W.D. Borrie Lecture:
| Emeritus Professor Jerzy Zubrzycki | The Borrie legacy: A foundation for an Australian population policy |
Plenary sessions:
| Professor Pieter Hooimeijer | Spatial mobility and job access in polycentric metropolitan areas |
| Associate Professor Kevin O'Connor | Innovation: Maintaining the future of the global city |
| Professor Gavin Jones | The megacities of Asia: Dynamics of growth and issues of livability |
| Professor Peter McDonald | The new economy and its implications for Australia's demographic future |
| Emeritus Professor Lois Bryson | Women, fertility and the new economy |
| Professor John Quiggin | Demography and the end of full-time employment |
| Professor Paul Ehrlich | Green growth: An oxymoron |
| Mr David Buckingham | Towards a sustainable population policy |
| Professor Tim Flannery | The policy phobia: Why Australian politicians seem to back away from a population policy |
| Professor Philip Martin | Managing migration in the 21st century |
| Dr Bob Birrell | Implications for Australia of increased global competition for skilled migrants |
| Professor Graeme Hugo | Asia in the twenty-first century: Implications for Australian immigration |
Panel Discussion:
| Sophie Punte | |
| Ian Porter |
Address by the Minister for Immigration:
| The Hon Philip Ruddock | A sustainable population future for Australia: Economic, environmental and demographic perspectives |
Presidential Address:
| Dr Martin Bell | Data, theory and method: measuring permanent and temporary mobility in Australia |
Concurrent sessions:
| Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | Session 6 | Session 7 |
Session 1A--Population Geography and Internal Migration I | |
| Neil McLean | New insights into movers |
| Ian Burnley & Peter Murphy | Trends in migration to coastal and perimetropolitan NSW: End of an era or cycles of growth? |
| Badr Hanna | Medicare, a source of migration statistics |
Session 1B--Households and Housing Markets: Issues for the New Millennium? | |
| Amanda McCallum | What will we do with the baby boomers? |
| Kevin O'Connor & Ernest Healy | The housing impacts of the inner-city labour market: A case study of Melbourne, 1996 |
| Maryann Wulff & Margaret Reynolds | Social polarisation and housing market change: A case study of Melbourne, 1986-1996 |
Session 1C--International Demographic Questions I | |
| Vic Jennings, Bill Lloyd-Smith & Duncan Ironmonger | Global household intensities to the year 2050 and policy implications |
| Thomas Schindlmayr | Defining population assistance |
| Iwu Utomo | Gender issues in Indonesia: Policy, programs and challenges |
Session 1D--Family Demography | |
| Andrew Webster & Shail Jain | How many marriages end in divorce? ABS analysis |
| Shail Jain | Age-birth order-specific fertility rates in Australia, 1986-1999 |
| Gordon Carmichael | Differential fertility in Australia |
Session 2A--Ageing | |
| Don Rowland | Ageing and population policy |
| John Paice & Lisa Fenn | Trends in the ageing of the population |
| Di Rudd | Geographical variations in the characteristics of lone-person households: Policy implications for ageing populations |
Session 2B--Regional and Indigenous Questions | |
| Horst Posselt | Identifying social disadvantage in rural and remote Australia |
| Gaminiratne Wijesekere | A comparison of socioeconomic status of the Indigenous people: Aborigines, Torres Strait Islanders and those of 'mixed Indigenous origin' 1966 |
| Roger Farrer | Creating a viable service in the bush: A health case study in a Victorian town |
Session 2C--Microsimulation as a Projection Tool | |
| John O'Leary | Dynamic spatial microsimulation: Another tool for the demographic modeller |
| Pieter Hooimeijer | Microsimulation of housing markets in Lelystad |
| Richard Cumpston | Stochastic projections of persons, jobs and residences |
Session 2D--Families, Property and Cities | |
| Joe Flood | Socioeconomic distribution of property in Sydney and Melbourne |
| Dee Johnson | Fertility and urban/regional change in Victoria |
| Richard Reed | Baby boomers and property busts |
Session 3--Short-term Mobility and Regional Change | |
| Alison Taylor | Changing components of demographic and housing structure in Gold Coast City |
| Bernadette Harrison | Postmodern cities and life in Melbourne in the year 2000 |
| Richard Walker | A private sector perspective on demographic data |
Session 4A--Population Geography and Internal Migration II | |
| Shane Nugent | Patterns of population growth and decline in inland New South Wales, 1991 to 1996 |
| Alison Taylor | Travelling North and back? - Recent change to migration patterns to, from and within Queensland |
