Social class in Australia
Year published: 2015
The 19th ANUpoll - Social class in Australia: Beyond the 'working' and 'middle' classes - reveals a greater stratification in Australian society than we might otherwise have thought. Almost all Australians perceive themselves as being from either the working or middle class of society. However,…
spTimer: Spatio-temporal Bayesian modeling using R
Author/editor: Bakar KS & Sahu, SJ
Year published: 2015
Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of large point-referenced space-time data is increasingly becoming feasible in many environmental applications due to the recent advances in both statistical methodology and computation power. Implementation of these methods using the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC…
The Australian Child Support reforms: A critical evaluation
Author/editor: Smyth, B, Rodgers, B, Son, V & Vnuk, M.
Year published: 2015
The Australian Child Support Scheme aims to ensure that children continue to be supported financially should their parents separate or never live together. Sweeping changes to the Australian Child Support Scheme were introduced between 2006 and 2008, featuring a dramatically different system for…
The economic impact of the mining boom on Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
Author/editor: Hunter B, Howlett, M & Gray, M
Year published: 2015
Many mining operations are on or near Indigenous land, and the strong level of investment during the recent mining boom may have disproportionately affected Indigenous communities. This article examines changes in local Indigenous employment, income and housing costs to identify any localised ‘…
The social geographies of Indigenous population and housing in Australia's regional urban centres
Author/editor: Prout, S & Biddle, N
Year published: 2015
In recent years, social scientists have turned increasing scholarly focus to the ‘post-colonial city’, as it relates to the lived experiences and socio-cultural worlds of urban-dwelling Indigenous peoples. In Australia, this literature is concerned primarily with issues of identity, power and…
The welfare cost of terrorism
Author/editor: Vorsina, M, Manning, M, Fleming, C, Ambrey, C & Smith, C.
Year published: 2015
Data from 117 countries over the period 2006 to 2011 are used to estimate a macroeconomic cross-country system of equations that examines the association between terrorism, self-reported life satisfaction, and national income. Results indicate that terrorism is negatively associated with life…
Understanding associations between race, socioeconomic status and health: Patterns and prospects
Author/editor: Williams D, Priest, N & Anderson, N
Year published: 2015
Race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) are social categories that capture differential exposure to conditions of life that have health consequences. Race/ethnicity and SES are linked to each other, but race matters for health even after SES is considered. This commentary considers the…