Australians were less engaged in their communities, lonelier, unhappier and less satisfied with life, even before the present turmoil. But there is cause for hope.
Latest data suggests that in Australia, face-to-face and other contact with family and friends have been declining over the last decade and a half, along with participation and volunteering in social and community activities. Photo: Creative Christians/Unsplash
Australians were less engaged in their communities, lonelier, unhappier and less satisfied with life, even before the present turmoil. But there is cause for hope.
Look around the world and you would think the world is burning and Australian society is burning with it.
Wars and conflict in the Middle East, Ukraine, Africa and most other continents, deep political polarisation, racial tension and a prolonged cost-of-living crisis stand out at the international level and combine with and propel homegrown racial hatred and violence toward Jewish, Muslim, Indigenous and Indian Australians (and almost everyone else).