| Rupa Mukherjee | Sydney: Its labour market, housing market and internal migration between 1986 and 1996 |
Session 4B--Population Policy | |
| Mark O'Connor | Pronatalism, the media, and demographic fallacies |
| Dianne Proctor | Population policy: Could it work in a neoliberal world? |
| Barney Foran & Franzi Poldy | A brace of policy challenges for 2050 |
Session 4C--International Demographic Questions II | |
| Carl Johan Rohlin | Modernization and Migration flows of global cities: An extended gravity model - case studies of Brisbane and Stockholm |
| Edward Tu | Replacement migration in low fertility populations: Hong Kong and Taiwan |
| Pushkar Maitra | Gender and child mortality in Pakistan |
Session 4D--Population Health | |
| Paul Meyer | The health of Australia's young people |
| Andrew Phillips, Phil Trickett & Gerard Fitzsimmons | Health status of metropolitan and rural Australians |
| Janis Shaw | Health and welfare statistics on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples |
Session 5A--Ethnicity and International Immigration I | |
| Mark Lopez | The politics of the origins of multiculturalism: Lobbying and the power of influence |
| Ross Barker | Temporary entrants: An emerging issue for Australian demography |
| Paul Demeny | Prospects for international migration: Globalization and its discontents |
Session 5B--Developments in Official Statistics | |
| Dick Crockett | ABS initiatives in dissemination |
| Marion McEwin | The new ABS household survey program |
| Ian Crettenden | Developments in ABS regional statistics |
| Ching Choi | Developments in administrative data in Australia |
Session 5C--Juggling Careers and Families: What happens to Demography? | |
| Edith Gray | Housework and childrearing tasks - How does men's and women's employment affect responsibility for household tasks? |
| Christine Kilmartin & Lixia Qu | Childlessness and changes in personal relationships |
| Siew-Ean Khoo & Anita Mak | Permanent settlement or return migration: The role of career and family factors |
Session 6A--Business Applications of Demography | |
| Richard Cumpston | How demography helps business |
| Natalie Jackson | Courting the cohort |
| Bernard Salt | Business, the media and the 'demographic issue' |
Session 6B--Mortality | |
| Heather Booth, Len Smith & Rajesh Chauhan | The future of Australian Mortality |
| David Jayne | Mortality coding and the uses of multiple cause data |
| Craig Thorburn | Expectations aplenty |
Session 6C--Population Growth and Environmental Limits in Australia | |
| Barney Foran & Franzi Poldy | Future population dilemmas |
| Adrian Hayes | Poverty and environment in Australia |
| Alan Jones | Ecological truths and issues related to human impacts and population growth |
Session 6D--Australia's Health | |
| Kuldeep Bhatia | The health of Australians: An overview |
| Gabrielle Hodgson & Sushma Mathur | Multiple causes of death: Diabetes as a case study |
| Tim Armstrong | Physical activity: A major determinant of the health of Australians |
Session 7A--Ethnicity and International Migration II | |
| Thomas Schindlmayr, David Lucas & Peter McDonald | European migrants in Australia: Results from the 1996 census |
| Sheila Newman | Growth pressures and the consolidation mentality: Immigration and the French |
| David Lucas & Nick Parr | Diasporas and branch migration to Australia |
| Jack Martin | Backdoor immigration: A crisis of conscience |
Session 7B--Current Issues in Population Studies | |
| Kevin McCracken | Some comments on the SEIFA96 indexes |
| David Bartie | Producing small area estimates of households in non-census years |
| Mohammed Shahidullah | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mortality: Major issues in calculating life tables |
| Thomas Schindlmayr | Legal machinery regulating international migration: The economic and human rights dichotomy |
Session 7C--Applied Demography | |
| Crichton Smith | The integration of GIS, the internet and other technologies into the planning of Catholic schools in NSW |
| Tricia Cook | Apples and oranges: A taste of demography in nutrition |
| Ian Morrow | The internal migration of workforce age welfare recipients in Australia |
| Frieda Mason & Peter Bruan | Diversity in the ageing Australian population |
Session 7D--Indigenous Demography | |
| Kate Ross | International comparisons of Indigenous enumeration methods |
| Ian Anderson | A history of attempts to enumerate the Victorian Aboriginal population: Implications for current policy |
| Yin Paradies, Sarah Huppatz, Jim Warnsey & Tony Barnes | Population estimates for remote-area Indigenous communities |
| John Paice & Phil Browning | Issues in estimating the Indigenous population |