Australians aren’t joining in any more – and it appears to be having big political consequences

Participation in social, community and civic groups fell by between eight and 10 percentage points from 2006 to 2019

• Josh Nicholas
• The Guardian

Australians, like many around the world, seem to be becoming more civically and politically detached.

We don’t join or participate in local sports clubs, religious organisations or political parties at anything like the rate we used to.

And this atomisation appears to be having political consequences – final polling in the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum showed large differences in voting intention by whether people were a member of social and civic organisations.

So what does the…

• Australians aren’t joining…