Tag: survey
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Lost: one moral compass. Please return (if it exists) to Australian business community
Scan the business pages each day and you will see a plethora of companies which have tied their reputations to a stake and lit a match. Star Entertainment, PwC, Qantas, CS Energy, AustralianSuper are, or have been, in strife recently but you could swap those names out with another list in a month’s time. The…
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Aussies behaving badly: Survey shows we’re the most likely to play up when travelling
The annual report on global travel trends released late on Thursday by the Mastercard Economics Institute, a unit of the credit card giant, found Australian tourists spend 19 per cent of their holiday cash on those activities, compared with a global average of 12 per cent. “There is a difference in preferences, when folks from…
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Graduates say their HECS debts are making it tougher to buy a home
Futurity Investment Group surveyed more than 1000 people who had either completed their degree, were currently studying, had deferred a degree or withdrew from study. The average HECS-Help debt is $22,636, the study found, with the bulk of graduates carrying their debt into their 30s and over half still carrying their debt into their 40s.…
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Journalists admit to self-censorship over defamation fears
Just under 50 per cent of more than 1000 journalists surveyed reported the fear of legal action prevented them publishing certain material. Results from the anonymous Medianet survey also showed 41 per cent of journalists believed defamation laws in Australia were too strict for the media. Respondents felt editors, publishers and media lawyers were “highly…
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Turns out doing God’s work in Qld’s sin capital is a nice little earner
The city known for surf, sun, sand – and maybe a little sin — has now put a dollar figure on spirituality and the contribution groups of faith make to the community. Mayor Tom Tate said the report from the NAYBA group, which describes itself as ‘a network of Christians from across the breadth of…
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Old before our time: Rental crisis forcing Australians into aged care prematurely
A national survey of 500 people aged over 50 conducted by Anglicare Australia found significant barriers to ageing at home which could be addressed by federal policy reform. Almost 90 per cent of people surveyed want to remain at home as they age but for a majority of renters this is unrealistic due to Australia’s…
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Small businesses pay for wages rises through lifting prices
The survey found that lifting wages was a key concern for the majority of small businesses, with 84 per cent flagging a boost to staff salaries as a top priority. Soaring living costs have been outstripping wages growth, with real wages falling 3.5 per cent when measured against headline inflation in the June quarter. However,…
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The great dilemma for national parks: Serve tourists or conserve wildlife
Researchers from James Cook University spent years interviewing managers from 41 protected areas around the state and say all are suffering the effects of inadequate, shrinking budgets. The result has been a trade-off, with biodiversity management losing out to the maintenance of infrastructure including toilets, campsites and walking tracks. “Typically, managers lack sufficient resources to carry…
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How the rate of Covid-19 infections was even worse than we thought
The study estimated at least 17 per cent of Australian adults were recently infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, at the end of February this year. Based on blood survey results, taken from 5185 de-identified samples of Australian donors aged 18 to 89 years, the proportion of infected people was at least twice as…
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ScoNo: Voters who turned their backs on Morrison are now warming to Albo
More than one in three people under 55 who had previously voted for the coalition in the 2019 federal election ditched the party at this year’s poll. The coalition also lost voters with higher levels of education in droves. A survey of more than 3500 voters by the Australian National University found people felt more…