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Education Geographics
Your anonymised school enrolment data is exhaustively analysed by our EGS teams of professional statisticians, demographic profilers, and spatial analysts to help you to answer critical strategic questions.
Who are our parents? What can their own background and profile tell us about what they want from our school? How do we talk to them on social media? Can they afford our fees? Where can we find more of them? How can we transport them to our school?
Australian Development Strategies
ELABORATE is the name given to both the database and the analytical techniques developed by Australian Development Strategies Pty Ltd (ADS) principals during 50 years of experience in using demographic analysis, profiling and mapping to solve practical problems.
ADS Pty Ltd is the parent company of and data provider to Education Geographics and Health Geographics.
Health Geographics
Health Geographics was established by ADS to link the health component of the Elaborate database with an online dashboard and Esri maps, to develop a new business focussing on health and welfare services, our fastest growing industry group, which has generated one in three Australian jobs in the last decade.
Health Geographics provides online dashboards and maps highlighting investment risks and opportunities for Australian Health and Welfare sectors.
Recent News
2GB’s John Stanley & John Black 30th Dec, 2024
I was interviewed by 2GB’s John Stanley this morning about my current predictions for the next federal election due before May 17, which currently puts Peter Dutton ahead in the race to win a majority of seats in the House of Representatives and hence form a Coalition Government with Peter Dutton as Prime Minister. Here’s
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Forthcoming Federal Elections Current State of Play Across Individual Seats
I had a story in the New Year’s edition of the AFR on the current state of play across individual seats at the forthcoming Federal Election. Here’s the link to the story, behind the AFR paywall: 🔗 It looks like Albo might need that beach house in 2025 https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/it-looks-like-albo-might-need-that-beach-house-in-2025-20241227-p5l0ss. There’s a lot that can happen
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Election Time Again
I had a chat with Laura Tingle on the ABC 7:30 Report on Monday night about the possible range of outcomes for the political parties and independents at the national elections, due by May 17 next year. We also canvassed some of the issues driving voters when they make their voting decision. Fellow election tragics
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Webinar: Saul Eslake on US Presidential Election Impact on Australian Economy
We are pleased to welcome back Australia’s living economic legend Saul Eslake to our Education Geographics Webinars on November 15, when Saul will focus on the impact of the US Presidential Election on the Australian economy in the lead-up to the Australian General Election due by May 2025. Whoever wins, the outcome of the United
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John Stanley & John Black 28th October, 2024
I was interviewed by 2GB’s John Stanley this week, following my articles in the Australian Financial Review and my social media post on last weekend’s Queensland State election. The interview with John was longer than usual and gave us a chance to deal a bit more in depth with the political implications of the State
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Queensland vote a pivotal moment for Greens
I wrote a Queensland State election preview for the Australian Financial Review which appeared at the weekend and the link is here, albeit behind the AFR paywall. https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/queensland-vote-a-pivotal-moment-for-greens-20241024-p5kkyl The story is headlined: Queensland vote a pivotal moment for Greens, as it analyses the electoral fortunes of the Greens since the party rose from the
Read MoreWhat Our Clients Say
Billanook College has worked with John Black and the Education Geographics team for many years now and this partnership has been critical to underpinning the Strategic Planning that we have conducted as a school. Their focus on providing quantitative information, supported by broad industry knowledge, has formed an essential part of our decision making and I would highly recommend their work to my colleagues.
Roger Oates
( Principal - Billanook College )As a result of the work we have done with ADS and Business Geographics, our approach to future enrolment recruitment has become far more strategic, focussed and efficient. In particular, the geo-coding of enrolments has enabled us to recalibrate our bus runs… so as to maximise service to families with enrolled students in 2015. Really useful data.
Geoff McLay
( Principal - West Moreton Anglican College )ADS demographic profiling has helped us focus marketing initiatives in areas where we could make the biggest enrolment gains. ADS also coordinated a follow up phone survey which was valuable in a number of ways. It led to several parents contacting the College for more information, assisted the College to better understand the thinking behind the decision making of parents in the local area and provided a new perspective on current and future bus routes. I would recommend the process to any school looking for new insights into how to gain enrolments.
Steve Croft
( Retired Head of College - Springfield Anglican College )Our College has used the services of John Black (ADS) for many years now, and reliable statistics with great interpretation has given our Board and Executive greater confidence about the marketplace than we could possibly have otherwise. Every school should be watching its market and demographics closely, and in this field, the work of John Black (ADS) is outstanding
Pastor Ron Woolley
( Retired Headmaster - Citipointe Christian College )These new on line reports and the format they are presented on are fantastic. There is a lot of rich data there that would have gathered dust in the hard copy of the report, but the interactivity of the site is much more conducive to digesting the material. One key to making this useful is your interpretation and descriptions for the items like Stereotypes, Demographics, etc. Thanks for taking us on as a demonstration school. I hope you benefit from it as much as we are.
Stephen Cooke
( Former Business Manager - St Andrews Lutheran College )John Black, through ADS and Education Geographics has assisted our strategic marketing, enrolment targeting, bus routes and aided in a deeper understanding of our current parent demographics and the overall demographics of our drawing area. This has been done via data sets, presented as interactive maps and easy to understand visual information. The interactive maps and visual information comes with easy to understand instructions and most importantly, accurate analysis.
Allan Shaw
( Retired Principal and Chief Executive - The Knox School )Meet Our Greatest Partnery
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St Catherine’s School – Waverley
Tyndale Christian School (NSW)
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Trinity Christian School (ACT)
Rosebank College (NSW)
Great Southern Grammar (WA)
Our Lady of Mercy College Parramatta (NSW)
Saint Stephens College (Qld)
St Andrew’s Catholic College Redlynch (Qld)
Trinity Anglican School
St Martin’s Lutheran College
St Paul’s Anglican Grammar School
Tanunda Lutheran School
St Michael’s Lutheran Primary School
St Peters Lutheran College
St Peter’s Lutheran School
The Anglican School Googong
Strathcona Baptist Girls School
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