The Mythical Arguments for Decentralisation

Simons, Peter L.; Lonergan, Noel G.

doi:10.1080/00049999.1973.9656400

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“…South Australia Industries Development Committee, 1964;Victoria Decentralization Advisory Committee, 1967;Development Council of NSW, 1969). Geographers were active in the preparation of these reports and providing critiques of them (Hefford, 1965;Daly, 1973;Simons and Lonergan, 1973). There was debate regarding whether decentralisation was desirable or not but also as to whether decentralisation should be dispersed or selective.…”

Section: • the Setting Up Of An Immigration Advisorymentioning

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Geography and Population in Australia: A Historical Perspective

Hugo¹

2011

Geographical Research

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In contemporary Australia concerns about the future population have seen the creation of a federal ministry on population for the first time. One of the unique dimensions of the population (and immigration) debate in Australia compared with North America and Europe is a strong concern with the environmental implications of growth. The discourse around these issues has been strong in Australia from the colonial period and in the last century geographers have been among the social and physical scientists who have not only provided an empirical basis for the discussion but have been significant protagonists in the debate. This paper surveys the debates around Australia's population since the early years of European settlement and discusses the involvement of geographers. It argues that there is a great deal of continuity in the population debate and that it is important that the lessons of their history inform the contemporary discussion. There is both the need and opportunity for Australia to develop a coherent, holistic, sustainable population policy. It is important that contemporary geographers emulate their forebears and add their knowledge and expertise to the national discussion.

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Section: • the Setting Up Of An Immigration Advisorymentioning

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Geography and Population in Australia: A Historical Perspective

Hugo¹

2011

Geographical Research

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“…They, with greater or less caution, gave support to the proposals (Australian Institute of Urban Studies 1972; Geissman and Woolmington, 1971;Woolmington, 1971;Day, 1972;. Others, notably Simons and Lonergan (1973;1974), were highly critical. In the event the dramatic and unforeseen changes in the Australian and world economies rendered the decentralisation program unworkable.…”

Section: Industrial Geography In the Long Boommentioning

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Industrial Geography: Restructuring in theory and practice

Wilde¹,

Fagan²

1988

Australian Geographical Studies

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The study of Australia's industrial geography effectively dates from the 1950s with the collation of systematic information on individual industries. The 1960s saw a burgeoning and an increasing sophistication of the geographical literature, much of it by a relatively small group of researchers. The growth in the number of industrial geographers in universities and colleges from the late 1960s brought new perspectives to research and swelled the volume of literature during the 70s and 80s. Throughout the entire period industrial geographers in Australia have largely devoted themselves to a study of Australian issues, in part because of the rich and scarcely touched topics that presented themselves and in part from a feeling of responsibility to investigate pertinent political, social and economic issues. Recently, these studies have been increasingly set in the context of the Pacific and global economies, as the particular circumstances influencing Australian industrial geography forced researchers to consider international influences and relationships before those in some other nations (Thrift, 1985). This has given an international significance to recent Australian work and a distinctly Antipodean contribution to the new industrial geography of the 1980s.The hallmark of industrial geography over this quarter of a century has been its dynamism. As in other social sciences, there have been major paradigm shifts as a result of both the mounting criticism of the prevailing orthodoxy from within the discipline, and the dramatic social, economic and political change within the society being studied. The 1950s and 60s were marked by the relatively stable external environment of the 'long boom' and industrial geographers in Australia, as elsewhere in the world, were primarily concerned to establish a statement of industrial structure and distributions and to grapple with theoretical frameworks and criticisms of them from within the discipline. The 1970s, in contrast, saw the transformation of these foundations as the crisis in Australia and the world demanded new and broader theoretical and empirical approaches to industrial and regional studies. In keeping with these major stages in the subject's evolution. this paper will first explore the evolution of industrial geography during the long boom of the 50s and 60s. and then examine the major themes which have assumed importance since the mid-1970s.Department of Geography, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252C, Hobart, Tas., 7001 and School of Earth Sciences, Macquarie University. North Rydc, NSW. 21 13.

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“…However, if the appropriate climatic characteristics exist, much smaller towns can have similar problems. One of the important unknowns is whether it is likely to be easier to control concentrated pollution from the megalopolis or dispersed pollution from a more decentralised urban population (Simons and Lonergan, 1973).…”

Section: Environmental Impactmentioning

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The distribution of Australia's population: a submission to the National Population Inquiry by the Institute of Australian Geographers

1974

Australian Geographical Studies

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The Mythical Arguments for Decentralisation

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Geography and Population in Australia: A Historical Perspective

Geography and Population in Australia: A Historical Perspective

Industrial Geography: Restructuring in theory and practice

The distribution of Australia's population: a submission to the National Population Inquiry by the Institute of Australian Geographers

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