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About the author
Ryan Neelam
Ryan Neelam was Director of the Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Program at the Lowy Institute. He led the flagship annual Lowy Institute Poll, was project director for the Global Diplomacy Index, and wrote about climate diplomacy and multilateral policy.
For the first time in the Lowy Institute Poll, Australians were asked their view of the federal government’s overall handling of Australia’s foreign policy.
A majority of Australians (56%) say the current Labor government is doing a good job, 15 points more than those who say it is doing a poor job (41%). Most people hold these views moderately, but a larger share say the government is doing a ‘very poor job’ (12%) compared to those who say it is doing a ‘very good job’ (7%).
