Australia Yearbook - 2001

1086 Year Book Australia 2001
cultural funding 522, 551
death rates 148
drinking water 581–4
education and training 403–5, 412, 422, 423,
425, 433–46:
veterans’ children 273, 274
electricity production, renewable
energy in 703, 704
employment 226, 230, 236, 237
fertility rates 371
fisheries 660–1, 663, 665
forestry 602, 652, 656, 657
government 57, 63–8, 130, 230:
women and 72–3, 74, 77–9, 80,
81, 82, 87, 88
government finance 922–32, 936–40
government research and development
expenditure 849, 850
gross State product 987–8
health care delivery and financing 327, 352,
356
HIV infection 347
housing and accommodation 299–300,
303–4, 314, 316–17
Indigenous people 135, 164–5, 198, 316–17,
371, 422, 423, 425
industrial disputes 241
information technology use 841–2
manufacturing 717–19
market research services 764
mining and mineral resources 671–3, 677,
680–3, 684–5, 686, 696–7
Musica Viva audiences 510
National Estate places 500
parks, gardens, zoos and aquaria 504, 580
population 131–2, 135,
136–42, 198–206
ports, ballast water discharges in 596, 597
rail transport 802–3, 818
real estate services 761
recreation and sport funding 527
residential aged care, Commonwealth
expenditure on 269
retail industry 754
road transport 804, 809–11,
813, 816–18, 820, 821
roads 815
salinity 602–3
ships registered 819
sports and physical activities 527, 530
symphony orchestras 550–1
tourism 786–8, 790, 796
waste disposal 585
water resources 18
see also capital cities; federation; local
government; Murray–Darling Basin
States Grants Housing Act 1971, payments to
States under 256
Statistical Registers
xxviii
statistics xxvii–xl, 314, 316–17, 544, 553
statistics cadetship scheme
xxxiii
steel, see iron and steel
steroids 462
stock markets 894, 910
stone fruit 619, 626, 633
stony deserts 6
storage price indexes 959
storms 12, 42–3, 44, 45, 47
see also tropical cyclones
Strategic Assistance for Research and
Development Program 862–3
Streten, Dr N.A. 32
Strickland, Shirley 526
strikes (industrial disputes) 240–1, 719, 743
stripper harvester 866
stroke 173, 330, 334–6, 349
Stronger Families and Communities
Strategy 267
Stronger Families Fund 268
Student Financial Supplement 256
students 176, 403, 405–9,
413–21, 433, 439
government assistance payments 256, 260–1,
264, 273, 274
Indigenous 98, 421–5
mental health 389
from overseas 184, 185, 414
transportation, expenditure on 429
veterans’ children 273, 274
study courses/fields 413, 416–17, 421, 422, 424
study/work violence 457
stump jump plough 621
subscription broadcasting services 515, 517,
774, 775
substance abuse 341, 342, 489–90
see also alcohol; drugs; tobacco and cigarettes
sudden infant death syndrome 391
suffrage 72–4
sugar and sugar cane 614, 618, 619, 620, 626,
635–6, 866
bagasse 703
rail transport 818
2kg, price of 953
wager consumption 593
suicide 338, 339, 341–2, 349
during or following homicide incidents 484
prisoners 488
young people 375
sulphonamides 379
sunflower 626
sunshine 15–16
Sunshine Airlines 818
superannuation 239–40, 430