This discussion paper examines data from government services and from the 2002 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey relating to the Indigenous population of New South Wales, to augment outputs from the 2001 Census. These data reveal a population that has barely gained in recent times against key indicators of relative economic progress...

Government subsidies have provided a major source of funds to private schools in Australia for three decades. The increasing level of private school subsidies since the mid-1970s has contributed to a steady increase in the proportion of students enrolled in private schools. This growth in the private school share of enrolments was not inevitable, but...

Since the mid 1980s the character of residential development on Sydney’s urban fringe has become increasingly socially and economically differentiated from older more established outer ring suburbs.

This study examines the socioeconomic status of NSW hospital patients in 1999-2000 and projects likely hospital costs to 2009-10. It draws upon unique patient based datasets from NSW public and private hospitals that include hospital admissions, as well as the associated treatment costs in each of the four years to 1999-2000.

This paper reports on an application of a dynamic microsimulation model which accounts - amongst many other variables - for the links between Australians' socioeconomic status and their health. The full model simulates individuals' life cycles over a 20 to 30 year period. Its base year data was developed using a 1 per cent unit...