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Australian Car Statistics

Curtesy of Adrian Edlington – PR & Communications Manager Savy Interested in buying a new car? Perhaps you’re looking to sell? One of the major indicators of consumer sentiment around automotive buying and selling are car loan commitments and new car sales. If you are in the market for a car – or looking to…

Scammers targeting Victorians with ABS Scam

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is advising the Victorian community to be aware of a scam which tries to obtain personal and financial information over the phone. “The scam is a concern because it is seeking to obtain personal and financial information purporting to be from, or representing, the ABS,” said ABS Chief Operating…

Here is something to think about

According to a recent article released by the Australian Bureau of statistics (ABS) Australian Social Trends, if Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people had the same levels of education as non-Indigenous people, the gap in labour force participation would decrease by half. “While health and remoteness have some effect, we found that for Aboriginal or…

ABS launches Run That Town

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has launched a game Run That Town which, promotes the release and application of Census data. Run That Town is the first game to be released by a national statistical agency using real Census data. The Game puts the player in charge of any Australian neighborhood and challenges them to…

Record number of Australian University offers

New research from the department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education shows that 220,000 University offers have been made this year. That number is up 4% on the same time last year. Minister for Tertiary Education, Senator Chris Evans commented that in 2012 the Gillard Government expects to fund more than 500,000 undergraduate…