1301.0 - Year Book Australia, 2005

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Building a national statistical agency: From the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (Feature Article)
Temperature measurement and the Stevenson screen (Feature Article)
Drawing House of Representatives electorate boundaries (Feature Article)
Sustainable microfinance in Vietnam (Feature Article)
Population figures for state grants - an historical perspective (Feature Article)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians - projections 2001 to 2009 (Feature Article)
Australia's top four overseas birthplace groups (Feature Article)
Same-sex couple families (Feature Article)
The population census - a brief history (Feature Article)
Selected findings from the 2002 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (Feature Article)
Labour force experience (Feature Article)
Working arrangements (Feature Article)
Young people in employment (Feature Article)
Mature age workers (Feature Article)
Labour costs (Feature Article)
History of the monthly Labour Force Survey (Feature Article)
Cancer trends (Feature Article)
Living with asthma (Feature Article)
Paying for university education (Feature Article)
Women in prison (Feature Article)
100 years of change in Australian industry (Feature Article)
Australian wine and grape industries in perspective - a decade of growth (Feature Article)
Australia's beef cattle industry (Feature Article)
A snapshot of the largest energy users (Feature Article)
Australia's automotive industry (Feature Article)
Australian home size is growing (Feature Article)
Rugby World Cup 2003 - the short-term impact on the Australia economy (Feature Article)
Completion of the Adelaide to Darwin railway line (Feature Article)
Use of urban public transport in Australia (Feature Article)
Road fatalities and fatality rates - 1925 to 2003 (Feature Article)
Use of information technology by older people (Feature Article)
The use made of ABS statistics by the Commonwealth Grants Commission (Feature Article)
History of retail/consumer prices indexes in Australia (Feature Article)
Price impacts on the living costs of selected Australian household types (Feature Article)
Impact of the farm season on Australian production in 2002-03 and 2003-04 (Feature Article)
Is life in Australia getting better? Beyond GDP: Measures of economic, social and environmental progress (Feature Article)
Australian outward foreign affiliates trade (Feature Article)
ABS 2005 Year Book launched today (Media Release)
ABS 2005 Year Book to be launched this Friday (Media Release)
Reminder: Embargo copies of ABS 2005 Year Book still available on request (Media Release)
ABS 2005 Year Book: Request Your Embargo Copy Now (Media Release)

Contents >> Defence >> Introduction

This chapter was contributed by the Australian Government Department of Defence (October 2004).

This chapter provides a snapshot of the roles and activities of the Defence organisation - the Australian Defence Force and the Department of Defence. In particular, it focuses on the strategic environment, current operations and capability. The chapter also shows trends in Defence spending, and looks at the composition of the workforce.