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Feelings of safety
Australians’ sense of safety has returned to a Covid-era historic low, with only 51% saying they feel either ‘safe’ or ‘very safe’ in relation to world events. This roughly equals the reading in 2020, when the Covid pandemic swept the world and feelings of safety plummeted to a record low. The proportion who say they feel ‘very safe’ this year remains extremely low, at 5%.
This is a striking contrast to the high watermark of 2010 (92% overall levels of safety), when four in ten Australians said they felt ‘very safe’.
