A look at Australia
To have a more constructive and courageous national conversation, it’s important to understand the complete context. Here, you’ll find a national view of The Perfect Candidate’s data. You can explore the nation’s top concerns and see how they compare through different lenses such as age, gender, state and region.
Concerns by electorate
Discover the top concerns of each electorate and how well the party or independent that currently represents them is aligned – the darker the dot, the more aligned they are.
Alignment
Party
NSW
VIC
QLD
WA
SA
TAS
ACT
NT
Concerns by age and gender
Is age but a number or do our greatest concerns vary from generation to generation? The chart below unpacks what matters most by age and gender.
Keeping day to day living costs down
- Keeping day to day living costs down
- Improving health services and hospitals
- Open and honest government
- Global warming and climate change
- Managing the economy
- Improving education
- Reducing crime and maintaining law and order
- Reducing unemployment
- Managing immigration and population growth
- Reducing the taxes you and your family pay
- The needs of families
- Australia’s ageing population
- Fair workplace and employment regulations
- Defence and national security
- Reducing the number of illegal immigrants
- Improving business in Australia
- Keeping interest rates down
- The needs of people outside cities
Women
Men
Source: Roy Morgan Single Source, Dec 2018
Concerns by region
Below, you can explore how the concerns of regional Australia vary from those in metropolitan areas.
Capital Cities
Regional
Source: Roy Morgan Single Source, Dec 2018
Concerns by state
Is the east concerned about the same things as the west? Or do the issues change as much as the weather? Discover the percentage of people in each state (or territory) that rates a concern in their top three.
Keeping day to day living costs down
- Keeping day to day living costs down
- Improving health services and hospitals
- Open and honest government
- Global warming and climate change
- Managing the economy
- Improving education
- Reducing crime and maintaining law and order
- Reducing unemployment
- Managing immigration and population growth
- Reducing the taxes you and your family pay
- The needs of families
- Australia’s ageing population
- Fair workplace and employment regulations
- Defence and national security
- Reducing the number of illegal immigrants
- Improving business in Australia
- Keeping interest rates down
- The needs of people outside cities
Source: Roy Morgan Single Source, Dec 2018