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In 2023, 70% said ensuring that supply chains run through countries that are friendly towards Australia, even if it means higher prices.

Question Supply chains

Now thinking about global trade and the supply chains through which Australia sources goods from other countries. In your opinion, which of the following statements should be a higher priority for Australia?

Responses from 2023.

  1. 0%
  2. 25%
  3. 50%
  4. 75%
Ensuring that supply chains run through countries that are friendly towards Australia, even if it means higher prices
70
Keeping prices as low as possible, even if it means that supply chains run through countries that are unfriendly towards Australia
29

Lowy Institute Poll results on this issue are almost identical to those from polling conducted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in the United States in November 2022. Asked a similar question, seven in ten Americans (69%) say the United States should prioritise ensuring supply chains run through friendly countries, even if this means higher prices. Only three in ten (29%) say the United States should prioritise keeping prices as low as possible, even if it means supply chains run through unfriendly countries.

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2026 observation

When asked about supply chains, 68% of Australians say they would prefer supply chains to ‘run through countries that are friendly to Australia, even if it means higher prices’. Only 29% of Australians say they want to ‘keep prices as low as possible, even if it means that supply chains run through countries that are unfriendly towards Australia’.

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