Multilingual representation in news, media helps foster audience sense of belonging: SBS, Uni of Canberra study

Multicultural audiences across Australia who feel represented in news media tend to trust it more, a report from SBS and the University of Canberra has found.

The report, called “Sense of belonging among multilingual audiences in Australia”, surveyed around 1,000 respondents across Australia, providing questions in English and in-language for five of the country’s largest language groups – Arabic, Cantonese, Italian, Mandarin and Vietnamese – each chosen to represent a range of migration recency and English fluency.