W.D. Borrie Lecture:
| The Hon. Dr Barry Jones AO |
Plenary sessions:
| Professor Ron Lesthaeghe | When history moves on: The foundations and diffusion of a second demographic transition |
| Professor Frank D. Bean | Demographic imbalances in the United States and Latin America |
| Professor Gavin W. Jones | Asian demographic transitions: Transitions to what? |
Presidential Address:
| Dr Nick Parr | Do children from small families do better? |
Concurrent sessions:
| Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | Session 6 | Session 7 |
Session 1A--Fertility and Policy | |
| Leslie Cannold | Absent or recalcitrant men or family-unfriendly workplaces? Uncovering the real cause of Australia’s fertility decline |
| Peng Yu, Rebecca Kippen & Bruce Chapman | Births, debts and mirages: The impact of HECS on fertility |
| Peter McDonald | Can policy influence low fertility? |
Session 1B--Australian Census Analytic Program I | |
| Dennis Trewin | The Australian Census Analytic Program |
| Chris Chamberlain & David MacKenzie | Counting the homeless 2001 |
| Neil Barr | The demographic transition of the Australian farm sector |
Session 1C--Micro-simulation Models | |
| John O'Leary | Modelling household formation via a microsimulation model |
| Laurie Brown | Spatial microsimulation modelling of care needs, costs and the capacity for self-provision: detailed regional projections for older Australians to 2020 |
| Richard Cumpston | Models of the income, expenditure and assets of Australians |
Session 1D--Internal Migration I | |
| Graeme Byrne & Angela Pezic | Modelling internal migration drivers with geographically weighted regression |
| Martin Bell, Tom Wilson & Matthias Kubler | Continuity and change in the spatial structure of Australian internal migration |
| Philip Morrison | Migration catchments, migration fields and distressed communities |
Session 1E--Health I | |
| Kuldeep Bhatia | Australia's health 2004 |
| Petru Muresan | Longitudinal study of morbidity of the population in Romania |
Session 2A--Fertility Preference and Behaviour | |
| Edith Gray & Ann Evans | Parity progression in Australia: What role does sex of existing children play? |
| Lareen Newman | Family size and fertility gaps in Australia: the influence of men's and women's experiences of conception, pregnancy, birth and early parenthood |
| Patrick Corr & Rebecca Kippen | The case for parity statistics |
Session 2B--Australian Census Analytic Program II | |
| Boyd Hamilton Hunter | Indigenous Australians in the contemporary labour market |
| Graeme Hugo | Australia’s most recent immigrants |
| Siew-Ean Khoo & David Lucas | Australians' ancestries 2001 |
Session 2C--Ageing and the Labour Force | |
| Ewa Orzechowska-Fischer | Labour force ageing: Its impact on employment level and structure. The cases from Japan and Australia |
| Terry Rawnsley & Joanne Baker | Measuring the age at withdrawal from the labour force |
| Wendy Cooper | Labour force characteristics of mature age persons |
Session 2D--Internal Migration II | |
| Elin Charles-Edwards | Have work, will travel: Production-related temporary mobility in Australia |
| Kim Kirstein & Suniti Bandranaike | Rural youth drain: Attitudes, behaviours & perceptions |
| Yohannes Kinfu & John Taylor | Modelling Indigenous Inter-regional migration flows in Australia |
Session 2E--Marriage | |
| Cindee Richardson | Who wants to be a wife? How divorce impacts the daughters' desire to marry |
| Lany Trinh | Married by Angkar: Marriage under the Khmer Rouge revolution |
| Raya Muttarak | Marital assimilation: Interethnic marriage in Britain |
Session 3A--Work and Family Life | |
| Ariane J. Utomo | Women as equal partners and secondary earners: Gendered expectations on career and family formation in modern Indonesia |
| Habtemariam Tesfaghiorghis | Education, work, fertility and childcare in Australia |
| Jennifer Baxter | Increasing employment of partnered mothers: changes in child care use |
Session 3B--Health II | |
| Kuldeep Bhatia | Past, present and future health of Australian adults |
| Lado Ruzicka & Ching Choi | Co-morbidity of suicide in Australia |
| Annette Jose, Ravi Ravindiran & Ruel Abello | Health status labour force non-participation nexus: Evidence from pooled NHS data |
Session 3C--Population Geography | |
| Farhad Reza | Why the new structure for the ACT? |
