Private security guard numbers are increasing.
“Some residents have laced their fences and gates with barbed wire, and security companies are reporting a spike in demand for surveillance systems...It's not something we've been accustomed to in Australia, and but I think when you see the levels of inequality and a sense in some communities that they're being left out of what you could call the Australia Dream … then you'll increasingly get this kind of outcome."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-20/private-security-numbers-increase-in-australia/102496574
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