Nick Buchanan, Rick Evans and Jago Dodson undertake a preliminary investigation of public transport and the spatial distribution of vulnerable social groups on the Gold Coast, Queensland. In particular, they examine the combination of spatial and temporal access in public transportation.

Deborah Tranter examines the influence of school culture on the higher education aspirations of secondary students in one of the most socioeconomically and educationally disadvantaged regions in Australia: the outer northern suburbs of Adelaide. Using a case study approach, it investigates the attitudes towards higher education of students from three schools in this area, with...

In recent years, there has been debate and criticism over the influence that non-government organisations may have on public policy decisions. Bronwen Dalton and Mark Lyons assess the roles of NGOs, looking both at their external impacts through public participation and involvement in policy processes, and also at NGOs' internal structures that provide varying degrees...

Bruce Chapman and Ric Simes outline a potential new approach for the public sector in assisting regional economies. A novel aspect of their proposal involves the government providing some proportion of the required finance in the form of a loan to be repaid by the enterprise only when and if the project becomes economically successful...

This report draws on the concept of locational disadvantage to evaluate three different housing assistance programs in relation to a whole of government response to major shifts in welfare provision, and with due consideration to current trends in social economic restructuring. The study compares the social and physical qualities of a locality as it relates...