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Working with community foundations – a Northern Rivers case study
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Migration drives Australia’s record 2022–23 population growth
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Australia’s life expectancy falls slightly due to COVID
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Australia’s population growth hits a new record high in the March quarter 2023
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ABS opens second phase of 2026 Census topic consultation
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Australia’s population booms again with post-COVID migration surge
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What’s shaping population in Australia’s growth areas?
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Understanding demographics is key to helping communities facing barriers
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Advantage and disadvantage across Australia: SEIFA 2021
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Regional population growing at the same rate as capital cities
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Rate of homelessness falls during the pandemic, but not everywhere
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Have your say on the topics included in the 2026 Census
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Interactive chart: new data brings new opportunities for gender equity analysis
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Australia’s most educated areas
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Australia’s strong population growth returns in 2022
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Where have jobs been growing, or declining?
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Australia’s birth rate increases for the first time in 10 years
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Who was working from home on Census day 2021?
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2021 Census – second release data out now
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What is shaping population growth in regional Queensland?
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Australia’s population growth bounces back in March 2022 quarter
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What exactly can the Census second release tell us?
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2021 Census economy.id update plans
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‘Vacant’ dwellings – Keep calm and dig a little deeper….
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The health of a nation
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Rebased population estimates – big changes to your LGA population
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Census crystal ball gazing: the results
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Australia’s net overseas migration increasing again
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Census release: Australia’s population revised downward, major changes to state and territory growth rates
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2021 Census data reveals the changing nature of Australia
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2021 Census update plans
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The 50 largest cities and towns in Australia | Pandemic edition
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Melbourne and Sydney populations fall while regional areas grow
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Australia’s population growth still slow, Queensland booming again
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2021 Census information is coming. What does it mean for your council’s population forecast?
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Using demographics to inform gender equality
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Preparing for the Census 2021 data release
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Using Census data to understand changing community diversity
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Australia’s low population growth increases slightly in the June 2021 quarter
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Australia’s birth rate declines to a record low in 2020
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Australia’s life expectancy ranks 6th in the world
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Interpreting Census data at the local level
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Migration out of Sydney and Melbourne continues in the September quarter
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Fewer deaths in 2020 despite the pandemic
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Australia’s population growth almost zero
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Update on the 2021 Census collection – 13 September
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COVID vaccination rates and SEIFA
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Update on the 2021 Census collection
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What’s happening to South Australia’s population?
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Census Crystal Ball Gazing 2021: what will the Census show?
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Census in lockdown – what does it mean?
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Happy Census Day 2021!
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What’s new for Census 2021
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Queensland drives Australia’s population growth while Victoria declines
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Exodus from Sydney and Melbourne accelerates in late 2020
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Telling the local story of migration in the COVID era
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How did the first few months of COVID-19 impact population growth in Capital cities and Regional Australia?
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The demographics of public transport accessibility
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Population growth slows in 2020 but Perth is the fastest growing LGA
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The first quarterly decline in Australia’s population on record
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Planning for future school demand
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Targeting affected communities
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How COVID-19 will impact the future population of rural areas
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Changes to topics in the 2021 Census
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Timely data on the workforce impacts of COVID-19
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ABS looks to administrative data to fill the Census gaps
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Exodus from Melbourne to the regions during the pandemic
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JobSeeker data reveals impact of Victoria’s lockdown
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Hotspots – Why statistical significance is important when identifying clusters
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The demographic link between Mitchell Shire and Metropolitan Melbourne
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Melbourne in lockdown – what’s in a boundary?
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Demographic characteristics of JobSeeker hotspots
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Australia’s population growth turns down even before COVID-19
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Using JobSeeker data to understand changing disadvantage in a COVID-19 world
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Video tutorial: Using Social Atlas to identify vulnerable communities
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Working from home – the new reality, or business as usual?
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The 50 largest cities and towns in Australia, by population | 2020 update
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Migration within Australia – strongest out of Sydney
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How many deaths are there in Australia each year?
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Can you run a Census in a pandemic?
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Interactive chart: is your community demographically vulnerable?
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Pinpointing vulnerable communities for emergency management
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Bushfires and the Australian demographic landscape
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Australia’s birth rate lowest on record, but more babies than ever
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The Rise of Tasmania
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How does where you live affect how long you live?
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Australians are living longer than ever before – how long do I have left?
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The changing multicultural face of Perth
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Growth area planning – a challenge and an opportunity
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The challenges of COVID-19 in public housing towers
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‘Spatial leashes’ in our communities
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Citizenship in the Census
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Which parts of Australia are growing through internal migration
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Where do overseas migrants go in Australia?
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Who will win the race to be Australia’s number 1 capital city?
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Who are Australia’s volunteers? (the 2019 update)
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A demographic profile of the South Sudanese population
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The millennial “baby blip” is now over
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ABS to remove ‘number of cars’ from 2021 Census (and other topic changes)
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How are libraries responding to demographic change?
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Demography and destiny in Western Sydney
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What are the characteristics of low-income households in your area?
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Your top requests: questions for the 2021 Census
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Population growth concerns – New York in Melbourne?
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Census 2021 consultation – call for topic suggestions
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New insights to social disadvantage – new SEIFA data released
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Who are Australia’s homeless?
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Urban growth in Melbourne’s fringe: spotlight on Tarneit
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Taking a closer look at South Australia’s Indigenous age profile
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National migration series | Part 4: National versus regional/local migration profiles
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Single parent families – not always who you think
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Australia’s largest cities and towns – 1986 and 2016
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Where is the demographic centre of Melbourne? And how is it changing?
