Integrating population perspectives in Asian environmental debates
Recent public policy debates on the potential impacts of climate change have paid little attention to the dynamics of population, including the ways in which dense settlement patterns pose increased…
ADSRI Director appointed to Ministerial Advisory Council on Skilled Migration
ADSRI Director, Peter McDonald, has been appointed as a Member of the Ministerial Advisory Council on Skilled Migration (MACSM) from 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2014. In addition to Professor McDonald,…
Former staff news
Lado Ruzicka and Penny Kane moving to England Lado Ruzicka, who retired from the Demography Department as a Professorial Fellow approximately 25 years ago, and Penny Kane, a former Visitor to…
Shanghai Forum
Professor Peter McDonald and Dr Meimanat Hosseini-Chavoshi from ADSRI participated in the 7th Shanghai Forum held on May 26-29, 2012. The Forum had a special focus on economic challenges and…
ADSRI commentary on the Census
Siew-Ean Khoo, Portrait of a population: what the census found, The Conversation, 21 June 2012. Edith Gray, Anna Reimondos and Liz Allen, Australian census: one in ten live alone, but that doesn’t…
Alumni news
Dr Namuunda Mutombo appointed Zambian National Advisor – Population Dr Namuunda Mutombo, a PhD graduate of the Demography and Sociology Program (the predecessor to ADSRI), has been appointed…
19th century Tasmanian families
Helen Moyle PhD candidate I am a PhD candidate in ADRSI studying historical demography and looking at the fertility of couples marrying in Tasmania in the 2nd half of the 19th century. I am looking…