This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast discusses the 'Life on Struggle Street' article from the March 2012 AST publication. It looks at the characteristics of people in households with both relatively low income and relatively low wealth.

E02 - Life on 'Struggle Street'

Australian Social Trends (AST) podcasts bring you short, easy listening highlights from the Australian Bureau of Statistics' latest release of the AST publication. Each quarterly release of AST contains several in depth articles, which cover many broad areas of social concern such as population, health, work and housing just to name a few. We aim to do this in an interesting and easy to understand way. Other aims of AST are to address current and perennial social concerns and to provide answers to key social questions. Each podcast will focus in upon the highlights from a different article.

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This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast discusses the characteristics of 18-34 year olds in 1976 and 2011

E13 - Young adults: Then and now

This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast discusses the characteristics of the average Australian

E12 - The average Australian

This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast discusses the characteristics of people identified as having dementia or Alzheimer's disease in the 2009 Survey of Disability, Ageing and Caring

E11 - People identified as having dementia or Alzheimer's disease

Australians have a higher income, an increased life expectancy, and are better educated compared with a decade ago.  But, the number of animals and plants which are endangered has increased over the last ten years.

E08 - Is life in Australia getting better?

This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast looks at employed people aged 20-64 years with a qualification, and the relevance of their highest level qualification for their current employment.

E02 - Life on 'Struggle Street'

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