Primary aim:
To characterise and geospatially map community antimicrobial utilisation across the Illawarra Shoalhaven and Hunter New England regions of New South Wales

Secondary aims:
- To explore and compare community antimicrobial usage patterns, trends and changes across the Illawarra Shoalhaven and Hunter New England regions
- To determine the factors associated with, and characteristics of, frequent antibiotic users compared to infrequent or non-antibiotic users in the community setting
- To explore the relationship between antimicrobial use across the community, healthcare service utilisation and clinical outcomes
- To determine the feasibility of subsequent linkage of private and public pathology datasets
- To determine the feasibility of microbiome sampling on a subset of patients within the Illawarra Shoalhaven region, and prepare a research protocol / ethics application reflective of such aim