Australian Politics and Policy - Senior, 2019a

Australian Politics and Policy
Table 1 ‘Equal opportunities for migrants gone too far’, by background (%)
1990 1993 1996 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010 2013 2016
Age
18–24 34 46 52 35 40 18 19 42 31 14
25–34 28 46 46 34 36 26 24 30 34 30
35–44 21 43 40 33 34 25 28 42 35 40
45–54 15 40 43 36 34 27 32 42 40 33
55–64 15 41 42 29 31 27 28 34 41 40
65+ 18 46 46 31 33 29 27 35 39 41
Education
No qualification 26 49 50 36 42 28 30 41 43 39
Non-tertiary
qualification
19 46 46 37 37 33 34 44 46 46
Tertiary qualification 9 24 28 19 16 15 13 23 21 20
Vote
Liberal 20 47 50 31 37 33 32 45 45 40
Labor 21 41 36 30 32 21 25 31 31 32
National 30 50 59 41 39 31 43 65 47 47
Greens 39 39 17 9 15 25 12 9
Source: 1990–2016 Australian Election Studies, https://australianelectionstudy.org/.
The question was, ‘Do you think the following change that has been happening in
Australiaovertheyearshasgonetoofar,notgonefarenough,orisitaboutright?’‘Equal
opportunities for migrants’.
2001 and 2010. This shows that younger age groups are not always supportive of
multiculturalism, as is often assumed, with younger age groups considered to be
more progressive than older age groups.
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