Q. Which of the following statements do you most agree with?
Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote Other | Mar 2015 | |||
Multiculturalism and cultural diversity has enriched the social and economic lives of all Australians | 55% | 59% | 57% | 84% | 29% | 55% | ||
Multiculturalism has failed and caused social division and dangerous extremism in Australia | 32% | 31% | 31% | 11% | 60% | 33% | ||
Don’t know | 13% | 10% | 13% | 5% | 11% | 12% |
A majority (55%) agree more that “Multiculturalism and cultural diversity has enriched the social and economic lives of all Australians” while 32% agree more that “Multiculturalism has failed and caused social division and dangerous extremism in Australia”.
Those most likely to agree that multiculturalism has enriched Australia were aged under 35 (62%), Greens voters (84%) and university educated (72%).
Those most likely to agree that multiculturalism has failed were aged 65+ (47%) and other party voters (60%).
Overall results were unchanged since this question was asked in March 2015.