Australia Yearbook - 2001

1080 Year Book Australia 2001
pneumonia and influenza 330
poisonings 337, 338
poker/gaming machines 528
police 451–2, 490–2
crimes recorded by 458–62, 480–2
poliomyelitis 348, 378
political parties 64–5, 67, 69, 75–9, 80–1
political rights 72–4
politics and government 53–89, 130
pollution 581–2, 584–9, 599, 704–5
pollution conducive days 588
pome fruit 619, 626, 633
pool/billiards/snooker 526, 530
popular music festivals 519
population 129–210
see also age of population; attendance;
birthplaces of population; sex of population
population censuses xxvii, xxviii, xxxi,
129–30, 425–8
pork (pigmeat) 642, 646
portfolio international investment 1019–20
Portland cement 683, 723
ports and harbours 596–8, 740
Post Master General’s Department (PMG) 830–1
postal communications 829, 830, 838–9
postgraduate degrees, see qualifications
postneonatal deaths 372–3
potatoes 614, 626, 632, 953
poulterers and fishmongers 754
poultry 612, 613, 619, 620, 641, 642, 646, 723
poverty 387–8
Powell, Senator Janet 81
powerboating/waterskiing 529
Powerhouse Museum 543
prawns 660, 661, 662–3
pre-vocational training 435–6
precipitation 7–13, 16–17, 18–19, 28, 37–9
preferential voting 63
Premiers, States 66, 81
prepaid international airfares 791
presbyopia 329
Presbyterian and Reformed Church 164
preschool education 389, 404, 429
prescription medicine 265, 277, 357, 359, 360
preterm births 392
Price Index of Materials Used in
Building other than House Building 955, 956
Price Index of Materials Used in
House Building 955–6
Price Indexes of Articles Produced by
Manufacturing Industries 724, 954, 957–8
Price Indexes of Material Used in
Manufacturing Industries 723, 957
prices and price indexes 911, 945–65, 976
building materials 740–2, 955–6
houses 311–12, 949, 952
manufacturing 722–4, 954, 957–8
shares 910
trade 960–1, 1006, 1010, 1039–40
Wage Cost Index 236–8
see also chain volume measures
prickly pear 870
Priestley, Dr C.H.B. 31
primary education, see schools and schooling
primary industries 611–89
see also agriculture; fish and fishing; forests
and forest products
Prime Ministers 58–9, 60
former, graves of 278
Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and
Innovation Council 875
Prime Minister’s Science Council 875
prisons and prisoners 450–1, 469–74, 485–8
private forests 652
private health insurance 358–9, 360, 890
Private Health Insurance
Administration Council 890
private health services 327, 353, 355–7
private hospitals 353, 355–6
private medical practice 766–7
private non-profit research and
development 849, 851, 859–60
private pilots 821
private police 490
private rental accommodation 302–10, 315
see also dwelling tenure
private sector, see sector
private schools 403, 405–9, 421–2, 435,
438–42, 444, 445
private universities 437
privately operated prisons 469
privatisation, of Telstra 833
producer price indexes 953–60, 961–3
production 969–96
agricultural products 626–45
communications equipment and services 836
fisheries 598, 659–63
minerals 678–9