This paper reviews the thinking behind Australia's family migration program and the aspects considered when planning its size and composition each year. Executive summary: In contrast to the United States of America, the Australian Government has steadily prioritised skilled migration within Australia’s permanent Migration Program, with proportionally fewer family places available. The current Coalition Government...

This paper presents some preliminary results from PhD research being undertaken which, more broadly, considers infrastructure costs associated with differing forms of urban development available to policy makers within Australia. It is thus a component of the ‘compact’ versus ‘dispersed’ city debate.

This paper investigates the effectiveness of the application of the concept of community policing across three separate geographic locations, which have different social settings.

This presentation aims to address the issues of rural residential development in food production. it will outline these various food production areas with reference to case studies and photos from Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and United States of America.

This research paper aims to explore the potential to improve the role and effectiveness of urban planning in decreasing disaster risk. It suggests that risks associated with disasters will be reduced if certain urban planning and disaster management theories and practices are integrated, focussing particularly upon citizens’ participation in the processes of planning.