Social cohesion and participation

Table B4: Proportion of survey respondents who ‘agree’ or ‘strongly agree’ that accepting immigrants from many different countries makes Australia stronger, 2018 to 2025¹⁷

Table B5: Number of complaints made to the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission under the Racial and Religious Tolerance Act, 2014–15 to 2024–25¹⁸

Table B6: Number of complaints made to the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission in relation to discrimination on the basis of race and religious belief under the Equal Opportunity Act, 2013–14 to 2024–25¹⁹

Table B7: Proportion of Victorians from a non–English speaking background (NESB) who feel multiculturalism at least sometimes makes life better in their area, 2014 to 2024²¹

Table B8: Proportion of adults who felt they experienced discrimination or were treated unfairly by others in the past year because of their skin colour, nationality, race, ethnic group or identifying as Aboriginal²³

Footnotes

¹⁷Source: The Scanlon Foundation’s Mapping Social Cohesion Survey reports. The surveys are conducted annually. Results collected earlier than 2018 are not included for comparison because a different survey mode was used.

¹⁸Source: Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission. The data is collected annually.

¹⁹Source: Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission. The data is collected annually.

²⁰Lockdowns during COVID-19 impacted the number of complaints made. The 2022–23 figure is consistent with pre-COVID levels.

²¹Source: Department of Health, Victorian Population Health Survey 2024.

²²The Victorian Population Health Survey was not conducted in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey resumed in 2022.

²³Source: Department of Health, Victorian Population Health Survey 2024. The language of this heading has changed from the previous report.