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Shifting the focus of urban regulation from mediation to profit : the case of Adelaide's 30 year plan
No full textAustralian urban politics are characterised by a significant role for State Governments. The Australian Government has control over most levers of the economy but State Governments retain the capacity to intervene in the land market. To shore up faltering regional economies State Governments are shifting the focus of urban regulation from a concern with social and environmental outcomes mediated by local councils to the facilitation of private investment and profit. Such processes are increasingly codified in long-term strategic plans. Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide now have strategic plans of up to 30 years to manage urban growth. An alignment of State land use policy with the interest of developers who profit from the land market seems increasingly evident and in ways that are sometimes controversial. Nevertheless State Governments serve diverse communities and retain a need to address the concerns of other actors, at least superficially. An alignment with the developer lobby is tied to a new discourse of concern for environmental and social concerns in land use. It is argued that this process is illustrative of a faux active-inclusive state. A case study of Adelaide’s new 30 year plan is offered to illustrate this argument. In essence, Adelaide’s 30 year plan represents an attempt to mediate policies and actors in tension with each other. Such actors might include developers, environmentalists, planners concerned with sprawl, local communities in the inner city affected by densification, and peri-urban or rural communities affected by urbanisation. A tendency, however, to assert the interests of developers over that of other actors threatens to subvert mediation process.
Union membership among young graduate workers in Australia : using the experience good model to explain the role of student employment
No full textUsing panel data from a survey of 319 university graduates, this article shows that positive experiences of union membership during the student employment phase increase the likelihood of university graduates becoming union members. These results are consistent with the ‘experience good’ model of union membership.
A Record of Holocene benthic foraminifera in vibrocore SG#279, Spencer Gulf, South Australia
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Model driven orchestration : design for service compatibility
No full textService composition is a recent field that has seen a flurry of different approaches proposed towards the goal of flexible distributed heterogeneous interoperation of software systems, usually based on the expectation that such systems must be derived from higher level models rather than be coded at low level. In practice, achieving service interoperability nonetheless continues to require significant modelling approach at multiple levels, and existing formal approaches typically require the analysis of the global space of joint executions of interacting services. Based on our earlier work on providing locally checkable consistency rules for guaranteeing the behavioral consistency of inheritance hierarchies, we propose a model-driven approach for creating consistent service orchestrations. We represent service execution and interaction with a high-level model in terms of Petri-net based Behavior diagrams, provide formal criteria for service consistency that can be checked in terms of local model properties, and give a design methodology for developing services that are guaranteed to be interoperable.
A class of chance constrained multi-objective portfolio selection model under fuzzy random environment
No full textDementia and loneliness: an Australian perspective
No full textAim. To explore the perceptions of loneliness according to people with early-stage dementia, living in community and longterm care and also the views of their family carers. Background. Research that specifically explores the influence of loneliness on dementia is limited and indicates the prevalence of loneliness and the negative relationship between loneliness and cognitive decline. There is a paucity of research that explores loneliness from the perspective of the person with dementia. Design. A descriptive exploratory qualitative approach was used. Methods. Data were collected through semi-structured audio-taped interviews. A purposive sample of 70 people with a diagnosis or probable dementia and 73 family carers were recruited from community and long-term care from South East Queensland, Australia. Results. Four themes were identified: staying connected to others; losing the ability to socially engage; experiencing loneliness; and overcoming loneliness. The results emphasise the importance of familiar human relationships in reducing the feelings of loneliness in people experiencing dementia. Conclusions. People with dementia are at risk of loneliness, but placing them with unfamiliar people and environments may not improve their situation. Relevance to clinical practice. Better refinement of care that takes into account the potential for loneliness and an understanding of premorbid social tendency may assist in the implementation of individualised and evidence-based strategies to assist people with dementia to lead a better quality of life. To maintain well-being, the social needs of the person with dementia as well as the family need to be considered.
