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Global research company Ipsos today announced a unique partnership with Indigenous communications and research company Winangali to jointly conduct market and social research studies including evaluation and community consultation and engagement.

New Ipsos research finds there has been a small drop among Australians saying things in Australia are on the wrong track (now 55%, down from 57% in October).

September 2015 was the two year anniversary of the Coalition’s first term. Given this, we felt it sensible to examine how much the top issues facing Australia have changed in the time since Mr Abbott took the keys to the Lodge.

Victorians continue to be more concerned about ‘Crime’ than the balance of Australians and are currently more worried about ‘Drug abuse’ than ever before. These connected concerns have an impact on how we see ourselves, how we engage with our community and how we sell the state to the world.

Leading global research company Ipsos unveiled ten “mega trends” that will shape the world’s future, while a panel of experts explored future societal trends in Australia at a special event in Sydney last night to celebrate Ipsos’s 40th anniversary.

It seems that discussion and focus on federal politics and the Government’s performance has dominated NSW citizen’s focus as third quarter results for our NSW Issues Monitor show little movement from the previous quarter. The top four issues remain relatively unchanged with healthcare remaining in top position (41% – up 1%), housing in second (39%), cost of living in third position (28% – down 1%), and unemployment in fourth (26% – down 2%). Transport was also steady at fifth position (23%).

We asked 3,385 Victorians (12,638 Australians) to select the attributes they believe are important in making somewhere a good place to live. We also asked them to rate how well our state and their local areas performed on all attributes.

As a new State Government settles into its first term we can see that Queenslanders are slightly re-shuffling their priorities and concerns. During the last few months of the dying Liberal government, Queenslanders indicated strong concern about unemployment and cost of living.

“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do”. That’s a quote from Michael Porter – a preeminent authority on strategic implementation. While governments want to deliver-deliver-deliver, recent history (think Rudd circa 2008) has shown us that it is in their best interest to do a lot well, than do everything because, inevitably, history will refer to everything as being too much.