New research shows older voters believe immigration is crunching housing supply, while young voters blame high interest rates and low wage growth.
- Professor of Sociology, Macquarie University
With Labor re-elected with a thumping majority, voters at the conservative end of the Coalition are drifting away, spurred by anxieties about immigration.
About one in four international students were in severe financial stress just before COVID hit, and soaring rents and record low vacancies are likely to make their plight even worse now.
Most Australians do not believe religious institutions should be allowed to discriminate against people based on the teachings of their faith.
Of the students with jobs, 60% lost them and and two-thirds of the rest had hours cut. As they struggled, and often failed, to get rents and tuition fees reduced, precarious lives became even harder.
