Journal articles: 'Australian house'

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Gharaie, Ehsan, Ron Wakefield, and Nick Blismas. "Explaining the Increase in the Australian Average House Completion Time:Activity-based versus Workflow-based Approach." Construction Economics and Building 10, no. 4 (December 16, 2010): 34–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ajceb.v10i4.1688.

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The Australian house building industry has been facing an increase in the average house completion time in the last decade. This increase in some states is quite dramatic. For instance, Western Australia has faced a 70 percent increase in the average house completion time during this period. This paper uses two planning approaches to explain this; i) the activity-based planning methods and ii) the workflow-based planning methods. In addition, this research investigates the strengths and weaknesses of these two planning approaches in explaining the behaviour of the house building industry. For this purpose, a national case study and five state case studies including Victoria, Western Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia have been used. The data related to the key parameters have been collected and their correlation with the average house completion time has been investigated. These key parameters include the average house floor area, the number of house completions and the number of houses under construction. The reasons for the increasing trend of the average house completion time have been postulated in all case studies. According to this research, the increase in the average house completion time cannot be explained using activity-based planning methods. In contrast, by using workflow-based planning methods, it has been shown that the average house completion time is correlated with the number of houses under construction. This paper shows that the average completion time is influenced directly by the workflow in the house building industry and that workflow planning should be the basis for the house building industry planning.

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Gholipour, Hassan F., Hooi Hooi Lean, Reza Tajaddini, and Anh Khoi Pham. "Foreign investment in Australian residential properties." International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis 12, no. 2 (April 1, 2019): 166–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijhma-05-2018-0030.

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the impact that foreign investment in existing houses and new housing development has on residential house prices and the growth of the housing construction sector. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is based on a panel cointegration method, estimated using annual data for all Australian states and territories spanning the period of 1990-2013. Findings The results indicate that increases in foreign investment in existing houses do not significantly lead to increases in house prices. On the other hand, a 10 per cent increase in foreign investment for housing development decreases house prices by 1.95 per cent. We also find that foreign real estate investments have a positive impact on housing construction activities in the long run. Originality/value Existing studies used aggregate foreign real estate investment in their analyses. As foreign investment in existing houses and foreign investment for housing development have different impacts on the demand and supply sides of housing market, it is crucial that the analysis of the effects of foreign investment in residential properties on real estate market is conducted for each type differently.

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Prawata, Albertus. "Gedung Parlemen Australia dari Sudut Pandang Konsep Perancangan." ComTech: Computer, Mathematics and Engineering Applications 1, no. 2 (December 1, 2010): 1001. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/comtech.v1i2.2655.

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This paper explores the design concept of the Australian Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, which is achieved by international design competition won by Romaldo Giurgola. As a foreigner, his achievement winning the international competition for the new Australian Parliament House was remarkable. He was successfully applied the historic and symbolic values from the early Canberra master plan by Walter and Marion Griffin into his work, and he was also influenced by other architect’s works such as Louis Khan.

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Fuller, R. J., and U. M. de Jong. "The Cost of Housing: More Than Just Dollars." Open House International 36, no. 3 (September 1, 2011): 38–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-03-2011-b0005.

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Australians were recently awarded the dubious honour of building the largest homes in the world. Our new homes are now seven percent larger than those in the United States and nearly three times larger than those in the United Kingdom. At the same time, the price of an average residential property is now five times what it was 20 years ago. Although incomes have risen over the same period, they have not kept pace with rising house prices. In terms of disposable income, the cost of housing has almost doubled. While traditional housing affordability is measured in terms of house prices and incomes, a broader and more encompassing perspective also indicates that we can no longer ‘afford’ to build houses as we have done in the past. The environmental impact of modern Australian housing is significant. Australians have resisted the need for increased urban density as their capital city populations grow and new houses have been built on the outskirts of the existing cities, encroaching on the greenwedge and agricultural lands, destroying and degrading existing fauna and flora. The houses built have increased carbon emissions because of their size, embodied energy and reliance on the motor car. This paper discusses the environmental ‘affordability’ of current Australian housing and argues that this must be considered alongside traditional affordability criteria so that a more holistic approach to the issues is adopted.

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Valadkhani, Abbas, and Russell Smyth. "Self-exciting effects of house prices on unit prices in Australian capital cities." Urban Studies 54, no. 10 (May 4, 2016): 2376–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098016643476.

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This paper examines the long- and short-run relationship between Australian house and unit prices across all capital cities over the period December 1995 to June 2015. We find that house and unit prices are cointegrated and, based on the results of Granger causality and generalised impulse responses, that house prices significantly influence unit prices across all cities. However, bi-directional causality (responses) exists only for major capital cities with the exception of Brisbane. We also, for the first time, apply self-excited threshold models to explore the complex interplay between house and unit prices in Australia. We find that when the market for units is self-excited, or bullish, the positive effects of house prices on unit prices are noticeably larger than otherwise. There is a varying degree of herd mentality in the Australian property market with Sydney and Darwin being the most and least ‘excitable’ capital cities, respectively.

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Pickard, Stephen. "Many Verandahs, Same House? Ecclesiological Challenges for Australian Anglicanism." Journal of Anglican Studies 4, no. 2 (December 2006): 177–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1740355306070678.

