Contents: 1. People -- 2. Government and politics -- 3. Economy -- 4. Work and the labour force -- 5. Government taxes and spending -- 6. Health -- 7. Education -- 8. Inequality and social welfare -- 9. International relations -- 10. Environment -- 11. Science and technology -- 12. Telecommunications and computing -- 13. Media -- 14. Family -- 15. Lifestyles and consumption -- 16. Crime and social problems -- 17. The search for scoreboards -- 18. The Howard impact
Summary
"How Australia Compares is a reference that compares Australia with 17 developed countries across a wide range of social, economic and political dimensions. It gives not only snapshot comparisons from the present, but charts trends over recent decades or even longer. Encyclopaedic in scope, this book provides statistics for a huge range of human activity, from taxation to traffic accidents, homicide rates to health expenditure, interest rates to Internet usage."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis
Government performance
Statistics
Trends to 2010
Australia overseas comparisons
Social conditions
Economic conditions
Political conditions
Economics, business, industry (Australia)
Social studies (Australia)
Economics, business, industry
Notes
Previous ed: 2004
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references: pages 254-267