IT'S ALL IN THE NUMBERS

10%

A recent poll by the multinational market research company Ipsos found that globally, Australia ranks in the top half of countries with an out LGBTIQ+ population, with a net 10% of adults aligning with a queer identity in some way. Brazil ranks highest at 15% (giggidy), followed closely by Spain at 14% and Switzerland at 13%.

88

A commission into gay hate crimes is due to deliver its finding to the NSW governor in June. It will include details of 88 men that have been murdered in NSW between 1976 and 2000.

91%

10,898m

Plastics are now officially everywhere! Scientists have found a plastic bag 10,898m below the ocean’s surface at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, while another team recently discovered plastics on the top of Mount Everest at 8,849m above sea level.

90sec

World Doomsday Clock is now at an alarming 90 seconds to midnight. It’s the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been set to.

25%

According to a new survey, Australian guys are enthusiastic ‘sitzpinklers’, with a quarter of male respondents saying they prefer sit down to take a whizz. That was the highest figure behind Germany at 40%, where signs telling men to sit down to pee are common in public bathrooms.

A study by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation found that 91% of Fortune 500 companies have policies prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, and 83% have policies protecting gender identity. This demonstrates an increasing recognition of the importance of diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

40%

Some experts believe that America is a democracy in decline and is in a state of mortal threat. 2 in 5 Americans fear (or hope) that a second civil war could happen in the next 10 years.