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ABSTRACTThe article addresses a number of different themes related to Australian Anglicanism. Underlying this inquiry is a deeper concern to trace the contours of an ecclesiology that is both embedded in a particular context (Australia) and through that points to common ideals that inform the self-understanding of the wider Communion. After an introduction, the remainder of the article is divided into four sections. The first section involves a brief historical perspective to introduce Australian Anglicanism to a wider audience. A second section attends to matters of law and governance; familiar enough but often dry territory, though certainly revealing as to the present state of our Church. From history and law I offer in the third section a reflection of a geographical kind on the idea of place as a formative factor in ecclesiology. In this way I hope to be able to highlight some of the particular challenges for Australian Anglicans and hopefully the wider Communion.

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Williams, Paul D. "How Did They Do It? Explaining Queensland Labor's Second Electoral Hegemony." Queensland Review 18, no. 2 (2011): 112–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/qr.18.2.112.

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Australia's entrenched liberal democratic traditions of a free media, fair and frequent elections and robust public debate might encourage outside observers to assume Australia is subject to frequent changes in government. The reality is very different: Australian politics have instead been ‘largely unchanged’ since the beginning of our bipolar party system in 1910 (Aitkin 1977, p. 1), with Australians re-electing incumbents on numerous occasions for decades on end. The obvious federal example is the 23-year dominance of the Liberal-Country Party Coalition, first elected in 1949 and re-endorsed at the following eight House of Representatives elections. Even more protracted electoral hegemonies have been found at state level, including Labor's control of Tasmania (1934–82, except for 1969–72) and New South Wales (1941–65), and the Liberals' hold on Victoria (1952–82) and South Australia (1938–65, most unusually under one Premier, Thomas Playford). It is therefore not a question of whether parties can enjoy excessively long hegemonies in Australia; it is instead one of how they achieve it.

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Horan, Peter, Mark B. Luther, and Hong Xian Li. "Guidance on Implementing Renewable Energy Systems in Australian Homes." Energies 14, no. 9 (May 6, 2021): 2666. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14092666.

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The purpose of this paper is to examine several real house cases as renewable energy resources are installed. It is an empirical study, based on first principles applied to measured data. In the first case presented, a PV solar system has been installed and a hybrid vehicle purchased. Battery storage is being considered. Smart Meter data (provided in Victoria, Australia) measures the electrical energy flowing to and from the grid in each half hour. Missing is the story about what the house is generating and what its energy requirements are through each half hour interval. We apply actual (on site) solar PV data to this study, resolving the unknown energy flows. Analysing energy flow has revealed that there are five fundamental quantities which determine performance, namely energy load, energy import, energy harvesting, energy export and energy storage. As a function of PV size these quantities depend on four parameters, easily derivable from the Smart Meter data, namely the house load, the night-time house load (no PV generation), the rating of the solar PV system and the tariffs charged. This reveals most of the information for providing advice on PV array size and whether to install a battery. An important discovery is that a battery, no matter what size, needs a PV system large enough to charge it during the winter months. The analysis is extended to two more houses located within 5 km for which detailed solar data is unavailable.

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Wang, Justine, Alla Koblyakova, Piyush Tiwari, and John S. Croucher. "Is the Australian housing market in a bubble?" International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis 13, no. 1 (April 12, 2018): 77–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijhma-03-2017-0026.

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Purpose This paper aims to explore principal drivers affecting prices in the Australian housing market, aiming to detect the presence of housing bubbles within it. The data set analyzed covers the past two decades, thereby including the period of the most recent housing boom between 2012 and 2015. Design/methodology/approach The paper describes the application of combined enhanced rigorous econometric frameworks, such as ordinary least square (OLS), Granger causality and the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) framework, to provide an in-depth understanding of house price dynamics and bubbles in Australia. Findings The empirical results presented reveal that Australian house prices are driven primarily by four key factors: mortgage interest rates, consumer sentiment, the Australian S&P/ASX 200 stock market index and unemployment rates. It finds that these four key drivers have long-term equilibrium in relation to house prices, and any short-term disequilibrium always self-corrects over the long term because of economic forces. The existence of long-term equilibrium in the housing market suggests it is unlikely to be in a bubble (Diba and Grossman, 1988; Flood and Hodrick, 1986). Originality/value The foremost contribution of this paper is that it is the first rigorous study of housing bubbles in Australia at the national level. Additionally, the data set renders the study of particular interest because it incorporates an analysis of the most recent housing boom (2012-2015). The policy implications from the study arise from the discussion of how best to balance monetary policy, fiscal policy and macroeconomic policy to optimize the steady and stable growth of the Australian housing market, and from its reconsideration of affordability schemes and related policies designed to incentivize construction and the involvement of complementary industries associated with property.

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Barrett, Lindsay. "Just a suburban boy." Cultural Studies Review 11, no. 2 (October 25, 2013): 221–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/csr.v11i2.3674.

