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Crime rates. In comparison to other English-speaking countries, such as New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, Australia in 2020 had an overall crime rate of 0.87 per 100,000 people, while the overall crime rate in North America was higher, with 2.1 per 100,000 in Canada and 6.5 per 100,000 in the United States.
The Australia Bureau of Statistics classifies prisoners (sentenced and unsentenced) according to the "most serious" crime with which they are charged. In 2022, statistics for charges were as follows: [53] Acts intended to cause injury: 10,557 individuals (26.0% of all prisoners) Sexual assault and related offences: 6,446 (15.9%)
Companies or groups of companies that pay $1,100,000 or more a year in Australian wages must pay payroll tax. [34] There are deductions, concessions and exemptions available to those that are eligible. From 1 July 2012: [32] The rate of payroll tax is 4.75%. The annual threshold is $1,100,000. The monthly threshold is $91,666.
The Australian crime rate statistic for 2021 was 0.74, a 13.51% decline from 2020. [ 28 ] Demography: The ABS publishes many demographic releases including data on population, [ 29 ] population growth [ 30 ] and projections, [ 31 ] interstate and overseas migration, [ 32 ] births, [ 33 ] deaths [ 34 ] and overseas arrivals and departures.
Taxation. Income tax in Australia is imposed by the federal government on the taxable income of individuals and corporations. State governments have not imposed income taxes since World War II. On individuals, income tax is levied at progressive rates, and at one of two rates for corporations. The income of partnerships and trusts is not taxed ...
The main source of information on homicides is the National Homicide Monitoring Program (NHMP), which was established in 1990 at the Australian Institute of Criminology.A 2001 study by Jenny Mouzos, using data from 1 July 1989 to 30 June 2000, showed that 15.7% of homicide offenders and 15.1% of homicide victims were Indigenous, while census statistics showed the rate of indigeneity of the ...
An Australian federal budget is a document that sets out the estimated revenues and expenditures of the Australian Treasury in the following financial year, proposed conduct of Australian government operations in that period, and its fiscal policy for the forward years. [1] Budgets are called by the year in which they are presented to ...
The Wieambilla shootings was a religiously motivated terrorist attack in Australia on 12 December 2022. It involved the killing of police constables Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow, and neighbour Alan Dare, at a rural property in Wieambilla, a locality in Queensland. Three residents, brothers Gareth and Nathaniel Train, and Gareth's wife ...