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Polling Report 2022 – Attitudes Towards Defence
Polling Report 2022 – Attitudes Towards Defence
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Background This research report was an important accompaniment to a publication examining non-elite views towards the US alliance. The report provided important context for this paper, presenting evidence on Australian attitudes towards key areas of Australian defence and foreign policy, identifying both attitudinal trends going back five decades, as well as potential drivers of these attitudes. Specifically, the research report examines the data to uncover which factors influence public opinion towards defence issues. Contribution The report produces new knowledge in the following areas: it first looks at what Australians think about defence as an institution. The second section shifts to the question of the US alliance, with a consideration of the long-term trends in the levels of confidence and trust that Australian have both of the United States, and in the alliance specifically. This section spends some time reflecting on attitudes towards the AUKUS partnership. The final section turns its attention to threat perceptions: both country specific threats & non-traditional threats (climate change, terrorism, etc). Significance This research report was commissioned to provide important context to a publication by the US Studies Centre, and was sent to the Defence Department as an appendix. Its contribution to the publication is cited on the public-facing website: https://www.ussc.edu.au/an-incomplete-project-australians-views-of-the-us-alliance Its full contents were made available to the Strategic Policy Division of the Defence Department, as well as the the relevant Ministers and their offices. Lead author Andrew O'Neil (Exec Dean, Law & Business, ACU) is willing to confirm this via email.Publication classification
AN Other book, or book not attributed to Deakin UniversityPublisher
US Studies Centre, University of SydneyPlace of publication
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