Rising living costs and financial uncertainty has returned the economy to the top of Australians’ worries.
Despite the increased sense of financial insecurity, this has not translated into a backlash against immigration. Since 2018, the number of people believing immigration makes Australia stronger has risen from 63 per cent to 78 per cent. The proportion who agreed that immigrants were good for the economy has jumped from 74 per cent to 87 per cent over the same time.
But in a cautionary note, financial uncertainty has flowed through to falling rates of national pride and sense of belonging in Australia, and are now lower than at any point in 15 years of surveys. The report’s author, James O’Donnell of Australian National University, said the decline in national pride and belonging was widely felt across society, affecting both Australian-born and foreign-born cohorts, affluent and lower socioeconomic groups and Labor, Coalition and Greens voters.
“As the community and government response to the pandemic is scaled back, it is not unexpected that some indicators of social cohesion are also dropping back,” Dr O’Donnell said.
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