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The 30-Minute City: Designing for Access
Published 2019-12-01This book describes how to implement The 30-Minute City. The first part of the book explains accessibility. We next consider access through history (chapter 2). Access is the driving force behind how cities were built. ...Open AccessBook -
Access Across Australia
Published 2019-06-07This report measures accessibility, the ease of reaching valued destinations, for 8 major Australian cities, covering around 70% of resident workers and employment opportunities nationally. Accessibility, measured as the ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Access Across New Zealand
Published 2020-02-17This report measures access to jobs and to resident workers for 3 major New Zealand cities: Auckland, Christchurch, and Wellington, covering around 49% of employment opportunities and 46% of resident workers nationally. ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Access, the Built Environment, and Behavior
Published 2024Access is an essential component of the built environment that measures the ease of reaching desired destinations; the level of access is a combined result from both land use and transport infrastructure. Other facets of ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Accessibility, equity, and the journey to work
Published 2018-09-13Inequality in transport provision is an area of growing concern among transport professionals, as it results in low-income individuals travelling at lower speeds while covering smaller distances. Accessibility, the ease ...Open AccessArticle -
Activism and aid: young citizens’ experiences of development and democracy in Timor-Leste
Published 2017-04-01Open AccessOther -
After Nunukan: The Regulation of Indonesian Migration to Malaysia
Published 2006-01-01Labour migration from Indonesia to Malaysia is a complex phenomenon. Migrants enter Malaysia via a range of formal, semi-formal and informal channels, primarily through Sumatra and Kalimantan. Although Indonesian authorities ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Asia’s Labor Migration and Employment Relations Regimes
Published 2019-01-01What happens when local unions begin to advocate for the rights of temporary migrant workers, asks Michele Ford in her sweeping study of seven Asian countries? Until recently unions in Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, ...Open AccessBook chapter -
The Australian Twins Economic Preferences Survey
Published 2021This article describes the Australian Twins Economic Preferences Survey (ATEPS). The data set comprises a wide variety of preference and behavioral measures (risk aversion, impatience, ambiguity aversion, trust, confidence) ...Open AccessArticle -
Australia’s Response to the China Threat: The Case for Engagement
Published 2023-04-19The dominance of the China Threat discourse in Australia’s public affairs suggests poor prospects for any continued Australia-China relations, let alone positive interactions of mutual benefit. An exploration of alternative ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The Belt and Road Initiative as Ten Policy Commandments: Review of Xi’s Kazakhstan and Indonesia Launch Speeches
Published 2023-04-19In 2019 Foreign Policy described China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as “the most talked about and least defined buzzword of this decade”. Given that confusion and the importance of leader political speeches in China, ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Beyond the Femina fantasy: female industrial and overseas domestic labour in Indonesian discourses of women's work
Published 2003-01-01In the late 1990s, scholarly attention turned to glossy publications such as Femina, the premier Indonesian women's magazine, for insights into what it means to be a woman in Indonesia. When Brenner analysed the visual and ...Open AccessArticle -
The Bilingual Gap in Children’s Language, Emotional and Pro-social Development
Published 2021In this paper we examine whether – conditional on other family inputs – bilingual children achieve different outcomes in language and emotional development. Our data come from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) which ...Article -
The Borders Within: Mobility and Enclosure in the Riau Islands
Published 2006-01-01The border studies literature makes a strong case against claims for unfettered transnationalism and ‘borderlessness’ in our ‘globalising world’. However, its focus on movement across borders means that it fails to address ...Open AccessArticle -
Catchment if you can: The effect of station entrance and exit locations on accessibility
Published 2019-04-10The success of passenger railway systems depends on their ridership and thus the population they serve. An alternative mechanism to increase ridership is to expose the existing system to more people. One approach to do ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Catchment if you can: The effect of station entrance and exit locations on accessibility (journal preprint)
Published 2019-10-02The success of passenger railway systems depends on their ridership and thus the population they serve. A mechanism to increase ridership is to expose the existing system to more people by reconfiguring the station itself, ...Open AccessPreprint -
CCP Ideology, 1976-1980: From the "Two Whatevers,” to the “Criterion of Truth,” to the “Four Cardinal Principles,” and Beyond
Published 2023This Working Paper is a draft chapter for a book on the poorly understood CCP elite politics of the early post-Mao period, tentatively entitled Hua Guofeng, Deng Xiaoping, and the Dismantling of Maoism. Nowhere is this ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A Challenge for Business? Developments in Indonesian Trade Unionism after Soeharto
Published 2004-01-01This chapter discusses debates on unionism and business from a labour movement perspective. It begins by briefly outlining developments in unionism in New Order Indonesia and sketching changes in the regulatory environment ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Changing geographies of fashion during Covid‐19: The Australian case
Published 2021COVID-19 has impacted a range of industries, of which the fashion industry is no exception. Here, we examine the effects of COVID‐19 on the geographies of that industry in Australia. We use a path‐dependency framework to ...Article