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The rise and rise of Marvellous Melbourne: population patterns and trends in Victoria
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A demographic view of the same sex marriage survey results
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Exploring census data: the importance of geographic scale
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Tips and tricks to understanding Census data: how to visualise a story
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Understanding places: How to tell a demographic story
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Animated population pyramids – now in community profile
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Where are school-aged kids located? Top 10 growing and slowing suburbs
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Where do older people live?
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Managing changes to 2016 Census data: interpreting perturbation and additivity
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What is a peri-urban area and how are they changing?
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Where is the love? Relationship status, marriage and divorce in Australia
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Are children staying at home for longer?
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What is the state of religion in Australia?
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Census 2016 crystal ball gazing (so how did I do?)
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Census Crystal Ball Gazing – so how did I do? Part 2
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Australia’s changing waves of migration
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How no religion became the most common religion in Australia
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2016 Census data have been released!
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Australia’s changing ethnicity: A preview of the 2016 Census?
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Recognising indigenous populations in the Census: a short history
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How to profile your local community like a pro
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The tale of two cities becoming one
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How to categorise local areas in Australia
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Is it all doom and gloom after the boom in Western Australia?
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Should I use enumerated data, usual residence data or estimated resident population?
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How has Western Australia’s population aged over time?
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Profiling a new wave of op shoppers
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Translating demographics into informed location decisions
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Gazing into the Census crystal ball – What will the results reveal about Australia?
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Is Australia losing its religion?
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Standin’ on a corner – are bypassed towns doomed to die?
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Latest figures show population further concentrated in Australia’s capital cities
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Are Australia’s migrants home owners?
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Planning education provision in a rapidly changing Australia
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Australia’s oldest state – Tasmania
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The Syrian community in Australia
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How many refugees does Australia take?
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What affects the heart health of an area? A case of good heart health – City of Yarra
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How housing affordability can play a role in economic development
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Predicting your area’s future heart health
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Profiling culturally diverse communities in NSW
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University towns in New Zealand – their impacts on the community and economy
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Population densities of Australian Capital Cities – Melbourne and Sydney
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Population densities of Australian Capital Cities – Melbourne and Sydney
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Population densities of Australian capital cities – Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane
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Melbourne changes direction – a new era of urban development
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What is Australia’s fastest growing inland town?
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Is Melbourne as dense as Hong Kong?
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Western Sydney profile – a region of diversity and growth
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100 years of population change in Tasmania
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How dense is high density?
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Land zoning: How does Australia compare to Japan and North America?
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How to tell the story of culturally diverse communities – Burmese in Maroondah
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Why are the population figures different in profile and forecast.id?
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Perth – population profile of a boom city
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How urbanised is Australia’s population?
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Population growth in Western Australia
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How centralised is Australia’s population?
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Does ‘Big Australia’ mean ‘Big Immigration’?
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Australia – outgrowing the world?
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The demographic impact of WWI
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The 50 largest Australian cities and towns by population in 2014
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The story of culturally diverse communities – Arabic speakers in Parramatta
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The story of culturally diverse communities – Indians in Parramatta
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Population Density – just how much room do you need?
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Who works the most, men or women?
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What impact do asylum seekers have on Australia’s migration?
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How long do I have to live?
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Which are Australia’s “oldest” places? Age wise…
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What are the demographics of fire-prone areas?
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Marriage and relationships in the Census – Do women prefer educated, high income partners?
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When will the age pension be abolished?
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Melbourne’s population growth – trends after the Census
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My shout … or yours… a closer look at dependency ratios
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Do many Australians move to New Zealand?
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What is Australia’s most typical suburb?
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What is the most typical Australian town?
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Socio-economic indexes – what are they?
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Socio-economic index of Advantage/Disadvantage – what are the results?
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Top 50 largest cities in Australia by population in 2013
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What and where is the centre of population?
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Population change on the Gold Coast
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Using the Australia profile to find out who lives in Melbourne
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Census 2011 – The geographic distribution of religion
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2011 Australian Census – Christian religions
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Population revision – where have all the people gone?
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2011 Australian Census – How have our religions changed?
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Census 2011 – Tasmania is the oldest state
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Perth’s population – a story of economic boom
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The Census drove the creation of the modern computer
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2011 Australian Census – fastest growing religions
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Generations X and Y – what’s in a letter?
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Sydney’s population – a story of consolidation
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Making sense of population counts
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Melbourne’s population – a story of growth
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Victoria – the state with the most….growth
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Who are the baby boomers?
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Immigration in the last 5 years – focus on South Australia
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Immigration in the last 5 years – focus on Queensland
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Immigration in the past 5 years – focus on Tasmania
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Migration in the last 5 years – focus on Western Australia
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Migration in the last 5 years – focus on Victoria
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Immigration in the past 5 years – focus on NSW
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South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula – A Story of Rapid Growth
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Australia’s newest migrants – where are they coming from?
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Before we bid goodbye to 2006 Census: Where is Australia now?
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Australia’s migrants – who are they and how are they changing?
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New ABS Geography part 5: Greater Capital Cities – are they greater?
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Is the baby bonus responsible for the high birth rate in Australia?
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Is Melbourne’s population going to overtake Sydney’s?
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Did “The Force” influence the Census?
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Rockhampton’s population on a steady growth trajectory
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The Christchurch earthquake – from a Census perspective…
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Who is moving to the Gold Coast?
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How to identify a gentrifying area?
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Will the kids ever leave home?
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Australia’s population growth slows
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Coober Pedy – a look at the underground town’s Community Profile
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