Australian attitudes to the mining industry

Australian Attitudes to the Mining Industry

Voconiq has been engaged by Australia's national science agency, CSIRO to explore the attitudes of Australians toward the mining industry. This survey builds on a program of work conducted in 2014 and 2017 which provided some important insights into the relationship between mining and Australian society.

Insights from this survey will:

be used to inform a national conversation about mining in Australia
shape CSIRO’s ongoing research activities
be shared in public reports and academic publications.

The survey was conducted in March and April of 2024, and has now closed.

Thank you to everyone who participated. We look forward to sharing the insights with the community soon.

About Voconiq

Voconiq is a Brisbane based engagement science company. We specialise in bringing the voices of communities into companies and organisations. We help companies and organisations develop a better understanding of what is important to communities and to build deeper relationships as a result. At our heart, we are a company that values people and community interests, and we work hard to help communities have their say about projects and local issues that affect them.

We are a multi-skilled, growing team of scientists, researchers, academics, community engagement specialists and industry experts who value people and relationships above all else. We are led by our CEO, Dr Kieren Moffat, and are now delivering our innovative approaches on five continents.

How do we protect your privacy?

Voconiq is conducting this survey on behalf of CSIRO, but we are separate from the organisation. This means your survey responses remain seperate from your personally identifying information before these are passed to CSIRO, and therefore they cannot link a response to any particular person.

We will be collecting some personal information, including contact details, demographic information (e.g., gender, occupation), and information about your personal views. The collection, use, disclosure, storage, and security of personal information is done in accordance with the provisions of The Privacy Act 1988 (Privacy Act), including the conditions for the lawful processing of personal information. Please review Voconiq's Privacy Policy for more details.

Your survey responses will be kept confidential and stored on secure platforms. Only aggregated data will be used to indicate the opinions of community members as a collective, except where you grant us explicit permission to share responses in full (e.g., if you provide free-text responses or comments, we will ask whether we can share these with the company in full or just in aggregated form). Your name and contact details will not be connected with these comments.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Voconiq?

Voconiq is a company that was spun out of CSIRO in 2019. It bridges the gap between communities and the companies and institutions that work alongside them by activating understanding of different viewpoints. Underpinned by a platform of science, Voconiq translates data-driven community insights into tangible solutions which improve the way communities, governments, institutions, and companies interact and relate.

What is the approach?

Voconiq delivers a community survey and engagement approach that helps companies, industries, and governments to understand what matters most to community members and how to develop stronger relationships with communities.

Community attitude data is collected over time, analysed, and provided back to the company and community in a format that is accessible and useful. The process provides an avenue for organisations and industries to actively understand and address issues that are important to the community.

Can the surveys be completed multiple times?

The survey can be completed on the same device more than once, by design. Our systems are designed to allow multiple entries into the survey from the same computer or device so that multiple people can complete the survey from the same public machines (for example, from the library or other public computers). This is critical to ensure equal and inclusive access to community members who may not have their own computer or internet (or struggle using such things at home).

However, the issue of multiple survey entries from a single individual potentially skewing the data is something that we take seriously. Our data processing is sophisticated and flags every instance of an additional entry from the same device, as well as flagging similar results from multiple different devices (where, for example, the same individual has completed the survey from multiple different devices). The system alerts us to perform additional checks on these responses (which include both an inspection by a data scientist and via advanced statistical processing). Where multiple responses are deemed to be from the same individual, surplus responses are disregarded and removed from inclusion in the survey results.

In addition, we design our surveys to enable us to provide a deeper insight or understanding of complex issues – the weight of responding or proportion of responses that are supportive of an issue is only one part of the results delivered. Of greater interest will often be the average ratings within different groups and how they differ.

Are the surveys confidential?

Voconiq has a strict ethics framework that protects the rights of participants. All data are maintained securely, and no personal information or information that would enable identification of individuals is made available to the organisation or any other party. Participant confidentiality is assured. All Voconiq processes comply with or exceed the requirements of the Privacy Act 1988.

Within Voconiq, participant personal information and their survey response data are kept physically separate and only accessible by a small number of senior project members. All other parties, including the commissioning organisation, receive an aggregated summary of responses by the community, not the raw data.

Australian Attitudes to the Mining Industry

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