Young people know too little about how our democracy works, and we fail to teach democracy to immigrants.

According to the Australian Historical Association submission to the Inquiry into Civics, ‘We are not producing students with a good understanding of our democratic system.’ The Chinese Australian Forum said that according to a Lowy Institute survey ‘only 36 per cent of Chinese Australians said democracy was preferable to any other kind of government, in comparison, 71 per cent of the Australian population preferred democracy…’ This increased to 48 per cent in 2022.