Australian Human Rights Commission Submission to the UN Committee On The Elimination Of Racial Discrimination, 30 October 2017 prevent and reduce the incidence of racism, and promoting the Strategy at relevant opportunities.40 Recommendation 10: That the Australian Government continue to support the anti-racism and other educative work of the Commission, including the National Anti-Racism Partnership and Strategy. 4 Racial discrimination in Australia Multicultural Australia 46. Australia has experienced successive waves of mass immigration since the end of the Second World War. An estimated 26% of the Australian population was born overseas and about 49% of the Australian population has at least one parent who was born overseas.41 The two largest source countries of permanent settlement are currently China and India.42 47. Australia has been highly successful in the economic and civic integration of immigrants. In 2015 the ‘foreign-born’ unemployment rate was lower than the ‘native-born’ rate, and was the fifth lowest in the OECD.43 The children of immigrants constitute a higher proportion of people in highly skilled occupations than the children of ‘native-born’ parents.44 48. In the Scanlon Foundation’s Australians Today survey, almost two-thirds of migrant respondents indicated a sense of belonging in Australia to a ‘great’ or ‘moderate’ extent, while only 9% of recent arrivals indicated no sense of belonging in Australia ‘at all’.45 49. The Commission further notes that migrants to Australia have a high uptake of citizenship.46 The national Au@2015 survey found that 82% of those migrants who had been resident in Australia for between 15 and 24 years had become citizens. The highest take-up of citizenship for those who had been resident in Australia for between five and nine years was by migrants from South Sudan (91%), Iraq (89%), and the Philippines (83%).47 Racial discrimination generally 50. Despite Australia’s success as a multicultural nation, racial discrimination continues to be present in Australian society. 51. The Commission draws the Committee’s attention to the Scanlon Foundation’s 2016 ‘Mapping Social Cohesion’ Survey report (2016 Scanlon Survey).48 The 2016 Scanlon Survey brings together a series of detailed surveys on social cohesion, immigration and population issues in Australia. 52. According to the 2016 Scanlon Survey, those of non-English speaking backgrounds in the Australian population reported the highest experience of discrimination, 27% compared to 17% of those born in Australia and 19% of those born overseas in English speaking countries.49 12