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Leading article Australia

Scared

2 July 2022

9:00 AM

2 July 2022

9:00 AM

In news that won’t necessarily come as a surprise, a recent poll by the Lowy Institute claims that nearly half of all Australians feel unsafe or insecure; only 53 per cent of us feel ‘safe’ or ‘very safe’. This is in stark contrast to back in the period from 2005-10 when nearly everyone, well around 90 per cent of us at least, felt safe most or all the time.

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