Australians’ trust in politicians and democracy hits an all-time low: new research

Over the past four years, we have conducted a range of attitudinal surveys with the Social Research Institute at Ipsos on the relationship between trust in the political system and attitudes towards democracy in…

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Our latest research, conducted in July 2018 (prior to the Liberal Party’s leadership spill), includes a quantitative survey of a representative sample of 20 focus groups and 1,021 Australians from a wide range of…

We understood political trust in this survey as “keeping promises and agreements”.

Our findings should give all democrats pause for thought.

We continue to find compelling evidence of an…

• Australians’ trust in…