CANBERRA, June 21 (Xinhua) -- The percentage of strong supporters of Australia's alliance with the United States has dropped 9 percentage points from last year to the lowest level since 2007, a poll by Australia's leading think tank, the Lowy Institute for International Policy, showed.
The results of the poll was released on Tuesday by the think tank, which conducted two nationally representative telephone surveys between Feb. 26 and March 15, 2016, and between June 1 and 9, 2016, covering 1,202 and 1,002 Australian adults respectively.
The number of Australians who say the alliance is "very" or "fairly" important for Australia's security has dropped 9 points since 2015 to 71 percent, and is the lowest level of support since 2007.
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