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A review of Craig McGregor's Australian Son: Inside Mark Latham (Pluto Press, North Melbourne, 2004), Margaret Simons's Quarterly Essay: Latham’s World: The New Politics of the Outsiders (Black Inc., Melbourne, 2004) and Michael Duffy's Latham and Abbott (Random House Australia, Milson’s Point, 2004).

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Ma, Le, Richard Reed, and Jian Liang. "Separating owner-occupier and investor demands for housing in the Australian states." Journal of Property Investment & Finance 37, no. 2 (March 4, 2019): 215–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jpif-07-2018-0045.

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PurposeThere has been declining home ownership and increased acceptance of long-term renting in many western countries including Australia; this has created a problem when examining housing markets as there are dual demand and include both owner-occupiers and investors. The purpose of this paper is to examine the long-run relationship between house prices, housing supply and demand, and to estimate the effects of the two types of demand (i.e. owner-occupier and investor) on house prices.Design/methodology/approachThe econometric techniques for cointegration with vector error correction models are used to specify the proposed models, where the housing markets in the Australian states and territories illustrate the models.FindingsThe results highlight the regional long-run equilibrium and associated patterns in house prices, the level of new housing supply, owner-occupier demand for housing and investor demand for housing. Different types of markets were identified.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest that policies that depress the investment demand can effectively prevent the housing bubble from further building up in the Australian states. The empirical findings shed light in the strategy of maintaining levels of housing affordability in regions where owner-occupiers have been priced out of the housing market.Originality/valueThere has been declining home ownership and increased acceptance of long-term renting in many western countries including Australia; this has created a problem when examining housing markets as there are dual demand and include both owner-occupiers and investors. This research has given to the relationship between supply and dual demand, which includes owner-occupation and investment, for housing and the influence on house prices.

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Cunningham, Stuart. "Kennedy-Miller: ‘House Style’ in Australian Television." Media Information Australia 50, no. 1 (November 1988): 177–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x8805000113.

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Furphy, Sam. "Aboriginal house names and settler Australian identity." Journal of Australian Studies 26, no. 72 (January 2002): 59–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443050209387738.

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Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa, John Inekwe, and Kris Ivanovski. "House price convergence: Evidence from Australian cities." Economics Letters 170 (September 2018): 88–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2018.06.004.

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O'Brien, Grace, and Michelle Trudgett. "School House to Big House." Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 49, no. 1 (August 29, 2018): 98–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jie.2018.13.

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In 1991, the Australian Government released the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Report. Of the 339 recommendations, Recommendation 62 identified that there was an alarming over-representation of Indigenous youth in contact with the criminal justice system. The report called for immediate action by governments to develop strategies that would urgently reduce retention rates of Indigenous youth within the prison system. Analysis of the literature indicates that almost three decades after the release of this report, the high numbers of Indigenous youth who are incarcerated, or who have come into contact with the juvenile justice system remains the same. Although there is a good deal of literature investigating the criminological characteristics of this phenomena; there is a substantial gap in the literature surrounding the educational exclusion of young Indigenous males from the formal education system. This paper focusses specifically on the literature surrounding student exclusion from state schools and how this may provide some insight into the subsequent over-representation of young Indigenous males within the Queensland juvenile justice system.

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Lee, Ming-Te, Chyi Lin Lee, Ming-Long Lee, and Chien-Ya Liao. "Price linkages between Australian housing and stock markets." International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis 10, no. 2 (April 3, 2017): 305–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijhma-05-2016-0037.

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the linkages between Australian house prices and stock prices under the Toda and Yamamoto test framework. Specifically, it investigated whether there is a capital switching effect between house prices and stock prices. Design/methodology/approach This study examined the linkages between house prices and stock prices under the Toda and Yamamoto test framework. To accommodate the impact of the global financial crisis (GFC), a sub-period analysis was undertaken. To assess the impact of investor structure, the tests were also performed for small cap stocks and large cap stocks individually. Findings The empirical results reveal a negative lead–lag relationship between house prices and stock prices in Australia, suggesting the existence of capital switching activities between housing and stocks. The impact of the GFC on the lead–lag relationship between house prices and stock prices is also documented. Before the crisis, a causality transmission was running from house prices to stock prices, whilst stock prices appeared to lead house prices after the crisis. The capital switching activities between housing and stocks are more evident for small cap stocks. Originality/value This study is the first to examine the linkages between house prices and stock prices under the Toda and Yamamoto test framework. This is the first study to explore the impacts of the GFC on the lead–lag relationship between the two asset prices under the capital switching framework. This study is also the first to provide empirical evidence regarding the existence of capital switching activities between housing and stocks. In addition, the impact of investor structure on the interrelationship between the two asset prices is examined for the first time under the capital switching framework.

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Costello, Gregory, Patricia Fraser, and Garry MacDonald. "Monetary policy influences in Australian housing markets." International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis 8, no. 2 (June 1, 2015): 265–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijhma-08-2014-0032.

