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The Centre for Housing, Urban and Regional Planning (CHURP) comprises a network of researchers, academics and other practitioners whose shared vision is to undertake high quality housing, urban and regional research and disseminate their findings for the betterment of society.
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Item Metadata only A spatially sensitive approach to understanding the impact of public expenditure on social exclusion(QUT, 2006) Wilson, L.; Spoehr, J.; Martin, S.; Social Change in the 21st Century (2006 : Brisbane); Hopkinson, C.; Hall, C.; Australian Institute for Social ResearchEfforts by Australian governments to restructure the welfare state since the 1990s have included the development of a plethora of performance indicators tied to the outputs of social programs. Performance measures can be misleading because they tend to be limited in their assessments to the target group. Social outcomes generated by public expenditure that are not related to the role and tasks of the agency services, tend not to be measured or are under reported. For example, the performance of state sponsored literacy programs can be measured by how well children learn in schools but the flow on effects of a more literate community and the social and economic implications thereof are rarely examined. Moreover, social welfare performance indicators do not consider the equity implications of gross and net public expenditure. That is, governments may spend money in a given area to achieve social outcomes but also tax the same community in ways which moderate the effectiveness of social programs. This paper reports on a project that aims to deploy geographical information systems (GIS) to investigate these processes. The equity implications of gross and net public expenditure are considered in a discussion of the development of a process to map the impact of public expenditure on social exclusion.Item Metadata only Is there a case for non-profit organisations in regeneration schemes?: the Poatina experience(Australian and New Zealand Regional Science Association Inc, 2006) Bunce, D.This paper is based on the experience of the regeneration of a small town, Poatina, in Tasmania and it poses the question of whether any of the concepts that have helped in Poatina's regeneration could be applied to regeneration projects elsewhere in Australia.Item Metadata only Gender indicators online: A resource of the South Australian Government(Development Studies Network Ltd., 2006) Sharp, R.; Broomhill, R.; Spoehr, J.Item Metadata only Australia's Regions and their Potential for Economic and Population Growth(Australian Farm Institute Ltd., 2006) Beer, A.; Clower, T.; Kearins, B.This paper considers the economic processes shaping the future of settlement in Australia and argues that complex forces are at work, and that towns and regions that can identify and develop new industries have considerable potential for growth. The paper begins by discussing the evidence relating to urban growth also amongst Australia’s regional cities and then moves on to consider the role of innovation in shaping the future of both industries and regions. The paper provides an example of innovation contributing to a potential new future for an established rural industry and concludes with a discussion on the implications for communities, industries and governments.Item Metadata only Ageing owners and the significance of family business closures - towards a better understanding of the likely impact of family business closures in Australia(Monash University ePress, 2006) Spoehr, J.The family business sector in Australia is a highly significant yet relatively under-researched sector of business. Despite the large size and significant contribution of the family business sector to Australia, little is known about the specific impacts of family business closures on families, the economy and the community. Australia is poised to experience a rapid acceleration in the number of family business seeking to transfer over the next ten years as the baby boom generation of family business owners approach retirement. In this context this paper focuses attention on what the likely range of socio-economic impacts of family business closures are likely to be.Item Metadata only Constructing the Port: External Perceptions and Intervention in the Creation of Place in Port Adelaide, South Australia(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, 2006) Rofe, M.; Oakley, S.Port Adelaide, South Australia has been stigmatised as ‘Port Misery’ for over one hundred and fifty years. The origins of this stigmatised discourse can be traced prior to actual colonisation, having their genesis in wide political debates. This reflects the complex and contested nature of landscape, revealing that ‘Port Misery’ constitutes a powerful meta-narrative that has been projected onto Port Adelaide by powerful and often external actors. This stigmatising discourse may lie dormant for prolonged periods of time, only to be remobilised to serve specific political, social and economic objectives. Recently, the ‘Port Misery’ discourse has been remobilised to justify the redevelopment of Port Adelaide from an industrial to a post-industrial landscape.Item Metadata only Constructions of mobility in post WWII Adelaide(Royal Geographical Society of South Australia, 2006) Bonham, J.Item Metadata only Serve, subvert or emancipate? Promoting mental health in Australian immigration detention(Auseinet, 2006) McLoughlin, P.In recent years, Immigration Detention Centres (IDC) have become sites of increasing concern in Australia, due to their notoriously negative impact on the mental health of detained asylum seekers. In this paper, I question whether it is possible and beneficial to promote mental health in what might be thought of as an inherently 'unhealthy' setting. Drawing upon health promotion theory and a Foucauldian approach to power, I critique the effectiveness of two major forms of health promoting work carried out in the immigration detention setting: internally-organised services and externally-organised support and advocacy. Given the problematic nature of the detention