Relentless cost-of-living pressure, rising interest rates, uncertainty about the direction of the economy and growing concern about inequality has undermined Australia’s sense of social cohesion, according to authoritative new research.
After a polarising voice referendum campaign and amid rising community tensions over the war in the Middle East, the latest Mapping Social Cohesion Report puts the Scanlon-Monash Index of Social Cohesion at its lowest ebb since the survey began 16 years ago.
The social cohesion index provides a barometer of social wellbeing, measuring belonging, worth, participation, acceptance and rejection, social inclusion and justice. The measure declined by four points over the past 12 months, hitting the lowest result on record. Since November 2020 – the peak of social cohesion recorded during the Covid-19 pandemic – the index has plummeted 13 points.
sighs I never actually said any of the things you just claimed and nor was I mounting a defence of capitalism. I just simply make the point that communism isn’t the light on hill that the original commenter seems to think it is, which is easily demonstrated.
If only you could just as easily demonstrate where exactly the person you responded to seems to think communism is the ‘light on the hill’…
It’s certainly implied with a later comment in this thread.