X Times Faith Following facing exclusion in Australian Society for their share of employment
Religion % Unemployment % Bachelor degree or higher X Unemployed on the Basis of Avg 5.6%
Islam 12.1 23.9 -2.2
Buddhism 8.6 27.2 -1.5
Not Defined 7.9 19.6 -1.4
Atheism 7.1 24.7 -1.3
Hinduism 6.8 54.5 -1.2

Christian, nfd 6.4 22.7 1.1

Sikhism 5.7 36.2 1.0

This severity of unemployment has also been drawn on graph to have a quick artefact assessment of exclusion of various faith follower. And it can be comfortably viewed that Muslim, Buddhism, other religions (Not defined), Atheist and Hinduism spot well above the ‘trend line while Christianity or major religious group enjoys extra share in employment from the ratio of their proportionate share of society.

Relationship of unemployment & education of major faith followers

In second step, the matter of inclusiveness of Muslims was examined within overall national government employment structure as being an icon of a supposedly collective owned entity. The results from the data of Australian Bureau of Statistics that only 5,462 Muslim employees were the part of the national government employment work force of 413,449 personnel shown in the table below from the 2011 census, which makes up only 1.3 percent of whole national employment of government. This representation remained 1.7 times less than their national proportionate presence. It is interesting to note that at this particular stage all other major religious faith follower’s representation is in accordance to their composition of the nation.

Comparison of representation of faith followers in national government employment
Source ABS Census 2011; Counting: Persons, Place of Work table ‘- signs showing the deficiency; * fractions set to one decimal point
At the third level of inclusion, investigation of the research was further drilled down at the managerial level of employment the situation found pretty consistent with the previous two rounds. Once again the ABS data utilised here in the following table, where it has been shown that there were only 336 Muslims managers which makes 0.6 per cent of total managerial level staff. Thus again two times centrifuged from their composition in national government employment. This tally clearly speaks that the Muslim managers are amongst the lowest in proportion from all religious faith follower mangers. From this tally it is also understandable that other minority religions; Buddhism, faces second highest exclusion by 1.8 times, followed by Hinduism which is 1.6 times and all other religions by 1.4 times excluded from being part of the participation of the society.

Major faith follower managers in national government employment

Source ABS Census 2011; Counting: Persons, Place of Work ‘- signs showing the deficiency; * fractions set to one decimal point

Now for the sake of calculating the totality of exclusion all three rounds’ results have been added, (national level, national government level and national government managerial level), the Grand Sum provides an indication of the total exclusion of minority religious group the society and tabulated as follow.

Indicative times of exclusion of Major Faith in Australian Society
National Unemployment National Government Employment Managers’ National Government Total
Islam -2.2 -1.7 -2 -5.9
Buddhism -1.5 1 -1.8 -2.3
Hinduism -1.2 1.3 -1.6 -1.6
Christianity -1.1 -1.1 1.1 -1.1
Judaism 1.3 1.1 -1.2 1.2
Non Religion -1.1 1 1.43 1.3

We can see from this table the total exclusion for Muslim turned up nearly Six Times followed by the follower of Buddhism 2.3 times and Hinduism 1.6 Times remained out from their due share of participation and inclusion. While main stream religious group almost maintains their share in the society.
Upon extending the above research to the ‘Minority languages’, which complement the conditions of being Cultural diverse group of society, results reinforce the above claims of social exclusion of minority groups. For instances Australia’s population who reportedly speaks English at home makes about 76.8 % of the whole population, according to the 2011 ABS census report, but the same group makes up of about 83.4 % of national government employment quota which is 1.08 time higher than their national proportionate presence. When it comes to the managerial level posts this share even goes to more than 90 percent.

% National Population % National government Managers X Increase/Decrease
English 76.8 90.37 1.2
Mandarin 1.6 0.55 -2.91
Cantonese 1.2 0.71 -1.69
Italian 1.4 0.79 -1.8
Vietnamese 1.1 0.37 -2.97
Greek 1.2 0.75 -1.6
Spanish 0.5 0.46 -1.09
Hindi 0.5 0.45 -1.1
German 0.4 0.36 -1.1
Arabic 1.3 0.29 -2.5

Above mentioned self-explanatory data extracted from Australian Bureau of Statistics explains that minority languages speaker like Mandarin, Vietnamese and Arabic can face up to nearly three times of exclusion from decision making roles for the society.
Despite the availability of such data which is a self-explanatory for indication of target 10.2 of SDG 10; the avoiding of these targets raises eyebrows over the integrity of these SDGs.
On the other hand, such ambiguity does not exist in other similar Goals, for example Goal 5 which advocate for women empowerment, have very clear and comprehensive targets such as the representation of women in parliament, suggests a tangible improvement towards goal.
Apparently, there could be two possible reasons for making SDG 10’s indicator a complicated. First the methodology and availability of data. If that’s the issue then the above stated pilot research can provide an answer and a lead to progress. The second reason could be associated with the developed countries’ concept of self-perfection. If that’s the case then by 2030 whatever indicators says, tales of masses would not be different.
This situation is worrying for international spectators who are closely monitoring the development on Sustainable Development Goals 10 and 16 which demands for greater inclusivity for all the countries of the world. Although developing countries are being asserted for achieving the targets of these goals following the footsteps of leading democracies. But these results could never be the enviable for struggling democracies. Contrary to that by 2030, should evaporators still not be scratching their heads for establishing the authenticity and transparency of the results of SDG 10’s indicator?

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