The Indigenous Artist Magazine Issue 7- Oct-Nov 2017 | Page 73

TOP FIVE AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE GROUPS SPOKEN AT HOME, 2016(a)

(a) Usual residence Census counts. Excludes overseas visitors. Includes Other Territories.

Source: ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2016

WHERE ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER PEOPLE LIVE

State and territory

In 2016, over 60% of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population lived in NSW and Queensland.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up over one quarter (26%) of the population of the Northern Territory. This was much higher than the next highest state, Tasmania (4.6%).

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER PEOPLE BY STATE AND TERRITORY, 2016 (a)