What problems are increasing in Brisbane?

Every civic news report geolocated to Brisbane, classified into an open problem vocabulary, and trended as a share of the city's total coverage.

Summary

The civic picture is getting rougher: accidents and road safety take a bigger slice of the city's news (up 1.9 points), while tropical cyclones lead specific increases (up 2.16 points); the flood that killed 22 people keeps the human cost concrete.

WATCH Watch whether cyclone preparedness and road safety action catch up with rising attention.

Full category ledger

Category	News Reported	Share Change (points)	Action Rate	Fatal Rate
Accidents Road Safety	2,672	+1.9	5.1%	20.0%
Disasters Emergencies	698	+1.6	1.0%	18.1%
Crime Violence	7,825	+1.2	53.7%	17.6%
Governance Policy	1,260	+0.9	3.6%	1.0%
Protest Civil Unrest	497	+0.5	8.5%	2.4%
Labor Employment	154	+0.5	15.6%	0.6%
Terrorism Conflict	108	+0.5	34.3%	11.1%
Infrastructure Utilities	333	+0.3	4.2%	1.2%
Environment Pollution	109	+0.3	8.3%	4.6%
Elections Politics	71	+0.1	1.4%	0.0%
Public Safety	540	-0.4	3.3%	10.0%
Human Rights Social	183	-0.5	13.1%	4.4%
Legal Judicial	463	-0.6	41.7%	2.6%
Immigration Border	153	-0.7	9.8%	3.3%
Policing Law Enforcement	793	-1.1	31.0%	7.3%
Missing Persons	387	-1.2	8.8%	5.2%
Corruption Fraud	525	-1.5	46.1%	0.0%
Public Health	674	-1.8	5.5%	13.8%

Rising sub-problems

Problem	News Reported	Δpp
Tropical Cyclone	60	+2.16
Child Abuse	179	+1.22
Cyclone	36	+1.14
Cyclone Flood	35	+1.04
Traffic Accident	595	+0.79
Assault	395	+0.75
Child Sexual Abuse	25	+0.74
Vehicle Theft	24	+0.74
Demonstration	113	+0.70
Sexual Assault	219	+0.67

Receding sub-problems

Problem	News Reported	Δpp
Flood	286	-3.08
Disease Outbreak	76	-0.74
Homicide Attempted	288	-0.63
Homicide Attempt	44	-0.47
Brawl	45	-0.39
Aircraft Crash	44	-0.36

Coverage volume by year

Corroborated fatal events (≥3 news reports agreeing; conflicting tolls merged into a range, never summed)

Coverage Month	Event Type	Deaths Reported	Corroborating News Reports
2019-10	People Smuggling	350	15
2022-03	Flood	22	6
2018-07	Water Accident	17	13

17,445 pieces of news reported · deaths shown only for corroborated events, never summed

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