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The health and welfare of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: 2015
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The health and welfare of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: 2015
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Topic: First Nations people
Citation
AIHW (2015) The health and welfare of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: 2015, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 7 June 2026, doi:10.25816/5ebcbd26fa7e4.
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The health and welfare of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 2015 is the eighth in a series of reports that provide a comprehensive statistical picture of a range of topics considered important for improving the health and wellbeing of Indigenous people. The report presents up-to-date statistics, as well as trend information. It examines differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, as well as differences by factors such as age, sex and, in particular remoteness.
- ISBN: 978-1-74249-683-2
- DOI: 10.25816/5ebcbd26fa7e4
- Cat. no: IHW 147
- Pages: 200
Findings from this report:
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The majority of Indigenous children in their first year of full-time schooling were developmentally on track
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The unemployment rate for Indigenous people was 4.2 times as high as the rate for non-Indigenous people
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Almost half of Indigenous adults reported that either they or their relatives had been removed from their natural family
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Indigenous Australians were twice as likely as non-Indigenous Australians to have severe or profound disability