Alex Oliver: What do the numbers say? Australian attitudes to foreign affairs.

Alex Oliver is the Director of Research at the Lowy Institute where she oversees the annual Lowy Institute Poll.Alex in an expert in foreign affairs and has authored several major studies on Australia’s diplomacy. She is a prolific author for international press including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Wall Street Journal and BBC.com and for all major Australian publications.Misha Zelinsky caught up with Alex for a chinwag about how the Australian public see the world, the politics of climate change, what’s driving attitudes on immigration, why Aussies are so worried about the CCP, how we can lift gender equality in the foreign policy world and just what the hell is going on with modern polling results.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.