The data is all over the place but the best place to go is the ABS.

Go here:
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/7127.0Main+Features1Jun%202013?OpenDocument

From there you can download spreadsheets (click the Download button) and get most of the data I mentioned.

Dan S de Merengue, last time i checked schools in the land of OZ teach English.

mhaze, but the ABS stats are rigged & faked. Furthermore heaps of Australian farming land is marginal, 3.5% to 5% of Australia is PRIME agricultural land & that is what ALL the foreigners want to buy. Talk to anyone concerned about Chinese foreign ownership & you will find they don't care who foreigners are, they favour 100% Australian ownership of strategic Australian assets.

Mr Opinion, mhaze is a communist & you should never believe anything a communist says.

" the ABS stats are rigged & faked.....mhaze is a communist & you should never believe anything a communist says."

Wow, where do these people come from?

I'm a great believer in the freedom of speech and that everyone has a right to his opinion and his say. But sometimes you just wish that some people would avoid embarrassing themselves by not spewing their utter ignorance all over the page.

the ABS stats are rigged & faked!! Wow, there's just no response to such idiocy. Just shake your head and marvel that such people manage to get out of bed in the morning.

mhaze, Q, do you really genuinely believe that the UN-employment stats are as low as the ABS say they are?

So what you're saying, imarightwingconspiracytheorist, is that the reasoning behind your rejection of the ABS's statistics is one big Argument from Incredulity fallacy.

AJ Philips, NO, the corrupt ABS has been fudging stats for years now. The UN-employment stats are simply the most obvious example. Have you heard of a little thing called the enlightenment? That happened because of the printing press & books.

Right now seniors are surfing the net, using social media to communicate across the land, meeting in groups locally like Men's Shed, Senior Citizens, etc AND at the same time you have the "grey nomads" meeting, talking to each other in camping grounds all over the land of OZ.

What exactly do you think happens when retired people from ALL over the land of OZ, from ALL industries & ALL walks of life get together around a camp fire, share some yarns? They find out that the bastards have been lying about EVERYTHING, 24/7/365 for at least half a century & their hatred of the ruling, left wing elites grows daily.

Remember the Monty Python "4 Yorkshireman" sketch? Right now as we type there are older Australians outdoing each other with stories about extreme incompetence & corruption among the Arts, Entertainment, Media, Education, Public Service, Politics. "They are as mad as hell & they are not going to take it anymore"