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Indigenous Studies

Finding Statistics and Reports

Finding Government Reports

You won't hear it from us often, but Google has some great features for searching for government reports, policies, statistics and other useful documents. (But please do not rely on using Google for all your references.)

  • Use (double) quotation marks to define phrases (multiple words found together, rather than separately) - use "tertiary education" to find the exact phrase rather than tertiary education (which might find her recent education included studying the tertiary geological period).
  • Add site:gov.au to restrict results to only government websites.

Indigenous "tertiary education" site:gov.au

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You can also:

  • use site:vic.gov.au to restrict to Victorian government web sites.
  • use a year range to look for years in the results, such as daterange:2012-2015
  • specify the filetype of results (such as only PDF documents).

Indigenous "tertiary education" site:vic.gov.au daterange:2014-2016 filetype:PDF

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You can also use parentheses (round brackets) and OR for alternative terms (works best at the end of the search line):

Indigenous site:vic.gov.au daterange:2020-2024 filetype:PDF ("tertiary education" OR university)

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We can also exclude a search term from our results (similar to using NOT in a database) by putting a hyphen or minus sign in front of the word (or phrase in quotes). For example, to exclude results that include the word Melbourne, we can use -Melbourne

Indigenous site:vic.gov.au daterange:2020-2024 filetype:PDF university -Melbourne

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Warning: excluding results that have the word Melbourne will also exclude results that have Melbourne and rural details, or Melbourne and your area of interest.

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Finding Australian Statistics 

Want some overall Australian statistics?

Want some statistics for your local town, suburb, or other area?

Useful heath statistics

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