Recognising the existence of socio-economic and demographic disparities across
metropolitan cities such as Greater Sydney, this study gauges the determinants of …

Studies on urban quality of life (QoL) have been attracting lots of attention from various
countries due to the deterioration of urban environment and decrease of the urban QoL …

In this paper the objective and subjective measures (objective and subjective indicators) of
the concept of quality of life research have been discussed. Since the measures are specific …

Despite extensive studies being devoted to housing affordability in Australia, few have
investigated housing affordability at a disaggregated level. This is in spite of the fact that …

Many suburban areas in Australian cities built between the 1930s and 1960s are facing
major challenges from socio-demographic change, ageing housing, long-term disinvestment …

This article investigates how recently arrived refugees living in Fair-field-the most culturally
diverse locality in Sydney-relate to citizenship and experience belonging in a global city …

In the lead up to the 2004 election, federal member for Lindsay, Jackie Kelly, infamously
argued that Penrith, the main locality in her electorate, was a 'pram city', and did not need …

Feminist geography emerged in A ustralia in the 1980s, spurred on by the local W omen's L
iberation M ovement and inspired by the academic activism emanating from E ngland, C …

Sociologist John Urry opens his influential work,“Mobilities” with the observation that “It
sometimes seems as if all the world is on the move”(Urry 2008, 3). From this starting point …

Although there is widespread consensus in human geography that neoliberalism is
achieved through the intersection of multiple scales and states, there has been growing …