Sydney - Sixty per cent of Australians think that during the two-term Bush administration the world has become more dangerous and more than 70 per cent want Barrack Obama to beat John McCain and become the next president of the United States, a Sydney-based political pollster said Monday.

UMR Research, which polled 1,000 people, found only 9 per cent believed President George W Bush had made the world safer.

The survey found 72 per cent preferred Democratic Senator Obama with only 9 per cent favouring Republican rival Senator John McCain for the presidential election. (dpa)