The variety of sexual assaults recorded by police went up three per cent over one 12 months, with most victim-survivors who reported the crime being feminine, new statistics have revealed.
Property crime, which incorporates burglaries, have been up for the second 12 months in a row, in response to the Recorded Crime – Victims report launched by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Thursday.
The contemporary knowledge additionally discovered retail charges have been bucking forecasted tendencies, whereas job emptiness charges additionally dipped.
ABS head of crime and justice statistics William Milne stated the crime figures mirror the report lows in 2020, coinciding with Covid-19 restrictions.
“Over the past two years, the numbers of recorded victims have been coming back up but are still lower than in 2019,” Mr Milne stated.
The variety of sexual assaults recorded by police additionally elevated in 2022, up three per cent to 32,146 victim-survivors.
“We found that most victim-survivors were female (84 per cent),” Mr Milne stated.
“We also found that victim-survivors were most commonly aged between 10 and 17 years when the sexual assault occurred (42 per cent).”
Retail commerce figures, additionally launched on Thursday, present an increase in turnover of 0.7 per cent within the May quarter (seasonally adjusted), bucking economists’ predictions of a flat consequence.
“Retail turnover was supported by a rise in spending on food and eating out, combined with a boost in spending on discretionary goods,” stated ABS head of retail statistics Ben Dorber.
“This latest rise reflected some resilience in spending with consumers taking advantage of larger than usual promotional activity and sales events for May.”
Household items and meals associated industries lead the cost, whereas clothes, footwear, and private accent retailing, and malls have been the one classes to fall.
Spending on meals was boosted by an increase in costs, as mirrored in CPI figures launched on Wednesday exhibiting meals costs rose 7.9 per cent within the 12 months to May.
It’s doubtless Thursday’s retail commerce and job vacancies figures will weigh on the minds of the RBA board forward of Tuesday’s July assembly.
The Job Vacancies Australia report additionally confirmed whereas there was a dip in out there jobs, the general quantity stays excessive.
The ABS experiences there have been greater than 430,000 jobs out there throughout the nation within the May quarter (384,000 of these personal sector roles) — a lower of two per cent on February.
Despite it being the fourth consecutive lower, vacancies are nonetheless 89.3 per cent larger than they have been in February 2020, in regards to the time the Covid-19 pandemic ramped up.
ABS head of labour statistics Bjorn Jarvis says companies proceed to report difficulties in recruiting and retaining workers.
“The percentage of businesses reporting at least one vacancy has been above 11 per cent since August 2020, and higher than 20 per cent since May 2021,” Mr Jarvis stated.
“This highlights the impact of a tight labour market on a broad range of businesses.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
