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Volume 6. Number 1.

Table of Contents
Contributors

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• Contemporary fertility patterns in Australia: first data from the 1996 Census
  by Peter McDonald
• Indigenous female sole parents, a preliminary analysis of 1996 Census data
  by Anne Daly
• Religion and age in Australia
  by Gary Bouma and Philip Hughes
• The emerging underclass: evidence from Melbourne and Sydney
  by Ernest Healy
• Migration category and labour-market status: policy implications of the performance of refugees
  by Christine Stevens
• The impact of the ‘Hanson’ effect and the Asian currency crisis on education exports
  by Ian R. Dobson and Lesleyanne Hawthorne and Bob Birrell
• Implications of widened access to higher education
  by Bob Birrell and Virginia Rapson
• Overnight visitor counts in Australia and their implications for population estimation
  by Tricia Cook
• Last chance for the French Left
  by Alain Bihr
• A response to ‘Socio-economic deprivation of Australia’s stolen generation’
  by Ross McGregor

Peter McDonald is Professor of Demography at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.

Anne Daly is with the Faculty of Management at the University of Canberra.

Gary Bouma is Professor of Sociology at Monash University and Philip Hughes is Senior Researcher with The Christian Research Association and Research Associate of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Monash University.

Ernest Healy is Research Associate of the Centre for Population and Urban Research, Monash University.

Christine Stevens is principal researcher at Steven's Social Research, 32 Banksia Crescent, Belair, South Australia.

Ian Dobson is Associate to the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Monash University and Lesleyanne Hawthorne is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Cultural Studies in Health at the University of Melbourne.

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 for Population and Urban Research, Monash University.

Tricia Cook is with the Planning and Forecasting Unit, Queensland Department of Local Government and Planning.

Ross McGregor is a solicitor from Queensland.