Australia’s population is bigger, more diverse, census shows – By Timna Jacks Source:smh.com.au She’s a woman in her 30s who lives with a partner and has a child. She was born in Australia, went to a government school and finished year 12. She lives in a capital city and her family brings in about $3000 a week. That is the picture painted of the average Australian in the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ 2021 census data, released on Tuesday. While the number of people who share all those traits may be small, this is the imperfect picture drawn from the first tranche of data collected on August 10 last year, when many of us were in lockdown to halt the spread of COVID-19. More Australian families and households were together on census night last year compared with census night in 2016, with 96 per cent of people counted at home rather ...

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