Heartbeat of Australia survey: inform us about your neighborhood | The Canberra Instances

What issues most to you in your local people in 2026?

Is it an excellent place to dwell with a vibrant future? Or do you’ve got considerations about housing or crime or the consequences of local weather change?

How vital to you is buying domestically and supporting native companies?

What about social media and generative AI chatbots resembling ChatGPT? Do you belief them as a supply of dependable information and data?

These are a number of the questions we’re asking on this 12 months’s Heartbeat of Australia survey.

It is the fifth 12 months ACM, the writer of this masthead, and the College of Canberra’s Information and Media Analysis Centre have collaborated on a nationwide examine of shopper sentiment, neighborhood wellbeing and the position of native information.

The aim of the survey is to grasp how folks throughout Australia, particularly within the areas, are feeling – about their lives, the place they dwell, the long run and the way they keep knowledgeable and related.

The confidential on-line survey takes about quarter-hour. Particular person responses are usually not identifiable.

Survey members can go right into a draw to win one among 5 $500 e-gift playing cards.

ACM chief advertising officer Jarrah Petzold stated the annual Heartbeat survey supplied important insights about Australians dwelling in regional cities and rural cities and the way they’re feeling about life of their neighborhood.

“ACM’s longstanding information manufacturers across the nation present a trusted voice for the thousands and thousands of Australians who dwell outdoors the state capitals,” Mr Petzold stated.

“Heartbeat of Australia is an opportunity for Australians to share how they really feel in regards to the future, their plans for the subsequent 12 months and the way they keep knowledgeable and related to what is going on on in the place they dwell.

“Value-of-living and housing availability and affordability pressures, the position of social media and now AI in our lives – these are the sorts of private and neighborhood considerations the Heartbeat analysis seeks to grasp, particularly amongst younger folks and people dwelling within the areas.”

The Heartbeat survey findings assist the Information and Media Analysis Centre’s persevering with research of how entry to native information and data impacts neighborhood wellbeing, together with its Australian Analysis Council-funded analysis challenge monitoring, understanding and fascinating information audiences.

The Information and Media Analysis Centre is Australia’s solely analysis centre specialising in information consumption, social and digital media networks and the authorized, moral and social impression of communication applied sciences.

The centre produces the annual nationwide Digital Information Report: Australia, which screens information consumption as a part of a world examine of greater than 40 nations.