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Purpose – This paper aims to analyze the impact of common monetary policy shocks on house prices at national and capital city levels of aggregation, using Australian data and the Lastrapes (2005) two-part structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) empirical method. Design/methodology/approach – The Lastrapes (2005) two-part SVAR empirical method is applied to Australian housing market and macroeconomic data to assess the impact of common monetary policy shocks on house prices. Findings – Results show that while the impact of shocks to interest rates on aggregate house prices is almost neutral, the responses of state capital city house prices to the same shock can exhibit significant asymmetries. Originality/value – This paper contributes to the monetary policy–asset price debate by examining the influence of Australian monetary policy on capital city housing markets over the period 1982-2012. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first empirical study that has adapted this Lastrapes (2005) methodology to the analysis of housing markets.

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Whittaker, Joshua, Katharine Haynes, John Handmer, and Jim McLennan. "Community safety during the 2009 Australian 'Black Saturday' bushfires: an analysis of household preparedness and response." International Journal of Wildland Fire 22, no. 6 (2013): 841. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf12010.

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On Saturday 7 February 2009, 173 people lost their lives and more than 2000 houses were destroyed in bushfires (wildfires) in the Australian State of Victoria. The scale of life and property loss raised fundamental questions about community bushfire safety in Australia, in particular the appropriateness of the ‘Prepare, stay and defend or leave early’ policy. This paper presents findings from research undertaken as part of the Australian Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre’s (CRC) ‘2009 Victorian Bushfires Research Taskforce’. The research examined factors influencing patterns of life and property loss and survival across the fires through mail surveys (n=1314) of fire affected households. Just over half of the respondents (53%) stayed to defend their homes and properties, whereas the remainder left before or when the fires arrived (43%) or sheltered in a house, structure, vehicle, or outside (4%). Results reveal a survival rate of 77% for houses that were defended by one or more household members, compared to 44% for unattended houses. The paper identifies inadequate planning and preparedness and the tendency for people to wait until they are directly threatened before taking action as major factors leading to late evacuation, failed defence and passive shelter.

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Ge, Xin Janet. "Effects of ethnic changes on house prices: Sydney cases." International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis 13, no. 1 (February 14, 2018): 96–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijhma-12-2016-0083.

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Purpose This paper aims to investigate the factors that contribute to the changes of house prices including ethnic factors. Australia is a multicultural country with diversified ethnicities. The median price of established houses (unstratified) in Sydney has reached a new record high of $910,000 in December 2015, increasing around 58.2 per cent from March 2011 [Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), 2015a]. However, the prices of some suburbs have increased more than prices of others. Design/methodology/approach Six suburbs that represent ethnic majority originally including White, India and China will be selected as pilot studies. Hedonic regression analysis will be applied for the analysis based on 2001, 2006 and 2011 census data. Findings It is found that the main drivers of house prices are the dwelling physical characteristics and accessibility to convenient transportation. The level of household income also plays an important role. However, the impact of changes of ethnic on changes of prices is not significant. Research limitations/implications The study adds to the growing literature on the ethnicity changes on dwelling prices and is important for understanding whether some of the clusters of ethnic concentration or segregation effects property markets. This study is significant in its understanding of the main characteristics of ethnic changes of suburbs in Sydney. Practical implications An implication is that policy makers can attract different ethnic groups and encourage multicultural communities when they formulate housing and planning policies. Originality/value The relationship between ethnicity and house price appreciation is not extensively studied in Australia. This research contributes to the literature on the effects of ethnic changes on house prices and implications of policy formulation to encourage multicultural communities.

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Farrell, David M., and Ian McAllister. "Legislative recruitment to upper houses: The Australian senate and house of representatives compared." Journal of Legislative Studies 1, no. 2 (June 1995): 243–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13572339508420427.

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Blight, David, Michael Field, and Eider Henriquez. "The First Home Buyer Grant and house prices in Australia." Deakin Papers on International Business Economics 5 (July 30, 2012): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/dpibe2012vol5no0art52.

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Australia’s First Home Buyer Grants (FHBG) was designed to assist first home buyers into the market through a range of measures, grants and assistance packages. From the year 2000 there has been a strong increase in house price resulting in house prices nearly doubling between 2000 and 2008, well above the CPI or normal investment growth rate. This paper sets out that the FHBG was a main driver of these increases and attempts to measure by how much. We have considered if the FHBG is a direct driver of increasing median house prices and an indirect driver through increased borrowing ability. Due to the combination of the FHBG, the ability to borrow more, and an inelastic supply, we have concluded that the FHBG did increase the median price of houses in Australian by approximately $57,321.

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Steinhardt, Dale A., and Karen Manley. "Exploring the beliefs of Australian prefabricated house builders." Construction Economics and Building 16, no. 2 (June 13, 2016): 27–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ajceb.v16i2.4741.

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The housing sector accounts for a majority of newly constructed buildings. Prefabrication, defined as the factory construction of houses or significant components, is widely promoted as a means to improve efficiency. This paper focuses on the research questions: RQ1. What are the attitudes of builders towards prefabrication adoption? RQ2. What types of stakeholders do builders believe influence their adoption decisions? RQ3. What types of contextual influences do builders believe impact their adoption decisions? Current prefabrication research has focused on the advantages and disadvantages of prefabrication, without further unpacking the beliefs of stakeholders that underpin them. This paper addresses this gap and increases the understanding of beliefs that can frame interventions to increase the market penetration of prefabrication. Fourteen interviews with Australian prefabricators were undertaken as a Belief Elicitation Study. This qualitative methodology is framed by the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Results show that modern high-quality prefabricated housing has struggled to overcome historical stigma; improved construction speed has not and is not likely to translate to reduced totals costs for a majority of firms; and prefabrication adoption has been hindered by an almost completely unsupportive industry infrastructure. Recommendations are made to frame arguments in improving short-term outcomes for an industry driven by practical considerations. Future discourse must focus on cost impacts, financial security and risk reduction. Establishing networks of prefabricators that can build a strong, unified voice for the industry should be prioritised.

