Overcoming indigenous disadvantage - key indicators
Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision
E-Publications; E-Books; PublicationNT
2003-11
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.
"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.
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.
English
Aboriginal Australians -- Ecoomic conditions; Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions; Public welfare administration -- Australia; Aboriginal Australians -- Services for; Closing the Gap of Indigenous Disadvantage (Australia)
Australia. Productivity Commission for the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision
Canberra (A.C.T.)
5 volumes (various pagings) : charts, colour map ; 30 cm.
application/pdf
9781740375917 (Print); 9781740375900 (PDF)
1448-9805 (Print); 2206-9704 (Online)
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Australia. Productivity Commission for the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision
https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2019C00042
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/267090
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/445158
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/445153; https://hdl.handle.net/10070/445154; https://hdl.handle.net/10070/445156; https://hdl.handle.net/10070/445151
11.12 OVERCOMING INDIGENOUS DISADVANTAGE 2016 11.2 Drug and other substance use and harm3 Box 11.2.1 Key messages In 2014-15, around two-thirds (68.6 per cent) of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults reported not having used drugs in the previous 12 months (table 11A.2.1). The proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults reporting illicit substance use in the previous 12 months increased from around 23 per cent in all earlier survey periods (2002, 2008 and 2012-13) to 30.8 per cent in 2014-15 (table 11A.2.1). This increase was driven by higher reported non-medical use of analgesics and sedatives, by both males (11.3 per cent) and females (14.5 per cent) (figure 11.2.1) and in non-remote areas (table 11A.2.3). Between 2004-05 and 2014-15, after adjusting for differences in population age structures, for NSW, Victoria, Queensland, WA, SA and the NT combined, rates of hospitalisation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians increased from 1.4 to 2.3 times the rate for other Australians for drug-related poisoning, and increased from 2.7 to 3.1 times the rate for drug-related mental/behavioural disorders (table 11A.2.10). For 20102014, after adjusting for differences in population age structures, for NSW, Queensland, WA, SA and the NT combined, the drug-induced death rate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians was 1.9 times the rate for non-Indigenous Australians (table 11A.2.14). In 2013-14, a smaller proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander homicides had drug involvement (7 out of 24) than non-Indigenous homicides (53 out of 141) (table 11A.2.15). Box 11.2.2 Measures of drug and other substance use and harm There is one main measure for this indicator. Substance use is defined as the proportion of people aged 18 years and over who reported using illicit substances or misusing licit substances in the previous 12 months. Data are sourced from the ABS Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (AATSIHS)/National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS), with the most recent available data for 2014-15 from the NATSISS (all jurisdictions; sex; age). Data are not available for non-Indigenous Australians or (for the 2004-05 survey) remote areas. Three supplementary measures are also reported by Indigenous status: Drug related hospitalisations (all jurisdictions; sex; remoteness) Drug induced deaths (NSW, Queensland, WA, SA and the NT; sex) Drug involvement in homicides (national). The misuse of legal drugs has major negative effects on individuals, families and communities (see section 11.1 Alcohol consumption and harm and section 8.4 Tobacco 3 The Steering Committee notes its appreciation to Dr Kyllie Cripps, University of NSW, who reviewed a draft of this section of the report.
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