Contains summary data about victims for a selected range of personal and household offences including physical assault, threatened assault, personal robbery, sexual assault, household break-in, motor vehicle theft, theft from a motor vehicle, malicious property damage and other theft.

Residential property prices have risen in every capital city in the December quarter 2013.

This release shows that the number of dwellings approved in Australia rose 1.5 per cent in December 2013, in trend terms, and has risen for 24 months.

This paper presents findings from the ABS Quality Study that was undertaken in 2012 to investigate both the feasibility of conducting a national secondary school survey of the living arrangements of students, and also the suitability of such a survey to address limitations in the estimation of youth homelessness, particularly for estimates of ‘couch surfing’.

All regions in Australia experienced growth in the rate of attainment of higher level qualifications among their populations aged 20-64 years between 2001 and 2011. Regions which experienced high growth in higher level qualifications, also had different population characteristics. This article focussed on three regions with large growth in the rate of attainment of higher...