setting, I argue that the 'effectiveness' of these efforts is bound up in their capacity for subverting or positively reforming the IDC system itself as a barrier to mental health.Item Metadata only Workforce planning in Australia: Concepts principles and current practice(PERA, 2007) Spoehr, J.; Carson, E.; Windsor, L.; Annual PERA Conference (7th : 2007 : Caloundra, Australia); Christine O'Connor,Item Metadata only Demographic change and population ageing: implications for labour supply and economic growth in a city State - South Australia(Casual Productions, 2007) Peng, X.; Spoehr, J.; State of Australian Cities Conference (3rd : 2007 : Adelaide, S. Aust.); Hamnett, P.South Australia is a city-State with the oldest demographic age structure of all the States and Territories in Australia. Its population is ageing at a faster rate than the nation as a whole. The older age structure and rapid ageing process implies a more substantial policy challenge for Adelaide and South Australia. The paper explores the effects of demographic change and population ageing on labour force participation rates and economic growth for South Australia and the nation as a whole. Through detailed examination of the evolution of the age structure, this paper aims to identify the nature and direction of the changes of labour supply that are likely to flow from population ageing. Secondly, the implications of demographic change and associated changes in labour supply for economic growth are also explored.Item Metadata only Towards a workforce planning process for the South Australian public sector(PERA, 2007) Barrett, S.; Spoehr, J.; Annual Pacific Employment Relations Association Conference (7th : 2007 : Caloundra, Australia); Christine O'Connor,Item Metadata only Thinking strategically - Acting creatively: Ideas for fostering the development and sustainability of a creative economy in Adelaide South Australia(Casual Productions, 2007) Andrew, J.; Spoehr, J.; State of Australian Cities Conference (3rd : 2007 : Adelaide, S. Aust.); Hamnett, P.Item Metadata only Developing a workable model of housing need: Applying geographical concepts and techniques to a problem of public policy(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2007) Baker, E.; Beer, A.Governments increasingly seek to target public sector welfare expenditures to those most in need. In Australia, attention has increasingly focussed on the question of housing need: its conceptualisation, measurement, application to policy and expression across space. This paper reports on work undertaken by geographers for the Government of South Australia on the development of a workable model of housing need as a means of establishing priorities for public sector expenditure. The paper considers the problem of housing need and the challenges of developing and applying the multi-faceted concepts embedded within the notion of 'need'. © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Item Metadata only The older population and changing housing careers: Implications for housing provision(Blackwell Publishing Asia, 2007) Faulkner, D.As Australia’s population ages, housing is going to become an increasingly important issue for policy makers, developers, housing providers and service providers. Not only will there be demands for increasing numbers of houses but also increasing demands for greater choice, variety and greater expectations about the quality of that housing and the type of facilities associated with, or in close proximity to, that housing. Research emphasises an array of demographic, social, economic, personal and community factors along with cohort effects that influence the housing and living arrangement choices of older people. A clear understanding of these factors and the way they may interact in influencing housing decisions and transitions is essential if planning is to be effective. This paper provides an overview of our current understanding of the influences on the housing careers of the older population.Item Metadata only Housing, place or social networks: What's more important for relocating tenants?(Royal Australian Planning Institute Inc, 2007) Baker, E.; Arthurson, K.Urban regeneration is increasingly used by Australian governments as a means of physically upgrading ageing public dwelling stock, but little is known about the social implications of regeneration projects. For public tenants involuntarily relocated for urban regeneration, relocation risks added stress and disruption for an already disadvantaged population. However, it also has the potential to improve residential satisfaction. Moving may provide an opportunity to improve the quality of housing in terms of room size, space and other physical characteristics, the opportunity to live in a better or safer neighbourhood, access to better services and a broadening of social networks. This paper reports on the findings of a research project investigating the comparative influences-quality of housing, residential environment, and social networks—on residential satisfaction after relocation. Tenants were interviewed before and after relocation from Ferryden Park in South Australia as part of The Parks Urban Regeneration Project, to date Australia's largest regeneration project. The study found that in determining the self-perceived success of relocation, at least for this group of tenants, the quality of the post relocation housing was the most important factor. The implication for planners is that although familial and friendship networks are still important, the quality of post relocation housing is likely to have a greater influence on whether or not tenants are satisfied with moving as part of urban regeneration projects.Item Metadata only University-regional partnership in a period of structural adjustment: lessons from southern Adelaide's response to an automobile plant closure(Carfax Publishing Ltd, 2007) Beer, A.; Cooper, J.This paper examines some of the issues that arise out of partnerships between universities and regions. It draws upon the experience of Flinders University in working with a range of regional agents in responding to the closure of the Mitsubishi Motors Australia Limited (MMAL) plant at Lonsdale in