Century Australia (century + australia)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Humanities and Social Sciences50%
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting33%

Selected Abstracts

The sustainability of consumer credit growth in late twentieth century Australia

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSUMER STUDIES, Issue 1 2000
Margaret Griffiths
This article reports on a study about the use of credit by Australian consumers between 1980 and 1996. Considerable growth in the use of credit by consumers was coupled with an increasing reliance on credit to finance purchase transactions as consumers' other sources of purchase finance became depleted. An increasing number of consumers were found to be experiencing difficulty meeting their debt- servicing commitments. These results suggest that the growth in use of consumer credit that has occurred in Australia may not be in the long-term interest of consumers or the economy. [source]

It's the Economy Stupid: Macroeconomics and Federal Elections in Australia

THE ECONOMIC RECORD, Issue 235 2000
LISA CAMERON
In this paper we examine the impact of macroeconomic conditions on Federal electoral performance in 20th-century Australia. We find that the electorate penalizes a government for high inflation and high unemployment relative to trend. Real GDP growth and real wage growth were not found to have a systematic relationship with incumbent vote share at the Federal level. We also examine the voteshare of the Federal incumbent in three electorates: the safe Liberal seat of Kooyong, the safe Labor seat of Melbourne Pans, and the swinging seat of Latrobe. We find some evidence that unemployment affects electoral outcomes in the swinging seat, but no macroeconomic variables affect outcomes in the safe seats. [source]

Laboratory research facilities and hospitals: an anachronism in 21st century Australia?

ANZ JOURNAL OF SURGERY, Issue 9 2010
Gil Stynes MB BS
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

AN ECONOMY ILL-SUITED TO YOUNGER WORKERS: CHILD AND YOUTH WORKFORCE PARTICIPATION IN COLONIAL QUEENSLAND, 1886,1901

AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 2 2006
Bradley Bowden
child labour; demographic economics; history; labour demand; Queensland This article explores the extent and significance of child and youth work in late 19th century Australia. It demonstrates that, while demographic changes meant that almost half the population was aged 19 years or less, this age cohort never comprised more than 18 per cent of the recorded workforce. It is argued that this under-representation reflects the fact that children and youths were ill-suited to the work demands of most colonial occupations. They did not threaten the position of adult males in the key areas of the economy such as construction, heavy engineering, pastoral work, mining and transport. [source]

A "Civilised Amateur": Edgar Holt and His Life in Letters and Politics

AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, Issue 1 2003
Bridget Griffen, Foley
Now largely forgotten, Edgar George Holt (1904,1988) was a leading journalist and public relations officer in the middle decades of twentieth,century Australia. This article examines his prominent journalistic career in the 1930s and 1940s, his presidency of the Australian Journalists' Association, and his work as the Liberal Party of Australia's public relations officer from 1950 to the early 1970s. The article explores the evolution of his cultural and political views, considering how a literary aesthete and poet came to be at the forefront of the 1944 newspaper strike and then an important player in Australian conservative machine politics and the emerging industry of political public relations. [source]

Imagining Aboriginal Nations: Early Nineteenth Century Evangelicals on the Australian Frontier and the "Nation" Concept

AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, Issue 2 2002
Kevin Blackburn
This article evaluates the extent that Aboriginal societies in early nineteenth century Australia were known by Europeans coming into early contact with them as Aboriginal nations rather than as tribes. The study demonstrates that early nineteenth century Evangelicals saw the Aboriginal societies that they encountered on the Australian frontier as nations because the Evangelicals' view of the world was based on that found in their Bible, in which it is described how God had divided the world up into different nations. The article draws the conclusion that seeing Aboriginal people as nations was common among the Evangelicals. However, the practice of mapping and delineating individual Aboriginal nations was limited to a few Evangelicals, such as George Augustus Robinson and Edward Parker, who had acquired an intimate knowledge of Aboriginal culture. [source]