Nov 2008 – RUIN

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Nov 2008 – RUIN

Category:Labour Market

Regional Unemployment Index (RUIN) November – 2008 Towards the end of 2008, it was apparent Australia was entering a major downturn which could become a recession. This was seen as an excellent opportunity for a  demographic profiling company like ADS to take a closer look at labour market statistics at a regional level, showing profiles


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2007 – Election Profile

Category:Election Profiles,National 2007

Kevin Rudd in 2007 achieved the impossible and breathed life into the Whitlam era blue collar Labor voter. Across Australian working class suburbs and electorates, the Whitlam profile stirred into life via the sons and daughters of Gough. In fact the profile of the Rudd majority looks a little like a seventies Gough Whitlam rally held


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Jul 2001 – Aston By-Election Analysis

Category:By-Elections

Demographic Correlations for ALP Swing in Aston By-Election, July 2001 Download  ASTON BY-ELECTION ANALYSIS    


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Where the ALP lost its longtime supporters

Category:Election Profiles,National 2013

LAST Saturday, in polling booths inside $14.2 billion worth of new school halls constructed under Labor’s Building the Education Revolution program, a bare 33.9 per cent of Australian electors voted for Labor candidates. It was the lowest primary vote won by the ALP since 1903, when the fledgling party won 31 per cent of the


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1998 – Election Profile

Category:Election Profiles,National 1998

  Electoral Snakes and Ladders Anyone who has played snakes and ladders knows that, just before the winning square, there is always a big bad snake’s head, to take the would be winner right back to square one. The ALP 1998 almost-victory is a classic tale of electoral snakes and ladders. Labor candidates won 51.4


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Religion and Politics

Category:Election Profiles,National 2007

In the 2007 election, we saw significant swings to the Christian Kevin Rudd led Labor Party across seats where religions such as Pentecostals and Lutherans were strongly represented and this relationship between the outer urban Pentecostals and the more rural Lutherans proved enduring enough to last right through to the end of the modelling process.


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Notes on Political Economy June 10

Category:Election Profiles,National 2010

In this note we are presenting some data relevant to the current Australian political economy, where we are in the middle of an election campaign, albeit a very boring one, and at the tail end of a major economic downturn, which is turning out to have quite a sting in its for poorer sections of


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May Regional Unemployment Index

Category:Labour Market

The May 2010 Regional Unemployment Index (RUIN) shows that the 2009 downturn is well and truly over, with demand for high SES jobs now so high that unemployment is heading down towards two percent in some wealthier suburbs and demand driven inflation should now be a real concern for the Reserve Bank.  ADS RUIN REPORT


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The original One Nation Profile

Category:Election Profiles,National 1998

Back in 1998 the major parties were under pressure from One Nation, particularly in the State of Queensland, where the fledgling party scored well amongst the older, rural, Australian born, less well educated and those with low-income, blue collar jobs. Fast forward to 2011 and the major parties are again under pressure with Green and


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Impact of the GFC on Education

Category:Education

Read the latest report on the impact the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has had on education costs on Australian enrolments by sector Latest ED Stats March 2011.pdf