Headline Indicators

This photo was taken by the students of Katherine High School for Reconciliation Australia’s All About Us project that ran in their school in 2006. Photo courtesy of Reconciliation Australia. The first part of the Report focuses on the twelve headline indicators. These are measures of the major social and economic outcomes that need to improve, if the vision of an Australia in which Indigenous people enjoy the same opportunities and standard of living as other Australians is to be achieved.

Each headline indicator is discussed in turn. Key messages arising out of the data and ‘things that work’ in each area are presented, with references to relevant sections of the main Report.

Life expectancy at birth
Disability and chronic disease
Years 10 and 12 retention and attainment
Post secondary education - participation and attainment
Labour force participation and unemployment
Household and individual income
Home ownership
Suicide and self-harm
Substantiated child abuse and neglect
Deaths from homicide and hospitalisations for assault
Family and community violence
Imprisonment and juvenile detention rates

Report Chapter 3: Headline indicators
(PDF document)

Attachment 3A
(Excel document)