The Public Practice is a social planning firm with 21 years experience in needs analysis, social planning and urban development. We specialise in understanding and planning for places through demographic analysis and community consultation.

We have developed unique software that can produce socio-economic reports on any community in Australia. Our Portraits use primarily ABS Census statistics from 2006 and 2001.

Our Portraits cover topics including the overall Community, Economics, Housing, Community Cultures and the Indigenous Community. For a brochure on these Portraits, click here.

Not only do we sell individual Portraits, but we also sell the software to allow you to produce as many Portrait on a topic as you want. This software is designed for Government departments to profile each community they work with. This software is known as Portrait Painters. For a brochure on our Portrait Painters, click here.

We believe in the importance of all councils and Government agencies having access to Census analysis and have developed a range of affordable products to meet the needs of local government. Rather than staff spending scarce time analysing data, we can do it for you, allowing more time to use the knowledge gained through the analysis.

As well as our Portraits and Portrait Painters, we have a number of Interactive Tools which allow you to delve further into your area's data.

Portraits and Reports

• Indigenous Portrait or Indigenous Portrait Painter
• Community Portrait
• Community Analyst
• Economic Portrait
• Housing Portrait
• Community Cultures Portrait

Interactive Tools

• Community Explorer
• Community Projector
• PopuLater

All of our products come in Excel™, ready to print, incorporate into your own reports and submissions, or up-load to your website as PDFs, making them versatile to the varied needs of people within Council.

Portraits and Reports transform Census data into instant reports, illustrated with charts and ready to print. We save you time by doing all the number-crunching, chart-fiddling, and text explanations needed to turn ABS numbers into useful knowledge. You can edit or cut-and-paste text, charts or tables to use in planning reports, analysis and community information.

Interactive Planning Tools let you delve into your ABS Census Data to understand a place's people better. There are tools for age groups, trends, and projections. All are based in Excel with easy-to-use menus; you alter the parameters and the ready-to-print report updates before your eyes.

For more information on any of these products, select from the menu bar along the top of this page. In the drop down menus, we have a page on each product. Please feel free to call us if you have any questions.

Our Consulting also continues, with a focus on helping people use their Portraits and Tools to understand their community, and a preference for consultative processes.