People and Place articles from June 2008

People and Place archives from June 2008

Labor's greenhouse aspirations.(Report)
June 1, 2008... The Labor government aspires to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per cent on year 2000 levels. Is this a realistic commitment? The issue is explored in the context of likely population growth in Australia from 21 million to 31.6 million by...

Queensland remains a population magnet.(Report)
June 1, 2008... While there was a relative lull in the late 1990s, Queensland's population growth has resumed its earlier rapidity. In the past the main driver was immigration from other states, chiefly New South Wales and, to a lesser extent, Victoria. Now...

The registration and accreditation of international medical graduates in Australia--a broken system or a work in progress?(Report)
June 1, 2008... Australia's policy for registering and accrediting overseas trained doctors (OTDs) is dysfunctional. Some OTDs, who are well qualified and here on permanent visas, are being denied registration and accreditation. This is despite the acute...

Evolutionary analyses of ethnic solidarity: an overview.(Report)
June 1, 2008... The author presents an overview of the contribution that evolutionary theory has made, and can make, to studies of ethnically based social cohesion in the social sciences. INTRODUCTION Evolutionary approaches have a minor though...

The place of nature? Electoral politics and the Tasmanian Greens.(Report)
June 1, 2008... Green politics in Tasmania is very much a politics of place, driven by struggles to save iconic natural areas such as Lake Pedder, the Franklin River, the South West wilderness and more recently the state's old growth forests and unprotected...

English language communications skills--what are the issues for international pharmacy students?(Report)
June 1, 2008... Like any other group of professionals, pharmacy graduates in Australia need good English. The authors teach pharmacy at the University of South Australia. Here they explore factors that appear to affect their efforts to help international...

The 2007 Australian Election: blue-collar voters, migrants and the environment.(Report)(Survey)
June 1, 2008... The 2007 Australian Election Study shows that many blue-collar voters, the so-called Howard battlers, returned to Labor. Combined with earlier surveys it also shows that non-English-speakiing-background migrants have consistently been more...

Asia-Pacific labour mobility and the two track labour market.(Report)
June 1, 2008... John Sutton is National Secretary of the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU). The following opinion piece is a revised version of his address to the Catalyst Seminar held in Sydney, 6 May 2008, by Catalyst Australia, a new labour...