Across Unknown Australia

School-based health promotion across Australia.

Information Foraging in the Unknown Patches across the Life Span

This study used a word search puzzle paradigm to examine the effects of task environment and individual differences in ability on information foraging. Younger and older adults attempted to maximize the number of items found in a set of 4 puzzles in which they were at liberty to search within a puzzle or switch between them. Younger adults demonstrated faster uptake (i.e., number of words found...

Heart transplantation in Fontan patients across Australia and New Zealand.

OBJECTIVE Patients with Fontan physiology may eventually require heart transplantation (HT). We determined the rates and outcomes of HT in a national, population-based multicentre study. METHODS From 1990 to 2015, 1369 patients underwent the Fontan procedure as recorded in the Australia and New Zealand Fontan Registry. We identified those who underwent HT and analysed their outcomes. We compa...

Purchasing Power Parity Across States and Goods Within Australia

Panel unit root tests show that intranational purchasing power parity (PPP) cannot be rejected across major cities in Australia over the period from 1972 to 1999. The persistence of deviations in response to shocks is low, as measured by the estimated exact half-life of 5 to 7 quarters. This is much lower than results for similar tests done on US cities, and for international PPP tests. The foo...

Betting Across Borders — Betfair Pty Limited v Western Australia

This case note examines the recent High Court decision of Betfair Pty Limited v Western Australia. This decision focused on s 92 of the Constitution. First, the author argues that the decision is significant because it offered a restatement of principle, re-contextualised s 92 in a ‘new economy’ and confirmed the relevance of early US Commerce Clause authority in Australian s 92 jurisprudence. ...