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 Canberra for this timely discussion on how Australians see the world and their place in it. Drawing on the experience of Assistant Minister Andrew Leigh, SBS Chief Political Correspondent Anna Henderson, ABC Foreign Affairs reporter Stephen Dziedzic (chair), and Lowy Institute Poll author Ryan Neelam, this event will explore Australians’ views on the fracturing of the rules-based international order, attitudes towards the superpowers, Donald Trump’s policies, defence and security, the economy, climate change and more.