| Frank Blanchfield | Mesh blocks: A new building block of Australian geography |
| Hamish Robertson & Nick Nicholas | Locating the “Old Old” in our communities: A GIS approach |
Session 3D--Sustaining Populations | |
| Jenny Goldie | The urgent need to stabilise population in light of global climate change |
| Ross Barker | South East Queensland: Australia’s population powerhouse - what is the future? |
| Suniti Bandaranaike | A taste of bitter sweet sugar |
Session 3E--Population Issues in Asia and the Pacific | |
| Helen Ware | Pacific instability and youth bulges: the devil in the demography and the economy |
| Terence H. Hull | Sexuality in Southeast Asia: Exploring potentially harmful practices |
| Zhang Xia | Postponement of childbearing and lowest-low fertility, Hong Kong 1976-2001 |
Session 4A--Reproductive Health and Demographic Change | |
| Gerald Haberkorn & Arthur Jorari | Cairo+10: Where have we failed to go? |
| Joanne Epp | Population and the millennium development goals: Opportunities for the world bank to advance the Cairo agenda |
| Lesley Vick | Australia’s Report Card – How are we doing internationally? |
| David Lucas | Recent surprises and changes in Australian demography |
Session 4B--Ageing | |
| Jeromey Temple | Elderly Australians purchase of health insurance in a period of rapid policy change |
| Natalie Jackson | The business of population ageing |
| Sol Encel & Diana Olsberg | Longevity, social relations and positive ageing |
| Mansoor Khawaja | Some reflections on the emerging mobility patterns of older New Zealanders |
Session 4C--International Migration and Settlement I | |
| Julia Hinsliff | Who lucks out in the lucky country? Early settlement indicators of recent arrivals in Australia |
| Laurence Lester & Sue Richardson | A comparison of the labour market success of recent immigrants to Australia and Canada |
| Mitra Khakbaz, Narayan Gopalkrishan & Hurriyet Babacan | Sustaining the regions: Issues of international migration, settlement and ethnic diversity |
| Siew-Ean Khoo et al. | Temporary skilled migration to Australia: Employers' perspectives |
Session 4D--Ethnic Diversity | |
| Jean Louis Rallu | Access to citizenship and integration of migrants: Lessons from the French case |
| Lujuan Chen | Modelling languages (other than English) spoken in Australia using census data |
| Yaghoob Foroutan | Demographic and socio- economic characteristics of Muslim women in Australia |
Session 4E--Indigenous Population Issues | |
| Bryan Kennedy & David Firman | Indigenous SEIFA - revealing the ecological fallacy |
| Gaminiratne Wijesekere | Achieving Indigenous outcomes in an ATSIC environment: Issues and constraints |
| Patricia Strauss | Indigenous students moving town or dropping out of school? Using cross-sectoral data on student mobility within community catchments to rethink some key performance indicators for Indigenous education in NSW |
| Shail Jain & M. Shahidullah | Indigenous mortality estimation: an application of Bhat's recent reformulation of Brass Growth Balance Equation |
Session 5A--Children and Caring | |
| Cathy Hales | Primary carers: what they say about motivation to care and the impact of caring on personal a family life |
| David de Vaus & Matthew Gray | Family transitions during childhood, 1946-2000 |
| Julie Kos & Christine Mason | Our children: Who are they and where are they heading? |
Session 5B--Housing and Living Arrangements in Ageing Society | |
| John O’Leary & Chris Wight | Recent trends in household formation in Melbourne |
| Hongyan Wang & Janice Miller | Rental housing assistance for older Australians |
| Wei Zhou | Living arrangements of the old people in China: Since 1990s |
Session 5C--Small Area Issues and Estimates | |
| Andrew Howe | Assessing the accuracy of Australia’s small area population estimates, 2001 |
| Marian Mackintosh & Angélique Parr | New South Wales state and regional population projections 2001-2051 |
| Crichton Smith | Taking Stock: A significant impact of not having consistent Statistical Local Areas (SLAs) across Australia |
Session 5D--Rural Populations | |
| Jeremy Reynolds, Chris Wight & Anne Barlow | Ageing in the bush - A perspective from Victoria |
| Neil Argent & Fran Rolley | Inhabiting the margins: A geography of rural homelessness in Australia |
| Sarah Goodall | Community-led migration strategies: A comparative study of rural to urban migration from three nomadic pastoral communities in Ladakh, northern India |
