Australian voter support for Prime Minister John Howard's decision to go to war in Iraq is in freefall, according to a latest opinion poll published Saturday.

Even the ruling Coalition supporters who backed the 2003 invasion of Iraq are now questioning the value of the protracted conflict, shows a Newspoll conducted exclusively for the Weekend Australian newspaper, one of Australia's leading newspapers.

Two-thirds of Australians, about 66 percent, now believe it was not worth going to war, up from 58 percent a year ago.

Just 27 percent believe it was worth it, compared with 32 percent a year ago.

Only fewer than half of the Coalition supporters, 43 percent, now believe the Iraq war was worth it, a sharp drop from 50 percent last December and 63 percent early last year.

Australia has 1320 troops in and around Iraq, with 450 troops in the southern province of Al Muthanna protecting Japanese engineers and training Iraqi forces. Howard has repeatedly said Australia will not "cut and run" from Iraq.

Source: Xinhua