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Article: Dissatisfaction with immigration grows.(Statistical table)
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- People and Place
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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INTRODUCTION
Over the last 18 years attitudes to immigration in Australia have changed dramatically. In 1993 67 per cent of the electorate thought the intake too high while in the early years of this century this proportion halved to around a third. Now dissatisfaction is rising again. This article describes what has happened, analyses the social bases for both opposition and support, and outlines the recent policy changes which are taking immigration to record levels.
PUBLIC OPINION SINCE 1990
Immigration was deeply unpopular in the early 1990s. Figure 1 is based on responses to the post-election Australian Election Studies (AES) from 1990 to ...