2023 observation
Australians remain overwhelmingly in favour of using aid to fund a range of objectives in Pacific Islands countries. Almost all (92%) support providing aid for disaster relief, unchanged from 2022.
The vast majority of Australians favour providing aid ‘to help prevent China from increasing its influence in the Pacific’ (84%) as well as providing aid to the Pacific for ‘long-term economic development’ (83%), both steady on last year. Similarly, eight in ten (80%) support providing Covid-19 vaccines to Pacific Islands countries, although this fell six points from last year. Support for climate-related aid to the Pacific remains steady at 76%.