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Business Confidence Survey

The Chamber of Commerce’s long-running Business Confidence Survey is now open, and we absolutely want to hear from you.

The feedback from the survey will empower the Chamber to advocate for our members and the wider business community. It will enable us to challenge and question future decisions and support our role in driving economic development across the Territory. 

The Chamber has members throughout the NT, city-based, regional and remote, all serviced by offices in Darwin, Katherine, and Alice Springs. Having a membership base of over 1100+ business through all regions allows the Chamber to be the Voice of Territory Business. 


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* 1. Section One: About your business: In what state/territory is your head office located

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* 2. What NT regions do you do business in?

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* 3. What primary industry does your business operate in?

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* 4. What was the average number of FTE employees in your business during 2022?

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* 5. Are you an Indigenous-owned business? As defined by the NT Government Aboriginal Procurement Policy, the business must be registered with a certifying authority (such as NTIBN).

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* 6. Section Two: Business Confidence 
How confident are you about the outlook for your business in 2023?

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* 7. How confident are you about the overall economic outlook in the Territory for 2023?

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* 8. Top reasons for confidence (select as many as apply)

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* 9. Top reasons for worry? (select as many as apply)

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* 10. Section Three: Impact of recent developments
The Reserve Bank continues to lift interest rates to try to mitigate inflation.  What impact are rising interest rates having on your business?

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* 11. The Australian Parliament recently passed major changes to industrial relations legislation. What impact do you expect these changes to have on your business?

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* 12. Section Four: The reality of workforce 
Are you experiencing workforce shortages

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* 13. In question four you indicated how many FTE staff you have at the moment - if you fill all positions tomorrow what number of FTE workers would you have?

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* 14. What does your current workforce look like? Please tick each statement that applies to your business

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* 15. If you are employing interstate, what are the main factors driving the decision? (select as many as apply)

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* 16. Section Five: Sustainability and your business
A business practice that is economically viable, socially responsible and environmentally friendly is usually regarded as being sustainable. Corporations that include socially responsible and environmentally sound policies as core elements in their growth strategy very often create sustainable economic values.
When you think of sustainable business practice – what statements do you agree with?

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* 17. If you would be interested in learning more about Sustainable Business, at what level is your knowledge of sustainable business practices?

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* 18. Section Six: Doing business in remote and regional areas. Businesses in regional and remote NT face particular challenges in starting up and operating. Please identify the top three hurdles faced by regional and remote businesses:

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* 19. What are the top three ways in which businesses in regional and remote areas of the NT should be supported?

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* 20. Section Seven: Manufacturing in the Northern Territory. Do you consider yourself a manufacturer? (Note that for the Chamber of Commerce NT a Manufacturer is: Anyone who in the process of supplying a manufactured product, is involved in the design, uses raw material, parts, or components, and supports fabrication in the Territory)

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* 21. Are you involved in Australian Defence contracts?

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* 22. In the next year, are you planning to qualify to an industry standard for the business or for personnel (e.g. ISO, ASME, AS/ANZS, CC2/3 etc.) to maintain, or win, contracts?

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* 24. How can the Chamber further support your business or economic activity in the NT? 

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* 25. Would like to be contacted about any of the following:

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* 26. Please leave your details if you have indicated you would like to be contacted about any of the above. Please note for the purpose of verification of survey results company name and postcode are required. You will not be contacted unless indicated you have indicated above.

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