Joint Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs - Melbourne, VIC (part 2 of 2)
7 August 2026
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Joint Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Australian Parliament
00:00 - 00:33
Speaker 4
I've probably put this on notice. On the page that talks about the heat map of hate activity per 100,000 people, it says that Western Australia and Queensland remain among the higher activity states while the ACT and the Northern Territory remain lower. But is that 100,000 based on a proportion of the population or is that just based on 100,000? Because this doesn't seem consistent with how people voted on a geographic basis. This doesn't, this doesn't look right to me based on the actual vote per state and territory.
This is inconsistent, it appears. If you can explain that to me, that would be good.
00:33 - 01:35
Speaker 5
Yeah, yeah, in a second, I'll explain. So basically, let's say we have 100, and I'm making up the figure, 100 hateful users in Victoria and 50 in the Northern Territory. Does that mean that there is more hate in the population of Victoria or in the Northern Territory? But well, it depends the way in which you look at the data. So in absolute numbers, which is not what that map shows, you can say yes, there is more in Victoria.
But if you divide 100 by the population of Victoria and 100 by the population of Northern Territory, you will probably find that there is more hate per capita, per person, and in that case of that figure, per 100,000 people, there are more hateful users each 100,000 people.
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