Call Mental Health Triage on
1800 629 354
(free call except from mobiles or public phones) or
6205 1065
For a poison emergency in Australia call
131126
The Drug and Alcohol Help Line is available 24-hours, 7 days a week on
5124 9977
For after hours urgent public health matters including environmental health, radiation safety, food poisoning and communicable disease management phone:
(02) 5124 9700
Emergency help
during flood or storms
The Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) is broadly based on the concept of a functional area. The functional area is the area within which many people commute or travel to access services. Depending on the level in the Main Structure hierarchy, this area may be a rural town and its hinterland, a regional city, an urban commercial hub or a capital city central business district. For smaller areas they may represent neighbourhoods or communities.
Statistical Areas Level 2 (SA2) are medium-sized general-purpose areas. Their purpose is to represent a community that interacts together socially and economically. Where possible, the SA2s have been designed around whole gazetted suburbs or rural localities. In large urban areas, SA2s are named for the gazetted suburbs that comprise them.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). 1270.0.55.001 - Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS): Volume 1 - Main Structure and Greater Capital City Statistical Areas, July 2016. Canberra: ABS; 2017 [cited 2020 Dec 21]. Available from: https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/1270.0.55.001Main+Features10018July%202016?OpenDocument.