Australian Social Trends - Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian Social Trends (AST) podcasts bring you short, easy listening highlights from the Australian Bureau of Statistics' latest release of the AST publication. Each quarterly release of AST contains several in depth articles, which cover many broad areas of social concern such as population, health, work and housing just to name a few. We aim to do this in an interesting and easy to understand way. Other aims of AST are to address current and perennial social concerns and to provide answers to key social questions. Each podcast will focus in upon the highlights from a different article.
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Episodes (15)
This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast discusses the characteristics of students enrolled at tertiary institutes
E14 - Same-sex couples
This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast discusses the characteristics of same-sex couples in Australia
Australian Social Trends - Australian Bureau of Statistics
en-auSeptember 09, 2013
E13 - Young adults: Then and now
This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast discusses the characteristics of 18-34 year olds in 1976 and 2011
Australian Social Trends - Australian Bureau of Statistics
en-auAugust 12, 2013
E12 - The average Australian
This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast discusses the characteristics of the average Australian
E11 - People identified as having dementia or Alzheimer's disease
This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast discusses the characteristics of people identified as having dementia or Alzheimer's disease in the 2009 Survey of Disability, Ageing and Caring
Transcript - E11 People identified with Dementia or Alzheimers (.doc 32kB)
E10 - Australian farming and farmers?
This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast looks at the business of farming and the characteristics of Australian farmers.
Transcript - E10 Australian farming and farmers (.doc 33.5kB)
Australian Social Trends - Australian Bureau of Statistics
en-auDecember 21, 2012
E09 - Household energy use and costs
This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast looks at Australian household energy use and costs, and what people are doing to reduce their energy consumption.
Transcript - E09 Household energy use and costs (.doc 32.5kB)
Australian Social Trends - Australian Bureau of Statistics
en-auNovember 28, 2012
E08 - Is life in Australia getting better?
Australians have a higher income, an increased life expectancy, and are better educated compared with a decade ago. But, the number of animals and plants which are endangered has increased over the last ten years.
Transcript - E08 Is life in Australia getting better? (.doc 36.5kB)
Australian Social Trends - Australian Bureau of Statistics
en-auOctober 09, 2012
E07 - Right person for the job
This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast looks at employed people aged 20-64 years with a qualification, and the relevance of their highest level qualification for their current employment.
Australian Social Trends - Australian Bureau of Statistics
en-auOctober 05, 2012
E06 - Sexually transmissible infections
This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast considers notification rates of major STIs by age and sex.
Transcript - E06 Sexually transmissible infections (.doc 81.5kB)
Australian Social Trends - Australian Bureau of Statistics
en-auSeptember 03, 2012
E05 - Child's play
This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast looks at participation in organised sport or dancing for children, by selected characteristics relative to an average or typical situation.
E04 - Children with a disability
This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast discusses the 'Children with a disability ' article from the June 2012 AST publication. It discusses the prevalence of disability among children aged 0-14 years, and the types of disability most common among children.
E03 - Love Me Do
This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast discusses the 'Love Me Do' article from the March 2012 AST publication. It examines trends in marriage, de facto relationships and divorce over the last twenty years.
E02 - Life on 'Struggle Street'
This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast discusses the 'Life on Struggle Street' article from the March 2012 AST publication. It looks at the characteristics of people in households with both relatively low income and relatively low wealth.
E01 - Disability and Work
This first Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast discusses the 'Disability and Work' article from the March 2012 AST publication. Are many people with disability engaged in work? If so, in what sort of jobs and how do their labour force characteristics differ from those without disability?