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Volume 6. Number 2.

Table of Contents
Contributors

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• Beyond Cairo: changing directions for population policies in the Asia-Pacific region
  by Gavin W. Jones
• Achieving population targets for Australia: an analysis of the options
  by Rebecca Kippen and Peter McDonald
• The 1998-99 immigration program
  by Bob Birrell and Virginia Rapson
• Population policy: major party positions
  by Katharine Betts
• The Coalition Government's reaction to scientists' concern about population policy
  by Philip Ruddock and the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
• Language concentrations in metropolitan areas
  by Michael Clyne and Sandra Kipp
• Equity implications of the new Youth Allowance legislation for higher education students
  by Bob Birrell and Ian R. Dobson
• Declining fertility — welcome wherever it occurs
  by Jill Curnow
• Denial, ignorance and quilt: a reply to MacGregor's discussion of ‘Socio-economic deprivation of Australia's stolen generation’
  by Neil T. M. Hamilton and Grazyna Majchrzak-Hamilton
  followed by Ross MacGregor’s reply
• Book review: France Shattered
  by Gerda Bikales

Gavin Jones is Professor of Demography at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
Rebecca Kippen is a postgraduate student in the Demography Program and Peter McDonald is Professor of Demography at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
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.
Katharine Betts is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Swinburne University of Technology.
Philip Ruddock is Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs in the Coalition Government.
Michael Clyne is Professor and Sandra Kipp is a researcher in the Department of Linguistics at Monash University.
Ian Dobson is Associate to the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Monash University.
Jill Curnow is the President of the NSW branch of Australians for an Ecologically Sustainable Population.
Grazyna Majchrzak-Hamilton is with the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University and Neil Hamilton is with the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney.
Ross MacGregor is a solicitor from Queensland.
Gerda Bikales was the first executive director of U.S. English. She writes from France where her husband is on a U.S. government assignment.