Importance of Relationships with Other Countries
Q. How important is it for Australia to have a close relationship with the following nations?
Very important | Quite important | Not very important | Don’t know | Very Important April 10 | Change | ||
United States | 56% | 34% | 5% | 4% | 59% | -3 | |
New Zealand | 54% | 36% | 6% | 5% | 56% | -2 | |
China | 45% | 44% | 5% | 6% | 51% | -6 | |
United Kingdom | 44% | 43% | 9% | 4% | 46% | -2 | |
Japan | 30% | 53% | 10% | 7% | 40% | -10 | |
Indonesia | 30% | 48% | 15% | 7% | 39% | -9 | |
India | 24% | 45% | 23% | 8% | 27% | -3 | |
Germany | 15% | 43% | 34% | 9% | 18% | -3 | |
South Africa | 12% | 35% | 43% | 10% | 12% | – |
More than half the respondents think it is very important to have close relationships with the United States (56%) and New Zealand (54%) and just under half think it is very important to have a close relationship with China (45%) and United Kingdom (44%).
A close relationship with the United Sates is considered very important by 65% of Liberal/National voters and 62% of Labor voters but only 37% of Greens voters. Greens voters consider relations with New Zealand (58%) and China (47%) more important.
Since this question was asked in April, the overall rating of the importance of relations with other countries has dropped – especially for Japan (-10%) and Indonesia (-9%).

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