Category: National Identity
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What do Australians think about climate change?
A near consensus of climate scientists who publish in refereed journals, approximately 97 per cent according to some estimates (see Cook et al, 2013; 2016) maintain climate change has mainly human (anthropogenic) causes. However, public opinion does not always reflect scientific findings. While approximately two thirds of Australians agree climate change has mainly human causes,…
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National Identity
In 2012, 5000 citizens were randomly selected from the electoral roll. 1636 of them returned a completed questionnaire. What questions were asked? Questions included: Selected findings Respondents were asked how important some things were for being “truly Australian”. The following graph shows the results of some of these items. Being able to speak English was…