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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 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.