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Volume 5. Number 3.

Table of Contents
Contributors

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• Australia’s population: is stability uneconomic?
  by Frank Stilwell
• Linguistic diversity in Australia
  by Michael Clyne and Sandra Kipp
• Increasing diversity in religoius identification in Australia: comparing 1947, 1991 and 1996 census reports
  by Gary D.  Bouma
• Judicial activism, immigration and the one-child case
  by Katharine Betts
• Extracts from the recent Australian High Court decision on China’s one-child policy and refugee status
• Population change between 1986 and 1996 in Australia: population numbers, components of change and age profiles
  by Gary Ward and Ross Barker
• Poor families, poor children: who cares for the next generation?
  by Bob Birrell and Virginia Rapson
• Vietnamese in Sydney and Melbourne in 1996: some preliminary results from the census
  by Nancy Viviani
• 1996 census update — residential concentrations of Vietnam-born people in Melbourne and Sydney
  by Ernest Healy
   

Frank Stilwell is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Sydney. He is an editor of the Journal of Australian Political Economy, and a former member of the National Population Council.
Michael Clyne is Professor and Sandra Kipp is a researcher in the Department of Linguistics at Monash University.
Gary D. Bouma is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Monash University.
Katharine Betts is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Swinburne University of Technology.
Gary Ward (senior project leader) and Ross Barker (manager) both work in the Planning Information and Forecasting Unit, Planning Services, Queensland Department of Local Government and Planning, Brisbane.
Bob Birrell is Reader in Sociology and Director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research, Monash University. Virginia Rapson is Research Manager of the Centre.
Nancy Viviani is Professor of International Politics at Griffith University.
Ernest Healy is Research Associate with the Centre for Population and Urban Research, Monash University.