#Senate Inquiry on aircraft noise

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Airservices Australia logged a single resident's noise complaints in Perth more than 20,700 times throughout 2023, accounting for more than half of the entire country's noise reports in all. She wasn't the only reporter in the country with such an outsized effect, with the runner-up accounting for 4,071 complaints throughout the year. The data was gleaned from an Australian senate inquiry surrounding the effects of aircraft noise on city life.

The data shows that the number of people complaining about aircraft noise has actually fallen since 2019, but the number of complaints has almost tripled because those complaining are doing so repeatedly. A submission to the Senate inquiry by Airservices Australia, the Federal Government organisation that manages the country’s skies, reveals that complaints doubled to 51,589 in 2023. However, more than 30,000 of these were made by just five people, led by the Perth complainant who filed 21,716 complaints, or an average of 60 a day - one for every seven aircraft leaving or arriving in the transport hub.

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