Immigration, Asylum Seekers and Refugees. Juvenile justice. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) issues. Mental Health.
Reliance on Natural Resources. Another major problem with Australia is that the economy is largely dependent upon natural resources. The mining for coal and minerals is the main occupation in Australia. The growth in the Australian economy is largely driven by export of these natural resources.
Unlike most wealthy countries, Australia's economy lacks both diversification and sophistication. Australia's primary exports are in low complexity categories such as mining and agriculture.
Household wealth inequality
The study found that household wealth in Australia is very unequally divided. The highest 10 per cent of households by wealth has an average of $6.1 million or 46 per cent of all wealth. The next 30 per cent has an average of $1.7 million or 38 per cent.
Racism, equity, education, healthcare, immigration, and LGBTQ+ rights are just some of the social justice battles that are still being fought in the US in 2022.
Con: High Cost of Living
While the standard of living in Australia is high, so is the cost of living. In fact, Australia is often ranked as one of the most expensive countries in the world to live in. This is due to a number of factors, including the high cost of housing, food, and transportation.
As well as climate stresses, habitat loss and degradation remain the main threats to land-based species in Australia, impacting nearly 70% of threatened species.
Australia's national gender pay gap is 14.1 per cent. The national gender pay gap is calculated by WGEA using the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
Climate change is one of the major challenges of our time. From shifting weather patterns that threaten food production, to rising sea levels that increase the risk of catastrophic flooding, the impacts of climate change are global in scope and unprecedented in scale.
Inflation was the most worrying topic worldwide as of November 2022, with over 40 percent of the respondents choosing that option. Poverty and social inequality ranked second, followed by unemployment and crime and violence at 27 percent.
Australia is now home to 2.2 million millionaires, according to a new study. Half of all Australians in 2021 had more than $400,000 in wealth. It means we have the highest median wealth of all the countries studied.
On a mean wealth basis, Australia was the fourth-richest country in 2021 behind Switzerland, the US and Hong Kong. The average Australian adult was worth $US550,110 at the end of last year, after enjoying a $US66,350 annual increase in wealth.
It's one of the fastest moving plates if you look at it horizontally. It moves at around seven centimetres per year, she said. “But vertically there is a problem. Historical data suggests that it should be uplifting by about a millimetre per year, but the data that we've got suggests it's sinking.
Australia's environment is in a shocking state and faces further decline from amplifying threats, according to an anticipated report. The survey of Australia's ecological systems - conducted every five years - found widespread abrupt changes.
The destruction of habitat by human activities, including land clearing, remains the major cause of biodiversity loss in Australia. The importance of the Australian rainforests to the conservation movement is very high. Australia is the only western country to have large areas of rainforest intact.
Climate change is the big environmental problem that humanity will face over the next decade, but it isn't the only one. We'll take a look at some of them — from water shortages and loss of biodiversity to waste management — and discuss the challenges we have ahead of us.