Download or read book The Great Australian Nightmare written by Jim Kemeny and published by Melbourne : Georgian House. This book was released on 1983 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Australian Nightmare written by Alan Goodall and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cotton growing in the Ord Irrigation area.
Download or read book The Great Australian Loneliness written by Ernestine Hill and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is the story of a journalist's journey round and across Australia... It was in July 1930 that I first set out, a wandering "copy-boy" with swag and typewriter, to find what lay beyond the railway lines...' Ernestine Hill's classic account of travelling in the Australian outback, in a pilgrimage of many years and 100,000 miles. "The most picturesque account of our outback that has yet been written... a vivid and arresting page of Australian history." - Adelaide Advertiser "With zest, humour and a warm sympathy, Hill brings life to a frontier..." - New York Herald Tribune "A travel book that is a pleasure to recommend." - The Irish Times
Download or read book The Great Australian Dream written by Peter Boehm and published by Slattery Media Group. This book was released on 2011 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Australian Dream is a must-have for anyone considering entering the property market. As house prices soar, the 'great Australian dream' of owning your own home is very quickly slipping out of reach for many Australians, especially generations X and Y. This book arms you with the tools you need to confidently enter the property market. A practical, realistic and independent guide, The Great Australian Dream covers the spectrum of the home-buying process, from saving for a deposit and choosing the right loan, to managing your mortgage and becoming an investor.
Download or read book Quarterly Essay 19 Relaxed and Comfortable written by Judith Brett and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the Liberal Party's core appeal to Australian voters? Has John Howard made a dramatic break with the past, or has he ingeniously modernised the strategies of his party's founder, Sir Robert Menzies? For Judith Brett, the governmeant of John Howard has done what successful Liberal governments have always done: it has made its stand firmly at the centre and presented itself as the true guardian of the national interest. In doing this, John Howard has taken over the national traditions of the Australian Legend that Labor once considered its own. Brett offers a lucid short history of the Liberals as well as an original account of the Prime Minister, arguing that, above all, he is a man obsessed with the fight against Labor. She explores both his inventiveness in practising the politics of unity and his great ruthlessness in practising the politics of division. She incorporates fascinating interview material with Liberal voters, shedding light on some of the different ways in which the Liberals appeal as the natural party of government. Full of provocative ideas, Relaxed and Comfortable will change the way Australians see the last decade of national politics. ‘Where Keating spoke to the nation, Howard spoke from it - straight from the heart of its shared beliefs and commonsense understandings of itself.’ —Judith Brett, Relaxed and Comfortable ‘Judith Brett's elegent account of the Liberal Party's Australia rightly emphasises older nationalist and individualist themes that John Howard has exploited.’ —Ian Marsh ‘Judith Brett's essay is important because it makes no attempt to lionise or demonise John Howard. It seeks merely to examine the reasons for his phenomenal run and does so with great precision.’ —Graham Richardson ‘Brett's is a sober analysis and not one of moral outrage. The essay represents a challenge to the leftist sense that under Howard, as Chicken Licken said, 'The sky is falling!’ —David Corlett ‘Judith Brett has once more shown herself to be one of the foremost commentators on the Liberal Party's political role. It is really the fact that her essay is so good that has prompted my response.’ —David Kemp Judith Brett is professor of politics at La Trobe University and one of Australia’s leading political thinkers. She is a former editor of Meanjin and columnist for the Age. She is the author of the award-winning Robert Menzies’ Forgotten People and Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard (2003), which was shortlisted for the Queensland premier’s prize for non-fiction.
Download or read book Australia s Unintended Cities written by Richard Tomlinson and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2012-11-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia’s Unintended Cities identifies and researches housing and housing-related urban outcomes that are unintended consequences of other policies, the structure of incentives and disincentives for the housing market, and governance arrangements for metropolitan areas and planning and service delivery. It is argued that unintended consequences have a greater impact on the housing market and Australia’s cities and their future than policies directly concerned with housing, urban policy and metropolitan strategic planning. The book will inform policy makers, including government officials, consultants and politicians. It will also be used by academics and students in various areas of urban policy, such as housing and urban planning, as well as environment, public policy and economics.
Download or read book Renovation Nation written by Fiona R. Allon and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is an intelligent, savvy account of home in all its manifestations. It's about our fetish for home and ownership. Why are Australians so obsessed with interest rates, home ownership, home beautification, investment properties, real estate? Fiona Allon looks at our own homes--why we renovate, why shows like The Block were so incredibly popular, why housing affordability has become one of the key political and social issues--and finds that we have become more inward looking than ever. She also looks at the national 'home', and at why we became so anxious about keeping some people out of the country, or away from places some thought they owned, like Cronulla Beach." -- Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Housing and Home Unbound written by Nicole Cook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Housing and Home Unbound pioneers understandings of housing and home as a meeting ground in which intensive practices, materials and meanings tangle with extensive economic, environmental and political worlds. Cutting across disciplines, the book opens up the conceptual and empirical study of housing and home by exploring the coproduction of the concrete and the abstract, the intimate and the institutional, the experiential and the collective. Exploring diverse examples in Australia and New Zealand, contributors address the interleaving of money and materials in the digital commodity of real estate, the neoliberal invention of housing as a liquid asset and source of welfare provision, and the bundling of car and home in housing markets. The more-than-human relations of housing and home are articulated through the role of suburban nature in the making of Australian modernity, the marketing of nature in waterfront urban renewal, the role of domestic territory in subversive social movements such as Seasteading and Tiny Houses, and the search for home comfort through low-cost energy efficiency practices. The transformative politics of housing and home are explored through the decolonizing of housing tenure, the shaping of housing policy by urban social movements, the lived importance of marginal spaces in Indigenous and other housing, and the affective lessons of the ruin. Beginning with the diverse elements gathered together in housing and home, the text opens up the complex realities and possibilities of human dwelling.
