The results of The Mapping Social Cohesion survey that were released earlier this week show that Australians opinions towards immigration remained the same as in 2007. This is despite the Global economic downturn which most experts agree would normally have an adverse affect on the attitudes.
Of the 3,800 people questioned in the survey only 37% believed that the number of immigrants coming to Australia was too high.
The survey did outline however the potential for unease in poorer areas. Nearly 70% of Australian’s living in areas with high immigrant density thought immigration was too high.
The Surveys author Professor Andrew Marcus of Monash University said “The potential is that if the economy goes sour and we find ourselves in a situation of 10-15% unemployment, we may have a different outcome in areas of high immigrant concentration.”
Professor Marcus was however was shocked to see that attitudes had not toughened by the current economic situation as it did during the recession of 1991 when anti immigration feeling reached a 30 year high.
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