Session 5E--Population Issues in Iran | |
| Meimanat Hossein Chavoshi, Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi & Peter McDonald | Women’s autonomy and reproductive behavior in Iran |
| Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Meimanat Hossein Chavoshi & Peter McDonald | Convergence of fertility ideals in Iran: A comparative study of the youth and the older generation |
| Yaghoob Foroutan | Population-related issues in the context of culture: The case of Iranian proverbs (Popular statements) |
Session 6A--Family Planning | |
| Adrian Hayes | Family planning, reproductive rights and public policy during the reform era in Indonesia |
| Guangyu Zhang | Does the family planning program affect fertility preferences? The case of China |
| Rina Herartri | Family planning decision-making: Case studies in West Java, Indonesia |
Session 6B--Population Ageing and the Future | |
| Craig Toussaint & John Rollo | Federally funded aged care provision in regional Victoria: Examining current provision and estimating future infrastructure requirements using existing population-based benchmarks |
| Don Rowland | Demographic adaptations to population ageing |
| Habtemariam Tesfaghiorghis & William Sermeno | Projections of the number of age pensioners and expenditure: 2004-2021 |
| Jeromey Temple | Sources of heterogeneity in elderly living arrangements-The space, timing and numerical dimensions |
Session 6C--International Migration and Settlement II | |
| Abdul Hakim, Patrick Corr & Justin Farrow | International migration: Conceptual and measurement puzzles |
| Hong Xoan Nguyen Thi & Graeme Hugo | Marriage migration between Vietnam and Taiwan: Trends and issues |
| Linqing Yao | Chinese overseas students |
| Rita Afsar | Migration from Indian sub-continent to Western Australia: Some intriguing issues of religious composition and political integration |
Session 6D--Population dot com | |
| David Lucas | The diffusion of demographic facts and findings in Australia; druids, dingoes, dinosaurs and disseminators |
| Anthea Bill & Rachel Lloyd | Australia online: How Australians are using computers and the internet |
| Wendy Cooper & Maryann Wood | Use of information technology by older people |
| Robert Ackland & Edith Gray | Australia's online presence: What potential migrants find out about Australia from the WWW |
Session 6E--Mortality | |
| Debra Judge | Comparative biodemography: What comparative studies of life span tell us about the human life span |
| Nicola Tatham & Krys Sadkowsky | The mortality of communicable diseases over the 20th century |
| Dominic Brown | Regional mortality inequalities in Australia, 1991-2001 |
| Paul Meyer | Compression of mortality: is there a real story? |
Session 7A--Timor Leste: Demographic and Health Issues | |
| Iwu Utomo | War and conflict in Timor Leste, the impact on women’s lives |
| Michael Dibley | Nutrition and health of children in Timor Leste |
| Terry Hull | Fertility after the conflict and during the famine: The case of Timor Leste |
Session 7B--Using Longitudinal Data | |
| Brigid Van Wanrooy | Changes in working time preferences over the lifecourse |
| Lois Bryson, Jennifer Powers & Penny Warner-Smith | Using population data for longitudinal research: Possibilities and problems |
| Robert Johnstone | Growing up in Australia: A unique data resource for researchers |
Session 7C--Forecasting Populations | |
| Heather Booth | Longevity and aging in Australia |
| Shail Jain, Matthew Montgomery & Olivia Agius | Household, family and living arrangements of the population of Australia, 1986 to 2026 |
| Tom Wilson & Martin Bell | Subnational probabilistic population forecasts for Australia |
Session 7D--Relationships in Australia | |
| Abdul Hakim | Social marital status in Australia: Evidence from 2001 Census |
| Shaun Wilson | Attitudes to same sex couples and families: new evidence from the Australian Survey of Social Attitudes |
| Trevor Breusch & Edith Gray | Does marriage improve the wages of men and women in Australia? |
Session 7E--Mortality in Asia | |
| Tim Adair | Child mortality in Indonesia’s mega-urban regions: measurement, analysis of differentials, and policy implications |
| Vinh Nguyen | Age patterns of mortality in Vietnam from 1989 to 2003 |
| Zhongwei Zhao | Mortality transition in Shanghai |
