Australian Demographics Analysis, Profiling & Mapping
Regional Unemployment Index (RUIN) for August 2009 Sponsored by the Logan Government Association of Queensland The picture in August. The August unemployment figures show a net 240,000 Australians have lost full time jobs since November, due to the recession, while the stimulus has helped to create 168,000 jobs. Our profiling shows the full time jobs
Regional Unemployment Index (RUIN) – May 2009 Sponsored by Local Government Association of Queensland. Reading the report From the top, we have included some stereotype charts, which are a handy demographic snapshot of changes during the past 12 months. Then we have the Correlation charts, which are the main substance of the report. The things
Our ADS Elaborate modelling explained 96 percent of the variance in the 2PP ALP vote at the Queensland elections on March 21, 2009. The modelling showed swings to Labor in poor country towns and outer working class suburbs were led by those voters receiving the biggest slice of the $4 billion dollars in Rudd stimulus
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
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
Demographic Correlations for ALP Swing in Aston By-Election, July 2001 Download ASTON BY-ELECTION ANALYSIS
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
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
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.
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
