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On 7 February 2005 at 20:36:40 (Canberra time), the resident population of Australia is projected to be:
20,260,307
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Total demand for credit by the non-financial domestic sectors for the September quarter 2004 was $34.3b, a decrease of $10.8b on the previous quarter. Decreased borrowing by households (down $8.9b), repayments by national general government (up $5.0b) and decreased raisings by private non-financial corporations (down $1.0b) were the main contributors to the fall.
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* Private non-financial corporations raised $13.9b, with share raisings of $4.3b (down $1.2b) and loans of $5.7b (down $3.9b).
* National public non-financial corporations raised $0.2b and state and local public non-financial corporations raised $1.0b during the quarter.
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National general government repaid $3.3b during the quarter by redeeming bonds. State and local general government raised $0.9b by loan issuance
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Death rate
7.38 deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.)
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More males than females were victims of robbery and blackmail/extortion (68% of victims were male for both), murder and attempted murder (both 67%) and assault (57%). For sexual assault and kidnapping/abduction more females were victims than males (82% and 62%).
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Persons aged 24 years or less comprised the majority of recorded victims of sexual assault (72%) and kidnapping/abduction (71%), and nearly half of victims of robbery (49%). In contrast, this age group comprised less than one in three victims of attempted murder (31%), murder (27%), driving causing death (25%) and blackmail/extortion (25%).
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Persons in the 15-19 year and 20-24 year age groups had the highest assault rates (1,600 per 100,000 population). This was more than twice the total assault victimisation rate, and has been the same since 1995
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The victimisation rates displayed further variation across certain offence categories when classified by age and sex. For sexual assault, males aged 14 years and under had the highest victimisation rate (89 per 100,000 population) of any male age group and their rate was nearly three times that of the general male population. For females the highest sexual assault victimisation rate was for the 10-19 year age group (497 per 100,000 population), over three times the rate for the general female population.
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Persons aged 15-19 years were three and a half times more likely to be victims of robbery than the general population. The victimisation rate for robbery was the highest in the 20-24 year age group for females (117 per 100,000 population) but highest in the 15-19 year age group for males (468 per 100,000 population).
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Relationship of offender to victim
Approximately half of the victims of murder, attempted murder, assault and sexual assault knew their offender. For sexual assault, the victim was four times more likely to know the offender than not. A higher proportion of female than male victims had a family member as their offender for the offences of murder, attempted murder and assault. For sexual assaults the proportion of victims with a family member offender was similar for males and females, at around 29%.
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For murder, attempted murder, assault and sexual assault, the victim was most likely to have been subjected to the offence in a residential location. This was especially the case for victims of sexual assault where two in three victims were sexually assaulted in a residential location. More than three in five victims of kidnapping/abduction were taken from a community location, with more than one in four taken from a residential location.
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WEAPON USE
A weapon was most likely to have been used in attempted murder (76%) and murder (58%), and least likely in sexual assault (1%) in 2003. The proportion of murders involving a weapon peaked in 1996 at 78% while the proportion of attempted murders involving a weapon peaked in 1997 at 87%. The proportion of assault offences involving a weapon increased from 10% in 1995 to 13% in 2003.
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A weapon was used in 36% of robberies recorded in 2003. The proportion of robberies in which a weapon was used increased from 36% in 1994 to 46% in 1998 and has since generally declined. For those robberies that involved a weapon, the proportion involving a firearm decreased from 36% in 1994 to 15% in 2003. The proportion of kidnapping/abduction where a weapon was used also fluctuated from 11% in 1995 to 24% in 1999. Since 1999, this proportion has declined to 16% in 2003.
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With the exception of assault, a knife was the most common type of weapon used and was involved in 33% of attempted murders, 28% of murders and 19% of robberies. A firearm was involved in 20% of attempted murders, 13% of murders and 6% of robberies.
A firearm was used in 6% of robberies recorded in 2003, the equal lowest proportion since national reporting began in 1993. The proportion of murders involving a firearm in 2003 was also at its lowest on record at 13%. Firearm use in murders peaked at 32% in 1996, but has since declined steadily. For attempted murders in 2003, a firearm was used in 20% of offences, marginally above its low of 19% in 1998 and well below its high of 32% in 1999.
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Australia's fertility rate has remained steady over the past six years, according to new figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today.
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In 2003 the total fertility rate was 1.75 babies per woman, similar to rates of between 1.73 and 1.76 babies per woman recorded since 1998.
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For the fourth consecutive year women aged 30–34 years experienced the highest fertility of all age groups, with 113 babies per 1,000 women.