Recent data published by Tourism Research Australia has suggested that the international tourism sector is continuing to recover, following the COVID-19 pandemic. Since December 2023, compared to that of the year ending in December 2022, Australia’s international tourists were seen to almost double, with upwards of 3.5 million tourists in 2022 and over 6.5 million tourists in 2023. The top cause of inbound Australian travel was for tourism purposes, with 2.6 million visits. This was closely followed by visiting relatives with 2.4 million trips and other reasons for travel including business, employment, and education. Seven Continents Australia travel agent, Maha Noore said…
Author: Rosie Fanning
The publishing of recent data provided by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, indicates the steady rise in the distribution of mental health related prescriptions within the country. While over the course of the past 10 years the relevant data has fluctuated slightly, overall, there has been a stable increase with upwards of an additional 3 million prescriptions distributed per year since 2013 to now. University of Wollongong Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Psychology, Caitlin Liddelow, said that in recent years the destigmatisation of mental health credits part of the rise in the allocation of mental health…
Recent data published by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare show a continued drop in adoption rates in Australia. Director of the Children and Families Research Centre at the University of Sydney, Amy Wright said that while there was an increase in adoptions a few years ago, numbers have since steadily declined. “We have seen that the numbers have dropped, with less expressions of interest in adoptions at this point in time,” Mrs Wright said. “We may see some impacts where there could be adoptions that haven’t been filed since the pandemic, which is a flow on that those…