Australia Yearbook - 2001

Year Book Australia 2001 1063
Dwyer, Leonard J. (Len) 31, 35
E
e-commerce 675, 843
ear diseases and deafness 329, 330
early intervention 267, 268
earnings, see income
ears and hearing 270–1, 768–9, 877
East Timor 95, 105, 117
Eastern Australia Airlines 818
eastern gemfish 598
Eastern Highlands 4–5, 7
Eccles, John 872
economic development corporations 891
economic statistics xxxii–xxxiii, xxxv–xxxvi
ecosystems 589–91
education (field of study) 413, 416, 421, 422,
424
education and training 176, 192, 389–90,
403–46, 947
in arts 517–19
development education 107
lack of, barrier to employment 225, 226
overseas students 184, 185, 414
parental, on child health 377
police 491
recreational courses 521
sport 523, 527
student assistance payments 256, 260–1, 264
travel purpose 788, 789, 790, 791, 793–4
veterans’ children 273, 274
see also higher education; industry
and industry sector; students;
vocational education and training
education and training premises 739
cleaning services 765
educational attainment 417–18
see also qualifications
effluent 586–7
EFTPOS 905
eggs 620, 641, 953
Elder, Sir Thomas 549
elections 57, 59, 63–5, 70
women candidates 72, 73, 74–80, 82–4
women’s suffrage 72–4
Electoral Commissioner 63
electoral system 62–3, 69, 77, 80
electorates 63, 130
electrical goods and apparatus 1008–9, 1034
electricity 700–1, 702–4, 723
engineering construction 740
in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander communities 320–2
see also industry and industry sector
electronic commerce 675, 843
electronic transactions 843
elementary education, see schools and schooling
elevation 4, 5
see also mountains
elite sport 523, 526, 527
Elizabethan Trust Opera Company 550
Ellery, Robert 27
email 840, 841
embassies and high commissions 86, 109–13
emergency accommodation 267, 314, 315
emergency aid programs 106
Emergency Relief Program 267
emigration 150, 183, 186–7
emission trading 705–6
employee benefits 239–40
employers 221
payroll tax 936, 939, 940
employment 190–2, 213–47
health work force 355, 360–1
Indigenous people 197, 198
people with a disability 257–8, 268
in research and development activities 849,
853–60
size of business 571–2
travel purpose 790, 793–4
women 175–6, 386–7
working from home 843
see also public sector employment; income
employment agencies, persons paid by 231
employment status 216–19, 221
educational attendance 419–20
health status 328
Indigenous people 198
Internet users 844
married women 387
sexual assault victims 457
endangered, vulnerable and
threatened species 589–91, 595, 596, 600, 603
endemic species, see native species
energy 255, 693–708
household expenditure 255
see also electricity
engineering 712, 758–9, 874
construction 732, 733–4, 740
courses/field of study 413, 416, 421, 424
English language proficiency 165–6
enteritis and diarrhoea 173, 332, 376, 377
entertainment allowance 239