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Volume 5. Number 2.

Table of Contents
Contributors

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• Work, retirement and dependency
  by Bruce R. Bacon
• Population and business in metropolitan and non-metropolitan Australia : the experience of the past decade
  by Kevin O'Connor and Robert J. Stimson
• Equity and university attendance : the Monash experience
  by Bob Birrell and Ian Dobson
• The graduate labour force : gender at work
  by Virginia Rapson
• Welfare dependence in Australia
  by Bob Birrell, Chris Maher and Virginia Rapson
• Remittances among recently arrived immigrants
  by Tess Rod and Jill Murphy
• Data....Opinion....Dialogue....Contibutors this issue:
  Ross MacGregor, Ray Jureidini and Virginia Rapson

Katharine Betts is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Swinburne University of Technology.
Philip Ruddock is the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs in the Coalition Government.
Duncan Kerr is the Labor Shadow Minister for  Immigration and Multicultural Affairs.
Christabel Young is with the Demography Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra.
Bruce Bacon is Senior Executive, Retirement Income Modelling Taskforce, Commonwealth Department of Treasury
Kevin O’Connor is Associate Professor in  Geography and Environmental Science and Deputy Director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research, Monash University.
Robert Stimson is with the Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering, Queensland University of Technology.
Bob Birrell is Reader in Sociology and Director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research, Monash University.
Ian Dobson is Associate to the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Monash University.
Virginia Rapson is Research Manager of the Centre for Population and Urban Research, Monash University.
Chris Maher is Associate Professor in   Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University.
Both Tess Rod and Jill Murphy were formerly employed as research economists at the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research. Tess Rod currently works as a private consultant for Encompass Research Pty Ltd and Jill Murphy is on leave overseas for a year.
Ross MacGregor is a solicitor from Queensland.
Ray Jureidini is Lecturer in Sociology, Monash University and is Vice Chairman of the Australian-Arabic Council.