People and Place articles from December 2004

People and Place archives from December 2004

Declining marriage rates and gender inequity in social institutions: towards an adequately complex explanation for childlessness.
December 1, 2004... A recent newspaper report pitted McDonald's and Birrell's explanations for Australia's below-replacement fertility against each other. This article presents data from qualitative research into the experience and understandings of 35 childless...

Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender identification and attitudes to same-sex relationships in Australia and the United States.
December 1, 2004... Gay marriage is now a major social question facing countries like Australia and the United States. Still, there is relatively little known about the demographic characteristics of the gay and lesbian population, or about attitudes to same-sex...

Attitudes to abortion in Australia: 1972 to 2003.
December 1, 2004... Since the October 2004 Federal election Australia has embarked on a new abortion debate. Some commentators suggest that public opinion has turned away from a pro-choice position. However the new 2003 Australian Survey of Social Attitudes shows...

World's worst or world's best practice? European reactions to Australia's refugee policy.
December 1, 2004... The boat people have stopped coming, but the Government's 'immoral' treatment of these asylum seekers has remained an issue of sustained protest and commentary in Australia. Much of this commentary ignores very real policy questions--including...

Analysing traveller movement patterns: stated intentions and subsequent behaviour.(Department of Immigration, Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs)(Travel and Immigration Processing System)
December 1, 2004... The Department of Immigration, Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) now has the capacity to track those leaving and entering Australia across successive movements. An examination of residents leaving Australia in 1998 to 1999 who...

Just how many people live in central Sydney?
December 1, 2004... This brief note examines population growth in central Sydney over the past two intercensal periods, highlighting the difficulties the Australian Bureau of Statistics has had in accurately tracking this growth in its annual estimates of resident...

Screening of doctors trained overseas: a response.
December 1, 2004... This response critically evaluates claims in the September 2004 issue of People and Place that the medical knowledge and clinical skills of Overseas Trained Doctors employed in Australia are inadequately assessed. ********** The paper...