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Mulgan, Richard. "The Australian Senate as a 'House of Review'." Australian Journal of Political Science 31, no. 2 (July 1996): 191–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10361149651184.

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Bourassa, Steven C., and Patric H. Hendershott. "Australian Capital City Real House Prices, 1979–1993." Australian Economic Review 28, no. 3 (July 1995): 16–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8462.1995.tb00990.x.

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Simko, Tom, Mark B. Luther, Hong Xian Li, and Peter Horan. "Applying Solar PV to Heat Pump and Storage Technologies in Australian Houses." Energies 14, no. 17 (September 2, 2021): 5480. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14175480.

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Innovative mechanical services coupled with renewable energy systems are crucial for achieving a net zero energy goal for houses. Conventional systems tend to be vastly oversized because they lack the means to buffer energy flows and are based on peak loads. This paper presents an approach to achieve a net zero energy goal for houses by using a solar PV system, heat pumps, and thermal and electrical storage batteries, all off-the-shelf. Constraining one part of the system and then showing how to manage energy storage and flow is a paradigm shift in sizing. The design is for a modest-sized house built in Melbourne, Australia. The output of a solar photovoltaic array drives a small-scale heat pump to heat water, buffering its energy in a thermal battery to energise a radiant space heating system. Space cooling is provided by a separate heat pump. Through energy storage in electrical and thermal batteries, it is possible to meet the electricity, heating and cooling needs of the house for the Melbourne climate with a heat pump that draws less than 1 kW. The design methodology is detailed in an appendix and can be applied to similar projects. This paper contributes to similar work worldwide that aims to reinforce innovative renewable energy driven service design.

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Keys, Cathy. "Diversifying the early history of the prefabricated colonial house in Moreton Bay." Queensland Review 26, no. 01 (June 2019): 86–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2019.5.

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AbstractThe history of prefabrication in settler Australia is incomplete. The use of prefabricated and transportable buildings in existing Australian architectural histories focuses on colonial importation from Britain, Asia, America and New Zealand. This article, however, argues for a more diverse and local history of prefabrication — one that considers Indigenous people’s use of prefabrication and draws on archaeological research of abandoned military ventures, revealing an Australian-made, colonial prefabricated building industry that existed for over 40 years, from the 1800s to the 1840s. A more inclusive architectural history of prefabrication is considered in relation to a case study of the first European house erected in Moreton Bay at the British penal outpost of Red Cliffe Point (1824–25), a settlement established partly to contribute to British territory-marking on Australia’s distant coastlines. While existing histories prioritise transportability and ease of assembly as features of prefabricated buildings, this research has found that ease of disassembly, relocation and recycling of building components is a key feature of prefabrication in early abandoned British military garrisons.

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TOMBS, SEBASTIAN. "Practice, research, education and arq Australian and Scottish parallels." Architectural Research Quarterly 7, no. 3-4 (September 2003): 200–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135503252167.

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Paolo Tombesi's investigation of Australia's Parliament House, Canberra (arq 7/2, pp140–154) shows how the ambitions of Public Sector clients are influenced by the political context. The review by John Sergeant of Weston's excellent biography of Utzon in the same issue (pp183–186), provides some insight into his tragedy and triumph at Sydney: the Opera House.

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Jacob, Jens, and Duncan R. Sutherland. "Murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) infections in house mice: a matter of age or sex?" Wildlife Research 31, no. 4 (2004): 369. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr03130.

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The murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) may be used as a vector for fertility control in house mice, which are a significant agricultural pest in south-eastern Australia. The transmission of MCMV can be density dependent and is mostly subclinical in its effect on mice; however, little is known about which individual parameters influence whether an animal is likely to be infected or not.We examined the impact of age and reproductive history on seroprevalence of MCMV in house mice during the breeding season. MCMV seroprevalence was density dependent and there was a linear increase in seroprevalence with increasing age, starting at 25% for 1-month-old mice and 100% for all individuals older than five months. There was no clear indication that the number of previous pregnancies was related to MCMV seroprevalence.The high prevalence of MCMV among adult female house mice (84%) implies that an Australian field strain of MCMV could be a promising vector for an immunocontraceptive for house mice.

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Lee, Michael. "Recent Developments in Australian Aluminium Casthouse Personal Protective Clothing." Materials Science Forum 630 (October 2009): 19–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.630.19.

