People and Place articles from June 2007

People and Place archives from June 2007

The vocational fate of government secondary schools.
June 1, 2007... In the mid-1980s the Victorian Government abolished the technical school system in order to erase class divisions between government high schools and techs. High schools then became de facto comprehensives, in principle dedicated to equality of...

Population ageing in a nutshell: a phenomenon in four dimensions.
June 1, 2007... Growing awareness of the issue of population ageing is not necessarily correlated with growing understanding of the phenomenon. A recent rise in Australia's birth rate, for example, has generated speculation in some quarters that Australia's...

What's behind recent fertility trends--government policy, alarms on biological clocks or lessons learned from childhood?
June 1, 2007... Fertility in Australia has risen since 2001. Some have attributed this to the universal Maternity Payment introduced with the 2004 budget, or to Treasurer Peter Costello's call to parents to have three children, also made in 2004. But these...

Who cares about defence? Attitudes of Australian voters and of candidates in federal elections.
June 1, 2007... Terrorism and global insecurity present Australia with a number of defence challenges: are Australian voters and election candidates concerned? Survey data, drawn mainly from the 2004 Australian Election Study, show that around half the...

The language of migration: the education industry versus the migration industry.
June 1, 2007... Recent research shows that some Australian tertiary education institutions have recruited international fee-paying students whose English is limited. The author examines this issue by drawing on his fieldwork among Indian students coming from...

Comment on James Giesecke: the economic impact of a general increase in skilled migration.(Critical essay)
June 1, 2007... A previous issue of People and Place carried an article by James Giesecke (1) claiming that increasing Australia's immigration program would disadvantage incumbent Australians. This claim is inconsistent with economic theory and seems unsound....

Reply to Harry Clarke on the economic effects of skilled immigration.(Critical essay)
June 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION Rather than a comment on the detail of my paper, much of Clarke's piece is a vehicle for him to state his opinion, clearly strongly held, that 'skilled migration intakes are likely to provide long-term net economic benefits...

The widening gap between demand for and supply of university graduates in Australia.
June 1, 2007... The rapid growth in demand for university trained personnel over recent years has mainly been filled by growth in the skilled migration program. The authors argue that more domestic students should be trained. The Coalition Government does not...