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"Australia is undergoing a historic decline in support for multiculturalism,
according to the Lowy Institute’s annual poll, amid a groundswell of fear
rooted in mounting economic pessimism and an increasingly illiberal and chaotic
world order.
The Lowy poll is the latest edition of the country’s longest-running survey of
Australians’ opinions of the world and their place in it, and revealed a record
low 31% of the more than 2,000 people surveyed had faith in the United States
to act responsibly on the world stage, and just one in five trust the
president, Donald Trump, to do the right thing.
With trust in China rising from 20% to 28%, Charles Lyons-Jones, a Lowy
research fellow, said this year’s survey marks an extraordinary milestone: for
the first time “the two superpowers are distrusted in equal measure”.
“That is a significant change from 2022 when the gap in trust was over 50% in
favour of the US,” Lyons-Jones said.
Underpinning the dramatic decline in Australians’ faith in the US was that only
one in five surveyed had confidence in Trump to do the right thing in global
affairs – the same level of trust in the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