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Abstract With the recent release of the Victorian WorkSafe Authority Foundries Compliance Code [1] it is appropriate that Australian Aluminium cast houses, die casting shops and foundries review the status of their personal protective clothing/ equipment (PPE) and practices. Since the issuing of the Foundry Code of Practice [2] in 1986 and the issuing of the new Compliance Code in September 2008 there has been a significant change in the range of PPE utilised in cast houses. This change has been brought about as a result of the advancement in the design and development of the materials used, extensive industry experience and collaboration. The choice of appropriate PPE is also guided by the range and impact of injuries sustained in cast houses. This paper aims to highlight the number of PPE advancements and range of experiences gained between the writing of the Foundry Code of Practice and Foundry Compliance Code as well as to serve as a reference for future improvements for the protection of cast house personnel.

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Cisterne, Adam, Lin Schwarzkopf, and David A. Pike. "Australian house geckos are more aggressive than a globally successful invasive Asian house gecko." Behavioral Ecology 30, no. 1 (December 1, 2018): 107–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/ary156.

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Keys, Cathy. "Designing hospitals for Australian conditions: The Australian Inland Mission's cottage hospital, Adelaide House, 1926." Journal of Architecture 21, no. 1 (January 2, 2016): 68–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2016.1141790.

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Otto, Glenn. "Accounting for Longer‐Run Changes in Australian House Prices." Australian Economic Review 54, no. 3 (September 2021): 362–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8462.12432.

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Gallagher, David R., Timothy M. Gapes, and Geoffrey J. Warren. "In‐house asset management in the Australian superannuation industry." Accounting & Finance 59, S1 (February 8, 2017): 615–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acfi.12262.

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Valadkhani, Abbas, Russell Smyth, and Andrew Worthington. "Regional seasonality in Australian house and apartment price returns." Regional Studies 51, no. 10 (July 14, 2016): 1553–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2016.1192718.

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Kupke, Valerie, Peter Rossini, and Paul Kershaw. "Bait pricing: evaluating the success of regulatory reform in advertising." International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis 7, no. 3 (July 29, 2014): 333–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijhma-02-2013-0016.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of this legislative reform in the state of South Australia (SA) through an examination of the relationship between listed or advertised price and transaction prices before and after the changes in regulation. Between 2000 and 2008, legislative changes took place throughout Australia to make real-estate transactions more transparent and to deal with misleading conduct by real-estate agents. The practice of “charm” or “bait” pricing was targeted. This denotes the under-quoting of estimated selling prices in real-estate sale advertisements which can be considered deceptive or even fraudulent. Design/methodology/approach – The study area is Adelaide, the state capital of SA and includes analysis of first and last advertised prices and eventual selling price for > 120,000 residential sales transactions over a nine-year period between 2003 and 2011. The analysis to test these hypotheses included, first, a descriptive evaluation of the percentage price difference over time and a spatial breakdown of mean percentage price difference before and after legislation. Second, for each hypothesis, the change was tested by measuring the variance of the percentage change, with significance established through the Levene and Brown–Forsythe tests, rather than by the mean percentage change. Findings – The results, both descriptive and statistical, support the effectiveness of the reform in legislation. Research limitations/implications – The study has application in terms of agents as social gatekeepers and confirms the role of regulation to ensure market values are achieved and consumers not disadvantaged. With friction in the market, imperfect information and the possible behavioural responses of land agents, there may be incomplete market correction of underpricing strategies. This paper confirms the effectiveness of one such market intervention. Social implications – Some half a million dwellings are purchased in Australia every year. Annually, in the state of SA, some 53,000 dwellings are financed to be purchased or built. These levels of purchase reflect national home ownership rates of about 69 per cent, with some 33 per cent of Australians owning their houses outright and a growing number, some 36 per cent, owners with a mortgage. Australian households also move house relatively frequently. In 2008, 43 per cent of Australians reported moving in the previous 5 years, 15 per cent had moved 3 or more times. The most common reasons for moving were twofold, either to buy a house or to buy a bigger house. These levels of purchase, home ownership and mobility underpin the importance and viability of some 10,000 real-estate services businesses in Australia; a sector which, up to 2,000, was largely self-regulated. Originality/value – This paper is one of the first in Australia to effectively quantify the success of legislative reform on residential agency behaviour.

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Liu, Chunlu, Zhen Qiang Luo, Le Ma, and David Picken. "IDENTIFYING HOUSE PRICE DIFFUSION PATTERNS AMONG AUSTRALIAN STATE CAPITAL CITIES." International Journal of Strategic Property Management 12, no. 4 (December 31, 2008): 237–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/1648-715x.2008.12.237-250.