Download or read book From Public Housing Soc Market written by J Kemeny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Kemeny develops a conceptual framework to present a critical study of comparative rental markets. The framework centres around the concept of the process of maturation of cost rental housing and two policies for handling this which have been adopted by industrial societies. These are, firstly, the Anglo-Saxon "dualist" system, seen in Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand, and secondly, the Germanic "unitary market" system, seen in Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland. Using a comparative approach based around international case studies, Jim Kemeny shows how each system stems from different power structures, is governed by different policy strategies, and is informed by different ideological views of how markets operate. Offering a radical critique of the orthodox view, it is argued that the time is now right for English-speaking nations to abandon state control over cost renting but allow to it to compete directly with profit renting, as in the "unitary market" model. International in scope, this volume should be of interest to researchers in housing, sociology and related fields.
Download or read book Housing Transitions Through the Life Course written by Andrew Beer and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lifetime attitudes to housing have changed, with new population dynamics driving the market and a greater emphasis on consumption. This important contribution to the literature argues that how we think about households and their housing needs to be recast to acknowledge this changed environment and provide a more powerful conceptual framework.
Download or read book The Bible and the Business of Life written by Simon Carey Holt and published by ATF Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible and the Business of Life is an anthology of essays by a variety of authors celebrating the 65th birthday of Robert Banks Robert. Banks was an Baptist who worked and taught in the USA, in Pasadena and in Melbourne.
Download or read book Money Magnet written by Steve McKnight and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who else wants to attract and keep more money and live a stress-free life? In this breakthrough book, bestselling author and self-made multi-millionaire Steve McKnight delivers a simple yet powerful guide anyone can use to make, manage and multiply their money, and to make their wealth count by giving it meaning. Money is a mystery to many people. It’s not because they’re hopeless at maths, unlucky, or big spenders. It's simply because they don't know how to think and act in ways that will attract wealth that sticks. Ultimately, it’s about learning how to become a money magnet—and anyone can do it! Money Magnet reveals the crucial truths and tools needed to acquire a wealth mindset. Inside you’ll find key strategies—not taught elsewhere—that you can use to create a blueprint for financial freedom. Also included are handy templates, checklists and other aids to help you plan, manage and measure your wealth-building progress. Discover: Why you might be pre-programmed to fail financially without knowing it How to attract more wealth by changing the way you think and act around money The step-by-step guide for calculating how much wealth you need to achieve financial freedom The mathematically proven investing formula for building wealth fast How to give your money meaning and add significance to your life And much, much more This book is perfect for those seeking a step-by-step pathway to overcoming money struggles, and those who want a better and brighter financial future for themselves, their children, and for generations to follow. It's time to learn how to count your money and make your money count.
Download or read book The Radical Homeowner written by Ian C. Winter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1994, this book provides an important contribution to contemporary housing debates as well as clear examples of the use of qualitative data in causal analysis. Based on 3 original Australian case studies and a range of international data, this book demonstrates that the interests and meanings of home ownership can lead home owners into radical courses of social action that oppose the status quo, despite national governments having sponsored a remarkable growth in home ownership to promote a loyal citizenship and political stability.
Download or read book Accommodating Inequality written by Sophie Watson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1988, Accommodating Inequality provides a basis for a radical re-think of housing policy and provision in Australia from a gender perspective. It explores the way that housing in Australia helped to produce patriarchal family structures and simultaneously contributed to the dependence of women on men. At the time the book was originally published housing policy at a theoretical or research level was less explored. Issues such as marginalisation, poverty and low income, domestic responsibility are discussed in relation to housing. The book raised new questions and challenged old debates and provides a clear framework within which feminist housing policy can be situated.
Download or read book Housing and Family Wealth written by R Forrest and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Social Practices Intervention and Sustainability written by Yolande Strengers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of dramatic environmental change, social change is desperately needed to curb burgeoning consumption. Many calls to action have focused on individual behaviour or technological innovation, with relative silence from the social sciences on other modes and methods of intervening in social life. This book shows how we can go beyond behaviour change in the pursuit of sustainability. Inspired by the ‘practice turn’ in consumption studies, this interdisciplinary book looks through the lens of social practice theory to explore important and timely questions about how to intervene in social life. It discusses a range of applied sustainability topics including energy consumption, housing provision, water demand, transport, climate change, curbside recycling and smart grids, seeking to redefine what intervention is, how it happens, and who or what can intervene to address the growing list of environmental calamities facing contemporary societies. These issues are explored through a range of specific case studies from Australia, the UK and the US, providing theoretical insights that are of international relevance. The book will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of sociology, consumption studies, environmental studies, geography, and science and technology studies, as well as policy makers and practitioners seeking to intervene in social life for sustainability.
Download or read book Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning written by Thomas L. Harper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth volume of some of the best, award-winning writing from around the world’s planning schools promotes further discussion and thought. The international authors address a broad spectrum of planning issues including safety in urban spaces, rebuilding post-Katrina and planning and governance in urban Zimbabwe.
