Everyone has moved through the census, but what about the survey that really matters?
That’s right, it’s triple j’s What’s up in your world? survey, or WUIYW for short.
About 3,000 of you intervened to answer the questions, but we are especially interested in the answers of young people aged 18 to 29.
And they have THOUGHTS.
As for the environment, they feel quite discouraged both about the future of the planet and about its ability to have an impact on climate change.
But while young people feel more negative about the future, those under 30 are more open about their sexuality and mental health.
Let’s unpack it!
As for the environment, they don’t feel good … anything
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In the Triple J survey, young people have less confidence in being able to help with climate change.
In the Triple J survey, young people have less confidence in being able to help with climate change.
91% of people who completed the survey said they felt negative about the future of the Earth.
And more than half of that group raised it, saying they felt extremely negative about what awaits them on the planet.
This feeling has been growing every time we’ve done a WUIYW survey since 2018 and quite tbh, given that climate change is already affecting us quite often.
Young people are also changing their minds about whether they can personally make a difference with climate change.
60 percent of respondents thought they could do it in 2018, now it is less than half of those who filled out the survey, although climate change was ranked as the most important problem facing the our generation.
So does anyone feel good about whether we can reclaim the environment?
Well, shouts to 1 percent of you that you feel positive about the future of the earth.
In a massive survey we asked young Australians about the planet, its sexuality and hope for the future.
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Unsplash: Anthony Delanoix
In a massive survey we asked young Australians about the planet, its sexuality and hope for the future.
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Unsplash: Anthony Delanoix
Girls, gays and them
In better news than the collapse of our planet, more young people identify as queer!
And, in particular, there has been a jump in the number of people who identify as members of the Bi + community.
Since 2018, there has been a 10% jump in the number of people who identify as bisexual, exciting news for both the community and retailers with fisted jeans.
In addition to these figures, 4% of people who filled out the WUIYW identified as pansexual, 7% as gay or lesbian, and 2% as asexual.
There were some differences in terms of gender lines when it came to those who put their hand as a bi.
13% of people who identified as men said they were bi, and 24% of those who indicated their gender as a woman also said so.
In our previous surveys we found that many bi guys were a little more apprehensive about going out.
In fact, in 2018, WUIYW’s responses showed that young boys who identified as bi were the least likely to go out.
And we know biphobia is still rampant in the community, with nearly half of those surveyed in the ABC’s Australia Talks poll saying they wouldn’t date a bisexual person.
More people are asking for help with their mental health
Much more of the young people surveyed (70%) said that COVID has affected their mental health than in 2020 (56%).
But there is a bright side to what we discovered about mental health in these results: three-quarters of respondents said they asked for help, an increase over previous years.
If they sought help for mental health issues, depression was mentioned more than anxiety, a change from 2020.
But what about politics?
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In What Happens to Your World? Survey, 71 percent of respondents said they had taken illegal drugs in the past 12 months.
In What Happens to Your World? Survey, 71 percent of respondents said they had taken illegal drugs in the past 12 months.
While we are losing faith in politicians, 78% are interested or very interested in politics, which shows that the older generations who say young people don’t care about completely wrong politics.
Young people are absolutely concerned about politics and the number of people who care about it has been increasing.
Just before the 2019 federal election, 68% of people who filled out the poll said they were slightly or very interested in politics and now that figure has risen by 10%.
And not only are they interested, they have an impact.
Prior to this year’s federal election, Hack analyzed which seats had the highest proportion of young voters.
Three of the top five seats on the list went from Labor or Liberals to the Greens (all in Brisbane), and one remained green (Melbourne’s Adam Bandt electorate).
We also asked a lot of questions about issues the community is facing right now.
An overwhelming majority of respondents know that racism is a problem in Australia (90%), but opinions on it seemed to be a little different in terms of gender.
97% of young women who responded said they thought racism was a big problem in Australia, while 79% of men surveyed thought the same.
PSST …
Do you think you had reached the end of a triple j hack story not to mention drugs and pill tests?
SIKE as if.
Okay, we didn’t ask about the pill test * this time *, but we did ask what drug they are taking.
Of the 71% of young people who have used illegal drugs over the past 12 months, their three main choices were herbal, cocaine, and MDMA / ecstasy.
METHODOLOGY: Triple j conducted a 20-minute online quantitative survey of its audience in Australia in April 2022. A total of 1,645 young people aged 18 to 29 years responded. The data have not been weighted to reflect the general population, but it is a natural drop by age, gender, and location.