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Population Growth And Change: Implications For Australia's Cities And Regions, Pauline M. Mcguirk, Neil Argent
Population Growth And Change: Implications For Australia's Cities And Regions, Pauline M. Mcguirk, Neil Argent
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Australia's distinctive pattern of settlement has long presented a suite of social, economic, infrastructural, and environmental challenges for the nation's cities and regions. These challenges will be intensified by the population growth and dynamics anticipated in the 2010 Intergenerational Report. Future growth will inevitably have differential impacts for metropolitan, regional, and rural settlements, and for inland and coastal regions. This paper analyses current trends and likely directions in population change and distribution and the major implications for the nation's metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas. For Australia's cities, core issues include: access to affordable housing, suitable employment, infrastructure, and services; managing growth …
Educacion Corporal En Australia: 1870-1910, Jan Wright
Educacion Corporal En Australia: 1870-1910, Jan Wright
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Reading through the keys texts on the history of education in Australia one would easily be persuaded to the absence of any form of formal physical education in schools. Drills and even the cadet movement receive scarcely a mention in key texts covering the period such as Barcan’s various histories of education in NSW and Australia (Barcan 1980, 1988), in Smith and Spaull’s (1925) History of Education in NSW and Theobold and Selleck’s (1990) collection Family School and State in Australian History. In one sense these point to what has always been obvious to physical educators, that academic and …