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Rural & Agriculture
8 November, 2026
‘Race to the bottom' on migration hurts rural Australia
MIGRANTS are wrongly blamed for fraying social cohesion in the bush, with cost-of-living, isolation and populist politics stoking anti-government views. Migrants working as doctors, nurses, carers, scientists and farmers in rural Australia wrongly cop the blame for a complex "vicious cycle" fraying social cohesion, research shows.
Migration is often blamed for other worries that are harder to identify, a regional think tank says.
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