Author: Rod Lamberts

This report was initiated by Dr Rod Lamberts of CPAS and funded by the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science (DIIS). It both updates and expands upon the ANU Poll Australian national survey of public opinion about science Dr Lamberts and colleagues published in 2010. It also provides original Australian data to allow for international comparisons on some key questions from a US national survey published by the Pew Research Center in 2015. Overall, these results show that the majority of people are positively inclined towards science (and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) more broadly) and are having some kind of science-related conversations regularly. Further information and data tables are available from here.