Person
John Rolfe
Conference paper
Perceived risks to housing unaffordability in resource and regional communities: policy implications for regional housing affordability in Australia
Housing unaffordability creates pressures on economic and social life of an individual to a community. Periodic housing unaffordability in Queensland resource and regional communities are common over the last two decades. This paper examined the perceived household risks to periodic housing unaffordability in Queensland resource...
Conference paper
Developing a conceptual framework of living cost to income approach for depicting affordable housing locations: policy implications for housing affordability in Melbourne, Australia
Affordable housing locations in metropolitan cities are usually assessed by rental cost or mortgage payment relative to income. Affordable housing locations are also influenced by locational characteristics such as distance from public transportation, service centres, city centre and employment centres. Once the costs of locational...
Conference proceedings
Maintaining regional Queensland’s natural capital and ecosystem services - proceedings of the Sustainable Queensland Forum
This symposium sought to explore pathways to practical and effective natural resource and conservation management in regional Queensland.
Commentary
The $8.2 billion water bill to clean up the Barrier Reef by 2025 – and where to start
In 2015, the Australian and Queensland governments agreed on targets to greatly reduce the sediment and nutrient pollutants flowing onto the Great Barrier Reef. What we do on land has a real impact out on the reef: sediments can smother the corals, while high nutrient...
Conference paper
Assessing need for education services for regional sustainability – the case of Moura, Australia
This paper assesses the need for education services in the mining communities through a case study of the Moura Township in central Queensland, Australia. The study involves a case study approach with a survey method to assess the current performance and the need for education...