Mercury Big Issues Survey 2023: Have your say on Tasmania’s hottest topics of the year

FREE STORY: Political turmoil, an AFL licence, the Commission of Inquiry and youth crime are all topics in the Mercury’s Big Issues Survey. We want to find out what our readers think. How you can have your say.

Mercury Big Issues Survey 2023

Tasmania’s biggest and best reader survey is back and we want your opinion on everything from politics to public transport and bringing back the thylacine.

The Mercury’s bumper holiday season Big Issues survey is online for you to deliver your verdict on the biggest topics facing the state.

TAKE THE SURVEY HERE

In previous years our readers have shared their concerns about the state’s health system, about the risk of over-tourism and the challenge of climate change.

The answers have made for fascinating reading.

As our letter pages daily show, there’s nothing Tasmanians love more than picking a side and settling in for a good debate on a contentious issue.

We’re keen to hear from you again. It’s time for your verdict on the year in politics, the AFL team and stadium, traffic congestion, the uni move, and much more.

Concept drawings of a Macquarie Point Stadium which includes an outer shell of apartments, proposed by the Stadia Precinct Consortia. Picture: SolutionsWon

Do you back a footy team? How safe do your feel walking the streets at night?

Are you happy in your job? Should Australia become a republic? The Big Issues Survey runs until the new year, then we’ll share the answers on our pages and on our website.

The last known thylacine photographed at Hobart (formerly Beaumaris) Zoo in 1933.

There are 89 questions and many require only a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ response. It should take little more than 10 minutes.

If you really want to get your teeth into an issue, there’s ample opportunity to let fly in several open-ended questions. We want to hear from you.

TAKE THE SURVEY NOW