Australia Talks is back in 2021 to discover what Australians are thinking and feeling and how our lives are going at this remarkable time in history.
This year the Australia Talks National Survey was even bigger than last time.
The ABC polled more than 60,000 Australians across every State and Territory and federal electorate.
The ABC asked almost 600 questions not found in the Census, covering issues big and small to learn more about what matters to us all.
• Should the coronavirus vaccine be mandatory?
• Do you like your boss?
• Is racism prevalent in Australian sport?
• Should politicians resign if they lie to the public?
• Are allegations of sexual assault almost always true?
• How often do you change your bedsheets?
Go to abc.net.au/AustraliaTalks now to answer a selection of the national survey questions and get instant, personalised results showing how your views compare to those of your fellow Aussies.
Over the next four weeks, across ABC TV, Radio and online, the broadcaster will discuss the fascinating key themes emerging from the survey.
The major findings will be revealed in a special TV event on Monday 21 June hosted by Annabel Crabb and Nazeem Hussain and featuring entertaining and thought-provoking contributions from some much-loved Australians.
Professor Alex Haslam from the University of Queensland, who was part of the academic advisory committee for the project, says that since the first Australia Talks survey in 2019, “I would characterise some of the changes here as close to seismic.”
He says the survey shows “a real strengthening of concern, across the country and across the political spectrum” when it comes to issues like climate change and inequality.
“At one level this can be linked to specific events (for example, the treatment of women in Parliament), but it can also be argued that the pandemic has brought this into greater focus — not only by highlighting inequality but also by increasing it,” he says.
“While, methodologically, we can’t pin any of the changes we see in the data on particular events, we can say that the dial has moved substantially on a lot of issues.”