Demographic and socioeconomic outcomes acrosss the indigenous Australian lifecourse : evidence from the 2006 Census

Across almost all standard indicators, the Indigenous population of Australia has worse outcomes than the non-Indigenous population. Despite the abundance of statistics and a plethora of government reports on Indigenous outcomes, there is very little information on how Indigenous disadvantage accumulates or is mitigated through time at the individual level. The research that is available highlights two key findings. Firstly, that Indigenous disadvantage starts from a very early age and widens over time. Secondly, that the timing of key life events including education attendance, marriage, childbirth and retirement occur on average at different ages for the Indigenous compared to the non-Indigenous population. To target policy interventions that will contribute to meeting the Council of Australian Governments? (COAG) Closing the Gap targets, it is important to understand and acknowledge the differences between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous lifecourse in Australia, as well as the factors that lead to variation within the Indigenous population.

The 2011 T?hoku earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster (collectively referred to as '3.11', the date of the earthquake), had a lasting impact on Japan's identity and global image. In its immediate aftermath, mainstream media presented the country as a disciplined, resilient and composed nation, united in the face of a natural disaster. However, 3.11 also drew worldwide attention to the negative aspects of Japanese government and society, thought to have caused the unresolved situation at Fukushima.

Spurred by heightened emotions following the triple disaster, the Japanese became increasingly polarised between these two views of how to represent themselves. How did literature and popular culture respond to this dilemma? Re-imagining Japan after Fukushima attempts to answer that question by analysing how Japan was portrayed in post-3.11 fiction. Texts are selected from the Japanese, English and French languages, and the portrayals are also compared with those from non-fiction discourse. This book argues that cultural responses to 3.11 had a significant role to play in re-imagining Japan after Fukushima.

Preliminary......Page 1 List of Tables......Page 7 List of Figures......Page 9 Foreword......Page 11 Abbreviations and acronyms......Page 13 Acknowledgements......Page 15 1. The Indigenous lifecourse: Introduction and overview......Page 17 2. Data and methods......Page 31 3. Fertility and family formation......Page 39 4. Migration and mobility......Page 57 5. Education participation......Page 75 6. Employment......Page 99 7. Housing......Page 131 8. Health......Page 151 9. Childhood outcomes......Page 159 10. An Indigenous lifecourse? Implications and limitations......Page 169 Appendix 1. Additional model estimates......Page 183 References......Page 185