SYDNEY LAUNCH: 2025 Lowy Institute Poll Australia and the new world disorder

Now in its twenty-first year, the 2025 Lowy Institute Poll illuminates the public mood at a remarkable moment in history. Amid global disorder and conflict, the Poll examines significant shifts in attitudes towards Australia’s key security ally, the United States, and its main trading partner, China. It reveals assumptions about superpower trajectories in the future, and perceptions of influence in Australia’s region today. It asks Australians about the critical threats facing the nation, and how to defend against them. And it shows how attitudes on climate and energy, the economy, democracy, and immigration have evolved over time.

Join us in Sydney for this discussion on how Australians are grappling with seismic shifts in the global order. Drawing on the perspectives of Shadow Assistant Minister and former ambassador Dave Sharma, ABC senior journalist Isabella Higgins, Southeast Asia expert Susannah Patton, and Lowy Institute Poll author Ryan Neelam, this event will explore how Australians view the country’s relations with the United States and China, their perceptions of threats, the conflict in Ukraine, influence in the Pacific, and views on foreign aid, democracy and more.