Adelaide's southern suburbs. The paper suggests that there are a number of hurdles to the establishment of effective partnerships that include: the perception that universities behave in ways that are different to either public or private sector organizations; the absence of universities from the networks and communication protocols central to the work of economic development practitioners; the sporadic nature of university engagement with regional issues; and, the gap between university funding models and local economic aspirations. The paper also finds that government-established mechanisms for regional development may be flawed, especially if they are dominated by representatives of the public sector. The research concludes that current policy preoccupations with the development of commercially valuable intellectual property results in a heavy discounting of other economic impacts. Finally, the paper argues that a pathway for effective engagement between universities and their regions can be established, but such initiatives require considerable time, patience and understanding on the part of all parties. Periods of regional economic stress may not be the most appropriate periods for establishing these working relationships.Item Metadata only Housing affordability and planning in Australia: the challenge of policy under neo-liberalism(Carfax Publishing, 2007) Beer, A.; Kearins, B.; Pieters, H.Housing affordability has once again appeared on the policy agenda of Australian governments. House prices have risen in response to booming demand and constraints on the supply of dwellings, especially a shortage of land in the capital cities and skill shortages within the housing industry. Many young and low-income households have experienced great difficulty in gaining access to homeownership and in being able to afford private rental housing. This paper briefly considers the characteristics of public debate around housing affordability in Australia. It examines the role of neo-liberalism in shaping policy responses to housing affordability problems and assesses the argument that affordability goals can be achieved through manipulation of the planning system. It contends that neo-liberal philosophies of government direct policy action to the planning system, but such strategies have a limited capacity to improve housing affordability. Australian governments need to adopt more effective housing policies if they are to meet the needs of the 700 000 to 1 million households who live in unaffordable housing.Item Metadata only The Politics and Policy of Economic Restructuring in Australia: Understanding government Responses to the Closure of an Automotive Plant(Routledge, 2007) Beer, A.; Thomas, H.In April 2004, Mitsubishi Motors Australia Ltd (MMAL) announced the closure of its foundry and engine-making plant at Lonsdale in southern Adelaide. The closure resulted in 700 involuntary redundancies with a further 400 positions lost at MMAL's Tonsley Park plant through voluntary redundancies. The loss of jobs and associated economic activity were a major shock to southern Adelaide, a relatively poor region with few large manufacturing establishments, a limited economic infrastructure and a relatively unskilled labour force. The region had suffered setbacks in the previous three years with a downturn in the wine industry and the closure of the nearby Mobil Oil Refinery at Port Stanvac. This paper draws on debates around multiscalar governance in order to understand how governments have responded to employment loss in southern Adelaide. The paper pays particular attention to the balance between regional and industry-focused initiatives and suggests that regions need to ensure they occupy a central position within the strategies and actions of governments. The paper also highlights the vulnerability of regions that lack growth coalitions able to operate as effective advocates for their region.Item Metadata only The Role of Urban Governance in Re-constructing Place, Economic Function and Social Relations in Urban Waterfront Regeneration: The Case of Port Adelaide, South Australia(Routledge, 2007) Oakley, S.The Port Adelaide waterfront is symbolic of a distinctive form of entrepreneurial urban governance that emphasises specific forms of capital accumulation. As in waterfront projects elsewhere in Australia and overseas, depicting Port Adelaide as an 'urban problem' has been critical in legitimating the public-private market-based approach to regenerating the waterfront site. This paper outlines how the ascendancy of urban governance in Australian political sensibility is coinciding with and facilitating a particular urban form in waterfront developments. This involves transforming the Port's disused industrial and maritime landscape from a site of production to one of consumption. This urban makeover signifies a radical reconstitution of place identity, economic function and social relations. This paper also investigates the impact on the pre-existing social structure, built form and economic activity base of the location and suggests that the potential for this significant waterfront project is not confined to the re-imagining of the discursive identity of the place but extends to meeting wider institutional metropolitan and regional planning objectives.Item Metadata only Public Consultation and Place-Marketing in the Revitalisation of the Port Adelaide Waterfront(Carfax Publishing, 2007) Oakley, S.The Port Adelaide waterfront redevelopment is a property-led urban venture that is being driven by a logic and ideology of new forms of urban politics that are oriented towards post-industrial capital accumulation. While local residents are in favour of the waterfront being revitalised there is concern about the nature and scale of the redevelopment being proposed. Through a carefully managed 'place-marketing' process, the Port's industrial landscape is to be re-conceptualised as a future-oriented landscape of cosmopolitan residential-work-leisure lifestyle as an expression of desire for professional occupancy. The study reveals that local participation and influence in planning decisions of this public-private venture is somewhat marginal to economic considerations.