Bad Aussies! No beer!
Stuff.co.nz is reporting that twice as many Australians were arrested overseas last year as ten years ago. A couple of minutes searching finds an Australian Social Trends report, from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, showing that, yes, trips overseas by Australians also doubled from 2000 to 2010.
Even better would be data on total time spent overseas by Aussies. That must be available — they collect it when you re-enter the country — but I don’t want to spend more than ten minutes on this. It’s not my day job.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »
Whilst overseas I was talking to a local who suggested that the health of an economy can be judged by the number of tourists from that country. He had recently seen a decline in the numbers of US tourists but a large increase in the number of Australian and Kiwi tourists.
No surprise that you’re going to see more Australians getting into trouble if there are more of them overseas.
13 years ago