People and Place articles from April 2006

People and Place archives from April 2006

The Productivity Commission on the economics of immigration.
April 1, 2006... The Productivity Commission's recent Position Paper on the Economic Impacts of Migration and Population Growth examines the effects on productivity (output per hour worked) and GNP per capita of higher migration. It concludes that the effect of...

Students of migration: Indian overseas students and the question of permanent residency.
April 1, 2006... This article explores the motives of students from India who have enrolled in Australian universities as overseas students. It shows that their main objective is to obtain a permanent residence visa in Australia and that they tailor their...

Lebanese Muslims in Australia and social disadvantage.
April 1, 2006... Recent events have focused public attention on people of Muslim Lebanese background (most of whom live in Sydney) and the possibility that they may suffer social disadvantage. Using data from the 2001 Census, this paper finds that Lebanese...

No work, no income, no Medicare--the Bridging Visa E regime.(asylum seekers )
April 1, 2006... A number of asylum seekers in Australia who are living in the community and do not meet certain criteria specified by the Government are given a Bridging Visa E (BVE) while their cases are reviewed. The BVE may deny them the right to work or to...

Patient election in Australian hospitals: how do private and Medicare admissions differ?
April 1, 2006... Recently, the Premier of Queensland has proposed placing restrictions upon privately insured patients electing to be treated as Medicare patients in public hospitals as is currently permitted under the Australian Health Care Agreements. The...

Crisis? What crisis? Myth and reality in the debate on an ageing Australia.
April 1, 2006... The Commonwealth Government's Intergenerational Report 2002-03 claims that Australia's ageing population poses a serious challenge for responsible fiscal policy in the longer term, a claim repeated in subsequent official pronouncements. We...

Racism or patriotism? An eyewitness account of the Cronulla demonstration of 11 December 2005.
April 1, 2006... This article provides an eye-witness account of the Cronulla demonstration of 11 December 2005. It puts various interpretations of the demonstration to the test via the writers' observations of what happened. They conclude that the 'beach...

Erratum.(Correction notice)
April 1, 2006... The following text was left out of People and Place vol. 13, no. 3, 2005 'Has the Australian fertility rate stopped falling', by Peter McDonald Table 2, page 3, incomplete source, it should read: Sources: AIHW data from the annual...