We’re sad and scared

ONE in two Australian women are too scared to walk alone in their own suburbs at night, making, by our own admission, us one of the least safe places in the developed world.

We’re also becoming a meaner country, giving less to charity, our incarceration rate is twice that of Europe, and more Australians now die of suicide than on the roads or from terrorism, violence or many diseases.

A new report by a Community Council of Australia group representing 600,000 charities and not-for-profit organisations into the kind of country Australians want to live in has found we are going backwards on many measures.