains deadlocked. The destruction wrought on both ...

Since its first edition in 2005, the Lowy Institute Poll has sought Australians’ views on a range of possible threats to ‘the ...

We stand, all of us,’ said Winston Churchill in 1941, ‘upon the watchtowers of history.’ Now, as then, the view from the watchtower is disquieting. There are patches of sunshine. Nearly three-quarters ...

According to the Lowy Institute’s Pacific Aid Map, Australia is by far the largest aid donor to Pacific Island countries, accounting for 38% of total aid flows over the past 15 years. This dwarfs ...

On 3 May 2025, Anthony Albanese led the Australian Labor Party to its second consecutive federal election victory. Since then, the Albanese government has continued prosecuting a foreign policy agenda ...

Confidence in world leaders. Only 21% of Australians say they trust Donald Trump to do the right thing regarding world ...

In 2021 and 2022, 63% of Australians viewed China more as a security threat than an economic partner — a record high for that ...

Support for Australia’s acquisition of conventionally armed but nuclear-powered submarines through AUKUS held firm in this ...

The minority of Australians who say ‘in some circumstances, a non-democratic government can be preferable’ (17%) remained ...

Support for cultural diversity has softened among the Australian public. In 2024, the last time the Lowy Institute polled on this topic, nine in ten Australians (90%) said they saw cultural diversity ...

While this result is within the margin of error of last year’s Poll (53%), it still represents a seven-point increase from ...

The decline in civilian shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz following the US–Israeli military campaign against Iran ...