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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