Continuing challenges in attempting to measure the size of, and changes in, Australia’s indigenous population

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) recently released the publication 2006 Population Distribution, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians which contains 2006 Census usual residence counts and Estimated Resident Populations (ERPs). This paper comments on selected data from the ABS report and reviews some of the challenges faced in attempting to measure the size, and changing size, of the nation’s Indigenous population. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s