Seasonal workforce management, the use of migrant labour and the provision of career paths in the tourism sector are three of the big workforce challenges tackled in this House of Representatives report. The report makes a total of 25 recommendations. It focuses on employment and training initiatives, labour shortages and skills demands, including the use...

A number of voices in the 1970s and early 1980s forecasting the deindustrialisation of the Australian economy and the coming of a post-industrial economic future based on knowledge industries, consumption and the service sector.

The aims of this paper are twofold; first, to identify employment centres (ECs) in 1981 and 2001 across the Sydney metropolitan area and, secondly, to examine shifts in commuting to employment centres by car and public transport.

In a global economy where the dominant paradigm is economic rationalism, land property values exert substantial influence upon both our built and natural landscape.

The aim of this paper is an empirical investigation of the changing spatial organisation of economic activities and the functions of identified employment centres within the context of a polycentric and dispersed employment pattern.