Australian support for Donald Trump is collapsing, new polling shows
The latest Capital Brief/DemosAU poll shows Australians want the government to keep its distance from Trump as the Middle East conflict deepens.
More than half of Australians want their government to distance itself from US President Donald Trump, as Australia warns it will not help reopen the Strait of Hormuz without a permanent ceasefire with Iran.
The US attack on Iran, launched alongside Israel in February, has triggered the world’s biggest oil shock in decades and sent domestic fuel prices soaring.
An exclusive Capital Brief/DemosAU poll lays bare growing scepticism about the US–Australia alliance, on which Canberra has pinned its defence strategy, as well as a collapse in Australians’ support for Trump since his inauguration last year.
After initially supporting the attack, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has taken a sharper tone towards Trump, whose rhetoric has grown increasingly aggressive as Tehran’s reprisals choke the strategically vital strait.
