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  • Commentary

    Welcome to Australia - and here is your shovel

    In an opinion piece in The Daily Telegraph, Executive Director Michael Wesley writes that we know that we need foreign workers to help maintain the economy.
    8 June 2012
    Commentary
    By
    Dr Michael Wesley
  • Commentary

    If government listened it would cut carbon tax

    In an opinion piece in The Australian, Fergus Hanson, program director for opinion polling at the Lowy Institute, writes that the 2012 Lowy Institute Poll results reveal that only one third of Australians support costly action against climate change.
    6 June 2012
    Commentary
    By
    Fergus Hanson
  • Australian farmer

    The Lowy Institute Poll 2012: Public opinion and foreign policy

    The eighth annual Lowy Institute Poll reports the results of a nationally representative opinion survey of 1,005 Australian adults conducted in Australia between 26 March and 10 April 2012 using mobile and landline telephones. It also reports the results of a parallel survey conducted in New...
    5 June 2012
    Polling
    By
    Fergus Hanson

  • Indonesia Poll 2012: Shattering stereotypes: public opinon and foreign policy

    The Lowy Institute Indonesia Poll reports the results of the Institute’s second opinion poll in Indonesia. The findings challenge many assumptions about Indonesia on issues like attitudes towards Australia and the United States, openness to foreign investment, democracy, trust in other countries,...
    20 March 2012
    Polling
    By
    Fergus Hanson
  • Commentary

    Wake-up call for a stale relationship

    In an opinion piece in The Australian, Fergus Hanson, Director of Polling at the Lowy Institute, writes on findings from the Lowy Institute's 2012 Indonesia Poll, 'Shattering Stereotypes, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy'. The Australian, 20 March 2012, p. 9
    20 March 2012
    Commentary
    By
    Fergus Hanson

  • Foreign policy opinion polling: a case study from Fiji

    On 7 December 2011, Caz Tebbutt, Managing Director of Tebbutt Research, which conducted the Lowy Institute's poll in Fiji, delivered the Lowy Lecture on opinion polling in Fiji.
    6 December 2011
    Speeches and Conferences
    By
    Caz Tebbutt

  • The 2011 Lowy Institute Poll

    The seventh annual Lowy Poll surveys the Australian public on new questions covering attitudes towards the US alliance and the war in Afghanistan, opinions on basing US forces in Australia, WikiLeaks, foreign aid, and the intervention in Libya. The nationally representative poll also repeated...
    20 June 2011
    Polling
    By
    Fergus Hanson
  • Commentary

    Knowing me, knowing you

    In this piece for the International Relations and Security Network, Fergus Hanson discusses the challenges Australia confronts in building close ties with its most important neighbour, Indonesia. The article in available online here .
    2 September 2010
    Commentary
    By
    Fergus Hanson
  • Commentary

    Running the foreign policy gauntlet

    Fergus Hanson writes in the Australian on the link between opinion polling and the government's foreign policy-making. The Australian, 6 July 2010, p 10
    8 July 2010
    Commentary
    By
    Fergus Hanson
  • Commentary

    What makes us tick?

    In this challenging essay, Program Director for Polling Fergus Hanson looks at the quirky history of scientific opinion polling and the role polls play in foreign policy. He suggests two key functions: to subtly serve the stability of the international system and to function as a mirror to our...
    1 June 2010
    Commentary
    By
    Fergus Hanson

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