This paper explores the extent to which attitudes to conservation and reduced water use in and around the home may affect the water saving behaviour of households in different kinds of housing in Sydney in a period when restrictions and price rises have become the principle methods to reduce consumption in the city.

This paper describes the thinking used to develop an integrated urban systems model of transport and domestic dwelling energy-use in association with domestic water-use.

Using metaphors mapped from the concept of ‘metabolism’ the students gain insights into how the urban form and the dominant beliefs and values of the inhabitants combine to induce major stresses on the city’s hinterlands.

This paper consider trends in income and expenditure inequality in Australia using data from the last four Household Expenditure Surveys and Income Distribution Surveys conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The results suggest that income inequality increased during the 1990s, but that expenditure inequality remained stable.