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Good morning and welcome to our live rolling coverage of the latest news from around Australia and the world. It’s Thursday, November 5 . I’m Ellie Busby, and I will be bringing you the news as it happens this morning.
Here are our top stories so far today:
More Australians than ever think immigration levels are too high while confidence in multiculturalism has dipped – a hardening of views driven by people who now say they would vote for One Nation.
Pauline Hanson’s supporters are also the people whose trust in government and politicians is plunging. Anti-establishment views are on the rise, but are more common among Australian-born voters, home owners and people without university education.
The Scanlon Foundation has been taking the temperature of Australian attitudes and social cohesion since 2007. Its latest report with the Australian National University surveyed more than 10,000 people to shed fresh insights into how Australian society has responded to last year’s Bondi attack , the war in the Middle East and worsening economic conditions.
The authors said their findings indicated long-term strains on social cohesion had been amplified by more recent discord. While Australians had been reporting weaker feelings of belonging and declining community involvement for most of this century, this has been compounded in the last three years by sharp falls in support for immigration, diversity and institutions.
Read more: Australia’s immigration backlash goes mainstream – and Hanson reaps the rewards
Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Wednesday (Israel time) accepted as legally binding the certified results from last week’s parliamentary elections and said he would begin consultations with party representatives on the formation of a new government.
Herzog’s acceptance of the results as valid dealt a blow to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s effort to discredit the vote in which his religious-nationalist bloc lost its majority in the Israeli parliament, or Knesset, while Arab-led parties made historic gains.
Netanyahu and his supporters have repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims that the Arab-led parties had “stolen” the election, possibly with foreign assistance.
The Israeli president is required now to sit down with various party leaders to determine who to name as prime minister-designate – a process that could potentially bring Netanyahu’s opponents to power.
Good morning and welcome to our live rolling coverage of the latest news from around Australia and the world. It’s Thursday, November 5 . I’m Ellie Busby, and I will be bringing you the news as it happens this morning.
Here are our top stories so far today:
