141 - Household power and fuel costs - 1984 - 2016 Proportion

The history of household spending on power and electricity in Australia, going back quite some time. Source - by proportion - which is interesting. Power and gas hasn't increased as much as I expected it would have.

140 - Household power and fuel costs - 1984 - 2016

The history of household spending on power and electricity in Australia, going back quite some time. Source

018 - Renewable energy jobs by year, by state - interactive chart

The last chart from a series on the ABS' latest release on renewable energy jobs. The chart below is an explorer tool to dig into the data by state. Source.

017 - Queensland dominates rooftop PV penetration

As part of the ABS' recent data release on employment, an update of recent installation data on rooftop-PV was included, shown below. Queensland dominates. It's very sunny there.

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016 - Employment in renewables by technology type

Recently, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released a snapshot of employment in renewable energy in Australia, with some fascinating insights broken down by industry below. The industry has risen, and fallen, largely due to the fluctuations in the deployment of rooftop-scale PV.

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009 - Islam isn't swamping Australia: religious affiliation in Australia

There's been plenty of talk on the growth of Islam in Australia. Essential found that more than half of Australians are 'concerned' about Muslims. But the actual number of people adhering to the religion in Australia is tiny. Source: ABS.

008 - Immigration looks different, compared to a few decades back

Immigration is an increasingly prominent issue in Australian politics - the chart below shows first generation Australians (those born overseas) skew towards Indian and China, whereas second and third generation Australian skew towards European countries. Source - ABS.