Australian Bureau of Statistics

The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated that in 2011 there were approximately 548, 370 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) peoples residing in Australia. That number is estimated to be approximately two and a half per cent of the total Australian population (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011). Of these individuals, it is estimated that 90 per cent were of Aboriginal descent, six per cent were of Torres Strait Islander descent, and four per cent identified as being of both Aboriginal

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) website provides highly relevant information regarding the chosen group’s population demographic, as it shows only Australian statistics. The ABS is an authoritative source, being the national statistical agency in Australia. It provides the most accurate and up-to-date figures regarding Australia’s population. It is a purely factual therefore objective database. This site identifies the proportion of the population being examined. The journal article

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what testing protocols, procedures and costs have to be established. The logistics of drug testing junior athletes becomes particularly cumbersome when the numbers involved in junior sport are looked at. The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports in “The Year Book Australia 2012” statistics in children participating in organised sport, in the 10 most popular sports that there were in excess of 684,000 participants between the ages of 15 -17 and this did not include school organised competitions

“According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics Personal Fraud Survey 2010-11, an estimated total of 1.2 million Australians aged 15 years and over were victim of at least one incident of identity fraud in the 12 months prior to the survey interview..” (Afp.gov.au, 2014) Identity fraud is a type of fraud that involves illegally pretending to be somebody else for a beneficial gain. This can result in emotional and/or financial devastation. This is a very common legal issue facing Australian stakeholders

Introduction The Australian healthcare system has been evolving since the beginning of the colonisation of Australia. Today, Australia has an extremely efficient healthcare system although it still has several issues. The influencing factors, structure, and current issues of the Australian healthcare system will be throughly discussed and explained in this essay. Influencing Factors When Australia was first colonised, health services were considered to be an issue to be dealt with by local governments

Mental health or disorders Mental and health disorders also give a measure of hospital management for the mentally indigenous people. Statistics show that for the period 2005- 2006, health officials registered a high number of mentally sick patients of this kind in Australia. (Australian institute of Health and welfare and australian Bureau of statistics, 2008, p. P.111). Majority of them had psychoactive problems at 5:3 ratios for both male and female respectively, some of which were self induced

that crime is a topic that has the public’s interest and is a focus of their worries (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2001). It goes on to discuss the fact that crime as reported on by the media increases the public’s levels of fears and that there is little or no correlation to actual levels of violent crime in our society today. Thirdly, crime victimisation data collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (2008-2009, p.17) reflects that those 65 and above are the least likely to be victims

Egalitarianism is a philosophy that supports the idea of equality for all people regardless of race, religion, age or gender (Fox, 2013; The Australian Collaboration, na). It is a principle which can be broken down in sub categories such as ‘economic egalitarianism’ or ‘opportunity egalitarianism’. These subcategories examine parts of society which, if equality in each was achieved, would create a situation in which the pure form of the philosophy would exist (Joseph, 2014). However, the extreme

The Australian Housing Bubble The United States of America has seen its real estate market drastically decline which set off the 2007 global credit crisis. These have led to several countries examining their own economies for signs of weaknesses, particularly focusing on their financial institutions and their property markets. A “bubble“ in the property market refers to housing prices that do not reflect their fundamental value, and the failure of the market to correct itself leads to further