Politics

This month sees us reflect on the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic two years on. Our featured global surveys cover topics including gender equality and interpersonal trust. We also look at the French election ahead of this month’s vote, alongside the latest polling on the Ukraine conflict.

The inaugural edition of Understanding Australia 2019. Where to from here? based on its ongoing research of our population for the past 20 years.

The Labor Party’s lead over the Coalition has narrowed in the October 2018 Fairfax Ipsos Poll.

Australia’s political parties are poor at producing capable leaders and stable Government, creating policy ideas that are in Australia’s long term interests and communicating how they will solve issues important to voters, the results of an Ipsos survey into political leadership in Australia.

The Labor Party retains its lead over the Coalition in the October 2018 Fairfax Ipsos Poll.

On a two party preferred basis, for the period July-September 2018, analysis by the Fairfax Ipsos Poll shows that Labor leads the Coalition by 48% to 52%.

More than one third of Australians think their country is in decline, while three in five Australians believe the economy is rigged to advantage the rich. Just over half (51%) of all Australians believe they need a strong leader who is willing to break the rules; and, two in three (65%) Australians lack confidence in the media.

Two years on from Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, a major new Ipsos survey across 25 countries, revisits the topic of populism and ‘system is broken’ sentiment.

Australians are one of the least knowledgeable countries when it comes to human rights; and, among the top nations when suggesting refugees, various minorities, immigrants and those with little or no education need the most protection for their human rights.