Donald Trump may be hugely popular in the United States but most Australians don't want him to become president.
More than three quarters of Australians would prefer his Democrat opponent Hillary Clinton to move into the White House after Americans go to the polls in November, a Lowy Institute poll shows.
Just 11 per cent back the controversial billionaire Republican for president.
Australians are turning away from Mr Trump as Mrs Clinton pulls ahead in US opinion polls.
Meanwhile, Mr Trump has fired his campaign manager following clashes with longtime Republican party officials.
His campaign for president has sparked plenty of controversy, particularly his pledges to build a wall on the Mexican border and stop Muslims moving to the US.
He also found himself under attack for bragging about "being right on radical Islamic terrorism" just hours after a gunman killed 50 people in a gay nightclub in Orlando.
Lowy Institute executive director Michael Fullilove says he doesn't think Mr Trump's style sits well with the more laconic attitudes of Australians.
"I think he embodies many of the meaner qualities of America rather than the greater qualities," he told AAP on Tuesday.
"Trump's carnival barker persona doesn't hold much appeal here."
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has previously blasted Mr Trump's "extreme views" and predicted he would be "very difficult" to work with as president.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has played a more diplomatic bat, saying it would be contrary to Australia's national interests to comment on the US presidential race.
However other world leaders including British Prime Minister David Cameron, Germany's Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel and former French president Nicolas Sarkozy have all criticised Mr Trump.
The caution among world leaders is linked to concerns about future US foreign policy under a Trump presidency given his aversion to international alliances and desire for America to play a smaller role in global affairs.
Mr Fullilove said that caution was reflected in the Lowy poll, which found that 84 per cent of Australians believe Mrs Clinton would do a better job than Mr Trump in handling US foreign policy.
Six out of 10 would also be less likely to support Australia taking military action alongside the US if Mr Trump is president.
Mr Fullilove described that finding as remarkable given Australia is the only country to fight alongside the US in every major conflict during the 20th and 21st centuries.
The latest poll results come after the Lowy Institute found in April that support for the US alliance had slipped and almost half of Australians believed that we should distance ourselves from the US if Mr Trump is elected president.
Despite how the wider public feels, senior federal MPs are sure they'll be able to work with a Trump administration.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says she would work very closely with the next Secretary of State to make sure the US stayed an "indispensable power" in the region.
Governments had to deal with the world that was, not the world they wished existed.
"It is incumbent on the Australian government to deal productively and effectively with whomever the American people in their wisdom choose to be their president," she told the National Press Club in Canberra.
Opposition spokeswoman Tanya Plibersek said it wasn't the place of Australians to pass judgment on Mr Trump.
"The result will be what it will be and we'll be able to work with him," she said.
But she didn't see a problem with objecting to some of Mr Trump's "wrong ideas".
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