Who Aussies are most confident in
COVID-19 has been a "shot in the arm" for confidence in the federal government, but Australians retain more trust in its state and territory equivalents, new analysis shows. Confidence in the federal government has almost doubled to 54.3 per cent since February 2020, according to an Australian National University survey of more than 3000 Australians. It was in the doldrums at just 27.3 per cent in February 2020, when Prime Minister Scott Morrison faced a backlash over his response to the Black Summer bushfires. But a new crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, prompted a "major U-turn" in perc...