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About the author
Natasha Kassam
Natasha Kassam was Director of the Lowy Institute's Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Program from 2019 to 2022, directing the annual Lowy Institute Poll and researching China’s politics, Taiwan, and Australia-China relations.
After a year in which the bushfire crisis and the Covid-19 outbreak took a heavy toll on Australians’ sense of security, their feelings of safety appear to have rebounded this year from the record lows of 2020. In 2021, seven in ten Australians (70%) say they feel ‘very safe’ or ‘safe’. This represents an increase of 20 points since last year, but is still short of pre-pandemic levels. This year’s result is 22 points below the high point of feelings of safety in 2008 and 2010.