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Prior research supports the proposition that house price diffusion shows a ripple effect along the spatial dimension. That is, house price changes in one region would reflect in subsequent house price changes in other regions, showing certain linkages among regions. Using the vector autoregression model and the impulse response function, this study investigates house price diffusion among Australia's state capital cities, examining the response of one market to the innovation of other markets and determining the lagged terms for the maximum absolute value of the other markets’ responses. The results show that the most important sub‐national markets in Australia do not point to Sydney, rather towards Canberra and Hobart, while the Darwin market plays a role of buffer. The safest markets are Sydney and Melbourne. This study helps to predict house price movement trends in eight capital cities. Santrauka Ankstesnių tyrimų duomenimis, nekilnojamojo turto kainų kitimas sukelia bangų efektą atsižvelgiant į erdvinį matmenį. Tai yra nekilnojamojo turto kainų kitimus viename regione rodytų paskesnis nekilnojamojo turto kainų kitimas kituose regionuose. Taip ryškėja tam tikri glaudūs ryšiai tarp regionų. Taikant vektorinį autoregresinį modelį ir impulso perdavimo funkciją, šioje studijoje tiriama nekilnojamojo turto kainų kitimas tarp pagrindinių Australijos miestų, nagrinėjant vienos rinkos reakciją į kitų rinkų naujoves bei nustatant uždelstus terminus kitų rinkų reakcijų maksimaliai absoliutinei vertei. Rezultatai rodo, kad svarbiausios Australijos vidaus rinkos nėra orientuotos į Sidnėjų, bet labiau į Kanberą ir Hobartą. Darvino rinka atlieka buferio vaidmenį. Saugiausios rinkos yra Sidnėjus ir Melburnas. Ši studija padeda numatyti nekilnojamojo turto kainų judėjimo tendencijas aštuoniuose pagrindiniuose Australijos miestuose.

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Vanderduys, E. P., and A. S. Kutt. "Is the Asian house gecko, Hemidactylus frenatus, really a threat to Australia’s biodiversity?" Australian Journal of Zoology 60, no. 6 (2012): 361. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/zo12077.

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Invasive animals can have a wide range of impacts in natural systems. The introduced Asian house gecko Hemidactylus frenatus has invaded widely in Australia, but is largely restricted to human-altered landscapes. Hoskin (2011) has argued that H. frenatus has the potential to negatively impact Australian ecosystems by invading natural habitats. We examine this contention by reviewing an extensive standardised fauna survey dataset collected in northern and central Queensland during the key period of H. frenatus expansion from the 1990s to 2012. In light of these data we also re-examine data from other areas that suggest H. frenatus is a benign threat and is unlikely to become an environmental pest within Australia. On current evidence, we conclude that H. frenatus is unlikely to spread much beyond areas of human influence.

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Tombesi, Paolo. "Back to the future: the pragmatic classicism of Australia's Parliament House." Architectural Research Quarterly 7, no. 2 (June 2003): 140–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135503002100.

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Until the launch of Federation Square in Melbourne, in 1997, Australia's contribution to the history of international architectural competitions consisted essentially of two buildings: the Sydney Opera House, won by Jørn Utzon in 1957, and the Federal Parliament House in Canberra, won by Mitchell/Giurgola and Thorp (MGT) in 1980. While Utzon's building is widely acknowledged as a daring piece of innovative design and one of the architectural icons of this century, MGT's winning scheme for Parliament House drew heavy criticism from the moment the proposal was unveiled: neo-Classicist lines, a Beaux-Arts parti, and the building's occupation of Capital Hill – at the top of the Griffins' 1912 scheme for Canberra – were seen by many as displaying a lack of sensibility towards Australian landscape, culture, and ingenuity, and as the result of a conservative approach to contemporary urban design.

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Pearson, Mark, and Camille Galvin. "The Australian Parliament and press freedom in an international context." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 13, no. 2 (November 1, 2019): 139–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v13i2.910.

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The article reports on a study using grounded theory methodology to track the contexts in which Australian parliamentarians used the expressions 'press freedom' and 'freedom of press' over the ten years from 1994 to 2004. It uses Parliamentry Hansard records to identify the speeches in which discussions of press freedom arose. Interestingly, the terms were used by members of the House of Representativies or Senate in just 78 speeches out of more than 180,000 over that decade. Those usages have been coded to develop a theory about the interface between press freedom and the parliament. This article reports just one aspect of the findings from the larger study—the way parliamentarians have contrasted the value of press freedom in Australia with press freedom in other countries. It is one step towards building a broader theory of press freedom in the Australian parliamentary context.

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Message, Kylie. "The Museum of Australian Democracy: A House for the People?" Australian Historical Studies 41, no. 3 (September 2010): 385–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2010.499601.

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Williams, Paul. "House Divided: The Australian General Election of 21 August 2010." Australian Journal of Political Science 46, no. 2 (June 2011): 313–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2011.567975.

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FUSARO, ANTHONY. "The Australian Senate as a House of Review: Another Look." Australian Journal of Politics & History 12, no. 3 (April 7, 2008): 384–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.1966.tb00896.x.

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GREEN, W. F., A. J. WOOLCOCK, M. STUCKEY, C. SEDGWICK, and S. R. LEEDER. "HOUSE DUST MITES AND SKIN TESTS IN DIFFERENT AUSTRALIAN LOCALITIES." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine 16, no. 5 (October 1986): 639–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-5994.1986.tb00002.x.

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Liu, Chunlu, Le Ma, Zhen Qiang Luo, and David Picken. "An interdependence analysis of Australian house prices using variance decomposition." International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis 2, no. 3 (August 7, 2009): 218–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17538270910977527.

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ALOMES, STEPHEN, and KATE JONES. "‘Bad behaviour’ in the House and beyond: Australian representative assemblies." Parliaments, Estates and Representation 29, no. 1 (January 2009): 159–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02606755.2009.9522302.

