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Overcoming indigenous disadvantage - key indicators

Details:

Title

Overcoming indigenous disadvantage - key indicators

Creator

Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision

Collection

E-Publications; E-Books; PublicationNT

Date

2003-11

Description

The OID report measures the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians have been actively involved in the development and production of the report. Section 1.1 describes the origins of the report, and section 1.2 describes its key objectives. Section 1.3 provides contextual information on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population. Section 1.4 includes a brief historical narrative to help put the information in the report into context. Section 1.5 summarises some recent developments in government policy that have influenced the report and section 1.6 provides further information on the Steering Committee and the OID Working Group that advises it.

Notes

"These reports generally uses the term ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians’ to describe Australia’s first peoples and ‘non-Indigenous Australians’ to refer to Australians of other backgrounds, except where quoting other sources." Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this publication may contain images of deceased people.

Table of contents

Preliminaries -- Overview chapter -- Introduction -- The framework -- Key themes and interpretation -- COAG targets and headline indicators -- Governance, leadership and culture -- Early child development -- Education and training -- Healthy lives -- Economic participation -- Home environment -- Safe and supportive communities -- Outcomes for Torres Strait Islander people -- Measuring factors that improve outcomes -- Appendices.

Language

English

Subject

Aboriginal Australians -- Ecoomic conditions; Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions; Public welfare administration -- Australia; Aboriginal Australians -- Services for; Closing the Gap of Indigenous Disadvantage (Australia)

Publisher name

Australia. Productivity Commission for the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision

Place of publication

Canberra (A.C.T.)

Format

5 volumes (various pagings) : charts, colour map ; 30 cm.

File type

application/pdf

ISBN

9781740375917 (Print); 9781740375900 (PDF)

ISSN

1448-9805 (Print); 2206-9704 (Online)

Use

Copyright

Copyright owner

Australia. Productivity Commission for the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision

License

https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2019C00042

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/267090

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/445158

Related items

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/445153; https://hdl.handle.net/10070/445154; https://hdl.handle.net/10070/445156; https://hdl.handle.net/10070/445151

Page content

TABLE 4A.11.3 Table 4A.11.3 Unit NSW Vic Qld WA SA Tas ACT NT Aust Children (aged 017 years) who were the subject of a substantiation, by type of abuse or neglect, by State and Territory, 2009-10 to 2014-15 (proportion and rate per 1000) (a), (b), (c) 2010-11 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children Physical abuse % 19.7 30.3 21.4 20.4 11.1 7.7 25.5 15.9 20.0 Sexual abuse % 14.4 5.2 5.0 20.6 5.5 4.6 6.6 4.3 9.8 Emotional abuse % 28.2 56.1 37.1 18.7 29.6 50.0 40.6 26.1 32.4 Neglect % 37.6 8.3 36.5 40.3 53.8 37.7 27.4 53.6 37.9 Total % 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Total (number) no. 3 303 768 1 731 539 452 146 106 1 186 8 231 Non-Indigenous children Physical abuse % 20.2 31.8 21.5 22.2 17.0 13.4 25.2 38.4 23.8 Sexual abuse % 25.8 10.3 6.6 18.1 7.9 8.0 9.4 8.6 15.4 Emotional abuse % 27.8 50.7 41.3 23.2 34.0 42.4 27.7 22.8 37.7 Neglect % 26.2 7.1 30.5 36.5 41.0 36.2 37.7 30.2 23.1 Total % 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Total (number) no. 8 194 6 557 4 032 695 1 334 771 329 232 22 144 Unknown (f) Physical abuse % 15.4 27.5 23.9 20.0 25.6 16.7 57.1 24.3 Sexual abuse % 15.4 9.6 28.3 4.4 9.3 28.6 19.7 Emotional abuse % 28.2 100.0 40.4 15.1 20.0 40.9 43.3 14.3 25.3 Neglect % 41.0 22.5 32.7 55.6 24.2 40.0 30.6 Total % 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Total (number) no. 39 2 178 636 45 215 30 7 1 152 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children Physical abuse rate 7.2 11.7 4.5 3.0 3.2 1.0 11.1 7.1 5.8 Sexual abuse rate 5.3 2.0 1.0 3.0 1.6 0.6 2.9 1.9 2.8 Emotional abuse rate 10.3 21.7 7.7 2.8 8.7 6.3 17.7 11.6 9.3 Neglect rate 13.8 3.2 7.6 5.9 15.8 4.8 12.0 23.8 10.9 Total rate 36.6 38.6 20.8 14.7 29.3 14.2 43.7 44.3 28.9 Non-Indigenous children Physical abuse rate 1.1 1.7 0.9 0.3 0.7 0.9 1.1 2.5 1.1 Sexual abuse rate 1.4 0.6 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.6 0.4 0.6 0.7 Emotional abuse rate 1.5 2.8 1.7 0.3 1.3 2.9 1.2 1.5 1.7 Neglect rate 1.4 0.4 1.3 0.5 1.6 2.5 1.6 2.0 1.1 Total rate 5.3 5.5 4.1 1.4 4.0 7.2 4.2 6.5 4.6 Proportion Rate per 1000 children (g) OVERCOMING INDIGENOUS DISADVANTAGE 2016 ATTACHMENT TABLES PAGE 5 of TABLE 4A.11.3