People and Place articles from December 2005

People and Place archives from December 2005

Patterns of religious residential concentration in Victoria: changes 1996-2001.(Statistical data)
December 1, 2005... Drawing on data from Australia's 1996 and 2001 Census of Population and Housing, this paper enumerates and examines the distribution of Victoria's population according to people's religious identification. The number of both Christians and...

What can potential migrants find out about Australia from the WWW?
December 1, 2005... The authors use a new approach to analyse the information that a prospective immigrant to Australia would be able to find out about the country from internet sites. They find that the most visible information is heavily slanted towards skilled...

Population statistics and the number of House of Representatives seats for the Northern Territory.
December 1, 2005... The number of seats in the Australian House of Representatives allocated to each state and territory is determined largely by population size, with periodic re-calculations made to allow for the changing geographical distribution of the...

Why no action on engineering training?
December 1, 2005... Severe shortages of professional engineers are now evident in Australia. Yet the Australian Government has shown no interest in expanding domestic training levels. The reasons for this inaction include a lack of awareness that there has been no...

Rhetoric or reality: the future of our cities.
December 1, 2005... In the June 2005 issue of People and Place Tony Recsei wrote a critique of the fashionable planning doctrine of urban consolidation. In the September issue Peter Newman wrote a response defending urban consolidation and arguing that Recsei's...

Destroying opportunity with 'smart growth'.
December 1, 2005... This commentary challenges the argument put by Peter Newman in favour of urban consolidation, or 'smart growth' policies, in the previous issue of People and Place. It draws on evidence from the United States and elsewhere which shows...

Are Asians over-represented in training in the health professions?
December 1, 2005... Concern has been expressed about alleged Asian domination of student entry into elite health courses. This article analyses the latest university enrolment statistics. It shows that such concerns are only partially correct for medicine but...

The impact of the skilled migration program on domestic opportunity in information technology.
December 1, 2005... High levels of immigration to Australia of information technology (IT) professionals from both offshore and onshore sources have occurred in recent years, at the same time as the domestic IT labour market has been depressed. This article...

Erratum.(Correction Notice)
December 1, 2005... The following text was left out of People and Place vol 13, no. 1, 2005, 'Sydney at the millennium', by Angelique Parr and Alison Culpin. Please insert at the end of page 36, just before Table 3. We apologise for any inconvenience this...