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Ma, Le, and Chunlu Liu. "SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF HOUSE PRICE CONVERGENCE BASED ON A DEMOGRAPHICAL DISTANCE." International Journal of Strategic Property Management 17, no. 3 (September 23, 2013): 263–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/1648715x.2013.822031.

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Convergences of house prices have been studied for over three decades, but yet have been confirmed because of spatial heterogeneity and autocorrelations in house prices. A spatio-temporal approach was recently proposed to address the spatial and temporal issues related to house prices. However, most previous studies placed the focus on the spatial heterogeneity and autocorrelations from geographical locations, which neglected other spatial factors. In order to overcome this shortfall, this research argued a demographical distance, constructed by demographical structure and housing market scales, to investigate the house price convergences in Australian capital cities. The results confirmed the house price levels in Canberra, Brisbane and Perth converged to the house price level in Sydney.

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Merrillees, R. S. "Greece and the Australian Classical connection." Annual of the British School at Athens 94 (November 1999): 457–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s006824540000068x.

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The study of ancient Greek and Latin in Australia and New Zealand, especially at Sydney Church of England Grammar School in New South Wales, produced this century a number of leading scholars who made a major contribution to the study of Old World archaeology in Europe and Australia this century. Among them were V. G. Childe, T. J. Dunbabin, J. R. Stewart and A. D. Trendall. In developing their respective fields of expertise, all spent some time in Greece, as students, excavators, research workers and soldiers, and had formative links with the British School at Athens. Australia's debt to the Classics is reflected not only in the life-long attachment to their legacy, and to Greece, by the former Prime Minister, the Hon. E. G. Whitlam, but in the perpetuation of their influence in such Colonial and modern structures as the monument of Lysicrates in Sydney's Botanic Gardens and the National Library and new Parliament House in Canberra, and in an official poster illustrating multiculturalism in Australia. Despite their role in shaping Australia's European history, the teaching of Classics is under threat as never before, and the late Enoch Powell, at one time Professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Sydney, has stigmatised the obscurantism which threatens to impoverish if not undermine Western civilisation by closing access to knowledge of our Classical past.

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Spencer, Carol, Michael Clark, and Dennis S. Smith. "A Modification of the Northwick Park ADL Index (The Australian ADL Index)." British Journal of Occupational Therapy 49, no. 11 (November 1986): 350–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030802268604901103.

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A modification of the Northwick Park ADL Index is being used by the Daw House Rehabilitation Unit, Repatriation General Hospital, South Australia. The modifications include some changes to make the test more suitable for Australian conditions, more specific task components, and observation of actual performance of the tasks rather than of simulation. It is applied to all stroke patients admitted to the unit, under test conditions. Scores are entered into a computer program and may be printed as a histogram. The results are available to clinical staff for treatment planning and evaluation, and to research staff as a research instrument. Data are being collected to evaluate the use of the ADL Index to predict the outcome of rehabilitation.

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Vale, Brenda, and Robert Vale. "House or flat?" Architectural History Aotearoa 14 (August 17, 2022): 72–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/aha.v14i.7795.

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The modern argument of high density versus low density living is not new. In 1915 Florence Taylor wrote an article for the Australian journal Building, entitled "The Home - or the Flat?'" (Taylor "The Home - or the Flat?" pp 125-126), Before reading on, the reader knew from the article title that a house was a home and a flat was not. Taylor's argument was that women who lived in flats would become "flaccid and unwomanly" and fail to bear children (she was childless). She believed that "cheap and convenient suburban transport [based on "State-owned trams" which made "communication … easy and cheap"] … together with wide suburban areas offers the best solution of the healthy, prolific population." By the 1920s she had changed her opinion in favour of flats. A similar process at later dates occurred in New Zealand where in 1919 Samuel Hurst Seager used the report of the 1918 town planning conference in Brisbane to promote the garden village with its separate homes as the answer to the New Zealand housing problem. However, by 1936 in the first issue of Building Today (later Home and Building) the inner city Cintra House flats in Auckland were hailed as "... a very fine practical home for modern living" (Anon "Cintra" pp 19-21). The architect was Horace Massey and much of the fitted interior furniture that gave this practicality was designed by RGS Beatson, the newly appointed co-editor of Home and Building.

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Fernandez, Joseph, and Mark Pearson. "Censorship in Australia: Intrusions into media freedom flying beneath the international free expression radar." Pacific Journalism Review 21, no. 1 (May 1, 2015): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v21i1.147.

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Australia has ranked among the top 30 nations in recent world press freedom surveys published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Freedom House and is broadly regarded as a substantially free Western liberal democracy. This article considers how the methodologies of those organisations assess the impact upon media freedom of a range of recent decisions and actions by Australian politicians, judges and government agencies. There is considerable evidence of a shift towards official secrecy and suppression of information flow. However, according to this analysis such developments are unlikely to impact significantly on Australia’s international ranking in media freedom indices. This article uses the methodologies of RSF and Freedom House to explore whether the international free expression organisations’ criteria are justifiably weighted towards violence against journalists, their imprisonment and formal anti-press laws and might allow for a nuanced comparison of other evidence of constraints on the news media in developed democracies.

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