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Issues Monitor September 2013: National
As the Abbott led Liberal-National coalition settles in for its first term, ‘Healthcare’ (41%) and ‘Cost of Living’ (33%) continue their reign as the most important issues facing our nation. While relative concern for these issues is subject to some fluctuation, only twice in the Gillard era did another issue make its way into the top two concerns.
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Issues Monitor September 2014: National
Anniversaries are observed, some with joy others with sadness. In a political cycle, anniversaries are used as pause points; an opportunity to compare where we are against where we were and where we are against where we were promised to be.
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Issues Monitor September 2014: Victoria
As we close on November’s election, the issues of most concern to Victorians’ have remained largely unchanged for some time. Anxiety around ‘Healthcare’ continues to lead the way, a few lengths ahead of the peloton; a pack that includes relative newcomer but now mainstay ‘Unemployment’, ‘Crime’, ‘Cost of Living’ and our (uniquely Victorian) worries around ‘Transport’.
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Issues Monitor June 2014: Queensland
In the second quarter of 2014 we saw Queenslanders continue their recent focus on unemployment and increase their focus on the economy and the cost of living.
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Issues Monitor June 2014: New South Wales
In the second quarter of 2014 we saw the NSW community return to a more familiar headspace with some reshuffling of the issues of concern that saw healthcare return to the top spot (44%) in terms of the being the most important issue facing NSW. This was then followed be a cluster of three issues, namely cost of living (30%), housing (30%) and crime (29%), with unemployment rounding out the top five (25%), marginally ahead of transport (24%) and education (24%).
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Issues Monitor June 2014: National
For most of Prime Minister Abbott’s first term, ‘The Economy’ has been the top issue facing the Australia. A unique scenario, given Prime Ministers’ Gillard and Rudd presided over an environment where ‘Healthcare’ and, for a time, ‘Cost of Living’ topped the list.
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Issues Monitor March 2014: Queensland
The first quarter of 2014 saw the top issues facing Queensland converge somewhat, with healthcare again topping the list followed by cost of living, crime, unemployment, and petrol prices.
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Issues Monitor March 2014: New South Wales
In the last quarter of 2013 and the first quarter of 2014 we saw community focus on crime and drug abuse rise sharply, with both reaching three year highs in late 2013 and continuing to rise in the first quarter of 2014.
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Issues Monitor March 2014: Western Australia
Despite the Coalition Government’s looming first budget, the economy is not a pressing issue for Western Australians.
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Issues Monitor March 2014: National
As the Coalition prepares to deliver its first budget, ‘The Economy’ continues to be rated by Australians as the most important issue nationally, selected by over two in five (41%) as one of the top three issues facing the nation. ‘The Economy’ has been the nation’s greatest concern since November 2013, and, as such, it is safe to say we are well entrenched in a new paradigm of concern, largely driven by a final and perhaps overdue recognition that the global economy runs in both directions.