Organisation: Australian Bureau of Statistics

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

world

High turnout for Australian gay marriage survey - with a week still to go

A total of 77% of eligible Australians have so far had their say on whether gay marriage should be legalised - with seven days left until the survey closes.

world

Australia agrees to first national gun amnesty in 20 years

world

Cyber-attacks scupper Australia’s first online census

business

Global house prices rise

business

Australian economy back in growth

business

Australian unemployment soars

Australia heading towards recession

Australia's economy contracted by 0.5% in the last quarter of 2008, the government said, in an unexpected announcement that suggested the country may be entering a recession.

Wed, 04 Mar, 2009

Australian inflation tumbles

Australian inflation fell by the sharpest margin in more than a decade in the last three months of 2008.

Wed, 28 Jan, 2009

Australia's population rises to 20.3 million

The population of Australia rose 1.1% to 20.3 million, thanks to a quarter of a million babies born and a stream of new immigrants, the country’s official statistician reported today.

Thu, 22 Sep, 2005

Sydney riot highlights simmering aboriginal tensions

A young Aborigine dies. His family and friends bitterly blame police and within hours gasoline bombs and rocks rain down on a Sydney ghetto. Cars and a train station are torched.

Mon, 16 Feb, 2004

Aussie Jedis force census rethink

More than 70,000 fans of the Star Wars films have upset Australia’s statistics agency by identifying their religion as "Jedi" during last year’s national census.

Tue, 27 Aug, 2002