People and Place articles from June 2004

People and Place archives from June 2004

On the importance of being uncertain: forecasting population futures for Australia.
June 1, 2004... Knowledge of population futures is central to a wide range of policy and planning issues. Population projections have traditionally been the source of this knowledge, but projections are merely what-if scenarios, based on unrealistic...

Explaining the private health insurance coverage of older Australians.
June 1, 2004... This article examines older Australians' decision to purchase health insurance. It does so in the context of recent reforms to the Australian health insurance market. Findings suggest that economic, demographic and health factors are associated...

Community language media and Australia's changing language demography.
June 1, 2004... This paper examines the availability of radio, TV and newspapers in community languages at the time of the last census against the background of changes in Australia's language demography. Radio programs in 80 languages, television in 48...

Intermarriage in Australia: patterns by ancestry, gender and generation.
June 1, 2004... Ancestry data from the 2001 Census allow us to explore intermarriage patterns among people of different ethnic backgrounds in Australia including: people born overseas (the first generation), their Australian-born children (the second...

Designing and delivering visas.
June 1, 2004... The Australian Government, like governments of other developed nations, has been faced with greatly increased movements of international visitors, students and other movers. It has experienced less non-compliance with visa conditions than has...

Managing international population movement: is the nation state obsolete?
June 1, 2004... Some experts argue that increased visitor and student numbers consequent on the globalisation of the world economy make the maintenance of restrictive residency rules in nation-states obsolete. This article tests this proposition against the...

People and parliamentarians: the great divide.
June 1, 2004... Most candidates for federal elections hold values on economic and social questions that are unlike those of most voters. However, Coalition candidates are much closer to the people who vote for them than Labor candidates are to Labor voters....

Medicare plus and overseas-trained medical doctors.
June 1, 2004... Until the late 1990s the Australian Government's medical workforce policy focussed on limiting reliance on overseas trained doctors (OTDs). Since that time the reverse policy has been instituted. As a result, by 2004 there was a heavy reliance...